NS Nanotech’s Shortwave Light 215 Emitter module and other short-wavelength sources of far-UVC light are ushering in a revolutionary new era in human-safe photonic disinfection of air, surfaces, and water. Our new 215-nanometer light source enables close-quarters far-UVC disinfection of office cubicles, school buses, ambulances, taxicabs, airplanes, and countless other occupied public and private spaces.
Far-UVC light can effectively deactivate the airborne pathogens that cause Covid, influenza, RSV, measles, TB, and many other potential deadly viral infections. And because its short wavelength does not penetrate the skin or eyes, it can be used in occupied public and private spaces. The NS Nanotech Shortwave Light 215™ Emitter is the first efficient solid-state far-UVC light source. Along with far-UVC krypton-chloride (KrCl) gas lamps, it is enabling the first commercial far-UVC disinfection applications.
Because short-wavelength far-UVC light from 200-to-230nm can be used more safely around people, it can directly disinfect the air and surfaces in locations where people gather. It enables an entirely new approach to UVC disinfection, providing constant, proactive photonic disinfection, rather than reactive, after-the-fact treatment of air and surfaces.
NS Nanotech Short Wave Light 215™ Emitter
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The Shortwave Light 215 Emitter is a solid-state semiconductor that produces invisible, high-energy photonic disinfection (ultraviolet germicidal irradiation) in the human-safe far-UVC spectrum. Proprietary nitride semiconductor architecture is based on a patented thermionic cathodoluminescent vacuum tube triode. Generating light at 215 nanometers, highest-energy semiconductor light source.
And because it is a solid-state product, the Shortwave Light 215 Emitter is smaller, runs cooler, and will be less costly than the krypton-chloride gas-plasma excimer lamps currently used for far-UVC disinfection. It is a new light source that opens the door to new exciting solutions from developers of air, surface, and water disinfection applications.
UVC light neutralizes viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens on surfaces and in air by disrupting their nuclear RNA to prevent them from reproducing. For more than a hundred years, UVC light has been
used to sanitize air, surfaces, and water in factories, water treatment plants, office- buildings, schools, public transportation, and many other public and private spaces. Unfortunately, traditional UVC light at 254 nanometers can harm skin and eyes, so it has to be turned off when people are around. But recent academic research has found that shorter-wavelength UVC light known as “far-UVC” light, from 200-to-230nm, is less harmful to skin and eyes and can be used in many more places where people congregate.
Far-UVC light inactivates a vast range of microbes, viruses that cause Covid 19 and the flu, and other infectious pathogens in the air, water, and on surfaces. With a short spectrum wavelength range from 200-to-230 nanometers, if is safer to use around people than traditional UVC light at 254nm and longer wavelengths.
Invisible ultraviolet light in the far-UVC wavelength range is a first line of defense that can deactivate airborne viruses before you breathe them in. A second line of defense—your face mask—doesn’t deactivate viruses but can stop them from entering your body. Vaccines then act as a third line of defense by preventing viruses from replicating after they’ve already entered your body and infected you. All three lines of defense will be important as Covid-19 becomes an endemic disease. But wide deployment of UVC disinfection at the front lines can dramatically lessen the viral load in the air, increasing the effectiveness of the second and third lines of defense.
Far-UVC light, at wavelengths from 200-to-230nm, deactivates viruses in the air but doesn’t penetrate the skin far enough to reach live cells. When it reaches your body, your external “stratum corneum” layer of dead skin cells absorbs the light before it reaches your living cells. And when it reaches your eye, your protective tear layer absorbs the short far-UVC light waves before they can reach your cornea. Therefore far-UVC photonic disinfection can be used in many locations where longer-wavelength 254nm UVC light cannot be used.
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