49results about "Cells" patented technology

Provided is a copper or copper alloy target/copper alloy backing plate assembly in which the anti-eddy current characteristics and other characteristics required in a magnetron sputtering target are simultaneously pursued in a well balanced manner. This copper or copper alloy target/copper alloy backing plate assembly is used for magnetron sputtering, and the copper alloy backing plate is formed from low beryllium copper alloy or Cu—Ni—Si-based alloy. Further, with this copper or copper alloy target/copper alloy backing plate assembly, the copper alloy backing plate has electrical conductivity of 35 to 60% (IACS), and 0.2% proof stress of 400 to 850 MPa.

A temperature regulation system has a polished surface sufficiently smooth so as to reduce the emissivity of the surface. A conduit is in thermal proximity to the polished surface and is in communication with a source of coolant. The coolant is circulated through the conduit so as to transfer heat from the surface to the coolant. System may include a sprayed-on resistive heater. An a temperature controlled vessel has a heat transfer wall that is of an electrically conductive material that is coated with a durable thermally conductive and electrically nonconductive coating. The coating may be a sprayed on coating and the vessel may hold a buffer for performing electrophoresis.

A method of depositing a layer of a coating material (e.g., DLC protective overcoats of magnetic and magneto-optical recording media) on a surface of a substrate/workpiece, the layer including relatively thin and relatively thick regions defining a thickness gradient at a boundary therebetween, comprising steps of: (a) providing a filtered cathodic arc deposition (FCAD) process/treatment chamber comprising a FCAD source including means for providing a focused plasma beam containing ions of a coating material and means for scanning the plasma beam over a substrate/workpiece surface; (b) providing the process/treatment chamber with a substrate/workpiece including a surface for deposition thereon; and (c) forming on the surface a layer of coating material including the relatively thin and relatively thick regions defining the thickness gradient at the boundary therebetween by scanning the plasma beam over at least a portion of the surface.

A thin film deposition apparatus and method are disclosed in this invention. The apparatus includes a depositing thin-film particle source, a beam-defining aperture between the particle source and the deposited substrate(s), and a substrate holder to rotate the substrate(s) around its center and move the center along a lateral path so that the substrate(s) can scan across the particle beam from one substrate edge to the other edge. The method includes a step of providing a vacuum chamber for containing a thin-film particle source for generating thin-film particles to deposit a thin-film on the substrates. The method further includes a step of containing a substrate holder in the vacuum chamber for holding a plurality of substrates having a thin-film deposition surface of each substrate facing the beam of thin-film particles. The method further includes a step of providing a rotational means for rotating the substrate holder to rotate each of the substrates exposed to the thin-film particles for depositing a thin film thereon. And, the method further includes a step of providing a laterally reciprocal moving means for reciprocally moving said substrate holder for said beam traversing on said substrate holder from one side of the edge to the other side of the edge or at least passing through the central area of said substrate holder.

To provide a magnetron sputtering cathode, a magnetron sputtering apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a magnetic device, capable of generating a leakage magnetic field sufficiently large to form a magnetic tunnel necessary for discharge on the surface of a target even when the target is a magnetic body and thick and a ferromagnetic body is used as the target. The magnetron sputtering cathode of the present invention includes a target having a second annular groove provided on the sputtering surface of the target, a third annular projection provided on the non-sputtering surface of the target, a fourth annular groove provided outside the third annular projection on the non-sputtering surface, and a fourth annular projection provided outside the fourth annular groove on the non-sputtering surface. Further, the magnetron sputtering cathode includes a first magnet and a second magnet 6 having a polarity different from that of the first magnet on the non-sputtering surface side.

The present invention relates generally to microtiter plate format devices and methods for separating molecules having different net charges. The devices and methods of the invention are particularly suited for use in high-throughput screening to monitor enzymatic reactions which result in a product having an altered net charge. For example, the systems and methods disclosed herein may be used to detect the activity of phosphatases, proteases and kinases on various peptidic substrates under various conditions.

A sacrificial anode assembly operative to inhibit corrosion in the metal tank portion of a water heater includes a cylindrical metal anode member having an end retained within a tubular, electrically non-conductive plastic insulating sleeve which, in turn, is captives retained within a metal cap portion of the assembly. A resistor is received in an end surface groove of the sleeve and has a lead wire spot-welded or soldered to a core wire portion of the anode member. To prevent contact between the lead wire and the metal cap, and to protect the lead wire against vibration caused breakage at its spot weld or solder area, a U-shaped central portion of the lead wire is received in a through-opening in the resistor-supporting end of the sleeve which is covered by an annular insulating wafer formed from an electrically non-conductive material.

