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Far-UVC, read carefully.

Research digests, product notes and news from Icarus 222. Every figure carries its source, and a study is credited to the lamp that was actually in the room.
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Products
Lamps under the load: the Pioneer Dynamic UV222 Pass-Through Box
Two lamps above the load, two below it, and the load on an open grid — so the underside is treated in the same cycle as the top. Tried and tested in production, it is now standard in every Pass-Through Box we deliver. With the step-by-step video.
Frixos Georgallides · October 2026 · 5 min read
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Research
Fluence rate, not lamp power, decides your installation
Two quantities share a unit and are confused constantly. One governs the surfaces and your safety limit; the other governs the air, and the ozone.
9 September 2026 · 6 min
Products
Complete room coverage with Vertex 222
A floor-standing far-UVC source for rooms that cannot take a ceiling fixture — how it covers a space and where it fits.
14 November 2025 · 1 min
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Buonanno et al., 2024
Research
222 nm far-UVC markedly reduces infectious airborne virus in an occupied room
The first direct demonstration in an occupied indoor space: airborne murine norovirus fell by 99.8%. The lamps were not ours — and we say so.
14 January 2025 · 3 min
AARHUS UNIVERSITY
23–25 June 2026
News
ICFUST 2026
The International Conference on Far-UVC Science and Technology, at Aarhus University, Denmark — where UV222 is made.
21 April 2026 · 1 min
Products
Dual technology, one fixture
DUO 222 puts LED room lighting and far-UVC in one 60 × 60 ceiling panel, so disinfection runs without interrupting the workflow.
13 November 2025 · 2 min
SIMULATED OPERATING ROOM
MRSA on surfaces
Research
Ceiling-mounted far-UVC reduces MRSA on surfaces in a simulated operating room
Far-UVC at 200–230 nm as an alternative that may match conventional UV efficacy while being usable in occupied areas.
9 October 2025 · 1 min
Products
Decontaminate cleanroom shoes with the UV222 Step-On
Touchless and fast — the entire outsole treated in the time it takes to walk over it.
5 November 2025 · 2 min
Products
Linear light for operating theatres
Where UV222 Linear fits in a theatre ceiling and what its flexibility buys you.
11 November 2025 · 1 min
COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Indoor infections
Research
Reducing indoor infections: the economic potential of far-UVC
A cost–benefit analysis of far-UVC lamps as a less intrusive control on indoor pathogen transmission.
10 February 2025 · 1 min