High-Accuracy Surface Profile Measurement Based on the Vortex Phase-Shifting Interferometry by Donge Zhao, Chaozheng Jia, Yayun Ma, Xuefeng Yang, Bin Zhang, Wenbo Chu

“…Then, the vortex lights with initial phases of 0, π/2, π, and 3π/2 are used to measure the H-type thin film sample based on the Twyman-Green interference system after correcting the nonlinear phase modulation characteristics. …”
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Laboratory Evaluation of Aging Behaviour of SBS Modified Asphalt by Jie Wang, Yongchun Qin, Songchang Huang, Jian Xu

“…To study the effect of aging SBS modified asphalt on the performance of asphalt pavement, aging at various times and temperatures was conducted with thin film oven, and then tests were made about the penetration, softening point, ductility, viscosity, toughness, and fluorescence microscopy of modified asphalt with different aging levels. …”
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Morphological and multifractal studies of nanocrystalline Au films by Mehrdad Ahmadi, Maryam Nasehnejad

“…Statistical tests were conducted to confirm that the gold thin film surfaces under investigation exhibited multifractal properties. …”
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Design Method of Infrared Stealth Film Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Kunyuan Zhang, Delian Liu, Shuo Yang

“…Furthermore, we coated the Si surface with the designed thin film and conducted experimental validation. The results show that the coated material exhibits excellent infrared stealth properties.…”
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Transparent Inflatable Column Film Dome for Nuclear Stations, Stadiums, and Cities by Alexander Bolonkin, Shmuel Neumann, Joseph Friedlander

“…In a series of previous articles, one of the authors published designs of the AB Dome which can cover a city, important large installations or subregions by a transparent thin film supported by a small additional air overpressure. …”
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A Study on Surface Modification of Al7075-T6 Alloy against Fretting Fatigue Phenomenon by E. Mohseni, E. Zalnezhad, Ahmed A. D. Sarhan, A. R. Bushroa

“…The methods include deep rolling, shot peening, laser shock peening, and thin film hard coatings. The surface coatings techniques are comprising physical vapor deposition (PVD), hard anodizing, ion-beam-enhanced deposition (IBED), and nitriding.…”
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3D Dirac semimetal Cd3As2-based solid solutions growth and characterization by E. Arushanov, A. N. Nateprov, G. Cywinski, W. Knap

“…This review summarizes recent research progress, covering a broad range of topics including crystal structure analysis, thin film fabrication, band structure studies, and various experimental findings such as classical transport behavior, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, magnetization, optical and magneto-optical effects, and electron spin resonance, all within the last three decades. …”
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High Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Ruthenium and Metal-Free Dyes by Che-Lung Lee, Wen-Hsi Lee, Cheng-Hsien Yang

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Effects of Organic Nano Calcium Carbonate on Aging Resistance of Bio-Asphalt by Nianting Xiao, Yongyi Zhang, Hongbo Xia, Yu Lei, Yamin Luo

“…To improve the aging resistance of bioasphalt and explore the impact of organic nano calcium carbonate (CaCO3) on the aging resistance of bioasphalt, the thin-film oven test (TFOT), basic property test, rheological test, four components test, and infrared spectrum test were used to study the bioasphalt with different organic nano-CaCO3 contents. …”
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Fabrication of periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides for broadband nonlinear photonics by Furkan Ayhan, Markus Ludwig, Tobias Herr, Victor Brasch, Luis Guillermo Villanueva

“…In the last decade, nanophotonic waveguides have not only boosted the efficiencies of nonlinear effects but also unlocked new degrees of freedom in the design process and enabled the monolithic integration of multiple nonlinear devices. Now, the advent of thin-film variants of platforms with a strong second-order nonlinearity such as lithium niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) enables entirely new applications while further improving efficiency for the existing ones. …”
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Theoretical Design of Asymmetric/symmetric Nanodisk Arrays Deposited on GaAs Film for Plasmonic Modulation and Sensing by Cheng SUN, Xue YANG, Xinyu LI, Shuwen CHU

