Open AccessPalm readings.
Author(s) -
L Frazer
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.98106a140
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , palm , computer science , mobile device , multimedia , world wide web , physics , psychology , mathematics education , quantum mechanics
Scientists are taking technology in common laboratory usage for more than 15 years and adapting it in ways that may, quite literally, bring the laboratory into the field. The technology is known as surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and a team of scientists has taken a sensing unit that was once the size of an old-fashioned console television and shrunken it down into a handheld unit no bigger than a conductor's baton.