(Nanowerk News) Recognizing fake drugs? Testing water samples ourselves? Checking the quality of air? In the future, it could be possible to do all this using a smartphone in a quick, cost-effective ...

Consumer Physics wowed everyone last year when it announced the Scio, a handheld device that used light to scan food, pills, or plants and tell you the chemical makeup of the object. Now the Tel Aviv, ...

Hamamatsu Photonics's C10988MA-01 is a unique, ultra-compact spectrometer built using MOEMS (Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology. Measuring only 27.6 x 13 x 16.8 mm, the spectrometer was ...

The Exemplar™ is the first miniature spectrometer to include an embedded processor to allow for effortless on-board data processing, including averaging, smoothing, and automatic dark subtraction. In ...

Advances in direct laser writing and 3D printing have helped the field of micro-optics achieve striking breakthroughs in tiny optical devices, driven by miniaturization philosophies dating back many ...

Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the GL SPECTIS 1.0 Touch Mini spectrometer – a reliable, precise, and intuitive handheld device for a wide range of spectral light measurement needs. The GL Spectis ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 17, 2003 – Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a miniature device that can identify as little as a fraction of a spore of ...

Researchers have developed a compact infrared spectrometer. It's small enough to fit on a computer chip but can still open up interesting possibilities -- in space and in everyday life. Nowadays, a ...

SPACEHAB Inc., (NASDAQ:SPABD), a leading provider of commercial space services, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive Licensing Agreement with Praemittias Group, Inc., an Englewood, ...

A tiny device for calibrating or stabilizing precision lasers has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The prototype device could replace ...

The C10988MA spectrometer measures only 27.6 by 13 by 16.8 mm and weighs 9 g, making it well-suited for use in portable and hand-held devices where a standard mini-spectrometer would be too large and ...

Above: Fully functional prototype of mACES with drone mounting capabilities. mACES is a miniaturized solution to air quality monitoring that has the potential to revolutionize the measurement of ...