In this work we explore the effect of the contribution of the solar spectrum to the recorded signal in wavelengths outside the typical 940-nm filter’s bandwidth. We employ gaussian-shaped filters as well as actual filter transmission curves, mainly AERONET data, to study the implications imposed by the non-zero out-of-band contribution to the coefficients used to derive precipitable water from ...

Indium tin oxide (ITO) films have been deposited onto glass substrates by ifmagnetron sputtering without insitu substrate heating. The as-deposited films have an electrical resistivity of 5x1O a-cm, visible transmittance of about 85%, and infrared (IR) reflectance of above 80% at 5 jim. The effect of sputtering parameters on the deposition rate and the electrical and optical properties of ITO f...

The purpose of the present study was to objectively quantify the spectral transmittance of the eyelid. Reported here are data acquired using a technique that was developed to provide practical and accurate measurements of eyelid transmittance across the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The empirical data were analyzed in terms of the absorption and scattering characteristics of ...

We present characterizations of few-layer titanium trisulfide (TiS3) flakes which, due to their reduced in-plane structural symmetry, display strong anisotropy in their electrical and optical properties. Exfoliated few-layer flakes show marked anisotropy of their in-plane mobilities reaching ratios as high as 7.6 at low temperatures. Based on the preferential growth axis of TiS3 nanoribbons, we...

Thin films of MnO2 are well suited for Electrochromic Photo-Voltaic (ECPV) effect and superconducting phenomenon (such as solar cells) due to its electrical and optical properties. MnO2 thin films were prepared on glass substrate using a simple and low-cost chemical spray pyrolysis technique at different substrate temperature. The MnO2 films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transm...

The design concept of the required optical filters for the Fluorescence Detector of the AUGER Project, is presented in this work. Due to the needed high transmittance values in the UV region, the dielectric thin film multilayer technique, using UV-transparent materials, has been selected. The design method applied, is the “Monte Carlo Simulated Annealing” (MOCASA). Two alternative target spectr...

Silver-doped ZnO (SZO) films were prepared by rf magnetron sputtering on glass substrates with specially designed ZnO target. For the doping source for target, we use AgNO3 powder with a various mixing ratio (0, 2, and 4 wt.%). We investigated a dependency of coating parameter, such as dopant content, in target and substrate temperature on structural and optical properties of the as-grown SZO f...

Optical spectroscopy techniques such as differential reflectance and transmittance have proven to be very powerful techniques for studying 2D materials. However, a thorough description of the experimental setups needed to carry out these measurements is lacking in the literature. We describe a versatile optical microscope setup for carrying out differential reflectance and transmittance spectro...

Reflectance and transmittance parameters of pulsed laser deposited barium strontium titanate (BST) were investigated using spectrophotometric methods. Three stoichiometries consisting of BaxSr1−xTiO3 (x = 0.30, 0.40, 0.50) were deposited on glass substrates using oxygen partial pressures of 1.3 Pa ± 0.13 Pa at 500 ̊C. Subsequently, the measured optical parameters were employed to determine the r...