Film thickness determines many key coating properties including gloss. However, current literature hardly addresses the development of methods to directly correlate film thickness with gloss. Thus, the lack of accurate ...

Historical decorated glass and glazed ceramics are studied with the object to determine the technology of production and to relate it with the optical properties (colour, shine, opacity). Four different case of study are ...

Uno de los principales retos en óptica biomédica y en biofotónica es la simulación de la propagación de la luz en los tejidos biológicos. El método de Monte Carlo es la aproximación más empleada, y se puede afirmar que ...

English: In recent years optical antennas have been attracting very strong interest due to the unique possibilities they offer for manipulating light on a sub-wavelength scale. Most published work deals with relatively ...

The photocontrol of ferroelectric properties has recently attracted notable attention as an effective alternative methodology to electric polarization switching. Specifically, it has been reported that macroscopic polarization, ...

We demonstrate gettering of metal impurities in p-type multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) wafers by annealing wafers that are surface passivated by double layers of amorphous silicon-based compounds acting as gettering sites. ...

A thiophene-based conjugated polymer bearing a cyano group (–CN) as a side chain substituent was successfully synthesized. The polymer evidences an excellent filmability from various organic solvents as well as an enhanced ...

Lustre is a decoration consisting of a few hundreds of nanometres thick surface layer of silver and copper metal nanoparticles incorporated into the glaze. Polychrome lustreware with several combinations of colours and ...

We performed synergetic daytime and nighttime active and passive remote-sensing observations at Minorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), over more than 3 weeks during the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment/Aerosol Direct ...