One little mentioned feature of the 4000 is that it's portable. If you need to do most analyses, you have to take a sample, transport or send it back to the lab, schedule time on the test instrument, and finally after what is frequently a meaningful delay, you obtain the results. Assuming a 4000 is available, you take the 4000 to the site requiring analysis and immediately obtain the results. Now, given, there are limitations to terahertz spectroscopy, and with its imaging speed, but in many situations, those are not critical. If they are, then there are the fall-back technologies that are well-known. I believe by this time there exists an ample database of terahertz signatures available for spectroscopic comparison, including a variety of important substances. That database will grow as more systems are employed.
These kinds of applications include forensics, remote location spectroscopy, imaging through wood, subsurface imaging, etec.
These kinds of applications include forensics, remote location spectroscopy, imaging through wood, subsurface imaging, etec.
To have only the few sales API has generated in the two years since product announcement speaks very loudly, not of the product's capabilities, but of the efforts to make money on what should be a gold mine.
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