Agilent Technologies

About: Agilent Technologies is a company organization based out in Santa Clara, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Mass spectrometry. The organization has 7398 authors who have published 11518 publications receiving 262410 citations. The organization is also known as: Agilent Technologies, Inc..

Integrally packaged imaging module

Abstract: An integrally packaged imaging module includes an integrated circuit (IC), including an image sensing device formed on a semiconductor substrate, and wafer level packaging enclosing the IC. The wafer level packaging includes a transparent enclosure portion adapted to permit image acquisition of an image by the image sensing device over a desired range of wavelengths, and a first spacing structure providing a cavity between an inner surface of the transparent enclosure portion and the image sensing device. A depth of the cavity is configurable along an axis perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate to control a distance between an outer surface of the transparent enclosure portion and the image sensing device.

System and method for bonding and sealing microfabricated wafers to form a single structure having a vacuum chamber therein

Abstract: A palladium contact and a gasket are formed on a first wafer. The gasket and contact are simultaneously engaged with a silicon layer of a second wafer. The wafers are then heated to a temperature that both forms a bond between the palladium contact of the first wafer with the silicon layer of the second wafer and that fuses the gasket to the second wafer. Therefore, when the temperature is decreased, the palladium-silicon bond maintains the alignment of the two wafers with respect to one another, and the gasket hardens to form seal around a periphery of the two wafers. By placing the two wafers in a vacuum environment prior to engaging the two wafers, the space encompassed by the gasket and the two wafers forms a sealed vacuum during the heating process. Therefore, the heating process not only forms a palladium-silicon bond between the two wafers, but it also forms a vacuum seal around selected components included within either of the two wafers.

Optical inspection system, apparatus and method for reconstructing three-dimensional images for printed circuit board and electronics manufacturing inspection

Abstract: A three-dimensional optical inspection system reconstructs a three-dimensional image of the shape of the surface of an at least partially specular object resident on a printed circuit board by capturing two or more two-dimensional images of the object under different illumination configurations. The diffuse reflection, as well as the specular reflection can be used to reconstruct the three-dimensional image using any reconstruction method, such as photometric stereo. The different illumination configurations can be achieved using an illumination source including light-emitting elements arranged in concentric circular arrays, in which each of the circular arrays is divided into sections. Each section is independently controlled to selectively activate the sections to illuminate the object in a pre-established illumination pattern.

Resveratrol suppresses human colon cancer cell proliferation and induces apoptosis via targeting the pentose phosphate and the talin-FAK signaling pathways-A proteomic approach

Abstract: Background We and others have previously reported that resveratrol (RSV) suppresses colon cancer cell proliferation and elevates apoptosis in vitro and/or in vivo, however molecular mechanisms are not fully elucidated. Particularly, little information is available on RSV's effects on metabolic pathways and the cell-extra cellular matrix (ECM) communication that are critical for cancer cell growth. To identify important targets of RSV, we analyzed whole protein fractions from HT-29 advanced human colon cancer cell line treated with solvent control, IGF-1 (10 nM) and RSV (150 μM) using LC/MS/MS-Mud PIT (Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology).