Thermal treatment of supersaturated Ti1!xAlxN films (x " 0.67) with a dominant ternary cubic-phase were performed in the 700– 1000 !C range. Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) shows that, for annealing temperatures up to 800 !C, the film structure undergoes the formation of coherent cubic AlN (c-AlN) and TiN (c-TiN) nanocrystallites via spinodal decomposition and, at higher temperature...

In this work a novel approach to edge detection on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is introduced. The proposed method uses an optics inspired transform which emulates the diffraction of an image through a medium with nonlinear dispersive properties. The experimental results show that the output of the introduced Phase Stretch Transform (PST) in conjunction with further morphological opera...

TM scattering problem by a perfectly conducting wedge with concaved edge is formulated for a line source excitation using the modematching technique. The scattered and guided fields are represented in terms of an infinite series of radial waveguide modes with unknown coefficients. By applying the appropriate boundary conditions, the coefficients of scattered field are obtained. For small ka, th...

In time-domain simulations of sound propagation and/or scattering, it is possible to model the geometricalacoustics (GA) components and the edge-diffraction components separately and combine the results into a “total” impulse response. However, such separate calculations can limit the efficiency and accuracy of the simulations because the two components are not independent. This paper presents ...

In deep ultraviolet lithography simulations, conventional application of Kirchhoff's boundary conditions on the mask surface provides the so-called "thin-mask" approximation of the object field. Current subwavelength lithographic operation, however, places a serious limitation on this approximation, which fails to account for the topographical, or "thick-mask," effects. In this paper, a new sim...

The structural and optical characterization of bulk GeO2-PbO glasses was the goal of this study. In this regard, six different (100-x)GeO2‌-xPbO (15<x<45) glasses were prepared by conventional melt quenching technique between two steel sheets. The produced samples were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and UV-Vis s...

Typically the grating problem is formulated for TE and TM polarizations by using, respectively, the electric and magnetic fields aligned with the grating wall and perpendicular to the plane of incidence, and this leads to a one-field-component problem. For some grating profiles such as metallic gratings with a triangular profile, the prediction of TM polarization by using a standard finite-elem...