Iranian Knowledge-Based Company Produces Smallest Spectrometer in World
“We have successfuly made the smallest spectrophotometer device, which is available in the range of 390 to 850 nm with an accuracy of one nanometer,” said Fereidun Hassanpour, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, according to a report by the Iranian Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy.
“The nanospectrophotometer device is 10 x 6 x 4 cubic centimeters and is almost a third the size of similar foreign equivalents and the smallest spectrometer available in the world. Despite its small size, this device has unique features,” he added.
Hassanpour described the use of cold light source to prevent heat in the device, having a broad wavelength range, sending data through a USB cable, optical fiber communication capability, wireless charging, fast charging through a USB cable that lasts for three hours after every recharging it, very low energy consumption, fully advanced software and display of the temperature inside the device, recording the duration of the device's operation in the hardware as some of the advantages of the device.
“Recording the time that light source is on in the hardware, an automatic hardware troubleshooting system and with a serial number unique inside the UID hardware are some of the other features of this spectrometer,” according to the researcher.
Among the other features that the Iran-made nano spectrophotometer has as compared to similar foreign-made models, are wireless data transmission, the capability to charge wirelessly, and a mobile phone application has been developed for it that can be customized for other applications in addition to laptop and desktop computers.
Hassanpour considered the use of spectrometry in industries such as chemical laboratories, pharmaceutical industries, food industries, agricultural industries and oil and gas to analyze the behavior of solutions, adding, “Spectrometers are also utilized in paint, pharmaceutical and food industries, the quality of essential oils of food and beverages.”
According to the Vice-Presidency’s report, Hassanpour stated that similar foreign models of nano spectrophotometer, despite their larger sizes, do not have the capability to transmit information wirelessly and even charge wirelessly, concluding that the Iran-made spectrometer has been patented in Canada.
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