Tips For Working With Agilent's Vaya Handheld Raman Spectrometer

We will discuss the capabilties of Agilent's Vaya - a handheld Raman spectrometer utilizing spatially offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) - and demonstrate its power to perform through-barrier measurements.

Presenter: Scott Melis, PhD (Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Scott Melis has a PHD in Physics from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and started with Agilent in 2021 as a Molecular Spectroscopy Application Scientist. In his graduate work, Scott studied nanoparticle formation and growth for a variety of applications. Projects that he worked with include developing processes to deposit and characterize semiconducting molecular nano-cocrystals for use in optoelectronic devices as well as controlling polymer nanoparticle size through rapid mixing conditions.