by Steve Buckley | Apr 4, 2017 | Blog
Most of my writing energy for the last few months has gone into writing a Focal Point review article on LIBS for Applied Spectroscopy. It’s been a lot of fun. In the article, co-author Amy Bauer and I discuss some of the most interesting LIBS papers of the last 18...
by Steve Buckley | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog
I was skeptical. Could a LIBS conference in the relatively remote town of Chamonix really be a good idea? I should not have been skeptical. Thanks to Prof. Jin Yu and his team, the biannual International Conference on LIBS has been a smashing success, with nearly...
by Steve Buckley | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog
Back from vacation … hopefully you’ve been having a great summer. I wanted to write today about the newest addition to our product lineup here at Flash Analysis. The Spectral Engines’ NIR and MIR devices are tiny Fabry-Perot spectrometers that do an outsized job of...
by Steve Buckley | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog
Machine learning is able to reliably extract an incredible amount of data from both Raman and LIBS spectra. One of the most interesting recent examples was published recently in Applied Spectroscopy , in which Julio Banquet-Terán and co-authors showed that a...
by Steve Buckley | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
Today I was going back through my files and noted an “oldie but goodie” – a paper on background fitting for LIBS and Raman spectra by Igor Gornushkin and colleagues from 2003. Specifically: I. B. Gornushkin, et al. “Automatic Correction of Continuum Background in... by Steve Buckley | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
Today I was going back through my files and noted an “oldie but goodie” – a paper on background fitting for LIBS and Raman spectra by Igor Gornushkin and colleagues from 2003. Specifically: I. B. Gornushkin, et al. “Automatic Correction of Continuum Background in...