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The panelists consider non-destructive wafer analysis using TXRF and complementary methods, and how combining techniques enables advanced defect and contamination mapping.

In this episode, the panel focuses on automation in semiconductor analysis, including sample prep innovations and the unique capabilities of next-generation ICP-MS systems.

The panel compares traditional ATD-GC-MS methods to emerging TOF-MS approaches for impurity and defect analysis, emphasizing speed and sensitivity advancements.

The panelists discuss the different techniques used for testing semiconductor materials—such as ICP-MS, VPD, GDI, and GED-ICP-MS—including which approaches the industry will adopt more moving forward.

Ruth Merrifield, PhD, discusses how continuous manufacturing can help control contamination as humans don’t have to touch the materials as often, or even at all. Katsu Kawabata also mentions how automation that supports continuous manufacturing can help reduce human exposure to chemicals that would otherwise be manually handled.

Panelists discuss primary bottlenecks in semiconductor manufacturing, from geopolitical supply chain issues to purity and talent gaps, and explore strategies to maintain innovation under pressure.

In the first part of a three-part interview, Robert Ewing discusses the core technology behind the VaporID system, explains how the system differs from current IMS systems, and describes the challenges the team faced in miniaturizing the VaporID device into a portable, microwave-sized system.

Experts from across the industry prepare to explore the critical efficiency hurdles semiconductor fabricators are facing today, introducing themselves and their backgrounds.

In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Brett McGuire of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) discusses his laboratory’s work in astrochemistry.

In the lead-up to the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy conference, Brett McGuire of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sat down with Spectroscopy to preview the ISMS conference.

Top articles published this week include a tribute to Alan G. Marshall, an interview series that highlights how inductively coupled plasma–optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) can help analyze metal content in pet food, and an announcement from Rigaku about their latest handheld Raman instruments.

In the final part of this video interview with Pooja Sheevam, she discusses the importance of her study in understanding the mineralogical and geochemical processes in Hawaii.

In Part IV of our conversation with Pooja Sheevam, she discusses how scanning electron microscopy with an energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) and bulk X-ray fluorescence (XRF) were used to better understand fluid-rock interactions.

In Part III, our discussion with Pooja Sheevam focused on the use of long-wave IR (LWIR) spectroscopy in analyzing basaltic rocks.

In this interview segment, Pooja Sheevam elaborates on what LWIR and SWIR are and what advantages they both offer when analyzing Hawaiian geology.

In Part I of our video interview with Pooja Sheevam, she discusses why she and her team used both LWIR and SWIR spectroscopy in analyzing Hawaii's PTA-2 drill core, and how the two techniques complemented each other in the study.

In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Johanna Nelson Weker of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory discusses her laboratory’s work in battery analysis. In the final part of our interview, Weker continues our discussion of battery cell geometries and why computed laminography is a good technique to use for this purpose.

In Part 3 of our conversation with Johanna Weker of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, she discusses battery cell geometry configurations and how they inform battery design.

Spectroscopy sat down with Gabi Wenzel, SAO visiting scientist at the Center for Astrophysics, to discuss how spectroscopy is being used to explore the molecular universe.

Gabi Wenzel, visiting scientist at the Center for Astrophysics, reflects on the interdisciplinary nature of astrochemistry and emphasizes the importance of maintaining openness in collaborative, cross-disciplinary work.

In this interview, Gabi Wenzel, SAO visiting scientist at the Center for Astrophysics, explores how high-resolution cavity-enhanced Fourier Transform microwave (FTMW) spectroscopy advances her research.

Gabi Wenzel, a visiting scientist at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, shares how spectroscopy has led to unexpected discoveries in her research on the molecular building blocks of the universe. Wenzel's research focuses on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their interactions with light.

In Part 2 of our video interview with Johanna Weker of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, she discusses nutrient recovery systems and how X-ray techniques can improve them.

"Inside the Laboratory" is a joint series with LCGC and Spectroscopy profiling analytical scientists and their research groups at universities worldwide. This series spotlights the current chromatographic and spectroscopic research their groups are conducting and the importance of their research in analytical chemistry and specific industries. In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Johanna Nelson Weker of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory discusses her laboratory’s work in battery analysis.

In this brief segment from my full-length conversation with Monica Arienzo of the Desert Research Institute, she discusses the important key findings of her study.

In this brief segment from my full-length conversation with Monica Arienzo of the Desert Research Institute, she discusses the important key findings of her study.

In this brief segment from my full-length conversation with Monica Arienzo, who was the lead author of this study, she discusses whether there was a correlation between the different types of litter and the polymer type.

In this brief segment from my full-length conversation with Monica Arienzo, she explains why ATR FT-IR spectroscopy was the ideal technique of choice for her study characterizing polymers from the litter found on the lakebed of Lake Tahoe.