Elemental mapping is an imaging technique used to visualize the spatial distribution of elements within a material. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is a widely used analytical technique for this ...

Structural steel is a type of construction material that is made from specific grades of steel. It is manufactured in a range of industry standard cross-sectional shapes. Structural steel grades are ...

Here at Hackaday, we love projects that result in useful lab equipment for a fraction of the cost of professional gear. [Lorenz], over at Advanced Tinkering, built his own instrument for Laser-Induced ...

Dual combs: soliton spectrum from the spectrometer-on-a-chip. (Courtesy: Qi-Fan Yang) A new spectrometer-on-a-chip that employs two frequency combs has been unveiled by physicists at Caltech in the US ...