Method for reducing or removing organic and inorganic contamination from a vacuum system of imaging and analytical devices and device for carrying it out

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Authors

SŤAHEL Pavel ČERNÁK Mirko NAVRÁTIL Zdeněk HANIČINEC Martin JIRUŠE Jaroslav FIALA Jiří

Year of publication 2017
Type Patent
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Faculty of Science

Publisher United States Patent and Trademark Office
State United States of America
Patent's number US9,782,805
Web https://patents.google.com/patent/US9782805
Description A method for reducing or removing organic and/or inorganic contamination from a vacuum system of imaging and analytical devices, wherein at least a portion of the area of the inner surface of the vacuum space of the vacuum system is provided with a photocatalytic layer, at least a portion of this photocatalytic layer being cooled to a temperature in the range of 0 K to 280 K, whereby the photocatalytic layer is afterwards at least partially irradiated by electromagnetic radiation, which activates a photocatalytic reaction of the photocatalytic layer with the adsorbed gases of the atmosphere of the inner vacuum space of the vacuum system, where this reaction decomposes the contaminants, reducing their concentration and/or the concentration of water in the inner vacuum space of the vacuum system.
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