Apparatuses and methods for toolless electrolytic deburring are disclosed in which a charged electrolyte stream flows through a hose and nozzle and can be selectively directed at a desired portion of an external or internal surface of a workpiece. The nozzle or the workpiece can be manipulated to vary the electrolytic deburring working gap so as to control the intensity of the electrolytic deburring and the portion of the workpiece that is electrolytically deburred. The electrolytic deburring is preferably performed in an enclosure having a glove which has an electrical contact that can be used to electrically connect the workpiece to the DC power supply anode simply by gripping the workpiece.

A simple and accurate separation purification method for object biomolecules or bio-associated substance through a particulate aggregative reaction is provided. A microfluidic circuit utilizing a particulate aggregate as a detection marker in a nonfluorescence method such as an electrochemical method or surface plasmon resonance is provided. The separation purification method comprises the steps of forming a particulate aggregate by a reaction between particulates modified with a labeling substance specifically reacting with a label object substance and biomolecules or a bio-associated substance containing the label object substance and separation-purifying the particulate aggregate. The microfluidic circuit utilizes this separation purification method.

The invention relates to a multifunctional offshore wind power structure which comprises a pile body with the bottom arranged below a seabed surface, and seawater filtering and separating structures such as a wind turbine generator set arranged at the top end of the pile body. A folding type high-pressure nozzle is arranged on the outer wall of the pile body; a salt basking pond is arranged below the folding type high-pressure nozzle; a transparent water collecting cover body covers the outer part of the salt basking pond; and power umbrella drive skeletons are arranged in the centers of the salt basking pond and the transparent water collecting cover body. The multifunctional offshore wind power structure provided by the invention is compact and reasonable in overall structure; wind power generation, oxygen/hydrogen production, salt production and seawater desalination are organically integrated, so that collected resources are more diversified, and the most prominent load effectiveness problem in the wind power equipment is effectively solved; meanwhile, the structures of salt basking and seawater desalination are novel, so that the two resource extraction modes are optimized; and storage is easy, so that the possibility that the equipment structure is damaged is reduced.

A method of processing one or more surfaces is provided, comprising: providing a switchable ion gun which is switchable between a cluster mode setting for producing an ion beam substantially comprising ionised gas clusters for irradiating a surface and an atomic mode setting for producing an ion beam substantially comprising ionised gas atoms for irradiating a surface; and selectively operating the ion gun in the cluster mode by mass selecting ionised gas clusters using a variable mass selector thereby irradiating a surface substantially with ionised gas clusters or the atomic mode by mass selecting ionised gas atoms using a variable mass selector thereby irradiating a surface substantially with ionised gas atoms. Also provided is a switchable ion gun comprising: a gas expansion nozzle for producing gas clusters; an ionisation chamber for ionising the gas clusters and gas atoms; and a variable (preferably a magnetic sector) mass selector for mass selecting the ionised gas clusters and ionised gas atoms to produce an ion beam variable between substantially comprising ionised gas clusters and substantially comprising ionised gas atoms. Preferably, the gun comprises an electrically floating flight tube for adjusting the energy of the ions whilst within the mass selector.

The present invention provides a sputtering apparatus and a film forming method that can form a high quality film in a groove having a sloping wall such as a V-groove. The sputtering apparatus of the present invention includes a rotatable cathode (102), a rotatable stage (101), and a rotatable shield plate (105). The sputtering apparatus controls rotation of at least one of the cathode (102), the stage (101), and the shield plate (105) so that sputtering particles are incident on the V-groove formed in a substrate (104) at an angle of 50° or less with respect to a normal to a sloping wall of the V-groove.

The invention discloses an electrochemical ozonizer comprising at least one cell, each consisting of an anode, a cathode and an interposed full-area, cation-conducting membrane which is chemically stable to ozone as a solid electrolyte, is characterized in that the membrane conductively connects the anode and the cathode while forming flow channels for water that are separated from one another as anode and cathode chambers.

A sputtering target including an oxide that, includes an indium element (In), a tin element (Sn), a zinc element (Zn) and an aluminum element (Al), and including a homologous structure compound represented by InAlO₃ZnO)_m (m is 0.1 to 10), wherein the atomic ratio of the indium element, the tin element, the zinc element and the aluminum element satisfies specific requirements.

Electrostatic chucks with magnetic cathode liners for critical dimension (CD) tuning are described. For example, an electrostatic chuck (ESC) includes a cathode region. A wafer processing region is disposed above the cathode region. A magnetic cathode liner surrounds the cathode region, below the wafer processing region. The magnetic cathode liner is configured to provide magnetic field tuning capability for the ESC.

Disclosed is a method for calculating a ratio of glycosylated hemoglobin with high accuracy by electrochemically detecting the concentration of fructosyl valine or fructosyl valyl-histidine in a sample. Also disclosed is an apparatus for assaying glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin simultaneously. Further disclosed are a method and an apparatus for removing hydrogen peroxide in a sample.

