The MIT DMSE Breakerspace is a materials exploration lab open to all undergraduates.
Use these tools to open and process characterization data. Each tool opens on the MIT-hosted Carbonio server in a new browser tab.
These interactive workspaces are designed for a larger screen and work best with a keyboard and mouse or trackpad. You will need to select data files stored on your device.
Infrared spectroscopy
Open and compare spectra, try common processing steps, explore introductory band fitting, and compare marked bands with reference spectra.
.jdx, .dx, .csv, and common text formatscarbonio.mit.eduRaman spectroscopy
Open and compare spectra, try baseline correction and smoothing, explore introductory band fitting, and compare marked bands with reference spectra.
.h5, .hdf5, .xml, and two-column textcarbonio.mit.eduX-ray diffraction
Open one or more diffraction patterns, crop and compare scans, explore background subtraction and smoothing, and perform introductory peak fitting.
.xrdml and .csvcarbonio.mit.eduThe analysis applications and their associated reference libraries are hosted on carbonio.mit.edu and maintained separately from the Breakerspace website. Features, availability, reference-library content, and application updates are therefore outside the maintenance scope of this site.
The applications are developed in the open-source ScienceScripts project by Feranick. Comments, bugs, suggestions can be submitted via: https://github.com/feranick/ScienceScripts/issues
Breakerspace provides these links as a convenient starting point for learning and exploratory analysis.
Questions about Breakerspace teaching materials or accessibility barriers on this page can be sent to dmse-breakerspace@mit.edu.