We investigate film morphologies of heteroepitaxial face-centered cubic (fcc) thin metal adlayers gro.wn on fcc( 1 1 1) metal substrates using a statistical-mechanical mean-field theory. In order to develop a general understanding of how various intrinsic properties of the film and substrate dictate the thermodynamicallypreferred film structures, fourteen fcc( 11 l)/fcc( 1 11) interfaces with l...

Introduction: Radiography plays an important role in the diagnosis of oral and dental disease and one of the most common diagnostic procedures in dentistry. Recent reports have raised concern about the increased use of ionizing radiation in dental imaging and the possibility of cancers. The effective dose of some dental radiographic examinations is high enough, so appropriate ...

A novel Zr,Ce-TiO2/SiO2 nanocomposite thin film was successfully prepared with various amounts of Zr4+ and Ce4+ as codopant ions for self-cleaning applications. A thin film was coated on a tile substrate by dip-coating and porous Zr,Ce-TiO2/SiO2 was obtained after heat treatment for 2 hours at 500 °C. The SEM images an...

Structures of thin films bonded on thick substrates are abundant in biological systems and engineering applications. Mismatch strains due to expansion of the films or shrinkage of the substrates can induce various modes of surface instabilities such as wrinkling, creasing, period doubling, folding, ridging, and delamination. In many cases, the film–substrate structures are not flat but curved. ...

This paper deals with the determination of film, via and contact structure resistances in VLSI metalization. Simulations of the flow of electrical current through thin metal films and VLSI structures using the three dimensional microstructural thin film simulation framework 3D-Films are discussed in this paper. For each simulation, the film structures are generated by the thin film growth model...

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This review covers papers from the previous two years not being represented at this conference. Optically stimulated luminescence detectors, diamond detectors and radiochromic film are the major topics. An effort to link these papers to 3D dosimetry is included in this brief report. An overall theme of linear, water equivalent response is seen throughout the topics included.

Closed-form analytical expressions and normalized charts provide the conditions for the maximum sensitivity of transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) evanescent-wave step-index waveguide sensors. The analysis covers both cases where the measurand is homogeneously distributed in the semi-infinite waveguide cover, and where it is an ultrathin film at the waveguide-cover interface.