A universal rapid diagnostics test reader is disclosed and described herein that includes a set of control electronics, a digital camera component, an illumination component, a housing component, and a rapid diagnostics test tray, wherein the tray can hold at least one rapid diagnostics test having a shape and a size in a fixed position relative to the digital camera component and the illumination component, and wherein the reader can accommodate more than one different rapid diagnostics test. Methods are also disclosed that include: providing at least one first rapid diagnostics test having a first physical size, first feature and first format; providing at least one second rapid diagnostics test having a second physical size, second feature and second format; inserting the first rapid diagnostics test in a universal rapid diagnostics test reader; analyzing the first rapid diagnostics test using the universal rapid diagnostics test reader; removing the first rapid diagnostics test from the reader; inserting the second rapid diagnostics test in a universal rapid diagnostics test reader without any mechanical adjustments of the reader or without the use of any additional parts or additional inserts; and analyzing the second rapid diagnostics test using the universal rapid diagnostics test reader.

The objective of the present invention is to reduce the dispersion of a powdered substance, which is the target substance, during the analysis period in an analyzing device that analyzes the target substance by analyzing the light originated from the substance which is in the plasma state. The present invention relates to an analyzing device including a plasma generation means which generates plasma in the space and maintains plasma using the energy of EM radiation emitted from a radiation antenna; and an optical analysis means which analyzes a target substance by analyzing the plasma light generated from target substance of plasma state in the plasma area during the plasma maintenance period where the plasma is maintained by the plasma generation means using the energy of EM radiation. The plasma generation means emits the EM radiation from the radiation antenna in continuous waves during the plasma maintenance period.

Apparatus and methods are provided for the imaging of structures in deep tissue within biological specimens, using spectral imaging to provide highly sensitive detection. By acquiring data that provides a plurality of images of the sample with different spectral weightings, and subsequent spectral analysis, light emission from a target compound is separated from autofluorescence in the sample. With the autofluorescence reduced or eliminated, an improved measurement of the target compound is obtained.

Apparatus and methods may provide for determining a value of chemical parameter. One or more light emitters may be positioned within a housing to emit light through an aperture of the housing. The emitted light may illuminate a color area of a structure that is separable from the housing, such as a test strip, a printed color reference, and so on. A color sensor may be positioned within the housing to capture reflected light and to convert the reflected light to an initial digitized color space that may be usable to determine a color shade of a color area. The reflected light may, for example, be captured independently at least of a dimension (e.g., predetermined size, shape, etc.) of the color area.

A spectrum detection apparatus has a light emitting apparatus with multiple light emitting units. The light emitting units can be respectively provided with current densities, so that the light emitted by each of the light emitting unit has a light intensity, wherein the current densities are different from each other or identical to each other, or at least two of the current densities provided to the light emitting units are different from each other or identical to each other, and the light emitting apparatus and the object under test rotate relative to each other. A number of the light emitting units can be larger than or equal to four, all of the four lighting frequencies of the four light emitting units are different from each other, or partial of the four lighting frequencies of the four light emitting units are identical to each other.

Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for in-line measurement of alkali metal-containing structures or alkali ion-containing structures of, e.g., electrodes. In an embodiment, a system for processing an electrode is provided. The system includes a first processing chamber for forming an electrode comprising an alkali metal-containing structure. The system further includes a metrology station coupled to and in-line with the first processing chamber, the metrology station comprising: a source of radiation for delivering radiation to the alkali metal-containing structure, and an optical detector for receiving an emission of radiation emitted from the alkali metal-containing structure, and a processor configured to determine a characteristic of the alkali metal-containing structure of the electrode based on the emission of radiation.

The present invention relates to a gene analysis method which includes: conducting a single base extension reaction with use of a single base extension primer for detecting a target base sequence, and a fluorescent dye-labeled substrate for single base extension; subjecting a reaction product of the single base extension reaction to electrophoresis; and measuring mobility in the electrophoresis and fluorescence intensity of the fluorescent dye, and quantifying a content ratio of a plurality of target base sequences from a magnitude of the fluorescence intensity, wherein in the single base extension reaction, a fluorescent dye-free substrate for single base extension is mixed.

A multi-level and multi-parameter coupling regulation method includes the following steps: acquiring multi-source scene data, analyzing the multi-source scene data, and generating scene analysis information; calculating adjustment weights of preset adjustable parameters according to the multi-source scene data; calculating adjustment values of the adjustable parameters through a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm according to the scene analysis information and the adjustment weights; adjusting the adjustable parameters according to the adjustment values.

A scattered light polarimetry (LSP) sub-system of a hybrid system for characterizing stress in a chemically-strengthened (CS) substrate having a top-surface and a near-surface waveguide, includes a LSP light source system, an LSP light source actuator coupled to the LSP light source system, and an optical compensator within an optical path of a LSP laser beam emitted by the LSP light source system. The optical compensator includes a half-wave plate, a half-wave plate actuator, a diffuser, and a diffuser actuator. The LSP sub-system further includes a LSP detector system in optical communication with the optical compensator through an LSP coupling prism having a LSP coupling surface, a focusing lens and a focusing lens actuator, and a support plenum having a surface and a measurement aperture, the support plenum configured to support the CS substrate at a measurement plane at the measurement aperture, and to operably support the LSP coupling prism.

Analytical device and analytical process, set up for internal referencing which is independent from the kind of optical response of a sample. The device comprises a light source directed to a sample location, a photon counting detector set up to receive light emanating from the sample location and to generate photon counts, an integrator coupled to the detector and set up to receive photon counts from the detector and to integrate the photon counts over an integration time to generate integrated measurement signals, and coupled to the integrator an analogue-to-digital converter set up to receive the integrated measurement signals and to generate digital measurement signals for each of the integrated measurement signals and to deliver the digital measurement signals to a control unit, which is set up for deconvolution of the digital measurement signals in order to determine correction functions, wherein the control unit is set up to convert separately determined digital measurement signals which are determined for samples in dependence on the correction functions.