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For decades, Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was sold as a hardware story—better lasers, better interferometers, better detectors. But in 2024, the hardware has largely plateaued. The real differentiator between a $20,000 benchtop unit and a $60,000 research-grade system isn't the optics anymore.

Minor baseline tilt, CO2 subtraction artifacts, or slight humidity can tank a Hit Quality Index (HQI) from 98% to 70%. The operator then assumes the sample is unknown, when in reality, the software was just too rigid. ftir software

Now comes the hard part: What am I actually looking at? better detectors. But in 2024