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| Frontiers in Raman Spectroscopy - February 2011 |
Confined to the laboratory for decades, Raman spectroscopy is now making inroads into some significant commercial applications, including pharmaceutical production, security and medicine. In the first of its Hot Topics article series, optics.org looks at the increasing commercial traction of this highly specific analytical tool, the cutting-edge developments in hybrid Raman microscopy, next-generation techniques and the companies developing them.
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 Market analysts at SDI and Strategies Unlimited predict a sharp uptick as security and pharma applications prompt wider uptake of Raman spectroscopy.  Elegant improvements to surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy from a UCSB spin-out are opening up strategic real-world applications.  Cobalt Light Systems transfers a cutting-edge Raman technique from government laboratory to commercial deployment.  Renishaw, a company closely associated with Raman spectroscopy, sees the technology moving away from the expert and towards the application specialist.  A revolutionary method for identifying breast cancer in lymph nodes using Raman spectroscopy is being tested by researchers and surgeons at a UK hospital.
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