In constructing the percept of transparency, the visual system must decompose the light intensity at each image location into two components one for the partially transmissivc surface, the other for the underlying surface seen through it. Theories of perceptual transparency have typically assumed that this decomposition is defined quantitatively in terms of the inverse of some physical model (t...

The color of prints is mainly determined by the light absorption of the inks deposited on top of paper. In order to predict the reflectance spectrum of prints, we use a spectral prediction model in which each ink is characterized by its spectral transmittance. In the present paper, we consider two classical reflectance prediction models: the Clapper-Yule model and the Williams-Clapper model. Th...

Spreading depression (SD) was analyzed in hippocampal and neocortical brain slices by imaging intrinsic optical signals in combination with either simultaneous electrophysiological recordings or imaging of intracellular calcium dynamics. The goal was to determine the roles of intracellular calcium (Ca2+int) waves in the generation and propagation of SD. Imaging of intrinsic optical signals in t...

Ag nanowire (NW) films obtained by the spraying the Ag NWs on the substrates were nano-welded by rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process and the effect of RTA process on the change of sheet resistance and optical transmittance of the Ag NW films was investigated. The increased number of Ag NW sprays on the substrate decreased the sheet resistance but also decreased the optical transmittance. By t...

Guanidinium isophthalate single crystals with dimensions 16 × 4x2 mm3 were prepared by the low temperature solvent evaporation method and growth kinetics interfacial tension was discussed to bring out parameters of guanidinium crystals. The harvested utilized for various characterization studies like powder X-ray diffraction, optical transmission, photoluminescence, tolerance study limiting stu...

Calculations of radiant heating by inhomogeneous hot gases require knowledge of spectral transmittances of inhomogeneous optical paths. Determination of these transmittances is a difficult problem that can be attacked by means of the Curtis-Godson approximation, which replaces each inhomogeneous optical path with a hypothetical homogeneous path that has the same transmittance. The authors have ...

Films of transparent semiconductors are widely studied and developed because of high potential applications in electronics in last decade. Our work concerns the properties of NiO films fabricated by RF magnetron sputtering. Electrical and optical parameters of the films were characterized using Hall and transmittance measurements, respectively. P-type conductivity of as-deposited films and afte...

The optical transmittance of the commonly used Cerenkov counter gases, Freon 12, Freon 13; C02, SF8, and N2, was measured in the range from 1875 A to 8000 A, and normalized for a 100 cm X 1 atm path. Calculations of efficiency for Cerenkov counters, particularly threshold type, require a knowledge of the optical transmittance of the counter filling for the Cerenkov light. For many of the gases ...