The invention discloses an ether oxygen bond-free type polymer anion-exchange membrane and a preparation method thereof and belongs to the technical field of alkaline anion-exchange membranes. The ether oxygen bond-free type polymer anion-exchange membrane is characterized in that firstly, an ether oxygen bond-free aryl polymer with good solubility and stability is synthesized, then with amino groups of the polymer serving as grafting sites, the polymer is subjected to functionalized grafting to obtain a membrane material, and the membrane material is made into the membrane. The prepared membrane has good alkaline stability and high ion conductivity and can be applied to alkaline polymer electrolytic cells.

Apparatus and a method for the direct recovery of residual quantities of an aqueous solution adhering to pourable mass parts following an electrolytic and/or chemical surface treatment on the parts, in the course of which the parts are carried in a perforated immersion barrel supported on a movable carriage of a barrel treatment installation. A compressed-air chamber is provided on the carriage, into which the barrel is moved, the chamber being provided with a compressed air source to cause a current of air to flow transversely through the chamber. The compressed-air chamber essentially comprises a horizontal, upwardly cylindrically convex upper half-shell which is fixed on the carriage and which encompasses in a substantially air-tight manner the upper half of the immersion barrel when the barrel has been positioned within the chamber, and a pair of horizontal, lateral, lower, outwardly cylindrically convex quarter-shells which are capable of movement towards and away from one another. When moved together, the quarter-shells encompass the lower half of the immersion barrel in a substantially air-tight manner, except that the two quarter-shells leave open a relatively narrow longitudinal slot between their two lowermost long edges. The current of air passes into the chamber and after passing through the barrel and over its contents, leaves the chamber downwardly, entraining any dragged-out solution in the air stream. Water may be injected into the air stream, to assist removal from the parts of the dragged-out solution.

Methods and apparatus for monitoring in situ the progress of planarization and/or removal of a thin metal layer from a substrate during membrane-mediated electropolishing processes are provided.

The invention belongs to the technical field of printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, and discloses a copper plating device so as to solve the problem that for an existing plating bath, stirring is uneven. The copper plating device comprises a plating bath for storing a plating solution, a first rinsing bath, a nitric acid bath and a second rinsing bath which are sequentially arranged in parallel. The plating bath comprises a round bath body. The bath body comprises a bath bottom and a side wall surrounding the bath bottom. The side wall comprises an inner shell and an outer shell. The inner shell is sleeved with the outer sleeve. A spiral diversion trench is downwards formed between the inner shell and the outer shell. The diversion trench is provided with liquid inlets and liquid outlets. The liquid outlets are formed in the inner shell, the liquid inlets are formed in the outer shell, and the liquid outlets are connected with nozzles which are arranged on the inner shell in the tangential direction.

An objective of the present invention is to provide an energy conversion and storage equipment which is capable of efficiently generating hydrogen using varying electric power generated from renewable energy and is capable of storing the hydrogen. The invention is an apparatus for converting and storing renewable energy in which hydrogen is produced with a water electrolysis device using the varying electric power generated in renewable-energy equipment and the hydrogen is stored, the apparatus being characterized in that the water electrolysis device includes an oxygen generation electrode which comprises an Ir—Mn alloy oxide. Due to the application of the electrode, with which water can be electrolyzed using the varying electric power generated from renewable energy, the system suffers little electrode deterioration even when the varying electric power is used, and it is possible to highly efficiently produce and store hydrogen for a long period.

Disclosed are an apparatus and method for manufacturing a flat display panel. In forming sustain electrodes and address electrodes, to which electricity is supplied to discharge, on front and rear panels, electrode material, which resides in electrode forming grooves formed on the surface of an electrode roll and each having the same shape as that of electrodes, is transferred on a substrate. The electrode roll transfers the electrode material to the substrate while coming into close contact with and rotating on the substrate. The electrode material adhering to the surface of the electrode roll using a cleaner before the electrode roll transfers the electrode material to the substrate.

The invention discloses an online wet and hot water vapor recovery device for electroplating treatment. The recovery devicecomprises a box body (2), an air inlet (6) and an air outlet (1) are formed in the box body, the box body is installed on a vertical section of a branch exhaust pipe of an air draft system on the side of a hot water washing tank of an electroplating production line through the air inlet and the air outlet, a rotating shaft (4) is vertically installed in the box body, an impeller (3) is installed on the rotating shaft through a bearing, the surface of the impeller is covered with a hydrophilic adsorption material, the whole impeller is arranged in an umbrella shape in the vertical direction, a hot water collecting and storing device (5) is arranged under the impeller, and the hot water collecting and storing device is communicated with the hot water washing tank (7) through a water conveying guide pipe. Water and heat in wet and hot water vapor are recycled, so that the production and operation cost of electroplating treatment is reduced, and meanwhile, the problem that due to the wet and hot water vapor, leakage and venting of a follow-up waste gas exhaust pipeline are increased is effectively solved.