Rebecca Ingle, Ph.D

Feature Writer

Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, M.Chem. Chemistry

Dr. Rebecca Ingle is a researcher in the field of ultrafast spectroscopy, where she specializes in using X-ray and optical spectroscopies to track precisely what happens during light-triggered chemical reactions. Her enthusiasm for science communication led to her starting as a science writer during her undergraduate, and since then she has contributed to numerous magazines, blogs, and newspapers. She particularly loves writing about all things lasers and optics.

Articles from Rebecca

Twisting Light and the Future of Quantum Computing Technology

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has found a way to create light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that will emit chiral valley polarized light and operate at room temperature.

15 Oct 2021

How LEDs Could Detect Off-Food in your Fridge and Make Emergency Response Safer

Recent collaborative work has found a way to develop infrared LEDs that are tunable to different wavelengths, opening the door to several application opportunities such as important gas sensing in emergency response situations and for detecting off-food in home fridges.

12 Oct 2021

Producing Clear Images Through Dirty Water: Important Applications

Recent developments in the methodology of underwater image recovery have made it possible to capture clear images underwater with good contrast and no prior estimation of the variables involved in any underwater scattering processes.

12 Oct 2021

Exploring the Use of Lasers to Simultaneously Cook and 3D-Print Food

A recent study has investigated the effect of lasers on the cooking properties of chicken meat in combination with 3D printing.

11 Oct 2021

Canceling the Noise: Revolutionizing Space and Fiber Communication with Compact Amplifiers

Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology have found an approach to design integrated waveguides for optical parametric amplification that operate in the telecommunication band. This provides a new route to noise-free amplification of optical signals that could be used for a variety of telecommunications applications.

6 Oct 2021

Using Fiber-Optics to Track Ice Sheet Movement

The 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has highlighted the rate of rapid ice sheet loss, particularly in Greenland, is highly likely to continue. Fiber optic-based methods may be the best approach to tracking ice sheet movement.

24 Sep 2021

Graphene Oxide Breakthrough using Transmission Electron Microscopy

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) uses a focused beam of electrons to image a sample by transmitting the beam through it. Recent work has used TEM to investigate the temperature dependence of the structure of graphene oxide, focusing in particular on the placement of the oxygen atoms around the carbon lattice.

24 Sep 2021

Detecting Microplastics with Raman Microscopy and FTIR Spectroscopy

Raman and infrared spectroscopy are highly complementary analytical tools that are sensitive to the vibrational modes of molecular species or materials. Understanding the behavior of microplastics means being able to characterize their dimensions as particles and also evaluate their chemical composition. Raman spectroscopy and Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) have successfully been used to characterize some particles from environmental samples.

24 Sep 2021

Raman Spectroscopy: Potential in Analyzing Hydrogels

The immense water-absorbing capacity of hydrogels has made them exciting materials in a number of fields including engineering and biotechnology. It is possible to design ‘smart’ hydrogels, where water-binding properties can be tuned by changing the environmental conditions of the hydrogel, such as by applying a voltage.

22 Sep 2021

Cutting Through Ice with ICESat-2's Space Lasers to Track Arctic Melting

Arctic sea ice levels are often considered as one of the key indicators of our changing climate. A new NASA mission, ICESat-2, has set out to record this new dimension of information.

22 Sep 2021