Infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy) is an optical technique that detects molecular bond vibrations and rotations upon absorption of infrared light. Because different chemical functional groups ...

What do motion detectors, self-driving cars, chemical analyzers and satellites have in common? They all contain detectors for ...

Each spacecraft carried an infrared (IR) spectrometer designed and built at the College of Chemistry and the Space Sciences Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The IR instruments on the ...