Abstract: An optical sensor includes a light receiver and a circuit portion electrically connected to the light receiver, and the circuit portion includes a substrate, an electronic component on the substrate, a resin covering the electronic component, and a metal pillar electrically connected to the electronic component and including a portion covered with the resin and a portion exposed from the resin, and the light receiver is located on the circuit.

Abstract: A method for measuring subterranean formation porosity includes the steps of: deploying a nuclear logging tool having one or more neutron sources and two or more dual-function detectors disposed in into a subterranean formation; causing the one or more neutron sources to emit neutrons in a plurality of neutron pulses into the subterranean formation and generating neutrons and gamma rays in the subterranean formation; obtaining one or more neutron count rates for each of the two or more detectors; determining a formation type of the subterranean formation based on gamma rays received at the one or more detectors; calculating one or more neutron count rate ratios between the neutron count rates of two detectors selected from the two or more detectors; and obtaining one or more formation porosities based on the formation type and the one or more neutron count rate ratios.

Abstract: A collimator for an x-ray tube can be a monolithic, integral structure. The collimator can include a proximal-end closest to a cathode and a distal-end farthest from the cathode. The proximal-end can adjoin a vacuum inside of the x-ray tube. The distal-end can adjoin the air. The collimator can include an aperture extending therethrough. An x-ray window can be mounted across the aperture. The aperture can include a collimation-region between the x-ray window and the distal-end, and a drift-region between the x-ray window and the proximal-end. X-rays can be generated inside of the collimator.

Abstract: There is described an infrared spectrometer having an optical circuit which comprises one or more hollow waveguides provided by elongate channels formed in a substrate. The optical circuit is arranged such that infrared light in the optical circuit acquires one or more spectral properties for detection by the spectrometer. A laser source couples laser light into an input hollow waveguide portion of the optical circuit, and an optical detector receives the light from an output hollow waveguide portion of the optical circuit, so that an analyser can determine said one or more spectral properties from the detected light.

Abstract: Embodiments include a method, comprising: receiving measured radiation obtained from a radiation detector that received radiation through an object; simulating the measured radiation obtained from the radiation detector that received radiation through the object; generating an offset based on the measured radiation and the simulated measured radiation; estimating scatter radiation based on the offset; and estimating primary radiation based on the estimated scatter radiation.

Abstract: A sensor configured to sense heat or infrared light including a substrate includes a plurality of recess portions; a cavity inside the substrate along a bottom surface and opposing side surfaces of the substrate; a lower reflective layer disposed on at least one of an upper surface of the bottom surface of the substrate, a lower surface of the bottom surface of the substrate, and a surface opposite to the lower surface of the bottom surface of the substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed inside both side surfaces of the recess portion and facing each other; a pixel structure configured to sense heat or infrared light inside the recess portion and embedded in the substrate; and a planarization layer covering the entire upper portion of the substrate.

Abstract: An image forming device according to an embodiment includes a human sensor configured to detect a person in front of the device and an adjustment mechanism configured to move the human sensor to adjust a detection distance. A sensor cover panel is provided for an exterior of the device and is configured to cover the human sensor and the adjustment mechanism. The adjustment mechanism includes an operator element that is manually operable by a user to adjust the detection distance. The human sensor and adjustment mechanism are disposed behind the sensor cover panel. The sensor cover panel has a detection window through which a detection wave for the human sensor can pass. The sensor cover panel has an opening through which the operator element is exposed so as to be seen by a user from both the front side and a lateral side of the device.

Abstract: A method is for operating a radiation detector, in particular an X-ray radiation detector. The radiation detector has a control device to generate a control signal for an illumination unit. The control signal is generated via a pulse current source and a DC source. The pulse current source generates a pulsed signal portion and the DC source generates a direct component. The pulsed signal portion and the direct component are superimposed to generate the control signal and are fed to the illumination unit. A radiation detector is furthermore specified.

Abstract: A floating bridge structure includes a substrate, a floating bridge layer, and at least one support. The floating bridge layer is on the substrate and substantially parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. The support extends on a vertical surface from the substrate to the floating bridge layer, in which the vertical surface is substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A bolometer having a high TCR, a bolometer array, and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The present invention is related to a bolometer including a substrate, a positively charged adhesive layer provided on the substrate, and a bolometer film comprising semiconducting carbon nanotubes and a negative thermal expansion material, both of which are negatively charged, and are electrostatically adsorbed to the adhesive layer.

Abstract: An optical sensor includes a light receiver, a circuit portion having an electronic component electrically connected to the light receiver, a metal cap covering an upper portion of the light receiver and includes a cavity facing the light receiver, an optical filter in the cavity of the metal cap, and a metal stem connected to the metal cap, and the circuit portion is on the metal stem.

