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THE SPECTROGRAPH

The Spectroscopy Laboratory publishes a semi-annual newsletter entitled The Spectrograph. The newsletter features articles on current research activities, personalities seminar schedules and additional items of interest occuring in the Laboratory. Previous newsletters are archived in pdf format.

• Volume 25.1 Fall 2008 (PDF)
  • OPPORTUNITY for Independent diagnostic spectroscopy projuects
  • Research Report - Quantitative phase microscopy and spring constants of cholesterol helical ribbons
  • Research Report - Light scattering study of single live cells
    
  • Spectral Lines - First light - Thomas Melvill and the beginnings of spectroscopy by Stephen R. Wilk
    
    
• Volume 24.2 Spring 2008 (PDF)
  • Spectroscopy Laboratory Celebration - Feb. 27, 2008
  • MIK Leadership Awards to Feld and Queen
  • Research Report - Impulsive shoving
    
  • Fermi remembered - by Millie Dresselhaus
    

• Volume 24.1 Fall 2007 (PDF)
  • Personalities - Luis Galindo
  • Research Report - Hydrogen bond exchange in water
    
  • Research Report - Tomographic Phase Microscopy
  • Spectral Lines - More than a burner by Stephen R. Wilk

• Volume 23.2 Spring 2007 (PDF)
  • Personalities - Ramachandra Dasari
  • Research Report - A New Hybrid Multivariate Calibration Method
    
  • Research Report - Characterizing the Chirality Distribution of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Materials with Tunable Raman Spectroscopy
  • Spectral Lines - Pop Spectrum by Stephen R. Wilk

• Volume 23.1 Fall 2006 (PDF)
  • Personalities - Keith Nelson
  • MIT technique reveals inner lives of red blood cells
  • Research Report - Phonon-Polariton Excition in Ferroelectric Slab Waveguides and Photonic Crystals
    
  • Research Report - Cellular Individuality in Directional Sensing
  • Spectral Lines - Mediocrity and Illumination by Stephen R. Wilk

• Volume 22.2 Spring 2006 (PDF)
  • Personalities - Maryann Fitzmaurice
  • Research Report - Probing Fractal Organization of Biological Tissue
    
  • Research Report - Understanding Free Radical Chemistry
  • Spectral Lines - If at first you don’t succeed... by Stephen R. Wilk
    

• Volume 21.2 Spring 2005 (PDF)
• Personalities - Dr. Robert Field
• Spectroscopy Laboratory to Get New Physical Plant
• Research Report - Electronic and Rotational Motions in CaF
• Research Report - Real-Time Spectral Diagnosis using TMS
• Spectral Lines - Archimedes’ Solar Weapon by Stephen R. Wilk

• Volume 21.1 Fall 2004 (PDF)
  • Personalities - Dr. Kamran Badizadegan
  • Research Report - Investigation of Cellular Structure...
  • Spectral Lines - Roy G. Biv by Stephen R. Wilk
  • Research Report - Discharge-Flow Kinetics Measurements...
  
  
• Volume 20.2 Spring 2004 (PDF)
  • Personality - Professor William Green
  • Research Report - Chemotaxis in Microchannels
  • Spectral Lines - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg by Stephen Wilk
  • Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Series
  • Lester Wolfe Workshop - Neural Imaging with Optics
    
    
• Volume 20.1 Fall 2003 (PDF)
  • Devices Could Help Diagnose Precursers To Cancer (BRP)
  • BPR Investigators' Profiles
  • Optical Topics - Rainbows by Stephen R. Wilk
  • Research Report - Proton Coupled Electron Transfer: The Engine of Bioenergy Conversion, Daniel Nocera, MIT
    
    
• Volume 17.1 Fall 2001 (PDF)
  • Spectroscopic Detection of Disease Using Tri-Modal Spectroscopy
  • Molecular Tagging Velocimetry: Combining Chemistry and Optical Spectroscopy to Study Liquid Flows
  • Personality: Charles Boone, M. D.
    
    
• Volume 16.2 Fall 2001
  • An E-Eye for Fruit
  • Study of the Orientational Dynamics in a Supercooled Liquid by Flow-Induced Anisotropy
  • Personality: Gordon Thomas
    
    
• Volume 16.1 Spring 2000 (PDF)
  • Seeing Through the Human Body: Diagnostic Optical Imaging of Deep Tissue
  • Future Directions of Optics in Medicine
  • Personality: Professor Daniel Kleppner
    
    
• Volume 15.2 Fall 1999 (PDF)
  • Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes
  • Optical Spectroscopy to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Personalities: Professor Mildred Dresselhaus
    
    
• Volume 15.1 Spring 1999 (PDF)
  • Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
  • Endoscopic Detection of Dysplasia
  • Personalities: Michael B. Wallace, M.D.
    
    
• Volume 14.1 Spring 1998
  • Single Molecule Detection Using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
  • Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using NIR Raman Spectroscopy
  • Personalities: Katrin Kneipp
  
  
  
• Volume 13.1 Spring 1997
  • Determination of Human Coronary Artery Histopathology with Near Infrared Raman Spectroscopy
  • Personalities: Professor Moungi Bawendi
    
    
• Volume 12.2 Fall 1996
  • Spectral Pathology
    
    
• Volume 12.1 Spring1996 (PDF)
  • Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots
  • Raman and FT-IR Spectroscopy of Heteropolymer Gels
  • Personalities: Professor Daniel Kleppner
    
    
• Volume 11.2 Fall 1995 (PDF)
  • Measurement of Blood Glucose Concentration by Near-Infrared Raman Spectroscopy
  • The Single Atom Laser – A Quantized Rabi Oscillator
  • Personalities: Irving Itzkan
    
    
• Volume 11.1 Spring 1995 (PDF)
  • Detection of PAH Carcinogens at the Single Molecule Level
  • The Thermoelastic Basis of Laser Ablation of Biological Tissues
  • Personalities: Professor Steven R. Tannenbaum
    
    
• Volume 10.2 Fall 1994 (PDF)
  • New Directions in Collision Induced Energy Transfer
  • Modeling Tissue Fluorescence for Early Detection of Colon Cancer
  • Personalities: Stephen Coy and Jacques Van Dam
    
    
• Volume 10.1 Spring 1994
  • Periodic Orbit Spectroscopy and Quantum Chaos
  • Photon Migration in Turbid Media for Biomedical Imaging Using Feynman path Integrals