We report on a comparative study of transparent Fe:MgAl2O4 (spinel) ceramics and nanophase Fe:MgAl2O4-based glass-ceramics. The 0.1 mol% was synthesized by hot pressing (at 1500 °C/50 MPa) powders obtained the sol-gel method using LiF as sintering aid. ceramic is single-phase material (cubic structure, sp. gr. Fd3‾m, = 8.083 Å) with mean grain size ~50 μm. exhibits broadband transparency 0.2–6....

Transparent ITO/PZT/ITO capacitors were fabricated on 200 mm glass substrate. The PZT films of 1 µm and 2 thickness first grown platinized Si wafer by sol–gel method, then transferred onto substrate together with ITO electrodes following an innovative process. obtained based stacks show average transmission about 70% in the visible range. keep their preferred (100) orientation after transfer ex...

A room temperature cathodic arc deposition technique is used to produce high-mobility ZnO thin films for low voltage thin-film transistors (TFTs) and digital logic inverters. All-oxide, fully transparent devices are fabricated on alkali-free glass and flexible polyimide foil, exhibiting high performance. This provides a practical materials platform for the low-temperature fabrication of all-oxi...

Surface-plasmon coupled emission (SPCE) has emerged as a new and potentially powerful tool for highly sensitive fluorescence detection. In the case of SPCE, the fluorescence is collected through a semi-transparent thin metal film deposited on glass. We present a theoretical analysis of SPCE, studying the potential enhancement of the fluorescence collection efficiency, brightness, quantum-yield,...

Fluoride glasses are of great interest for optical applications, as low phonon energy hosts for rare-earth ions. With an increasing need for more compact optical devices that impose higher dopant concentration, research activity has been focused on the fabrication of fluoride glass planar waveguides to produce integrated lasers and optical amplifiers, especially those based on Er3þ-doped glasse...

This research examined human preference for water and a key aspect of water, its reflection. We compared responses to reflection in water versus reflection in glass and responses to reflection versus transparency. Sixty respondents rated the attractiveness of four scale-models varied on those dimensions. High inter-item reliability across the rating scales called for their combination into a co...

Transparent conductive oxide (TCO) thin films were removed from glass substrates using femtosecond laser pulses. Irradiating through the glass, the threshold for complete TCO ablation was much lower than for front-side irradiation. Additionally, the former method created almost rectangular crosssectional groove profiles despite the Gaussian laser beam. This indicates a non-thermal ultrafast abl...