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Chemistry

2019

Spectroscopy

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A Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer For Raman Imaging And Remote Spectroscopy, Ashley Nicole Allen Oct 2019

A Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer For Raman Imaging And Remote Spectroscopy, Ashley Nicole Allen

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Raman and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) are optical techniques that provide information about the chemical makeup of a sample without any preparation or physical contact with it. For this reason, Raman and LIBS spectrometers are among the instruments selected for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission and are being considered for future missions to the Jovian moons, asteroids and comets. Such future missions will require smaller, more ruggedized Raman and LIBS spectrometers, and the new type of spectrometers discussed here, the spatial heterodyne Raman and LIBS spectrometers are being developed for this purpose. The SHS is a wide-field, Fourier transform, stationary …


A Robust And Automated Deconvolution Algorithm Of Peaks In Spectroscopic Data, William Johan Burke Iv May 2019

A Robust And Automated Deconvolution Algorithm Of Peaks In Spectroscopic Data, William Johan Burke Iv

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The huge amount of spectroscopic data in use in metabolomic experiments requires an algorithm that can process the data in an autonomous fashion while providing quality of analysis comparable to manual methods. Scientists need an algorithm that effectively deconvolutes spectroscopic peaks automatically and is resilient to the presence of noise in the data. The algorithm must also provide a simple measure of quality of the deconvolution. The deconvolution algorithm presented in this thesis consists of preprocessing steps, noise removal, peak detection, and function fitting. Both a Fourier Transform and Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) method of noise removal were investigated. The …