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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 26 number 2 – Spring 2010 (PDF)
    • Michael S. Feld (1940-2010)
    • Ketterle to Present Lord Lecture
    • Research Report - Extracting Spectral Dynamics from Single Chromophores in Solution (Lisa Marshall)
    • Research Report - Talking Directly to Rydberg Atoms (Yan Zhou)
    • Research Report - Coherent Measurements of High-Order Electronic Correlations in GaAs Quantum Wells (Daniel Turner)
    • Research Report - 2-D IR Vibrational Spectroscopy of Elastin-Like Peptides (Josh Lessing)
    • Gary Forrest Award to Steeves, Stone, and Nair
    • Personality - Andrei Tokmakoff
    • Hot Results from Hamad-Schifferli, Dresselhaus, and Kong
    • Awards and Honors for Masters, Green, Field, Dresselhaus, and Bawendi
    • Doctoral Graduates
    • Baby Photos!
    • The Spectroscopy Lab is International
    • Sound Movies, the Worlds Fair, and Stellar Spectroscopy - On gaps in the history of ideas, by Stephen R. Wilk

  • Volume 26 number 1 – Fall 2009
    • Awards and Honors to Bawendi, Field, Dresselhaus, Feld, Green,
      Ismail, Goldsmith
    • Research Report - Quantitative phase imaging of membrane potential change in HEK293 cells
    • Research Report - Carrier multiplication in semiconductor
      nanocrystals
    • Feld Fest - Symposium honors Michael Feld
    • Jason Taylor Motz (1972-2009)
    • Déjà Vu - Indexing, search databases, and how prior literature gets overlooked, by Stephen R. Wilk

  • Volume 25 number 2 – Spring 2009 (PDF)
    • Michael Feld to Present 2009 Lord Lecture
    • Research Report - Detecting cervical cancer early with quantitative spectroscopic imaging
    • Badizadegan named Spec Lab Associate Director
    • Dresselhaus wins Bush award
    • Awards to Nocera, Kong, and van Oudenaarden
    • J.W. Ritter and the discovery of ultraviolet light, by Stephen R. Wilk

  • Volume 25 number 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 number 2 – Spring 2008 (PDF)
  • Volume 24 number 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 number 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 number 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 number 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 22 number 1 – Fall 2005 (PDF)
    • Personality - Jeffrey Steinfeld
    • Research Report - Low coherence probe interferometer for measuring surface profiles and motion in biology
    • Research Report - Photon pairs from multiexciton states in single semiconductor nanocrystals
    • Sir Raman and his Effect
    • Spectroscopy Laboratory to get new physical plant
    • Field Appointed Spec Lab Associate Director
    • Spectral Lines - Rays of the Sun, by Stephen R. Wilk
  • Volume 21 number 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 number 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 number 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 number 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 number 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 number 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 number 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 number 2 – Fall 1999 (PDF)
    • Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes
    • Optical Spectroscopy to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease
    • Personalities: Professor Mildred Dresselhaus

  • Volume 15 number 1 – Spring 1999 (PDF)
    • Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
    • Endoscopic Detection of Dysplasia
    • Personalities: Michael B. Wallace, M.D.

  • Volume 14 number 1 – Spring 1998
    • Single Molecule Detection Using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
    • Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using NIR Raman Spectroscopy
    • Personalities: Katrin Kneipp


  • Volume 13 number 1 – Spring 1997
    • Determination of Human Coronary Artery Histopathology with Near Infrared Raman Spectroscopy
    • Personalities: Professor Moungi Bawendi

  • Volume 12 number 2 – Fall 1996
    • Spectral Pathology

  • Volume 12 number 1 – Spring1996 (PDF)
    • Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots
    • Raman and FT-IR Spectroscopy of Heteropolymer Gels
    • Personalities: Professor Daniel Kleppner

  • Volume 11 number 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 number 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 number 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 number 1 – Spring 1994
    • Periodic Orbit Spectroscopy and Quantum Chaos
    • Photon Migration in Turbid Media for Biomedical Imaging Using Feynman path Integrals