Spectroscopy

Chip-Scale Broadband Optical System that Can Sense Molecules in the Mid-Infrared

June 10, 2018

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have demonstrated, for the first time, a chip-based dual-comb spectrometer in the mid-infrared range, that requires no moving parts and can acquire spectra in less than 2 microseconds. The system, [more...]

Low-cost Spectroscopy Technique Measures Brain Blood Flow

May 6, 2018

UC Davis biomedical engineers have developed a new technique that could be used for measuring blood flow in the brains of patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury; light shined into the head is returned to a detector, and the signal [more...]

Microfluidics Interface Helps Push Two-legged Nanobot

May 13, 2017

A team of researchers in Israel has made a bipedal motor from DNA that can be controlled using a computer-based microfluidics-based interface. The molecular machine, which can “walk” on a DNA origami track in response to DNA fuel and [more...]

Schlumberger Introduces Microfluidic Analysis Technology in Oil and Gas Industry

July 18, 2016

Schlumberger announced today at the 2016 Offshore Technology Conference the release of the Maze* microfluidic SARA analysis for reservoir fluids characterization. This is the first commercial application of microfluidic analysis [more...]

Infrared Sensor Aims for Earliest Alzheimer’s Detection

May 9, 2016

A simple, label-free diagnostic test that uses infrared (IR) light aims for Alzheimer’s disease detection more than 15 years before clinical symptoms appear. The work is promising for drug research because it may ease development of [more...]