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Molecular Microspectroscopy: Where are we and where are we going

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

John A. Reffner*
Affiliation:
Spectra-Tech Inc.

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Molecular microspectroscopy is the application of infrared or Raman spectrascopy, combined with light microscopy, for chemical analysis on the microscopic scale. For over a decade infrared microspectroscopy (ISM) has been an expanding technology both scientifically and commercially. Micro- Raman spectroscopy has a long history of scientific accomplishments with limited commercial success. Both of these techniques give spectral data that can be related to the bonding, crystalline state, isotopic content and molecular orientation of a material, but not its elemental composition.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1996

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