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ITI’s future prospects with Advanced CCD Optical Emission Spectrometer

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 - by Chinthaka de Silva - Leave a Comment

Apart from the popularly known method of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), the latest high-tech instrument is now in town at the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) Colombo 7. The newly commissioned Advanced CCD Optical Emission Spectrometer at the Materials Laboratory (ML) of ITI has already started providing services to the industry for almost one year, making a fair return on investment.

Feature Articles

Basics of X-ray Diffraction Technique Combined with Solid State Physics

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 - by Chinthaka de Silva - Leave a Comment

The X-Ray diffraction technique is very popular among scientists, not only because it allows studying the crystallography of materials, but because it also enhances the identification of materials with a lot of information.

Feature Articles

Could Energy Conservation be a Fairy Tale?

September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 - by Chinthaka de Silva - Leave a Comment

Physics in general always talks about energy conservation. We say that energy can nether be created nor destroyed but can only be transformed or transferred which elaborates the total to remain always be the same. But did you know that it sometimes does not match precisely?

Lab Technology

Basics of Scanning Electron Microscopy

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 - by Chinthaka de Silva - Leave a Comment

In material science a common insitu method of analyzing the surface morphology of a sample is by using a scanning electron microscope. A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) analyses sample surface well beyond optical microscope.