When gathering a measurement using a spectroscopy instrument, the user wants to be confident in the result. Whether the technique is OES, XRF, or LIBS, or if thickness or composition are measured, the ...

Test instruments such as oscilloscopes and DMMs (digital multimeters) often let you get the measurement results you need with just the press of a button. But the number on a meter's display or the ...

GPS receivers must deal with measurements and models that have some degree of error, which gets propagated into the position solution. If the errors are systematically different for the different ...

Science journalism is more popular than ever, but it comes with plenty of sensationalism. Stories reporting that “everything you ever thought about xxx was wrong” generate the most page-clicks so ...

Systematic errors are caused by defective parts like incorrectly adjusted optics or interfering influences such as a dirty light path, and can lead to measurement result deviation from the real value.