Incorporating Basic Optical Microscopy in the Instrumental Analysis Laboratory
- UNCP Author/Contributor (non-UNCP co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Dr. Paul Flowers, Professor of Chemistry (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP )
- Web Site: http://www.uncp.edu/academics/library
Abstract: A simple and versatile approach to incorporating basic optical microscopy in the undergraduate instrumental analysis laboratory is described. Attaching a miniature CCD spectrometer to the video port of a standard compound microscope yields a visible microspectrometer suitable for student investigations of fundamental spectrometry concepts, basic principles of optical microscopy, and some interesting phenomena unique to spectral measurements performed at the microscale. Results from several such investigations and ideas for additional applications are presented.
Incorporating Basic Optical Microscopy in the Instrumental Analysis Laboratory
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Chemical Education, 2011, 88 (12)
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- Upper-Division Undergraduate, Laboratory Instruction, Analytical Chemistry, Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives, Calibration, Instrumental Methods, UV-Vis Spectroscopy