Abstract: A scalar magnetometer includes a sensor element, a circuit carrier, a pump radiation source, a radiation receiver and evaluation means. The pump radiation source emits pump radiation. The sensor element preferably includes one or more NV centers in diamond as paramagnetic centers. This paramagnetic center emits fluorescence radiation when irradiated with pump radiation. The radiation receiver converts a intensity signal of the fluorescence radiation into a receiver output signal. The evaluation means detects and/or stores and/or transmits the value of the receiver output signal. The material of the circuit carrier is preferably transparent for the pump radiation in the radiation path between pump radiation source and sensor element and transparent for the fluorescence radiation in the radiation path between sensor element and radiation receiver. The components sensor element, pump radiation source, radiation receiver and evaluation means are preferably mechanically attached to the circuit carrier .

Abstract: Disclosed is a monitoring method for monitoring the film thickness of a lubricant within a lubricated bearing, the bearing having an inner ring, an outer ring and rolling elements being arranged between the inner ring and the outer ring/ The monitoring method comprises a capacitance measuring step for measuring the total capacitance of the bearing; a first calculation step for determining a film thickness of the lubricant based on the measured capacitance of the bearing and for determining whether the lubrication condition is fully flooded or starved, and when the lubrication condition is fully flooded, a second calculation step for correcting the film thickness determined in the first calculation step.

Abstract: System for determining rheological properties of grease, includes a grease worker having a cylinder intended to contain the grease and a piston intended to move inside the cylinder in a first direction and in a second opposite direction and provided with holes. The grease worker further including a seal provided between the piston and the cylinder, force for measuring the force required to push the grease through the holes of the piston is measured an electrical motor and an eccentrical connection transforming the rotating motion of the motor in a translation motion pushes the grease thought the holes, a thermocouple for measuring a temperature of the cylinder, a fan and a heater for regulating temperature for maintaining constant the measured temperature at a predetermined temperature, and a computing unit configured to determine at least one rheological property of the grease from the measured forces and from the seal friction.

Abstract: A sensor system includes a quantum dot including one or more paramagnetic centers. It comprises a control and evaluation device including a pump radiation source, a radiation receiver and which irradiates the quantum dot depending on a transmission signal. The quantum dot emits fluorescence radiation upon irradiation with the pump radiation, which depends on the magnetic flux density and/or on another physical parameter. The control and evaluation device generates an output signal including a measured value as a function of the fluorescence radiation. The control and evaluation device compensatingly readjusts the sensitivity of the quantum dot for the magnetic flux density and/or the other physical parameter by means of one or more compensation coils.

Abstract: A top-gripping beverage can carrier including a main panel of cardboard sheet material having at least one, and preferably multiple, can receiving apertures. The carrier is provided with locking tabs, which are hingedly connected to the main panel and which are for engaging an underside of a radially protruding portion of a beverage can to be received in the can receiving aperture. The carrier further includes a cover panel for at least partly covering at least a lid of one of the one or multiple cans to be held by the carrier. The cover panel is hingedly connected to the main panel via an intermediate panel, wherein the intermediate panel is hingedly connected to the main panel by means of a first cover fold line, and wherein the intermediate panel is hingedly connected to the cover panel by means of a second cover fold line. The carrier further includes a connector panel which is hingedly connected to the cover panel by means of a third cover fold line.

Abstract: A quantum-technological, micro-electro-optical or micro-electronic or photonic system includes a planar substrate of a direct or indirect semiconductor material. The system includes a microelectronic circuit including at least one transistor or diode. The system further includes a micro-optical subdevice and one or more nanoparticles, having one or more color centers. The surface of the of the planar substrate has a portion of a solidified colloidal film which is firmly bonded to the surface of the substrate. The portion of the solidified colloidal film includes the one or more nanoparticles. The system further includes a light-emitting electro-optical component. The light-emitting electro-optical component interacts optically with the micro-optical subdevice. The light-emitting electro-optical component interacts electrically and/or optically with the electrical component through the micro-optical subdevice.

