Formation of a gate dielectric of nanometer thickness by rapid thermal treatment by N. S. Kovalchuk, A. A. Omelchenko, V. A. Pilipenko, V. A. Solodukha, D. V. Shestovski

“…To obtain thin SiO2 films by the RTP method, N-type:Ph 4.5 Оhm/□ (100) silicon wafers were used as initial samples. …”
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Design and Analysis of a Novel Phase-Shifted Bragg Grating for Bloch Surface Waves by Qiqin Wei, Jing Xiao, Shirong Chen, Quan Wang, Peng Sun, Miao Cai, Daoguo Yang

“…The multilayer stack is periodic, with the unit cell composed of two layers with different materials and thicknesses. The light confinement capability and transmission properties of the proposed structure are investigated in the wavelength range of 1450–1650 nm by using the finite-element method and finite-difference time-domain method. …”
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Multi-Channel Vibration Measurements Based on a Self-Mixing Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Array by Wei Xia, Jingyu Yu, Sunan Shao, Zhengyu Qian, Hui Hao, Ming Wang, Dongmei Guo

“…A denoising filtering method based on the variational mode decomposition with Hausdorff distance was proposed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Nucleation and growth of zinc-templated mesoporous selenium nanoparticles and potential non-thermal effects during their microwave-assisted synthesis by Magdalena Borowska, Krzysztof Jankowski, Maciej Trzaskowski, Wojciech Wojtasiak, Przemysław Korpas, Sebastian Kozłowski, Daniel Gryglewski

“…This MW-assisted synthesis is compared to 2.45 GHz MW heating method and conventional hydrothermal method at around 100 °C to produce the nanoparticles of different morphology and particle size distributions. …”
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Mask-Guided Spatial–Spectral MLP Network for High-Resolution Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction by Xian-Hua Han, Jian Wang, Yen-Wei Chen

“…To enhance the information flow between MLP blocks, we introduce a multi-level fusion module and apply reconstruction heads to different MLP features for deeper supervision. Additionally, we combine the projection loss from compressive measurements with reconstruction loss to create a dual-domain loss, ensuring consistent optical detection during HS reconstruction. …”
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Color Stability, Surface Gloss, Surface Roughness, and Wettability of Material Jetting 3D-Printed Denture Material Under Various Surface Treatments by Toshiki Nagai, Amal Alfaraj, Wei-Shao Lin

“…After surface treatment, the gloss was measured using a glossmeter, surface roughness was measured with optical profilometry, and wettability was measured by contact angle measurements using an optical tensiometer. …”
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Atmospheric Turbulence Strength Estimation Using Convolution Neural Network by Siyu Gao, Xiaoyun Liu, Yonghao Chen, Jinyang Jiang, Ying Liu, Yueqiu Jiang

“…Based on the high estimation accuracy of the CNN in the scheme, the proposed method will be able to provide a way of estimating the strength of atmospheric turbulence without the need for additional optical devices.…”
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Enhanced photocatalytic activity of rGO-WO3 for hydrogen generation through copper oxide incorporation under sunlight irradiation by Aldo Kevin López-Matus, Viridiana Wendy Velázquez Vázquez, Karla María Aguilar-Casto, Edgar Vicente Macias-Melo, Getsemani Morales Mendoza, José Ysmael Verde Gómez, Rosendo López-González

“…Composites with different contents of rGO and WO3 were obtained by the hydrothermal process, and Cu1+ ions were coupled by the impregnation method. …”
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Associated Determinants of Surface Urban Heat Islands across 1449 Cities in China by Yuanzheng Li, Lan Wang, Min Liu, Guosong Zhao, Tian He, Qizheng Mao

“…Using multisource data, we explored 11 determinants of surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) for 1449 cities in different ecological contexts throughout China in 2010, adopting the Spearman and partial correlation analysis and machine learning method. …”
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Neurological complications following bariatric surgery by Yara Dadalti Fragoso, Soniza Vieira Alves-Leon, Andréa de Carvalho Anacleto, Joseph Bruno Bidin Brooks, Paulo Diniz da Gama, Sidney Gomes, Marcus Vinicius Magno Gonçalves, Katia Lin, Josiane Lopes, Damacio Ramon Kaimen-Maciel, Fabiola Haschid Malfetano, Gladys Lentz Martins, Francisco Tomaz Menezes de Oliveira, Leonardo Dornas Oliveira, Rachel Schlindwein-Zanini

