Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples, a sensor chip for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples, a sensing device for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples, and a measurement system for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples. The method comprises providing a sensor chip, the sensor chip comprising a sensing layer arranged in or on a substrate and a measurement volume adjacent to the sensing layer. The sensing layer comprises a plurality of sensing elements, each of which is configured to generate a sensor signal characterizing a physical observable in the vicinity of the respective sensing element. A carrier fluid comprising a plurality of sample objects is provided to the measurement volume, wherein each of the sample objects comprises or forms a respective sample. A number of sample objects in the measurement volume is controlled such that the sample objects form a self-organized structure in the measurement volume.

Abstract: A device for confocal observation of a sample comprises at least one disk-like body, wherein the at least one disk-like body comprises on a first side a plurality of micro-optical elements and on a second side a correspondingly arranged pinhole pattern formed by a plurality of pinholes, wherein the plurality of micro-optical elements arranged on the first side comprise a convex, dichroically coated front surface, wherein for excitation of the sample the disk is illuminated on its side facing the tube lens with collimated light which is reflected back to the tube lens by the plurality of curved, dichroically coated surfaces on the disk in such a way that a corresponding excitation spot pattern is created therefrom in the object plane of the microscope, which excitation spot pattern, after having passed the tube lens and the plurality of curved, dichroically coated surfaces, can be spatially filtered and detected.

Abstract: A double belt press for the manufacturing of wood-based panels comprises two circumferential metallic forming belts, configured to press wood-based components between each other. Further the double belt press comprises two circumferential roller beds each comprising a plurality of parallel roller rods. Each forming belt is provided with one of the two circumferential roller beds, wherein the circumferential roller beds are each adapted to transfer pressure onto the respective forming belt. The double belt press further comprises at least one infeed shaft comprising a guide element with a cylindrical lateral surface that guides the plurality of parallel roller rods of one of the circumferential roller beds.

Abstract: A device for confocal observation of a sample comprises at least one disk-like body, wherein the at least one disk-like body comprises on a first side a plurality of micro-optical elements and on a second side a correspondingly arranged pinhole pattern formed by a plurality of pinholes, wherein the plurality of micro-optical elements arranged on the first side comprise a convex, dichroically coated front surface, wherein for excitation of the sample the disk is illuminated on its side facing the tube lens with collimated light which is reflected back to the tube lens by the plurality of curved, dichroically coated surfaces on the disk in such a way that a corresponding excitation spot pattern is created therefrom in the object plane of the microscope, which excitation spot pattern, after having passed the tube lens and the plurality of curved, dichroically coated surfaces, can be spatially filtered and detected.

Abstract: The invention concerns a microscopy method and a microscopy apparatus (100), with an illumination modulator (17) which is configured so as to produce a plurality of points of illumination (8, 11) during a scan of a light strip (3) of the illuminating light (27a) with an illumination modulator (17a), the points being in the form of an asymmetrical 2D Bravais lattice (G4, G5, G6) with a first, longer primitive vector (a) and a second, shorter primitive vector (b) and wherein the projection of the first primitive vector (a) onto the axial direction (3a) of the light strip (3) is longer than the projection of the second primitive vector (b) onto the axial direction (3a) of the light strip (3). In combination with a ROI of a detector synchronised to the illumination line, a more rapid confocal acquisition method is obtained with a better signal-to-noise ratio.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor chip for parallelized magnetic sensing of a plurality of samples, a system for parallelized magnetic sensing of a plurality of samples and a method for probing a plurality of samples using optically addressable solid-state spin systems. The sensor chip comprises an optically transparent substrate comprising a plurality of optically addressable solid-state spin systems arranged in a plurality of sensing regions in a surface layer below a top surface of the substrate. The sensor chip further comprises a plurality of sample sites, wherein each sample site is arranged above a respective sensing region. The sensor chip has a light guiding system configured to provide an optical path through the substrate connecting each of the sensing regions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples, a sensor chip for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples, a sensing device for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples, and a measurement system for parallelized probing of a plurality of samples. The method comprises providing a sensor chip, the sensor chip comprising a sensing layer arranged in or on a substrate and a measurement volume adjacent to the sensing layer. The sensing layer comprises a plurality of sensing elements, each of which is configured to generate a sensor signal characterizing a physical observable in the vicinity of the respective sensing element. A carrier fluid comprising a plurality of sample objects is provided to the measurement volume, wherein each of the sample objects comprises or forms a respective sample. A number of sample objects in the measurement volume is controlled such that the sample objects form a self-organized structure in the measurement volume.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor chip for parallelized magnetic sensing of a plurality of samples, a system for parallelized magnetic sensing of a plurality of samples and a method for probing a plurality of samples using optically addressable solid-state spin systems. The sensor chip comprises an optically transparent substrate comprising a plurality of optically addressable solid-state spin systems arranged in a plurality of sensing regions in a surface layer below a top surface of the substrate. The sensor chip further comprises a plurality of sample sites, wherein each sample site is arranged above a respective sensing region. The sensor chip has a light guiding system configured to provide an optical path through the substrate connecting each of the sensing regions.

Abstract: A method for acquiring microscope-images of sample being larger than a field of view of a microscope, the method comprising creating a continuous relative movement between a sample and the microscope, wherein the optical axis of a microscope objective is substantially perpendicular to the vector of the relative movement, illuminating a part of the sample through the microscope objective, wherein the illuminated part of the sample is smaller than the field of view and forms an illumination slit, moving the illumination slit in a scanning direction across the field of view, and detecting light from the sample collected by the microscope objective, wherein the sample is moved in the same direction as the scanning direction or in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction while the illumination slit is moved across the field of view.