Initial Application Areas

The specialist experimental skills and experience of the company's founding management team include the following areas:

• Steady-state and time-resolved, gas and condensed phase absorption, emission (fluorescence and phosphorescence) and scattering (linear and non-linear Raman) spectroscopies
• Atomic and molecular laser spectroscopies (LIBS, photodeflection, OGS, LIF, CARS, etc.)
• Raman microscopy and nanoscale tip-enhanced Raman
• Nanoscale scanning probe microscopies (AFM, STM, NSOM, etc.)
• UHV analysis techniques (mass spectroscopy, Auger, X-ray diffraction; etc.)
• Diode-array and CCD imaging
• Optics and optical design
• Software-hardware interfacing

These experimental competencies were complemented with a range of computer simulation and modelling tools based on both in-house software packages (for CARS spectral simulation; transient spectroscopy; Gibbs energy; thermal reactors; low pressure plasma, etc.) and commercial software packages (CFD; CAD; electrical; electronic; thermal; etc.), and were supported by in-house developed instrument control, system integration, data capture, data processing and data presentation software