Abstract: An R.F. generator for providing power to a load via a transmission line wherein load impedance is automatically matched to the surge impedance of the transmission to provide maximum transfer of energy from the generator to the load. Voltages representative of input power and reflected power are utilized to control a load match circuit to cause load impedance to equal transmission line impedance. Feedback loop means are also provided to maintain net load power at an externally commanded level.

Abstract: A flowmeter system having circuitry defining a path for confining the flow of a fluid medium therethrough, first and second transducers disposed along said flow path for generating and receiving acoustic compression waves in the fluid medium between the transducers, a phase lock loop receiver/transmitter system including a voltage controlled oscillator for adjusting the frequency of the acoustic compression waves to maintain the compression wave length constant, a phase detector for measuring the phase difference of the received acoustic compression waves relative to that transmitted and for producing a sum signal proportional to the sum of the measured phase differences to vary the output of said voltage controlled oscillator, circuitry for producing a difference signal proportional to the difference of the measured phase differences representing the direction and magnitude of the flow of the fluid medium as well as changes in its composition and an active filter in the loop for increasing the loop gain of t

Abstract: A flowmeter system having a device defining a path for confining the flow of a fluid medium therethrough, first and second transducers disposed along said flow path for generating and receiving acoustic compression waves in the fluid medium between the transducers, a phase lock loop transmit/receive system including a voltage controlled oscillator for adjusting the frequency of the acoustic compression waves to maintain the compression wave length constant, a phase detector for measuring the phase difference of the received acoustic compression waves relative to that transmitted and for producing a sum signal proportional to the sum of the measured phase differences to vary the output of said voltage controlled oscillator, circuitry for producing a difference signal proportional to the difference of the measured phased differences representing the direction and magnitude of the flow of the fluid medium as well as changes in its composition, and circuitry for adjusting the phase of the transmit signal during i

Abstract: A double monochromator having a principal stage and a pre-monochromator or first stage that includes a coarse reflecting plane diffraction grating and a concave mirror for converging the object beam on the grating and for imaging the selected band of diffracted light from the grating on the entrance slit of the principal or second stage. The first stage spectral bandwidth is much larger than the second stage, thus permitting use of a grating having a groove spacing approximately ten times that of the second stage grating, and the use of linear wavelength adjusting means. The imaging mirror results in a shorter image and object distance and therefore a smaller convenient instrument.

Abstract: A high speed temperature controlled, microcircuit electrometer comprising a preamplifier with a very high resistance feedback resistor and temperature sensor on a substrate which is temperature controlled by a thermo-electric module on which the substrate is mounted and which is held within a very small temperature range by temperature control circuitry. The preamplifier, feedback resistor, temperature sensor and thermo-electric module are all enclosed in a hermetically sealed, dry gas environment, maintained at an essentially constant temperature, to reduce the effects of hostile environments, such as temperature changes, vibration, contamination, and humidity. This electrometer operates at high speed and is highly responsive to small current values such as ion currents generated by ionized gas molecules in a mass spectrometer.

Abstract: A self-bonding flame spray wire capable of forming a readily grindable coating formed of a sheath of aluminum and a compacted powder core containing a major portion of nickel and stainless steel and a minor portion of aluminum and metal oxide. The core may contain from about 10 to 90 percent, and preferably about 61 percent, by weight nickel, about 10 to 90, and preferably 30, percent by weight stainless steel, from 1 to 10 percent by weight, and preferably 5 percent by weight, aluminum, from 1/4 to 10 percent by weight, and preferably 4 percent by weight, of the metal oxide which may, for example, be cobalt oxide or zirconium oxide, and is most preferably zirconium oxide.

Abstract: A high track density recording head assembly which eliminates cross-talk in high track density recording systems by positioning very thin neutralization heads between each pair of adjacent recording heads. The neutralization heads are provided with air gaps aligned with the gaps in the adjacent heads and have coils wound to develop a polarity opposite to that in the adjacent recording head. The neutralization head flux thus produced cancels the recording head lateral fringing flux that is responsible for recording interference in the adjacent recording tracks.

Abstract: Apparatus for the etching of semiconductor devices which includes, in combination, an etching chamber containing the semiconductor device to be etched, an electrodeless etching plasma forming chamber having an inlet connected to a source of continuously flowing etching gas and having an outlet connected to said etching chamber in fluid flow communication; a helical inductive resonator coupler for coupling a source of R.F.