“…The literature on the subject is scarce. METHOD: Cases attended by neurologists in eight different Brazilian cities were collected and described in the present study. …”
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Zero-biased graphene photodetector with high responsivity integrated into silicon microring resonator by Hadi Hashemnezhad, Mina Noori

“…Zero-bias operation, low power consumption, and improved voltage responsivity make the proposed structure highly suitable for various telecommunication applications, such as data transmission, military, and industrial applications with high precision. Here, the finite difference eigenmode and the finite difference time domain methods are used to calculate the propagation mode profile and to perform optical simulations, respectively. …”
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Retinal and choroidal microvascular assessment of children receiving recombinant growth hormone therapy by Ismail Omar, Yousra Samir Fadle, Noura M. Ibrahim El Bakry

“…Both groups had no statistically significant differences in age, gender, weight, or spherical equivalent. …”
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Synthesis, Tunable Multicolor Output, and High Pure Red Upconversion Emission of Lanthanide-Doped Lu2O3 Nanosheets by Lingzhen Yin, Tianmei Zeng, Zhigao Yi, Chao Qian, Hongrong Liu

“…Moreover, under 980 nm laser diode (LD) excitation, multicolor output from red to yellow was realized by codoped different lanthanide ions in Lu2O3. It is noteworthy that high pure strong red upconversion emission with red to green ratio of 443.3 of Er-containing nanocrystals was obtained, which is beneficial for in vivo optical bioimaging.…”
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Light–Matter Interaction in Black Phosphorus Coupled to a Si Photonic Crystal at Near Infrared Band by Qin Lu, Cizhe Fang, Yan Liu, Genquan Han, Jincheng Zhang, Yue Hao

“…The optical characteristics are simulated by the numerical method finite difference time domain. …”
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Evaluation of Real-Time Intelligent Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges Based on Swara-Waspas; a Case in Iran by Mahdi Bitarafan, Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani, Shahin Lale Arefi, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Amir Mahmoudzadeh

“…Through a decision-making method using new hybrid methodology based on SWARA and WASPAS, existential necessity degree of all indices and sensors were obtained and eventually the following result captured: applying piezoelectric sensors is optimal in smart health monitoring to be used in Iran bridges and optical fiber sensor was recognized as the second optimum option.…”
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On-demand, readily degradable Poly-2,3-dihydrofuran enabled by anion-binding catalytic copolymerization by Zhen Zhang, Wenxiu Lv, Maosheng Li, Yanchao Wang, Xianhong Wang, Youhua Tao

“…This method leads to incorporating low density of individual in-chain acetal sequences in PDHF chains with high-molecular-weight (up to 314 kDa), imparting on-demand hydrolytic degradability while without sacrificing the thermomechanical, optical, and barrier properties of the native material. …”
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A Candidate for True Type-2 AGN without Hidden Central Broad-line Regions Identified by Central Tidal Disruption Event by Ying Gu, Qi Zheng, Pei-zhen Cheng, Xiao Li, Xing-Qian Cheng, Xue-Guang Zhang, En-Wei Liang

“…Through analyzing the 20 yr optical light curves of SDSS J2334 from different Sky Survey projects, a TDE is preferred with a 4.7 M _⊙ main-sequence star tidally disrupted by the central black hole (BH) with mass 11.7 × 10 ^6 M _⊙ , indicating that central region within a distance of about 20 light days to the central BH in SDSS J2334 is directly in the line of sight. …”
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MelanoDet: Multimodal Imaging System for Screening and Analysis of Cutaneous Melanoma by Alina Elena Sultana, Maria Oniga, Paul Florin Rus, Andra Laura Dobre, Olguta Anca Orzan

“…To ensure accurate lesion inspection, an analytical method based on the optical cameras parameters estimated the cameras’ common field of view, to capture the same region of interest. …”
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Unidirectional Alleviation of the Diffraction Limit in Geometrically Anisotropic Photonics by El Badri Youssef, Mangach Hicham, Belkacem Abdelhaq, Oubeniz Hammou, Bouzid Abdenbi, Achaoui Younes

“…Rationally constructed materials have enabled access to optical capabilities beyond nature’s limitations, thanks to advances made in both theory and experiment. …”
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Visual advantage in deaf adults linked to retinal changes. by Charlotte Codina, Olivier Pascalis, Chris Mody, Peter Toomey, Jill Rose, Laura Gummer, David Buckley

“…We investigated neural changes at the retina and optic nerve head in profoundly deaf (N = 14) and hearing (N = 15) adults using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), an in-vivo light interference method of quantifying retinal micro-structure. …”
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