Integrated spectral and spatial information extraction in Raman spectroscopy

Raman spectroscopy has been widely used to analyze various substances quantitatively. Conventional studies are primarily focused on the spectral characteristics of Raman scattering. The spatial distribution is always ignored, which can be used to observe the physical properties, such as the particle size. In this article, the spatial information has been extracted from the Raman spectra of barium nitrate, demonstrating that the evident spatial width broadening varied with the particle size. The numerical result shows that the spatial width has a better linear correlation with the particle size, while the Raman intensity has a poor linear correlation. The integrated spectral and spatial information extracted in Raman spectroscopy has a potential application in the quantitative analysis of physical properties.