Abstract: A radiation detecting attachment comprising four radiation detectors configured to detect radiation from an object of detection W, attached removably to a working machine, wherein the radiation detecting attachment is supported by the working machine movably when the radiation detecting attachment is attached to the working machine, and is supported by an arm body of the working machine swingably, and a distance between the radiation detectors and the other radiation detectors is changeable. This makes it possible to use the radiation detectors efficiently and in a versatile manner.

Abstract: A technique capable of improving a performance of a semiconductor detector is provided. The semiconductor detector is made based on injection of an underfill into a gap between a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip in a flip-chip connection state, but the underfill is not formed in periphery of a connection structure connecting a reading electrode pad and a gate terminal through a bump electrode.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing on-board electromagnetic radiation sensing using beam splitting in a radiation sensing apparatus. The radiation sensing apparatuses can include a micro-mirror chip including a plurality of light reflecting surfaces. The apparatuses can also include an image sensor including an imaging surface. The apparatuses can also include a beamsplitter unit located between the micro-mirror chip and the image sensor. The beamsplitter unit can include a beamsplitter that includes a partially-reflective surface that is oblique to the imaging surface and the micro-mirror chip. The apparatuses can also include an enclosure configured to enclose at least the beamsplitter and a light source. With the apparatuses, the light source can be attached to a printed circuit board (PCB). Also, the enclosure can include an inner surface that has an angled reflective surface that is configured to reflect light from the light source in a direction towards the beamsplitter.

Abstract: A forensic detector for remotely sensing a porphyrin-containing substance on a surface of an object is provided. The forensic detector includes an excitation light source for generating an excitation light beam, plural optical elements, one or more sensors for measuring a first and second radiation powers, and a computer processor. The excitation light beam has an excitation wavelength capable of exciting porphyrin to luminesce at a target wavelength centered between 665-675 nm. The first and second radiation powers are in non-overlapping wavelength regions of the object-originated light beam. The computer processor is configured to compute a SNR according to the first radiation power and a background noise power level, and to determine if the porphyrin-containing substance is present on the surface according to the SNR. The background noise power level is obtained from the one or more second radiation powers.

Abstract: A method and device for measuring the layer thickness of an object. Initially, an object with a layer thickness is provided. Thereupon, at least two measurement steps are performed, where electromagnetic radiation with frequencies in a frequency band associated with the respective measurement step is radiated on the object in each case. The frequency bands are different portions of one bandwidth. Secondary radiation emanating from the boundary surfaces of the object is detected and a measurement signal associated with the measurement step is ascertained. The measurement signals are combined according to the respective frequency bands associated with the measurement steps in order to form an evaluation signal; a fundamental frequency is determined therefrom, and the layer thickness is calculated. A large bandwidth can be realized by a narrow-bandwidth measurement steps by the method. As a result, physical limits of known methods are overcome, and the measurement accuracy is increased.

Abstract: Provided is a detector capable of appropriately and highly accurately detecting radiation even under an environment where a wide range of radiation is irradiated. The radiation detector is configured in such a manner that a plurality of light receiving devices are arranged in each cell of a scintillator that is divided into a plurality of cells, photoelectric conversion of scintillation light emitted by each individual cell is dividedly performed by the plurality of light receiving devices to reduce a charge amount of an output signal of each light receiving device, and the output signals are input into an integrated circuit to generate a radiation detection signal of each cell.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a real time visualization of scattered radiation in a medical facility are provided. A number of visualization devices such as augmented reality (“AR”) tracking devices, electronic displays, or projection devices are in electronic communication with a controller and configured to display a visualization of scattered radiation. Position data is received from the position sensors associated with individuals in the medical facility, the AR tracking devices, radiation producing medical equipment, or radiation scattering medical equipment, and the visualization is adjusted accordingly.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for analyzing component separation/mass spectrometer data for a sample having known characteristic includes analyzing reference ion data for a relationship between ion mass, retention time, and intensity. The analyzed data is added to a repository, wherein each ion therein has an intensity maxima within a characteristic retention time range for a characteristic ion mass. If the reference ion is in the repository, the range is modified according to the characteristic retention time of the reference ion intensity maxima. Based on the known characteristic, an ion expected in the sample is selected from the repository, and sample data is compared to data for the ion selected from the repository to determine whether the ion is present in the sample. The range in the repository is then modified according to the characteristic retention time of the intensity maxima for the ion present in the sample.

Abstract: An imager pixel comprising a micro-platform supported by phononic nanowires, the nanowires providing an extreme-level of thermal isolation from a surrounding substrate. The micro-platform in embodiments comprises thermal sensors sensitive to heat from absorbed incident longwave/shortwave photonic irradiation. In embodiments, the pixel photonic sensing structure comprises both a thermal sensor together with a separate photodiode/phototransistor/photogate for sensing RGB and NIR wavelengths. Some embodiments comprise a micro-platform with an integral Peltier thermoelectric element permitting in situ refrigeration to cryogenic temperatures.