Abstract: A fluorescence detection system is provided and adapted to provide a selectable excitation beam to an optical transmission path for irradiation of a device under test, including a driving module, a lighting module, a first optical module and a second optical module. The driving module includes a first shaft and a second shaft parallel thereto. The lighting module is fixed to the first shaft. The first optical module and the second optical module are fixed to the second shaft. A driving operation enables the driving module to rotate the lighting module, the first optical module and the second optical module simultaneously, determining quickly a combination of one light source, one filter and one spectroscopic module on the optical transmission path, with the combination corresponding in position to the device under test, so as to reduce the volume and cost the fluorescence detection system.

Abstract: A component for detecting electromagnetic radiation includes a detection structure and a supply circuit for the detection structure. The detection structure includes a transistor associated with an absorbent element for detecting the rise in temperature of the absorbent element when electromagnetic radiation is absorbed. The supply circuit is configured to supply the detection structure in operation such that a channel zone of the structure has, at the location of one of its first and the second faces, a layer having carriers of a second type of conductivity opposite to a first type of conductivity of a source zone and of a drain zone of the transistor, the layer being referred to as blocking layer.

Abstract: A charge detection apparatus may include a radiation sensor having a first electrode and a second electrode for collecting charges of opposite sign and configured to supply to a collecting terminal, connected to the first electrode, a charge signal proportional to an incident radiation. The radiation sensor may define a sensor capacitance associated with the first and the second electrode. The device may also include a charge preamplifier, configured to receive the charge signal and convert it into an electrical output signal, and including an amplifier having a first output terminal. An electrical connection may be included between the first output terminal and the second electrode configured so that the sensor capacitance is in feedback for the amplifier.

Abstract: Provided is a CdZnTe monocrystalline substrate which has a small leakage current even when a voltage is applied from a low voltage to a high voltage, and which has a lower variation in resistivity with respect to applied voltage changes from 0 to 900 V, and which can maintain a stable resistivity. A semiconductor wafer comprising a cadmium zinc telluride monocrystal having a zinc concentration of 4.0 at % or more and 6.5 at % or less and a chlorine concentration of 0.1 ppm by weight or more and 5.0 ppm by weight or less, wherein when a voltage is applied in a range of from 0 to 900 V, the semiconductor wafer has a resistivity for each applied voltage value of 1.0×107 ?cm or more and 7.0×108 ?cm or less, and wherein a relative variation coefficient of each resistivity to the applied voltages in a range of from 0 to 900 V is 100% or less.

Abstract: Detector module designs for radiographic imaging include first and second layers of scintillator rods or pixel arrays oriented in first and second directions. The first and second directions are transversely oriented to define a light sharing region between the first and second layers. Encoding features may be disposed in, on or between the first and second layers, and configured to modulate propagation of optical signals therealong or therebetween.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a bolometer having a high TCR value and a low resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the present invention, a bolometer manufacturing method including: fabricating an interlayer having a function that enhances binding between a substrate and a carbon nanotube, in a predetermined shape on the substrate; and, making a semiconducting carbon nanotube dispersion liquid move on the interlayer in one direction relative to the fabricated interlayer is provided.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a pyranometer, including: a dome; a thermopile-based sensor comprising a receiving surface; a diffusor configured to diffuse radiation external to the pyranometer and passing through the dome, toward the receiving surface of thermopile-based sensor; and at least one optical filter arranged in an optical path of the radiation in front of the receiving surface of the thermopile-based sensor so as to modify the spectral composition of the radiation measured by the thermopile-based sensor. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus (100) for optically characterizing a textile sample (106) comprises a presentation subsystem (102) comprising a viewing window (108). A radiation subsystem (114) comprises a radiation source (120) for directing a first, ultraviolet radiation (122) and a second, visible radiation (123) toward the sample (106), and causing the sample (106) to produce a fluorescent radiation (124) and a reflected radiation (125). A sensing subsystem (126) comprises an imager (130) for capturing the fluorescent radiation (124) and the reflected radiation (125) in an array of pixels (408). A control subsystem (132) comprises a processor (136) for controlling the presentation subsystem (102), the radiation subsystem (114), and the sensing subsystem (126), and for creating a fluorescent and reflected radiation image (400) containing both spectral information and spatial information in regard to the fluorescent radiation (124) and the reflected radiation (125).

Abstract: An optical detection system for a capillary electrophoresis instrument is disclosed. The system includes an ultraviolet (UV) source and an absorption measurement optical path. In an embodiment, the optical path comprises a first plurality of optical elements arranged to obtain a plurality of respective UV beamlets from a UV beam emitted by the UV source and to direct the respective UV beamlets transversely through respective capillaries of a plurality of capillaries and to an absorption detector positioned to detect respective signals for use in obtaining respective UV absorption measurements corresponding to the respective capillaries.