Abstract: A microchemical system is provided, which can improve the working efficiency of the user and can be designed compact in size. The microchemical system is provided with an optical fiber 10 with a gradient index rod lens 102 mounted on an end thereof. The lens-possessing optical fiber 10 is comprised of an optical fiber 101 that transmits exciting light and detecting light in the single mode, and a ferrule 103 for expanding the outer diameter of the optical fiber 101 to the same value as that of the gradient index rod lens 102. The gradient index rod lens 102 and the optical fiber 101 are rigidly joined together by means of a sleeve 104.

Abstract: In a microfluid system it is intended to expand the application range of samples capable of being treated, decrease the amount of samples used, and prevent deterioration of samples with the lapse of time. In a microfluid system having a microchip for feeding plural samples to a treating portion and performing predetermined treatments, plural sample servers for storage of the samples therein are provided in the microchip, the sample servers and the treating portion are connected with each other through capillary channels provided respectively on outlet sides of the sample servers, and a pressurizing device for pressurizing the samples stored in the sample servers and feeding them to the treating portion is provided.

Abstract: An enzyme immunoassay chip having, as micro channels, a reaction liquid leading-in flow passage part, a reaction flow passage part, and detection flow passage part sequentially disposed on a substrate continuously to each other, comprising an installed part for bead-bodies supporting antibodies and the bead-body flow stopping part formed in the micro channel of the reaction flow passage part, wherein enzyme reactive product flowing beyond the flow stopping part can be analyzed by using the chip.

Abstract: A microchemical system chip and a microchemical system that can be reduced in size while improving measurement sensitivity. The microchemical system chip 1 is comprised of a plate-shaped glass substrate 10, and the glass substrate 10 has a U-shaped channel 11 therein. The U-shaped channel 11 is comprised of a longitudinal channel 11a, and a pair of transverse channels 11b and 11c that are connected to the two ends of the longitudinal channel 11a. The glass substrate 10 has therein two voids provided coaxially with the longitudinal channel 11a near the two ends of the longitudinal channel 11a, and gradient index rod lenses 14 and 15 are housed respectively in the two voids. An optical fiber 16 that propagates detecting light emitted from a light source is connected to the gradient index rod lens 14, and an optical fiber 17 that leads detecting light received by the gradient index rod lens 15 to a detector is connected to the gradient index rod lens 15.

Abstract: A microchip pileup type chemical reaction system characterized in that a specified number of microchips, each having a reaction material liquid introducing section, a reaction product liquid discharge section and a reaction region, i.e. microchannels, interconnected therewith, are laid integrally in layers, the same kind of reaction material is introduced from the reaction material liquid introducing section into each microchip and the same kind of reaction product is collected from the reaction product liquid discharge section. The novel system for high efficiency chemical reaction makes the most use of the feature of microspace where general organic synthesis reaction is performed in the microchips while enabling mass synthesis.

Abstract: A microchemical system is provided, which can improve the working efficiency of the user. In the microchemical system 1, a plate-shaped element 10 that constitutes an optical unit la has an optical wave guide path 20, which acts as an optical path for exciting light and detecting light. An irradiation lens 30 is disposed at an end of the optical wave guide path 20 downstream in the direction of travel of the exciting light and the detecting light, and a channel 40 is located downstream of the irradiation lens 30, through which a liquid containing a sample flows. A detector 50 is disposed at an end of the plate-shaped element 10 downstream of the channel 40 and detects the detecting light for analysis of the sample.

Abstract: There is provided a gradient index rod lens unit having a desired chromatic aberration. The gradient index rod lens unit is comprised of two gradient index rod lenses 11 and 12 with different chromatic aberrations and the entire lengths thereof adjusted, which are disposed in series with the optical axes thereof in alignment. The chromatic aberration of the gradient index rod lens unit can be set to a value falling within chromatic aberration ranges inherently possessed by the respective gradient index rod lenses 11 and 12.

Abstract: A microchemical system is provided, which can improve the working efficiency of the user and can be designed compact in size. The microchemical system is provided with an optical fiber 10 with a gradient index rod lens 102 mounted on an end thereof. The lens-possessing optical fiber 10 is comprised of an optical fiber 101 that transmits exciting light and detecting light in the single mode, and a ferrule 103 for expanding the outer diameter of the optical fiber 101 to the same value as that of the gradient index rod lens 102. The gradient index rod lens 102 and the optical fiber 101 are rigidly joined together by means of a sleeve 104.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a photothermal conversion spectroscopic analysis method that enables measurement to be carried out with high sensitivity, and a photothermal conversion spectroscopic analysis apparatus that carries out the method. The photothermal conversion spectroscopic analysis apparatus is comprised of an exciting light source 111, a chopper 112 that is disposed close to the exciting light source 111 in the optical path of exciting light emitted from the exciting light source 111, a mirror 114 that changes the direction of travel of the exciting light, a detecting light source 120, a dichroic mirror 113 that has detecting light from the detecting light source 120 incident thereon and makes the exciting light and the detecting light coaxial, a lens 10 that has a suitable amount of chromatic aberration, and a holder 15 that holds the lens 10 such as to enable adjustment along three axes.

Abstract: An integrated structure of multilayer flow microchannel, which comprises a plurality of microchannels in which parallel multilayer flow that involves the interface of fluids is formed, arranged on various positions of a substrate, wherein each of the multilayer flow microchannels is communicated with another multilayer flow microchannel. A plurality of unit operations can be carried out continuously with high efficiency on a microchip, enabling high-degree microanalysis or precise chemical synthesis using the highly integrated structure of multilayer flow microchannel.

