A surface cleaning device and a method of cleaning a surface.

摘要

The invention relates to a vacuum surface cleaning device comprising a gas generation unit, a gas handling unit a plasma generation unit and a sample cleaning unit, wherein the gas generation unit is adapted to generate at least hydrogen and oxygen gases and to supply the said gases into the gas handling unit, wherein the gas handling unit is adapted to retrieve hydrogen and oxygen separately from a gas mixture provided by the gas generation unit, wherein the gas handling unit being further arranged to provide the retrieved gas into the plasma generation unit, wherein the plasma generation unit being adapted to generate a low energetic plasma from the said retrieved gas and to supply radicals and/or ions in the sample cleaning unit and wherein the sample cleaning unit being adapted to expose a sample to the said radicals and/or ions. The invention further relates to a method of cleaning a surface.