“…Herein, we propose a composite nanostructure consisting of a gold nanodisk array and a GaAs thin film, which achieves symmetric and asymmetric configurations by adjusting the nanodisk radius of the array structure. …”
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Boiling Heat Transfer and Critical Heat Flux Enhancement Using Electrophoretic Deposition of SiO2 Nanofluid by Aref Rahimian, Hosein Kazeminejad, Hosein Khalafi, Azam Akhavan, Seyed Mohammad Mirvakili

“…The electrophoretic deposition (EPD) technique was used to create a uniform SiO2 thin film coating on boiling plates, 4 mm in width and 9 mm in length. …”
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Design and Simulation of an Antenna-Coupled Microbolometer at 30 THz by Angel Colin, Eduardo Pérez-Tijerina, Francisco Solis-Pomar

“…The antenna and microstrip filters are modeled in aluminum thin film. The microbolometer is modeled with superconducting niobium, all together on a silicon nitride membrane. …”
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Liposome-Encapsulated Bioactive Guttiferone E Exhibits Anti-Inflammatory Effect in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated MH-S Macrophages and Cytotoxicity against Human Cancer Cells by Jean Paul Dzoyem, Shashank Reddy Pinnapireddy, Hugues Fouotsa, Jana Brüßler, Frank Runkel, Udo Bakowsky

“…Liposomes containing guttiferone E were prepared by the thin film hydration method, and the physicochemical characteristics were determined using dynamic light scattering, laser Doppler velocimetry, and atomic force microscopy. …”
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Investigations of Physical and Rheological Properties of Aged Rubberised Bitumen by Asim Hassan Ali, Nuha S. Mashaan, Mohamed Rehan Karim

“…The bitumen binders were aged by rolling thin film oven (RTFOT) to simulate short-term aging and pressure aging vessel (PAV) to simulate long-term aging. …”
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Fabrication of bendable and narrow bandgap Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 for tandem photovoltaics by Sarallah Hamtaei, Alice Debot, Romain Scaffidi, Guy Brammertz, Estelle Cariou, Sean M. Garner, Aranzazu Aguirre, Jef Poortmans, Phillip J. Dale, Bart Vermang

“…Our results show a way for scalable fabrication of all thin-film, flexible tandem solar cells, by means of industrially relevant processing steps in a low cost and sustainable fashion.…”
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High Humidity Aerodynamic Effects Study on Offshore Wind Turbine Airfoil/Blade Performance through CFD Analysis by Weipeng Yue, Yu Xue, Yan Liu

“…It is found that the high humidity effects with water vapor mixing flow and water condensation thin film around airfoil may have insignificant effect directly on airfoil/blade performance; however, the indirect effects such as blade contamination and icing due to the water condensation may have significant effects on turbine performance degradation. …”
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Characterization of Synthetic Ni(II)-Xylenol Complex as a Photosensitizer for Wide-Band Gap ZnO Semiconductor Electrodes by Suman Kushwaha, Lal Bahadur

“…The sandwich-type dye-sensitized solar cell using ZnO semiconducting thin film with test dye anchored onto it showed the cell output as follows: VOC=0.506 V, Jsc=1.68 mA cm−2, and FF=0.41 under illumination with full spectrum of light (intensity 520 mW cm−2), while on illumination with visible light (λ>420 nm, intensity 480 mW cm−2), VOC=0.506 V, Jsc=1.4 mA cm−2, and FF=0.49 were achieved. …”
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Antiaging Property and Mechanism of Phase-Change Asphalt with PEG as an Additive by Huiru Wang, Yanmin Wang, Xian Li, Min Chen, Yanling Wu, Cuicui Sun, Xiaoning Wang

“…The short- and long-term antiaging performances were characterized by rolling-thin-film-oven (RTFOT) and pressure-aging vessel (PAV) tests, respectively. …”
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Diffusion-programmed catalysis in nanoporous material by Suvendu Panda, Tanmoy Maity, Susmita Sarkar, Arun Kumar Manna, Jagannath Mondal, Ritesh Haldar

“…Through the deployment of a thin film composed of a porous metal-organic framework catalyst, we illustrate how programming reactant diffusion within a cross-flow microfluidic catalytic reactor can concurrently amplify turnover frequency (exceeding 1000-fold) and enhance geometric selectivity ( ~ 2-fold) relative to conventional nano/microcrystals of catalyst in one-pot reactor. …”
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