Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a type of additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing technology that uses a high-power laser to selectively fuse or melt layers of powdered material to build up a three-dimensional object. This process is...

Dewetting is a phenomenon in materials science and physics where a thin film or coating spontaneously undergoes a process of...

That branch of science involved in the study and utilization of the motion, emissions and behaviors of currents of...

The emission of radiant energy produced by the passage of an electrical current through an appropriate electrolyte in which...

3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), is a manufacturing process that builds three-dimensional objects...

A system that uses the heat from a pulsed laser to weld metals. Because of the rapidity and localization in which the...

Ion-beam sputtering (IBS) is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) technique used for depositing thin films onto substrates. It...

Laser marking is a process in which a laser beam is used to mark or engrave a surface by altering its properties or...

A coating applied to a neutral density glass that is designed to reduce the amount of light evenly across the transmitted...

The partial differential equations for the spatial and time dependence of electric and magnetic fields inside a...

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that forms at temperatures close to absolute zero. It is named after...

The phenomenon in which alkali metals are transparent to ultraviolet radiation.

Chalcogenide refers to a class of compounds containing elements from group 16 of the periodic table, which includes sulfur...

A semiconductor is a type of material that has electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. In...

An abundant material found in the form of quartz and agate and as one of the major constituents of sand. The silicates of...

An atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS) is an analytical instrument used to determine the concentration of specific chemical...

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

A fiber laser is a type of laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth ions such as...

Optical cements and adhesives are specialized materials used in the assembly and bonding of optical components in optical...

Rockwell hardness (Rc) refers to a method for measuring the hardness of a material, primarily metals, using an indentation...

A device composed of dissimilar metals that, when welded together, develop a small voltage dependent upon the relative...

Characteristic of dissimilar metals in thermoelectric solar cells whereby separate junctions exhibiting distinct...

The electrical arc formed between metal rods that emits the spectrum of the metal itself. Commonly used in the chemical...

An acid used to etch the surfaces of particular materials. For glass, hydrofluoric acid is used either as a liquid or a...

Ultrasonic refers to sound waves with frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing, typically above...

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment refers to a class of specialized apparatus used in the process of chemical vapor...

Laser sintering is an additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing technology that involves using a laser to selectively fuse...

That branch of metallurgy that uses electron microscopic techniques in the examination of the nature of metals.

Diamond turning, also known as diamond machining or diamond cutting, is a precision machining process used to produce...

Any of the numerous powders used for grinding and polishing glass, crystal or metal, the chief material being emery and...

Laser texturing is a manufacturing process that involves using a laser beam to selectively modify the surface of a material,...

The analysis, by x-rays, of the crystalline structure and other properties of metals and alloys.

Diamond turning refers to a precision machining process used to produce complex optical components, particularly lenses and...

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a manufacturing process that involves creating three-dimensional...

An Er:YAG laser is a type of solid-state laser that uses a crystal made of erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet...

A filter that controls the spectral composition of transmitted energy partially by the effects of interference. Frequently,...

A refrigeration method based on the Peltier effect. When an electric current passes through a thermocouple of two dissimilar...

Laser peening is a surface enhancement technique used to improve the mechanical properties of materials, particularly...

An electric cell having two electrodes of unlike metals immersed in a solution that chemically affects one or both of them,...

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is an analytical technique that combines the principles of Raman spectroscopy...

Microscopy is a scientific technique that involves the use of microscopes to observe and study objects that are too small to...