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Spectroscopy & Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is a technique that uses the interaction of energy with a sample to perform an analysis. Spectroscopy pertains to the dispersion of an object's light into its component colors (i.e. energies). The data that is obtained from spectroscopy is called a spectrum. A spectrum is a plot of the intensity of energy detected versus the wavelength (or mass or momentum or frequency, etc.) of the energy. In simplest terms, spectroscopy requires an energy source and a device for measuring the change in the energy source after it has interacted with the sample (a spectrophotometer or interferometer). There are several instruments that are used to perform a spectroscopic analysis and produce results. A spectrophotometer is a photometer (a device for measuring light intensity) that can measure intensity as a function of the color, or more specifically, the wavelength of light.
A spectrophotometer consists of two instruments, namely a spectrometer for producing light of any selected color (wavelength), and a photometer for measuring the intensity of light. The photometer delivers a voltage signal to a display device (normally a galvanometer). ![]() A spectrometer is used in spectroscopy for producing spectral lines and measuring their wavelengths and intensities. Thousands of life science and analytical science researchers rely on this powerful collection of processing routines using various spectroscopic instrument(s) / instrument applications to solve some of their most difficult data analysis problems. Scientists engaged in a wide variety of spectroscopic experiments and ![]() disciplines, explore data processing, visualization and reporting packages for data from many types of spectroscopic instruments. Most tools provide advanced processing routines, data comparison and visualization features with ability to handle data from virtually any analytical instrument data station that have set the industry standard in scientific software. Multivariate data analysis methods have become common tools in applying modern spectroscopic instruments to solve qualitative and quantitative analysis problems. Chemometric techniques such as PLS, PCR, PCA and discriminant analysis have become standard approaches to quickly analysing complex samples from their spectral signatures.
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Related Training
Advanced Multivariate Data Analysis with Chemometrics & Spectroscopic Applications - Level 2
September 25-26, 2008, Tokyo
Multivariate Data Analysis with Chemometrics & Spectroscopic Applications - Level 2
December 02-04, 2008, Woodbridge, New Jersey |
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