Abstract: A broad-band sensor for a radio frequency plasma processing system that includes a reaction chamber housing an electrode within a vacuum processing environment. The sensor includes an inductive pickup positioned in the vacuum processing environment proximate to the electrode. The inductive pickup includes a wire formed into a loop extending in an azimuthal direction about a symmetry axis of the reaction chamber. A lead carrying an electric signal from the inductive pickup extends through a vacuum wall of the reaction chamber outside the vacuum processing environment. An attenuator circuit including an electrical resistance bridge couples the lead to a signal carrier extending outside the vacuum processing environment. The broad-band sensor has radio frequency detection capability for measuring electromagnetic surface modes within the plasma chamber and coupling the measured electromagnetic surface modes to the signal carrier.

Abstract: Parts of a pair, in use, are disposed in abutting relation to one another to define a cell for use with an electron microscope, the cell having, disposed on opposite surfaces thereof, a pair of windows, the windows being arranged in spaced relation to one another to define a viewable interior volume of the cell at a region of overlap. The spaced relation being determined by additional opposite surfaces with minimal contact area to warrant reproducible liquid thicknesses.

Abstract: A radiation therapy system comprises a treatment pod having an internal treatment room, and a beam delivery system comprising a particle accelerator for generating a radiation beam. The beam delivery system is carried by the treatment pod with the particle accelerator outside of the pod, and is configured to deliver the radiation beam to the treatment room. The beam delivery system, including the accelerator is movable around the treatment pod in order to adjust the position of the radiation beam with respect to the treatment room. The movement of the beam delivery system is counterbalanced. The treatment pod, together with the beam delivery system, may be moved in order to service multiple waiting rooms.

Abstract: A system inspects, modifies or analyzes a region of interest of a sample via charged particles. A detector device of the system produces a pixel image having horizontal and vertical pixel resolutions. A charged particle deflection device produces a scanning charged particle beam in a scanning region. The deflection device has horizontal and vertical deflection units controlled by a digital to analog converter having a digital resolution larger than the horizontal pixel resolution and/or the vertical pixel resolution. An operator control interface of the system selects an assignment between respective image pixels of a desired pixel image and digital inputs of the DAC to produce horizontal and/or vertical deflection signals to guide the charged particle beam to the location of the respective image pixel. A reliable image of a sample can be obtained even when there is zooming or panning within an accessible region of the sample.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a three-dimensional article through successively depositing individual layers of powder material that are fused together with an electron beam from an electron beam source so as to form the article according to a computer model thereof. The apparatus includes a chamber a chamber having a first section and a second section openly connected to each other. The first section is configured to receive the individual layers of powder material. The second section comprising an electron beam source, an electromagnetic focus coil having an axially extending, and a reflector coil. The electron beam source is configured to emit an electron beam to fuse the individual layers of powder material. The reflector coil is arranged radially outside the electromagnetic focus coil. The direction of windings of the reflector coil is opposite a direction of windings of the electromagnetic focus coil.

Abstract: A sanitizing module includes a housing having an open end, and at least one ultraviolet light emitting element within the housing and being configured to emit ultraviolet light out of the housing through the open end. The housing is configured for removable connection to a container having an interior receiving space such that connection of the housing to the container encloses the interior receiving space of the container.

Abstract: An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is for automatically managing a helmet. Because the inside of a helmet may be sterilized and dried in a short time, a comfortable safety helmet may be ensured even during a short break time. Also, because charging may be performed without removing attachments such as an IoT device, an electronic device, and an illumination light from the helmet, the inconvenience of time and effort spent on attaching and detaching the attachments may be eliminated. Also, because the attachments such as the IoT device, the electronic device, and the illumination light may be charged at every break in the middle of work, a required capacity of a rechargeable battery may be reduced, a weight of the attachments may be reduced, and thus, the burden on the user to use the helmet may be reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus for artificial weathering or lightfastness testing of samples or for simulating solar radiation, the apparatus comprising a weathering chamber, a UV light source provided in the weathering chamber, and a fluorescent material arranged to be radiated by a UV radiation emitted by the UV light source, the fluorescent material being configured to emit a fluorescent radiation comprising spectral emission characteristics similar to natural solar radiation.

Abstract: A monitoring system detects and measures a quantity of radical particles within a gas. A test chamber is coupled to a flow channel that transmits a gas. The test chamber defines an aperture connecting the test chamber and the flow channel, and the aperture permits a subset of the gas to enter the test chamber from the flow channel. An ionizer is positioned within the test chamber and generates radical ions from radical particles of the subset of the gas. A mass spectrometer measures a quantity of the radical ions, thereby providing a measurement of the radical particles in the gas.

