{"id":238324,"date":"2026-06-04T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/portable-uv-spectrometer-can-detect-air-pollutants-across-2-5-km-with-high-precision"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:32:09","slug":"portable-uv-spectrometer-can-detect-air-pollutants-across-2-5-km-with-high-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/portable-uv-spectrometer-can-detect-air-pollutants-across-2-5-km-with-high-precision","title":{"rendered":"Portable UV spectrometer can detect air pollutants across 2.5 km with high precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/portable-uv-spectrometer-can-detect-air-pollutants-across-2-5-km-with-high-precision2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt and her team at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have developed a new type of UV dual-comb spectrometer that detects gaseous air pollutants with unrivaled accuracy and sensitivity. Using ultraviolet double laser light, the device measures the concentration of harmful gases such as formaldehyde within half a second.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its compact design and a measuring range of up to two and a half kilometers, the spectrometer is not only suitable for laboratory analyses, but also for mobile measurements in cities, industrial areas and agricultural regions.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1186\/s43074-026-00250-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal PhotoniX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt and her team at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have developed a new type of UV dual-comb spectrometer that detects gaseous air pollutants with unrivaled accuracy and sensitivity. Using ultraviolet double laser light, the device measures the concentration of harmful gases such as formaldehyde within half [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}