The recording of the information contained in a modulated electron beam onto photographic or silicon resin-coated materials. A direct recording method involves the passage of the recording medium through an aperture in the cathrode-ray tube or over...

Optical elements that have been coated with one or more layers of dielectric, or metallic material. These coatings serve to...

A photomask, also known simply as a mask or reticle, is a key component in the photolithography process used in...

A projection printer that is capable of reproducing a multiplicity of images from a master transparency on a single support...

A glass substrate that has its rear surface coated with a reflective coating. Also known as a back-surface mirror.

Liquid marble refers to a unique form of microscale liquid encapsulation, where small droplets of liquid are coated with a...

A type of flat panel display made up of a layer of gas between two glass plates. The glass is coated with parallel...

In physics, momentum transfer is the amount of momentum transferred from one particle to another during particle collision...

A holographic plate coated by photopolymeric mixtures that are composed of one or more monomers and a photoredox catalyst...

A telescope lens is a primary optical component of a telescope system that gathers and focuses light to form an image. It is...

Photoresist is a light-sensitive material used in photolithography processes, particularly in the fabrication of...

An infrared lens is an optical component specifically designed and optimized for transmitting, focusing, or manipulating...

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a laboratory technique used to detect and measure the presence of specific...

Describing a surface that is coated with a film of metal of such thickness that it transmits about one-half of the incident...

A rigid medium, generally a polycarbonate substrate coated with a reflective aluminum layer, that stores information (such...

An astronomical mirror, also known as a telescope mirror or primary mirror, is a key component of a reflecting telescope. It...

A strip or annulus of glass coated with a semitransparent material such as inconel. The coating thickness, and as a result...

A film or plate that is usually coated on both sides with a very fast emulsion that is sensitive to x-rays, and used to...

An optical lens manufactured to control the transmission of light over a specified wavelength range. Low absorption lenses...

1. The negative electrode of a device in an electrical circuit. 2. The positive electrode of a primary cell or storage...

Type of solid-state display tube in which the readout surface is coated with a material that changes color when positively...

A fluorescent screen refers to a phosphorescent or fluorescent-coated surface that emits visible light when exposed to other...

One surface of a nonconducting plate that is coated with many minute particles of photoemissive material that are insulated...

A photoelectric detector consisting of a glass tube internally coated with a low conductance material. Voltage applied along...

An X-Y electrically addressable series of arrays with individual electron emitters bombarding a phosphor-coated transparent...

Optical materials refer to substances or compounds specifically chosen for their optical properties and used in the...

A method of cleaning and drying coated optical components. The cooled parts are placed in a container above a boiling...

A mirror coated to reflect cold (white) light while transmitting hot (infrared) energy.

A cathode-ray tube having a screen that is coated on the back with a thin film of aluminum, which serves to intensify the...

A beamsplitter is an optical device for dividing a beam into two or more separate beams. A simple beamsplitter may be a very...

A 30-60-90° spectrograph prism that is coated on the surface opposite the 60° angle with a reflecting film.

A hollow sphere coated internally with a white diffusing material and provided with openings for incident beam, specimen and...

Optical surface damage due to abrasive rubbing. Abrasion damage affects are less than the thickness of the optical coating...

Photolithography is a key process in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, and...

A plastic disc coated with ferric oxide or other films on which data can be stored by selectively magnetizing areas of the...

A microchannel plate (MCP) is a specialized electron multiplier device used in various applications such as particle...

A surgical device used to deliver laser light. Specifically,contact tips are made with artificially grown sapphire which is...

A corner cube, also known as a corner reflector or retroreflector prism, is a type of optical device used to reflect light...

A diffraction grating is an optical component consisting of a surface with a periodic structure of equally spaced, parallel...

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a nanolithography technique used for fabricating nanoscale patterns on a substrate. It is a...

1. A device used to trace out an object and build up an image. One of the most common of these types is video scanning. The...

An electron-beam lithography (EBL) system is a sophisticated nanofabrication tool used in the semiconductor industry and...

An optical component coated to reflect infrared radiation. Gold, silver and aluminum are typical coating materials.

An electrowetting display (EWD) is a type of electronic display technology that utilizes the principles of electrowetting to...

An early form of photographic media consisting of glass plates coated with an emulsion.

An enclosure whose walls are coated to absorb completely all radiation striking them.

Lithography is a key process used in microfabrication and semiconductor manufacturing to create intricate patterns on the...

Film that produces color negatives or transparencies by the use of three emulsions, one coated over the other, that are each...

Coating carried out in a sealed chamber evacuated by a mechanical pump in series with an oil diffusion pump to a pressure...

A solid-state panel of the photoconductor-electroluminescent type. The photoconductive layer, sensitive to x-rays, is coated...

The observation and measurement of the flatness of a mirror surface by contacting an optical flat with the mirror. The...

A compound prism composed of two 30° prisms, one of which is partially coated with a suitable opaque metal of high...

A shallow, fine-pitch diffraction grating having a precise dielectric overcoating that experimentally has absorbed...

A layer of material applied to a coated surface to protect it from physical or chemical action.

A thin, stretched plastic membrane cemented to a rigid supporting ring. It may be coated to act as a beamsplitter, for...

An antireflection coating (AR coating) is a thin film or coating applied to optical surfaces, such as lenses or windows, to...

A mirror blank refers to the initial piece of material from which a mirror is made. It is typically a flat or slightly...

Optical coatings are thin layers of materials applied to optical components, such as lenses, mirrors, filters, and prisms,...

A film applied to a coated or uncoated optical surface primarily for protecting this surface from mechanical abrasion, from...

An interferometric method for describing the surface shape of large coated or uncoated optical flats. The procedure uses a...

A phototube having a cesium-coated cathode that has its greatest sensitivity in the infrared region.