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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2010
Jason Cecil William Corbett, Hereford, GB;
Jason Cecil William Corbett, Hereford, GB;
Malvern Instruments, Ltd., Malvern, GB;
Abstract
In one general aspect, a method of measuring characteristics of particles in a liquid sample disclosed. The method includes supporting the liquid sample by surface tension and illuminating the supported liquid sample along an illumination axis with spatially coherent light so as to cause the coherent light to be scattered across a scattering zone. At least a portion of the scattered light is detected along a first predetermined scattering detection axis after it is scattered by the particles in the supported liquid sample. The illumination axis and the detection axis are oriented at an angle with respect to each other that allows substantially all of the light scattered at that angle across the scattering zone to be detected.