Abstract: There is provided a chip element for microchemical systems that renders adjustments between the focal positions of exciting light and detecting light and the position of a solution sample every time a measurement is taken unnecessary and thus enables work efficiency to be increased, and moreover enables a microchemical system such as an analyzer to be made smaller in size. The chip element is comprised of a channel-possessing plate-shaped element having a channel through which the liquid containing the sample is passed. A lens, which is preferably a gradient refractive index lens, is fixed to the channel-possessing plate-shaped element in a position facing the channel.

Abstract: A small and portable microscope for ultramicroanalysis having an excellent spatial resolution and a fixed position analyzing ability in which at least a part of an excitation light source (3), a part of a probe light source (4) and a part of a thermal lens microscope optical system are arranged integrally in a device body comprising an analyzing cell (1) and substrates (2A), (2B) supporting the analyzing cell (1).

Abstract: A glass capillary array for fluorescence analysis is provided which is capable of preventing reduction of the transmittance of a laser beam through the glass capillaries during electrophoretic DNA fluorescence analysis, and a method of manufacturing the glass capillary array. The glass capillary array for fluorescence analysis is comprised of a plurality of glass capillaries each having a rectangular cross section and having an internal hole formed therein, and arranged in a row along a direction of irradiation of a laser beam for fluorescence analysis. The glass capillary array has a fluorescence analysis section comprising a portion of each of the glass capillaries positioned in a region including an optical axis of the laser beam and a vicinity thereof, and the glass capillaries are joined together substantially into a single body using a transparent material in at least the fluorescence analysis section.

Abstract: A glass capillary array for fluorescence analysis is provided which is capable of preventing reduction of the transmittance of a laser beam through the glass capillaries during electrophoretic DNA fluorescence analysis, and a method of manufacturing the glass capillary array. The glass capillary array for fluorescence analysis is comprised of a plurality of glass capillaries each having a rectangular cross section and having an internal hole formed therein, and arranged in a row along a direction of irradiation of a laser beam for fluorescence analysis. The glass capillary array has a fluorescence analysis section comprising a portion of each of the glass capillaries positioned in a region including an optical axis of the laser beam and a vicinity thereof, and the glass capillaries are joined together substantially into a single body using a transparent material in at least the fluorescence analysis section.

Abstract: A particle analyzer system that reduces size and cost, wherein particles are introduced into a cell, then the particles are irradiate in the cell with a laser beam, then atomic emission of the particles generated by the irradiation of the laser beam is transmitted, then a spectrum is obtained of the photo emission so transmitted, and the spectrum of the photo emission is detected and the wavelength of the laser beam is, other than the wavelength of the emission of the particles, is used to provide a filter to block the intrusion of the wavelength of the laser beam in a stage proceeding the photo emission.

Abstract: The present invention is applied to an analyzer according to which a sample to be analyzed is moved through a capillary tube in liquid chromatography or capillary-zone electrophoretic method. The capillary tube has a separation zone and a detection zone. The capillary tube in the detection zone has a section in which it can vibrate and both ends of this section are fixed.Analytes of the sample introduced into the analyzer are separated from each other in the separation zone. When each of the separated analytes is led to the area irradiated with beam in the detection zone, the capillary tube in the detection zone vibrates. This vibration phenomenon is brought about by tension fluctuation of the capillary tube caused by intermittent irradiation of the detection zone with an excitation beam and absorption of the excitation beam by the analyte. Concentration of analytes in the sample can be measured by detecting amplitude of the vibration.

Abstract: This invention relates to an analytical method and a relevant equipment for particulate substances in a sample with the detection of acoustic waves generated in the sample with the irradiation of onto the sample. In this invention, the light power density of the irradiating light onto the sample is set high enough above the breakdown threshold of the particulate substances in the sample, and low enough below the breakdown threshold of the media, and the particulate substances in the sample are counted by detecting the acoustic waves generated by the breakdown of the particulate substances. The particulate substances are also analyzed for their components on the basis of the light signal (emission spectrum) which is detected with a dispersed spectrum from the light which is generated by the breakdown of the particulate substances.

Abstract: The power density of a pulsed laser beam for irradiating a sample is adjusted to break down the sample into the form of a plasma. After the momentary breakdown of the sample into the form of a plasma, ions are generated having a high charge. Then, after a certain time elapses, the ions having a high charge recombine with the electrons in the plasma to provide monovalent or low valent ions. These low valent ions are taken out of the plasma and introduced to a mass spectrometric apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for detection of surface defects and internal defect information of a sample, such as a semiconductor device, using the photoacoustic effect. Operationally, an intensity-modulated laser beam is provided having a predetermined desired frequency. The intensity-modulated laser beam is focused on the sample thereby inducing said photoacoustic effect inside the sample which is detected in two-dimensional directions of the sample so as to compose a two-dimensional photoacoustic image of the excited sample. Surface and internal information of the sample is then extracted from the two-dimensional photoacoustic image and an inverse filtering factor is in turn computed on the basis of a thermal impulse response of the particular sample for compensating degradation of the resolution of the actual photoacoustic image obtained. Lastly, the computed inverse filtering factor is then applied to the detected photoacoustic image to arrive at an image having greatly improved resolution.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for analyzing a granular material contained in a sample of a medium such as water produced by an ultra-pure water producing apparatus includes the steps of adding energy to granular materials contained in a sample which is mixed with the medium, wherein the energy is set to be lower than the breakdown threshold of the medium and to be higher than the breakdown threshold of the granular materials, detecting ions which are generated with the breakdown of the granular materials by using a pair of positive and negative electrodes; and analyzing characteristics of the granular materials based on the ions.