Abstract: The invention relates to a component for electric, magnetic, or optical applications, comprising at least two adjacent layers (GB1, GB2) with a common boundary region (GFB). The first layer has graphite with a Bernal crystal structure (graphite 2H), and the second layer has graphite with a rhombohedral crystal structure (graphite 3R). The boundary region has at least one boundary area (GG) which has superconductive properties at a transition temperature (Tc) higher than 78 K and/or a critical magnetic flux density (Bk) greater than 1 T.

Abstract: A system for analyzing a microwave-frequency signal by imaging is provided, comprising: a solid material at least one optical property of which is modifiable in at least one zone of the material, when the zone is simultaneously in the presence of an optical excitation or electrical excitation and a microwave-frequency signal having at least one frequency coinciding with a resonant frequency of the material, the material furthermore being such that a value of the resonant frequency varies as a function of the amplitude of a magnetic field, a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field having, in the interior of a portion of the zone, a spatial amplitude variation in a direction X, the material then having a resonant frequency that is dependent on a position in the direction X, and a detector configured to receive an image of the zone in said direction X.

Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a housing, a backlight module, a shielding member, a cover, and a display panel. The housing includes a bottom sidewall, a top sidewall, and a platform disposed between the bottom sidewall and the top sidewall, and the housing further includes a bottom cavity surrounded by the bottom sidewall and a top cavity surrounded by the top sidewall. The backlight module is disposed in the bottom cavity. The shielding member is disposed on the platform and covering a portion of the backlight module. The cover is disposed on the housing. The display panel is attached to the cover and disposed in the top cavity.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of operating an adsorption compressor system, which system comprises a hot source and a cold source and at least a first and a second adsorption bed, wherein the first bed has an initial temperature that is lower than the initial temperature of said second bed, in which system heat is circulated using a heat transfer fluid (HTF), the method comprising the following phases: phase A) comprising the steps of: heating the first adsorption bed by feeding HTF to it, coming from said second bed, optionally via said hot source, while maintaining a thermal wave in said first bed; and cooling the second adsorption bed by feeding HTF to it, coming from said first bed, optionally via said cold source, while maintaining a thermal wave in said second bed; wherein phase A) is maintained until the exit temperature of said first bed and said second bed are essentially the same and phase B) comprising the steps of: feeding the HTF effluent of said first bed to said hot sourc

Abstract: A system for analyzing a microwave-frequency signal by imaging is provided, comprising: a solid material at least one optical property of which is modifiable in at least one zone of the material, when the zone is simultaneously in the presence of an optical excitation or electrical excitation and a microwave-frequency signal having at least one frequency coinciding with a resonant frequency of the material, the material furthermore being such that a value of the resonant frequency varies as a function of the amplitude of a magnetic field, a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field having, in the interior of a portion of the zone, a spatial amplitude variation in a direction X, the material then having a resonant frequency that is dependent on a position in the direction X, and a detector configured to receive an image of the zone in said direction X.

Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a housing, a backlight module, a shielding member, a cover, and a display panel. The housing includes a bottom sidewall, a top sidewall, and a platform disposed between the bottom sidewall and the top sidewall, and the housing further includes a bottom cavity surrounded by the bottom sidewall and a top cavity surrounded by the top sidewall. The backlight module is disposed in the bottom cavity. The shielding member is disposed on the platform and covering a portion of the backlight module. The cover is disposed on the housing. The display panel is attached to the cover and disposed in the top cavity.

Abstract: An adsorption cell suitable for a thermal wave operated adsorption compressor comprising an elongated solid adsorption material extending along an axis, the elongated solid adsorption material and an elongated heat transfer fluid (HTF) channel in direct heat transferring contact with the outside surface of the solid adsorption material. The adsorption material is formed by a stack of units, i.e. pills of adsorption material. Each pill is accommodated in an associated cup from a heat conductive material. The surface conformity and roughness of the bottom of pill of the unit and of top of the pill of the adjacent unit on the one hand and of the cup bottom wall on the other hand are such that any gap between the abutting bottom and cup bottom wall and the abutting top and cup bottom wall is less than 30 micron, preferably less than 10 micron.