Abstract: An apparatus for examination of a free-flowing sample, comprising: a measuring chamber for receiving the sample, the measuring chamber having at least a portion which is transmissive to light of a spectral range; a casing configured to at least partially enclose the measuring chamber, the casing having at least of portion of its inner surface with a reflectivity in the spectral range; a light source for applying light of the spectral range to the measuring chamber; and a sensor for detecting light of the light source reflected by the sample.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing electromagnetic radiation sensing using sequential beam splitting. The apparatuses can include a micro-mirror chip having a plurality of light reflecting surfaces, an image sensor having an imaging surface, and a beamsplitter unit located between the micro-mirror chip and the image sensor. The beamsplitter unit includes a plurality of beamsplitters aligned along a horizontal axis that is parallel to the micro-mirror chip and the imaging surface. The beamsplitters implement the sequential beam splitting. Because of the structure of the beamsplitter unit, the height of the arrangement of the micro-mirror chip, the beamsplitter unit, and the image sensor is reduced such that the arrangement can fit within a mobile device.

Abstract: An ultraviolet light radiation sensing device to be wearable by a human being is provided, the device including a front part and a rear part, an ultraviolet light radiation sensor with associated microprocessor on a printed circuit board, a battery, and a wireless communication unit, e.g. for Bluetooth communication. If the front and rear part are made from a metal or metal alloy, and are interconnected by a middle member made from electrically insulating polymer material, the front and rear parts constitute antenna elements of the wireless communication unit. The device is intended to enable interaction with application data of a smartphone, a method being provided to establish recommended UV-dose and related exposure time by the sun onto the skin of the human being.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixels, and bias wiring laid on a light incident side of pixels to supply a bias from a power supply to the pixels in the pixel region via a second side defining the pixel region. The bias wiring includes first wiring portions and second wiring portions laid around the pixels. The first wiring portions are laid in a Y direction away from the second side, and the second wiring portions are laid in an X direction orthogonal to the Y direction. The first wiring portions include a light non-transmissive member. A resistance of the first wiring portion per pixel is smaller than that of the second wiring portion per pixel. A loss of light due to the second wiring portion is smaller than that of the light incident due to the first wiring portion.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present teachings provide a system for performing cytometry that can be operated in three operational modes. In one operational mode, a fluorescence image of a sample is obtained by exciting one or more fluorophore(s) present in the sample by an excitation beam formed as a superposition of a top-hat-shaped beam with a plurality of beams that are radiofrequency shifted relative to one another. In another operational mode, a sample can be illuminated successively over a time interval by a laser beam at a plurality of excitation frequencies in a scanning fashion. In yet another operational mode, the system can be operated to illuminate a plurality of locations of a sample concurrently by a single excitation frequency, which can be generated, e.g., by shifting the central frequency of a laser beam by a radiofrequency. The detected fluorescence radiation can be used to analyze the fluorescence content of the sample, e.g., a cell/particle.

Abstract: In order to enable concentrations of components to be measured to be accurately calculated even when higher boiling compounds are contained in a test gas, a gas analysis device that analyzes components to be measured that are contained in a test gas using a light spectrum obtained by irradiating light onto the test gas is provided with a calibration curve data storage section in which is stored first calibration curve data in which effects on concentrations of the components to be measured from higher boiling compounds whose boiling point is higher than a heating temperature of an analyzer into which the test gas has been introduced have been corrected, and with a concentration calculation section that calculates concentrations of components to be measured using the first calibration curve data.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an emitter, the emitter comprising an ultraviolet light emitting diode (UV-LED) and being disposed on a first end of a bounded volume suitable for holding a liquid. The liquid may have a negative Langelier saturation index (LSI). The bounded volume can be a chamber, a tank, or the like. The apparatus includes a detector, the detector comprising an ultraviolet light sensor (UV sensor) and being disposed on a second end of the bounded volume, the second end being opposite the first end, wherein the UV-LED comprises a point source, and wherein the emitter generates a parallel beam of light.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus suitable for detecting x-ray, comprising: an X-ray absorption layer configured to generate an electrical signal from an X-ray photon incident on the X-ray absorption layer; an electronics layer comprising an electronics system configured to process or interpret the electrical signal; wherein at least one of the X-ray absorption layer and the electronics layer is embedded in a board of an electrically insulating material.

Abstract: A method for radiation dosage measurement includes: (1) exposing a plurality of single-poly floating gate sensor cells to radiation; (2) measuring threshold voltage differences between logical pairs of the exposed sensor cells using differential read operations, wherein the sensor cells of each logical pair are separated by a distance large enough that radiation impinging on one of the sensor cells does not influence the other sensor cell; (3) determining whether each logical pair of exposed sensor cells is influenced by exposure to the radiation in response to the corresponding measured threshold voltage difference; and (4) determining a dosage of the radiation in response to the number of logical pairs of the exposed sensor cells determined to be influenced by exposure to the radiation. A non-radiation influenced threshold voltage shift may be measured and used in determining whether each logical pair of exposed sensor cells is influenced by radiation exposure.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing crop, animal feed or components with a drivable tool and at least one NIR sensor system for determining at least feed values, having a scanning head with a spectrometric sensor and at least one light source behind a transparent pane which can be passed by the feed, comprises in a housing of the NIR sensor system a calibration surface, the appearance of which is different from the appearance of the feed to be scanned on the pane, wherein the scanning head is actively adjustable for calibration between a scanning position aligned with the pane and a calibration position aligned with the respective calibration surface.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a multitude of photodiodes and analog-to-digital converters disposed in adjacent first and second portions of a semiconductor substrate. The photodiodes exhibit X-ray radiation tolerance. An arrangement of several image sensors in adjacent rows can be used for an X-ray detector in a computed tomography apparatus.