Abstract: This invention relates to a plasma etching system, which includes a lower flange and a spaced upper flange; a chamber wall mounted between the flanges to form a closed etching chamber; a grounded wafer support plate disposed in said chamber for receiving thereon a wafer to be processed; an electrical insulating element interposed between the chamber wall and the support plate; a sintered or sintered-like porous electrode plate mounted in the chamber in spaced relationship with respect to the wafer; said plate having a gas inlet for receiving a supply of etching gas; circuitry for applying an excitation voltage to this plate, and said chamber having a gas outlet leading to a vacuum source.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is method and apparatus for determining the nature of an unknown substance, which includes apparatus for entering a peak table of the spectrum of an unknown substance into computing apparatus, apparatus for adjusting the peak table to a first preselected standardized format, computing apparatus for comparing the so standardized peak table of the unknown with a first library of chemical structural units contained in memory in the computing apparatus, apparatus for making a list of the possible chemical structural units most closely corresponding to the unknown substance, apparatus for readjusting the peak table to a second preselected standardized format, apparatus for forming a file for the unknown substance including data corresponding to the readjusted peak table and to the list of possible chemical structural units, computing apparatus for comparing the file of the unknown substance with a second library containing files of known substances contained in memory in the computing apparatus, e

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the volume of flow of a gas. A reference volume has an input conduit connected to the source of gas and an output conduit connected to a utilization device. Valves in the input and output conduits are cyclically controlled to permit pressure in the reference volume to reach a high and then to attain a low. The reference volume pressure is measured twice during each cycle to provide voltages representative of the high and low pressures. Circuit means control the time and duration of operation of the valves to cause the difference between the high and low pressures to equal a predetermined value.

Abstract: In a ring field projection optical system for imaging a mask on a wafer the illumination source has readily adjustable means for obtaining uniform exposure along the length of the arcuate zone of illumination.

Abstract: A flame spraying device including a rocket accelerator wherein a low velocity flame is produced into which a coating material is introduced. At least one rocket accelerator producing a high velocity stream of combustion product gases is positioned relative to the low velocity flame so that the coating material carried thereby is accelerated toward the substrate to be coated. By positioning the rocket relative to the low velocity flame, the dwell time in the low velocity flame can be optimized to produce the best coating of a substrate. The coating quality is also enhanced by the fact that the coating material does not oxidize or cool significantly while in the high velocity stream and by the fact that the coating material strikes the substrate at high speed thereby resulting in high density coating.

Abstract: In a solvent gradient liquid chromatography system, base line shift is compensated by operating the system in a calibrate cycle with a desired solvent gradient program while subtracting and recording in digital form correction factors sufficient to maintain a flat base line at timed intervals during the program, and then successively recalling said digital correction factors at corresponding time intervals during a run cycle with a test sample and converting the correction factors to analog form and subtracting the converted correction factors from the system output signal for base line correction.

Abstract: A fluid flow control device useful for liquid chromatography includes a radial distribution plate having a patterned aperture therethrough which pattern is designed to ensure that every annulus of the distribution plate having a given area has the same uniform pressure when fluid flows therethrough. The radial distribution of a fluid throughout the aperture is created by a backpressure means adjacent the downstream surface of the radial distribution plate.

Abstract: A target for use in aligning masks used in producing microcircuits which is of a size that can be printed on a microcircuit chip without interfering with the lines thereon, consisting only of lines vertically or diagonally disposed with respect to the image transducer is disclosed. Also disclosed is an automatic system for aligning such targets.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the temperature of a chromatography column includes a pair of base members which include means for receiving and substantially uniformly contacting the periphery of a chromatography column. Means for controlling the temperature of the column receiving means is also provided.

Abstract: A method for coating a graphite tube for use in atomic absorption spectroscopy includes forming a layer of an adhesive volatile material on the tube. An inert material, in the form of a powder, is applied to the layer and heated to pyrolyze the inert material. Thereafter, the graphite tube is coated with pyrolytic graphite.

Abstract: A column of particulate adsorbent is located within a longitudinally extending stainless steel tube. The pollutant gas to be monitored reaches the adsorbent by molecular diffusion after passing through a diffusion gauze at the diffusion end of the tube, a stagnant diffusion zone and a partition gauze forming one longitudinal boundary of the column. In one embodiment the diffusion gauze is removably mounted in a diffusion cap that may be slid over the tube; in another, the diffusion gauze and the partition gauze are mounted in a unit which in manufacture is fitted and permanently fixed within the tube. The invention establishes that the repeatability problem in molecular diffusion personal monitors lies in the hitherto unsuspected criticality of the stagnant diffusion zone parameters and provides a general solution enabling a good compromise between repeatability and sensitivity without the need for unduly close manufacturing tolerances.

Abstract: An interferometric system for testing a lens comprises a source of light and a beam splitter in the path of the light divides the light into first and second beams. A device is provided for holding the lens to be tested in the first beam. A reflector is disposed in the path of the first beam beyond the lens for reflecting the first beam to the beam splitter. A movable reflector is provided in the path of the second beam for reflecting the second beam to the beam splitter to form a single recombined beam. The movable reflector is displaceable in translation along the axis of the beam it reflects and in rotation about an axis or orthogonal axes in the plane of the movable reflector and perpendicular to the beam axis. The entire recombined beam impinges on a photoelectric detector which, in response thereto, generates an electrical signal representing the complex point spread function of the lens being tested.