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Research & Development News

New Fields of Ultraviolet Research
Long before the pandemic RGF researchers have been
employing cutting-edge technologies such as UV-LEDs
while simultaneously re-exploring over a century and
a half of ultraviolet technologies and innovations
largely forgotten over time. This gives RGF a unique
advantage over all other companies in the industry –
not only do we understand the history of our field
from the earliest days we are constantly striving to
develop new technologies. The Electro-Mechanical Museum has a large library of original scrapbooks, research papers,
writings, and inventions from pioneers in the field and contains a vast collection of some of the rarest historically
significant-UV lamps in the world. Many of the lamps in the museum are the only known surviving examples to exist.

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Broad Spectrum
UV Generators
RGF researcher Jeff Behary and his team began
alloying over 185 different exotic materials to
explore wavelengths of UV previously not isolated or
experimented with. The research required many
obscure custom components including precision
adjustable high voltage capacitors, transformers, and
high frequency coils and a programmable furnace to
heat and melt precious metals and elements at exact
temperatures.

The most successful alloy was an in-house replication
(and modification) of the metals found in meteorites,
including a slice of Muonionalusta: At 4.5653 billion
years old, it is not only the oldest artifact in the
Electro-Mechanical Museum it is also a few hundred thousand years older than planet Earth. To further study these
wavelengths more closely he began developing a series of quartz lens and prism spectroscopes and monochromators
that optically isolate precise wavelengths of UV generated from broadband or multiple-frequency sources.

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