Among the many recommendations of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020, we found that a priority area of research is to pave the pathways towards finding and characterizing […]
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Tricorder Tech: Portable Swept-source Raman Spectrometer For Chemical and Biomedical Applications
In 1928, Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman and his colleague K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light interacts with matter, parts of the scattered light undergo changes in energy […]
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Tricorder Tech: High-speed, Auto-polarization Modulated 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy Imaging
Editor’s note: When we send Away Teams on Astrobiology and Astrogeology expeditions to other worlds they are going to need to be rather self-contained. Indeed the bulk of their preliminary […]
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Tricorder Tech: Building Images Photon-by-photon To Increase The Information Content Provided By Microscopes
Editor’s note: as we develop the instruments – our tricorders – to equip Away Teams as they search for life, it is imperative that these devices be as efficient and […]
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Exploration Gear & Tech, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Tricorders & Sensors
Tricorder Tech: Android-based Application For Photoacoustic Tomography Image Reconstruction
Editor’s note: Photoacoustic tomography allows unique capabilities to look deep inside an organism. Up until now such a capability required the use of a desktop computer to process the data […]