Abstract: A device for improving an interior air quality in a vehicle includes a photoreactor and a control device. The photoreactor is connectable, by a photoreactor line section, between a fresh air intake and an air distribution system of a ventilation system and/or air conditioning system of the vehicle. The photoreactor line section has a controllable valve in each of the two end regions, i.e., at the respective points at which it is connectable on the one hand to the fresh air intake and on the other hand to the air distribution system. The photoreactor has UV-C LEDs that emit UV-C radiation. The control device controls the air passing through the photoreactor using the controllable valves arranged in the photoreactor line section in such a way that the air passing through is exposed to a predetermined UV-C radiation dose.

Abstract: A detector includes a housing assembly, a detection assembly and a shielding assembly. The detection assembly includes a first housing, a detection circuit board and a probe, the detection circuit board is disposed in the first housing and electrically connected with the probe, the detection circuit board includes a sensitive element, and a first end of the probe is fixed in the first housing while a second end stretches out of the first housing; the housing assembly includes a collision housing and a pressing portion that are capable of sliding in relative to each other, the detection assembly is located below a bottom of the pressing portion, the collision housing is used for abutting against a sampling part, and the pressing portion is used for driving the detection assembly to move towards the sampling part, so as to pierce the probe into the sampling part for detection.

Abstract: A low power mass spectrometer assembly includes at least an ionization component, an electrostatic analyzer, a lens assembly, a magnet assembly and at least one detector located in a same plane as the entrance to the magnet assembly for detecting the deflected sample ions and/or fragments of sample ions, including ions or ion fragments indicative of the Vitamin D metabolite within the sample.

Abstract: A spray-capillary device is configured to process ultra-low-volume samples. The spray-capillary device includes a capillary tube that includes a lumen, an inner surface, an outer surface, an inlet end for receiving a fluid, and a discharge end having a porous section. A polymer material may be applied to the inner surface to form a polymer coating thereon. A downstream connector provides an interface between the porous section of the capillary tube, a conductive fluid, and a high voltage electrical source. The application of voltage to the downstream connector causes electrospray ionization, which can be used to draw ultra-low-volume samples into the inlet end. A gas injection assembly can be used to increase the pressure on the inlet end of the capillary tube to encourage movement of the sample therethrough. The spray-capillary device may be used to provide the ultra-low-volume samples to a mass spectrometer or other suitable analytic device.

Abstract: An ultraviolet sterilization system can be mounted to an air duct to sterilize the air therein and then selectively removed and used in a handheld portable mode that allows a user to sterilize a target surface. The ultraviolet sterilization system may include a housing, a heatsink element, an array of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) housed within the housing to generate a directional beam of ultraviolet radiation, and an electronic driver housed within the housing to drive the ultraviolet LEDs. One or more power interfaces allow for operation in an AC mode plugged into a power receptacle or in a DC mode plugged into a portable power source.

Abstract: An electron beam is irradiated on a specimen in a state where a negative voltage is applied to the specimen. The specimen is rotated to establish an optimum orientation of a specimen surface shape relative to an orientation of a detector having two detection surfaces disposed at rotational symmetric positions with respect to an optical axis of the electron beam taken as an axis of rotation, and an image is generated based on a quantity of a signal from reflected electrons detected by the detector.

Abstract: A method for providing a neutron radiation shield includes a step (a) of providing a wall having an opening; and a step (b) of at least partially filling a space in the opening with a neutron moderator. Step (b) includes blast-injecting plastic granules into the opening with a blower device to form the neutron moderator.

Abstract: A dose planning system, which takes the drug concentration distribution in human organs/tissues as well as the atomic composition distribution of human organs/tissues into consideration, and calculates the neutron/photon dose distribution in human organs/tissues under this drug concentration distribution using the Monte Carlo Method. Thereby the neutron/photon dose distribution in the organs/tissues of the human subject is calculated more accurately.

Abstract: An ion implanter includes a crucible provided inside a vacuum chamber, and including an internal space configured to accommodate a solid sample which is a raw material of a source gas, a laser source provided outside the vacuum chamber, and irradiating the crucible with a laser beam, an arc chamber including an internal space for converting the source gas into plasma to generate ions, and in which an ion beam is extracted from the internal space, and a nozzle connecting the internal space of the crucible and the internal space of the arc chamber, and introducing the source gas vaporized in the internal space of the crucible into the internal space of the arc chamber.

Abstract: A Far UV-C light device has a Far UV-C lamp located within a housing emitting a Far UV-C light having a wavelength of 222+/?1 nm for destroying pathogens. A handle connected with a body to a housing allows the Far UV-C device to be hand held and moved to a selected location. The handle is attached to a battery that provides electric energy that excites the Far UV-C lamp to emit Far UV-C light.

Abstract: A particle beam system includes a multi-beam particle source and a magnetic multi-deflector array. The magnetic multi-deflector array includes a coil that is arranged such that, during use of the particle beam system, a multiplicity of individual particle beams substantially passes through the first coil so that they are deflected in an azimuthal direction to correct an azimuthal telecentricity error of the particle beam system so that the individual particle beams telecentrically impinge on an object plane of the particle beam system.