A Raman spectrometer is still a fairly exotic piece of hardware, requiring a laser, a notch filter for the laser's wavelength, and a very good conventional spectrophotometer to look for low-level sidebands. There have been some homebrew Raman implementations -- e.g., Ben Krasnow's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRrOdKW06sk -- but nothing that would fit on the back of a smartphone.
Because some people definitely have [1]
[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ay/d1ay0...
Edit: already on sale at https://www.amazon.com/CloudMinds-Raman-Spectrometer/dp/B081... . $24,980.00. Maybe I'll hold back a bit on this one...
Another DIY Raman setup (on a breadboard so expect few kg): https://www.thepulsar.be/article/openraman-starter-edition/
Look up cell phone raman spectroscope and there's many done over the past decade
I think people's readyness to slap "fake" on everything these days is the only travesty here
https://www.pozible.com/project/zpecsen-mobile-spectrometer-...
> AU$0 of $19,800 target
> 2yrs ago
> Closed on 9th Feb 2021 at 5:00PM.
Keep in mind airports have this technology by now