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DIY Ultraviolet Spectrometer
Want to analyze light like a scientist? Here's the quick breakdown: ✅ **Gather** basic materials (CD/DVD, cardboard, lens, light source). ✅ **Assemble** a slit, diffraction grating, and collimating lens. After a bit of research, I discovered an instrument called an optical spectrometer that is designed to measure the properties of light by separating it into its component colours. First you'll want to gather all your supplies! To make the body of the UV-VIS: Now that you have made the basic body of the instrument, it's time to add. Spectrometry is an analysis technique that enables the identification of material chemical composition, regardless if they are solid or liquid, using the absorption and emission of an incoherent light that hits the surface. It's used in every chemical and biological laboratory, but it can be. The Near InfraRed (NIR) spectroscopy is used in milk and bio constituent analysis and in many printing and production work to find the accurate range of color. The electromagnetic spectrum range covered in NIR spectroscopy is 780-2526nm. The spectrometers are also quite expensive for this range.
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DIY Spectrometer Capacity Expansion
Before getting to the heart of the project it is appropriate to explain what spectrometry is. Let's start saying that the light that our eyes see (the one our brain is able to interpret) is, actually, a portion of.