Abstract: An adsorption cell suitable for a thermal wave operated adsorption compressor comprising an elongated solid adsorption material extending along an axis, the elongated solid adsorption material and an elongated heat transfer fluid (HTF) channel in direct heat transferring contact with the outside surface of the solid adsorption material. The adsorption material is formed by a stack of units, i.e. pills of adsorption material. Each pill is accommodated in an associated cup from a heat conductive material. The surface conformity and roughness of the bottom of pill of the unit and of top of the pill of the adjacent unit on the one hand and of the cup bottom wall on the other hand are such that any gap between the abutting bottom and cup bottom wall and the abutting top and cup bottom wall is less than 30 micron, preferably less than 10 micron.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of operating an adsorption compressor system, which system comprises a hot source and a cold source and at least a first and a second adsorption bed, wherein the first bed has an initial temperature that is lower than the initial temperature of said second bed, in which system heat is circulated using a heat transfer fluid (HTF), the method comprising the following phases: phase A) comprising the steps of: heating the first adsorption bed by feeding HTF to it, coming from said second bed, optionally via said hot source, while maintaining a thermal wave in said first bed; and cooling the second adsorption bed by feeding HTF to it, coming from said first bed, optionally via said cold source, while maintaining a thermal wave in said second bed; wherein phase A) is maintained until the exit temperature of said first bed and said second bed are essentially the same and phase B) comprising the steps of: feeding the HTF effluent of said first bed to said hot sourc

Abstract: The invention is directed to an adsorption cell suitable for a thermal wave operated adsorption compressor comprising: an elongated solid adsorption material; an elongated heat transfer fluid (HTF) channel in direct heat transferring contact with the outside surface of the solid adsorption material, wherein the characteristic dimension r (e.g. the radius) and the length L of said adsorption material are chosen such that L/r>10, more preferably larger than 15, most preferably larger than 20.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for an atomic force microscope (AFM) for the study and/or modification of surface properties. The device comprises a cantilever (flexible bar) having an integrated, piezoresistive sensor, an integrated bimorphic actuator, and a measuring tip. The measuring tip carries at least two metal electrodes, which can be activated via electrical terminals. The measuring tip and/or the cantilever have at least one nanoscopic hole through which synchrotron radiation or laser light is directed onto the material surface to be studied. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for the study and modification of surface properties and surface-proximal properties, which can be executed using such a device. To this end, atomic force microscopy (AFM), surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), photo emission spectroscopy (XPS, XAS), and material modification by local exposure are executed in sequence or simultaneously using the same device.

Abstract: The invention provides food product particles obtainable with a method for finish-frying food product particles in superheated steam having a flow rate in the range of from 1 to 20 m/s, at a temperature in the range of from 150-250° C. and for a period of time in the range of from 1 to 5 minutes, wherein more than 75% of the surface of the food product particles is contacted with the superheated steam.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for an atomic force microscope (AFM) for the study and/or modification of surface properties. The device comprises a cantilever (flexible bar) having an integrated, piezoresistive sensor, an integrated bimorphic actuator, and a measuring tip. The measuring tip carries at least two metal electrodes, which can be activated via electrical terminals. The measuring tip and/or the cantilever have at least one nanoscopic hole through which synchrotron radiation or laser light is directed onto the material surface to be studied. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for the study and modification of surface properties and surface-proximal properties, which can be executed using such a device. To this end, atomic force microscopy (AFM), surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), photo emission spectroscopy (XPS, XAS), and material modification by local exposure are executed in sequence or simultaneously using the same device.

Abstract: A display module (100) comprises an LCD panel (110), which comprises a front substrate (114) and a rear substrate (116) opposed to the front substrate (114), a liquid crystal material sealed between the front substrate (114) and the rear substrate (116), a front polarizer (112) associated with the front substrate (114) and a rear polarizer (118) associated with the rear substrate (116). The components of the LCD panel are bonded together. The display module (100) further comprises a lightguide (130) having a first surface (131) facing the rear polarizer (118) and a second surface (132) opposed to the first surface (131). At least a part of the first surface (131) of the lightguide (130) is bonded directly to the rear substrate (116) of the LCD panel (110).