An Inexpensive, Accurate “Injection Gun.”

An inexpensive, accurate ''injection gun''.

Uniformity for a Magnetron Injection Gun

We report measurements of the azimuthal emission nonuniformity of a gyrotron's thermionic cathode as determined from two experiments, one which determines the total emission and one which scans the emitted beam using a rotating probe. In the total emission experiment, which measured the total collector current over a range of voltages, the cathode's total work function spread was found to be 0....

An Inexpensive, Stable, and Accurate Relative Humidity Measurement Method for Challenging Environments

In this research, an improved psychrometer is developed to solve practical issues arising in the relative humidity measurement of challenging drying environments for meat manufacturing in agricultural and agri-food industries. The design in this research focused on the structure of the improved psychrometer, signal conversion, and calculation methods. The experimental results showed the effect ...

An inexpensive blackbody model

A blackbody is a fundamental concept in thermography. A perfect model of blackbody is characterized by emissivity =1 which is difficult to be obtained. There are black body simulators which are being used for calibration of infrared devices. Commercial solutions of blackbody simulators are based on mathematical models of cavity or surface blackbodies and their emissivity is closer to unity e.g....

An accurate and inexpensive color-based assay for detecting severe anemia in a limited-resource setting.

Severe anemia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among children in resource-poor settings, but laboratory diagnostics are often limited in these locations. To address this need, we developed a simple, inexpensive, and color-based point-of-care (POC) assay to detect severe anemia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of this novel POC assay to detect moderate and ...