Welcome to FACSS
Good morning, and welcome to Spectroscopy?s coverage from FACSS 2009, held this year at the Marriott Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.
Good morning, and welcome to Spectroscopy’s coverage from FACSS 2009, held this year at the Marriott Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. We will be bringing you three days of conference reports and previews of all that is noteworthy at this year’s show, which, as always, is one of the most anticipated in the field of materials analysis in general and spectroscopy in particular.
As in past years, the exhibition area will open tonight at the annual reception, but in the meantime, the technical sessions, plenary lectures, and award ceremonies will be in full swing starting this morning, and we hope you will find this meeting report to be a great resource in helping you choose when and where to be for the day. One session that looks especially promising is “Advances in THz Spectroscopy and Imaging (Applications),” which begins at 2 pm this afternoon and goes until 4 pm. Terahertz technology is one of the hottest and most intriguing areas of spectroscopy to emerge in recent years, and frequent Spectroscopy contributor Philip Taday, of TeraView Limited, UK, will lead off the session with a presentation on pharmaceutical QA/QC titled “Using Terahertz Pulsed Imaging to Help Understand Tablet Film Coating Quality: From Non-Destructive Film Coating Quality Analysis to Dissolution Prediction.” This is one of the most dramatic examples of the benefits of THz technology and should be very informative.
Presentations on real-world propulsion applications of Terahertz technology and the correlation of THz spectra to crystal structure round out the session, which promises to be one of the day’s best.
We will return tomorrow with more recommendations and previews for the second day of the conference, but in the meantime, enjoy the first day of FACSS 2009.
Getting accurate IR spectra on monolayer of molecules
April 18th 2024Creating uniform and repeatable monolayers is incredibly important for both scientific pursuits as well as the manufacturing of products in semiconductor, biotechnology, and. other industries. However, measuring monolayers and functionalized surfaces directly is. difficult, and many rely on a variety of characterization techniques that when used together can provide some degree of confidence. By combining non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM) and IR spectroscopy, IR PiFM provides sensitive and accurate analysis of sub-monolayer of molecules without the concern of tip-sample cross contamination. Dr. Sung Park, Molecular Vista, joined Spectroscopy to provide insights on how IR PiFM can acquire IR signature of monolayer films due to its unique implementation.
Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy Reveals Influence of Defects on 2D Semiconductor Devices
April 25th 2024A recent study used deep level transient spectroscopy to investigate the electrical response of defect filling and emission in monolayer metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)-grown materials deposited on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible substrates.
Single Cell and Microplastic Analysis by ICP-MS with Automated Micro-Flow Sample Introduction
April 25th 2024Single cell ICP-MS (scICP-MS) is increasingly seen as a powerful and fast tool for the measurement of elements in individual cells, mainly due to the high sensitivity and selectivity of ICP-MS. Analysis is performed in the same way as single nanoparticle (spICP-MS) analysis, which has become a well-established technique for the analysis of nanoparticles and particles.
Hot News on Agilent LDIR, New Developments, and Future Perspective
April 25th 2024Watch this video featuring Darren Robey and Dr. Wesam Alwan from Agilent Technologies to gain insights into the future trends shaping microplastics research and the challenges of their characterization. Discover the essential components necessary for accurate microplastics analysis and learn how the Agilent 8700 LDIR system addresses these challenges. Offering rapid and precise analysis capabilities, along with easy sample preparation methods that minimize contamination, the Agilent 8700 LDIR system is at the forefront of advancing microplastics research.
