Researchers 3D printed a mini quadrupole mass filter, a key component of a mass spectrometer, that performs as well as some commercial-grade devices. It can be fabricated in hours for a few dollars ...

A new smartphone-compatible device that is held like a pencil could make it practical to acquire spectral images of everyday objects and may eventually be used for point-of-care medical diagnosis in ...

Newark, Delaware – November 11, 2015 -- B&W Tek, an advanced mobile instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is proud to ...

Virtually every scientific field has made strides by harnessing light to study the properties of substances. This technique, called spectroscopy, has countless research applications, and innovations ...

An illustration featuring a spectrometer with its scanner set on a bag of substances. The background features several geometric shapes and math symbols. The words "methamphetamine" and ...

B&W Tek's TacticID handheld spectrometer has the proven capability to identify street heroin samples. The TacticID system has the industry’s largest on-board library of narcotics, pharmaceutical ...

Mass spectrometers, devices that identify chemical substances, are widely used in applications like crime scene analysis, toxicology testing, and geological surveying. But these machines are bulky, ...

WASHINGTON -- Spectral images, which contain more color information than is obtainable with a typical camera, reveal characteristics of tissue and other biological samples that can't be seen by the ...