The use of electrically conductive adhesives as interconnection materials in electronic assembly process is increasingly becoming a vital part of the electronics industry. Flip-chip joining technique using conductive adhesives has been identi®ed as a key technology for future electronics assembly and manufacturing. The purpose of the present work is to investigate optimum conditions to achieve ...

Objective: The bonding adhesive holds the composite filling to the residual tooth, creating a chain cross-–link during the photo polymerization process. In this article we will be discussing the polymerization process under a thermodynamic viewpoint between amorphous structures of the dental market adhesives, the hybrid layer of the residual tooth and the white polymers filling. The thermodynam...

The aim of this study was to analyse the extent of polymerization of different adhesive films in relation to their permeability. One adhesive of each class was investigated: OptiBond FL; One-Step; Clearfil Protect Bond; and Xeno III. Adhesive films were prepared and cured with XL-2500 (3M ESPE) for 20, 40 or 60 s. Polymerization kinetic curves of the adhesives tested were obtained with differen...

The time course of isocyanate emission from curing PUR-adhesives was studied in an emission test chamber. The adhesives under investigation were commercial products for fixing of textile floor coverings and based on methylene bisphenyl diisocyanate (MDI). Influence of the curing mechanism was studied by comparing the emission curves of one-component adhesive (OCA) and two-component adhesive (TC...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The microbial flora of the oral cavity is extremely diverse. Residual bacteria in the oral cavity may remain at the tooth restoration interface and increase the risk of developing recurrent caries. The aim of this study is to evaluate the immediate and long term antibacterial effect of polymerised self etching adhesive systems. MATERIALS AND METHODS Streptococcus mut...

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are ideal sources for chemical and biological optical sensors [1], due to their simplicity, low cost (disposable applications) and possibility to be integrated on chip and fabricated in the form of large 2D arrays (microarray fluorescence [2]) even on flexible plastic substrates. OLEDs with lifetimes of a few hundreds of hours at initial luminance values in...

We present a novel fiber-optic confocal microscope in which the scanning operation is achieved by use of a spatial light modulator (SLM) to sequentially illuminate individual fibers or patterns of multiple fibers. Experimental images are presented, and the optical-sectioning capability of the device is demonstrated. The novel SLM-based system is more optically efficient, achieves higher contras...

This article discusses possible solutions to limitations in light extraction efficiency of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using new types of triple-layer omni-directional reflectors (ODRs). The ODRs have lower mirror losses than metal reflectors and distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). High-reflectivity ODRs have been incorporated into AlGaInP LEDs and GaInN LEDs. It is shown that the ODR signifi...

This paper investigates the wealth of medicinal plants used by the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. Apatani have traditionally settled in seven villages in the Ziro valley of Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayan region of India. The present study has resulted in the documentation of 158 medicinal plant species used by the Apatani group of villages. These med...