Iranian Scientists Manufacture Advanced Raman Microscope

“Among the most important achievements of Shahid Beheshti University, I can mention the advanced Raman microscope,” Qassem Qassemi, a representative of Shahid Beheshti University's Research Department, told ANA.

“Raman microscope is a spectroscopic device capable of spectroscopic measurement of areas with micron dimensions,” he explained.

“It is a laser-based spectroscopy system used to perform Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectroscopy method is a precise method for identifying and characterizing a wide range of materials, and we have managed to indigenize it based on detailed research,” Qassemi said.

Earlier reports, in May, also said that researchers of a technological company in Iran had produced and commercialized a Raman microscope for identifying molecules and studying chemical bonds, which has a spectral range between 200 nm and 900 nm and a spectral resolution of 1.3 nm.

The Raman spectrometer can be used to study a wide range of nanoparticles to final products like various polymer nanocomposites.

Also, another technological companies in Iran had also produced and commercialized scanning electron microscope (SEM) microscopes with the capability to study morphology, chemical composition of the surface and determine the thickness of thin layers coated on a substrate.

This electron microscope enjoys a resolution of 20 nm and has a maximum magnification of 100,000 times, and its tungsten thermal electron gun makes imaging different materials possible. 

Another Iranian firm active in the field of nanotechnology, which has more than a decade of experience in the production and supply of Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) microscopes, had also made microscopes for research purposes as well as special microscopes for the education sector.

The Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) equipment of this company provides the possibility of 3D imaging of the topography of samples to study indicators like roughness, grain size, step height and unevenness, and also gives interesting details about other sample specifications like magnetic field, capacitance, friction and phase.

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