Applications and Use of Integrating Spheres With the UV/Vis Spectrophotometers

Integrating spheres, in combination with UV/Vis and UV/Vis/NIR spectrophotometers, are extremely versatile accessories for high precision reflectance and scattered transmittance measurements on virtually any solid or liquid. This application note describes the range of uses of integrating spheres, from surface characterization of solids to the photometric analysis of turbid, colloidal, transparent and translucent samples.