Interested in improving your physics and applied physics knowledge with our analytical solutions? Whether you’re a student, a researcher, or a professor, we’ve got a wide range of useful articles on the most relevant application examples of our physics research solutions.
The materials researched and the analytical equipment used often overlap with Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering – so take a look at those pages for more useful information! You’ll find the method abbreviations explained at the bottom of this page.
Instrumentation and analytical methods are also researched and invented within physics. Here we only present applications related to research on condensed-matter physics. Our instrumentation and research scientists publish work in scientific journals. Get in touch if you’d like help finding research-quality material relating to the physics behind our instrumentation, such as X-ray scattering, X-ray fluorescence, laser diffraction, or dynamic light scattering.
Physics and applied physics
Applied physics research includes:
- Nanoparticles and nanotechnology
- Colloid science
- Optical materials
- Biophysics
- Materials physics
- Condensed-matter physics
- Superconductors
- Semiconductors
- Optoelectronic
- Electromagnetic materials
We’ve put together a selection of articles with examples of where our analytical methods can provide physics research solutions. Take a look to find out more!
Physics and Applied Physics | Method | Sample | Application Note Title (Link) |
|---|---|---|---|
Ceramic powders, glass beads - particle size | LD | Ceramic powders, glass beads | Detecting oversized particles in ceramic powders using laser diffraction particle size analysis |
Glass - elemental analysis | XRF | Soda glass/microscope slides | |
Magnetic alloys - crystal structure vs temperature | XRD | MnBi | High-resolution crystallography: Investigating a new permanent magnet |
Magnetic nanocrystals - particle/cluster size | DLS | Fe3O4 colloidal nanocrystal clusters (CNCs), Alkanol solutions of Fe3O4@SiO2 colloids | Characterization of Magnetically Tunable Colloidal Photonic Crystals Using the Zetasizer Nano |
Nanoparticles - crystalline phase and size | XRD / SAXS / PDF | TiO2 nano-powders, TiO2 anatase, and rutile | Multi-technique nanoparticle characterization on a laboratory X-ray diffractometer |
Phosphors - particle size and shape | Imaging | Phosphor particles in polymer | Characterization of Phosphor particles for LED lighting using the Sysmex FPIA-3000 |
Quantum dots - size, molecular weight, and Zeta potential | DLS / ELS | Quantum dots, CdSe crystal core, with a ZnS shell functionalized with carboxyl groups or polyethylene glycol (PEG) | |
Quantum dots - surface to volume ratio | XRD | Colloidal CdS quantum dots | |
Single crystal - orientation | XRD | Cadmium tungstate (single crystal) | |
Thin films on glass - thickness and roughness | XRD | Ion-plated (IP) and reactive evaporated (RE) TiO2 on Borosilicate (BK7) glass |
Abbreviations explained
Our products and technologies are described on the Products pages. Below you can find a quick reference to the properties measured by our instruments, together with the measurement name and its abbreviation. Click on each method to find out more about it!
Abbreviation | Method Name | Instrument(s) | Measured Property |
|---|---|---|---|
DLS | Zetasizer | Molecular size, hydrodynamic radius RH, particle size, size distribution, stability, concentration, agglomeration | |
ELS | Zetasizer | Zeta potential, particle charge, suspension stability, protein mobility | |
ITC | MicroCal ITC | Binding affinity, thermodynamics of molecular reactions in solution | |
DSC | Microcal DSC | Denaturing (unfolding) of large molecules, stability of macromolecules | |
GCI | Creoptix WAVEsystem | Real-time binding kinetics and binding affinity, label free with fluidics | |
IMG | Morphologi 4 | Imaging of particles, automated shape and size measurement | |
MDRS | Morphologi 4-ID | Imaging of particles, automated shape and size measurement, chemical identification and contaminant detection | |
LD | Mastersizer
| Particle size, size distribution | |
NTA | NanoSight | Particle size, size distribution, and concentration | |
SEC or GPC | Size exclusion chromatography / | OMNISEC | Molecular size, molecular weight, oligomeric state, polymer or protein size and molecular structure |
SPE | Le Neo
| Fused Bead Sample preparation for XRF, Peroxide solution preparations for ICP, Flux weighing for beadmaking | |
UV/ Vis/ NIR/ SWIR | Ultra-violet / visible / near infra-red / short wave infra-red spectrometry | LabSpec
| Material identification and analysis, moisture, mineral, carbon content. Ground truthing for airborne and satellite spectroscopic techniques. |
PFTNA | CNA | In-line elemental analysis | |
XRD-C | Aeris
| Molecular crystal structure refinement, crystalline phase identification and quantification, crystalline to amorphous ratio, crystallite size analysis | |
XRD-M | Empyrean
| Residual stress, texture | |
XRD-CT | Empyrean | 3D imaging of solids, porosity, and density | |
SAXS | Empyrean | Nanoparticles, size, shape and structure | |
GISAXS | Empyrean | Nanostructured thin films and surfaces | |
HR-XRD | Empyrean
| Thin-films and epitaxial multilayers, composition, strain, thickness, quality | |
XRR | Empyrean
| Thin films and surfaces, film thickness, surface and interface roughness | |
XRF | Epsilon
| Elemental composition, elemental concentration, trace elements, contaminant detection |