Tehran, YJC. Iranian scientists have developed a spectrophotometer, making the country the fourth in the world with the technology to build the device.
Nader Shokoufi, the project
manager, said in an interview by Mehr News Agency "This device measures radiation
intensity as a function of wavelength.”
He added that the machine is
able to register electromagnetic spectrum in the visible light and UV areas
simultaneously, stating "The spectrophotometer with array detection is a
high-tech system whose technology is restricted to the US, Netherlands, and
Japan.”
Shokoufi provided comments on
regular spectrometers and said "In regular systems the spectrometry of
substances is done based on a scanning system, that is, wavelengths are
measured and registered one by one.”
"On the other hand the
newly-developed device measures all the wavelengths simultaneously and they are
visible on the monitor right away,” he added.
The researcher said that the
device can be used as a basic tool in chemistry laboratories, chemical
engineering, oil, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, metallurgical, and any other industry
that deals primarily with substances.
He also pointed to the application
of the device in physics, optics, and photonics and said "In physics and
photonics the device can be used to measure a spectrum sample of a radiation
source such as the sun or any other source.”
Shokoufi believed the most important parts of the spectrophotometer to be the radiation
source, the sample case, the ray separator, and the array detection unit.
"The electronic part of the
system is a high-tech one. Also very advanced software is used since a lot of
data is transferred between the system and the computer, making it difficult to
work with regular systems,” he added.