Safety & Efficacy

General overview of Far-UVC:

Intro to Far-UV by Joey Fox (Highly recommended source on air quality issues)

Could UV Light Reduce the Spread of Covid-19 in Indoor Spaces?

Disinfecting the air with far-ultraviolet light

Nukit Torch- as seen in The Courier- Evening Telegraph

Great collaborative Twitter threads from Siyuan WangMike Famulare, and Joey Fox on why near-field, low-wattage Far-UVC doesn't work (and so why we needed to increase the power output x4 and distribute the emitters to get any meaningful effect).


Citations for effectiveness:

Far-UVC light (222 nm) efficiently and safely inactivates airborne human coronaviruses

Far-UVC (222 nm) efficiently inactivates an airborne pathogen in a room-sized chamber

Far UV-C radiation: An emerging tool for pandemic control

Improved estimates of 222 nm far-UVC susceptibility for aerosolized human coronavirus via a validated high-fidelity coupled radiation-CFD code

Turn Up the Lights, Leave them On and Shine them All Around—Numerical Simulations Point the Way to more Efficient Use of Far-UVC Lights for the Inactivation of Airborne Coronavirus


Citations for safety:

Extreme Exposure to Filtered Far-UVC: A Case Study

No Evidence of Induced Skin Cancer or Other Skin Abnormalities after Long-Term (66 week) Chronic Exposure to 222-nm Far-UVC Radiation

Exposure of Human Skin Models to KrCl Excimer Lamps: The Impact of Optical Filtering

222 nm Far-UVC from filtered Krypton-Chloride excimer lamps does not cause eye irritation when deployed in a simulated office environment

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