Spectroscopy-04-01-2010

Bob McDowall looks at the different life cycle models that apply in the laboratory to GAMP software categories 3, 4, and 5.

By all accounts, the spectroscopy market and the materials analysis market in general have weathered the recession and downward economic turn of the last couple of years very well. To begin with, it has been well documented that the effects of these difficult economic times have been felt less severely in the spectroscopy market compared to other markets, as the demand for instrumentation and services has remained at respectable levels.

Products from April 2010.

This study evaluates the merits of different sampling techniques for the determination of a group of hazardous elements in printed circuit boards as defined by the European Union, RoHS, and WEEE.

In the third part of this series, David Ball starts getting into the mathematical aspects of group theory, aspects that ultimately become useful in spectroscopy.

Raman spectroscopy in general, and specifically, handheld and portable Raman, has developed very rapidly over the past decade due to technological developments that have unleashed the advantages of the technique. Portable/handheld Raman spectroscopy has gone from an insignificant market to the largest portable molecular spectroscopy technique in just a few years.

Guest columnists Phil Taday and colleagues look at the emerging technique of terahertz spectroscopy and its move from the lab to the process world.

Click the title above to open the Spectroscopy April 2010 regular issue, Vol 25 No 4, in an interactive PDF format.