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Chip-scale sensor integration has brought us to the edge of new market
opportunities that are poised to transform business practices and
consumer lifestyles. The ability to incorporate miniaturized sensors
into small devices and broad networks means that actionable data can be
collected anywhere, anytime — either on demand or on a continuous basis.
This new capability enables consumers and businesses to monitor goods,
conditions and operations in real time and to make changes and
adjustments on the fly to optimize safety, health, quality control and
production, and even care for the environment.
Nowhere is this opportunity better illustrated than in the
spectroscopy
sector, where miniaturized technology is poised to open vast new
markets for a seemingly futuristic capability — instant and ubiquitous
material analysis. Molecular analysis has long been associated with
advanced science, laboratories and large equipment. However, we have now
arrived at the age of the first chip-scale spectrometer for detection
of material and analysis of chemical composition anywhere, anytime by
nonscientists and consumers.
