CrSBr is a recently discovered two-dimensional anti-ferromagnet. It has attracted much attention due to its superior properties for potential optoelectronic and spintronic applications. However, its complex refractive index with layer dependence has...
We have estimated the intrinsic complex refractive index spectrum of a CsPbBr3 nanocrystal. With various dilute solutions of CsPbBr3 nanocrystals dissolved in toluene, effective refractive indices were measured at two different wavelengths using Mich...
The contour intersection method is a new method used to invert the complex refractive index of small particles. Research has yet to be reported on using this method to invert the complex refractive index of nanoparticles. This paper reports the feasi...
To study the optical properties of background atmospheric aerosols in East China, we carried out observations of the physical, chemical and optical properties of atmospheric aerosols at the summit of Mount Tai (Mt. Tai, 1533.7 m above sea level) from...
This work investigates the potential to rely on the complex refractive index to correlate the chemical composition of polymers with their optical properties, including transmittance, reflectance and absorbance. The optical properties of polycarbonate...
In order to investigate the equivalent complex refractive index of atmospheric aerosols near the Earth’s surface, we conducted measurements in the Hefei region from March to April 2022. These measurements utilized a micro-pulse lidar, an Aethal...
Chengdu is a typical basin city of Southwest China with rare observations of remote sensing measurements. To assess the climate change and establish a region aerosol model, a deeper understanding of the separated volume size distribution (VSD) and co...
Modelling the optical and radiative properties of atmospheric particles is governed by one of the key input parameters, i.e., the refractive index of aerosols. Availability of the region-specific refractive index data of aerosols is a major challenge...
In this work, the complex refractive indexes of seven PEDOT:PSS samples, three with isotropic behavior and four with optical anisotropy, were determined. For the anisotropic samples, the ordinary and extraordinary components of the refractive index w...
In this paper, the optical solitons for the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation with Kudryashov’s law of refractive index are established. An improved modified extended tanh–function technique is used to extract numerous solutions. Bri...
An ultra-wide band radar reflection measurement technique for industrial applications is introduced. A new method for determining the complex refractive index (or equivalently the relative permittivity) of objects with planar interfaces is presented....
Estimating the permittivity of heterogeneous mixtures based on the permittivity of their components is of high importance with many applications in ground penetrating radar (GPR) and in electrodynamics-based sensing in general. Complex Refractive Ind...
In this work, studies of the optical constants of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and few-layer black phosphorus are briefly reviewed, with particular emphasis on the complex dielectric function and refractive index. Specifically, an estim...
The complex refractive index for low-loss materials is conventionally extracted by either approximate analytical formula or numerical iterative algorithm (such as Nelder-Mead and Newton-Raphson) based on the transmission-mode terahertz time domain sp...
A cloud property retrieved from multispectral imagers having spectral channels in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) and/or midwave infrared (MWIR) is the cloud effective particle radius (CER), a radiatively relevant weighting of the cloud particle size d...
In this paper, individual particle analysis by automated scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) was used to assess the size-resolved information of composition, size distribution, complex refractive index, and m...
The ground-based measurement of sea salt (SS) aerosol over the ocean requires the massive utilization of satellite-derived aerosol products. In this study, n-order spectral derivatives of aerosol optical depth (AOD) based on wavelength were examined...
We present a concept that enables the determination of the complex refractive index of attenuating media from two critical angles, measured sequentially at two interfaces between a single sample and two different prisms. The proposed method is genera...
Photo-induced bond linkage isomerization (BLI) in metal–nitrosyl compounds provides a molecular mechanism for controlling light-induced changes in refractive index and phase modulation. In this study, the ground and metastable states of a serie...
We study retrieval methods in regard to their potential to accurately retrieve particle microphysical parameters (PMP) from 3β + 2α HSRL/Raman lidar measurements. PMPs estimated with these methods are number, surface-area and volume concen...
Quantifying aerosol compositions (e.g., type, loading) from remotely sensed measurements by spaceborne, suborbital and ground-based platforms is a challenging task. In this study, the first and second-order spectral derivatives of aerosol optical dep...
This paper presents an analysis of the morphology and columnar microphysical properties of atmospheric aerosols in Mexico City (MC) for the period 2022–2023. The morphological study focused on the structure description of soot particles and tar...
Aromatic secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles are known to contribute to radiative forcing and light absorption of atmosphere. However, the complex refractive index (CRI), single-scattering albedo (SSA) and other optical parameters of aromatic S...
Measurement technology based on machine vision has been widely used in various industries. The development of vision measurement technology mainly depends on the process of photosensitive components and the algorithm of processing a target image. In...
We explored spectral diversity in infrared (IR, 4–25 μm) imaginary (k) and real (n) indices of refraction (optical constants) for 26 surface soils that originated from global dust entrainment regions. The k spectra were derived from optical...
In this paper, we derived optical soliton solutions with a highly dispersive nonlinear complex Ginzburg–Landau (CGL) equation in birefringent fibers that have Kerr law nonlinearity. We applied two mathematical methods, namely the addendum Kudry...
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When a dielectric material undergoes mechanical impact, it generates a shock wave, causing changes in its refractive index. Recent demonstrations have proven that the modified refractive index can be determined remotely using a millimeter-wave interf...
Phenotyping extracellular vesicles (EVs), where surface receptor expression is often as low as one molecule per EV, remains problematic due to the inability of commercial flow cytometers to provide single-fluorescent molecule sensitivity. While EVs a...
Nonlinear architecture liquid crystalline materials of supramolecular 1:1 H-bonded complexes (I/II and I/III) were prepared through a self-assembly intermolecular interaction between azopyridine (I) and 4-n-alkoxybenzoic acid (II) as well as 4-n-alko...
Aluminum nitride (AlN) films were synthesized onto Si(100) substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) in vacuum or nitrogen, at 0.1, 1, 5, or 10 Pa, and substrate temperatures ranging from RT to 800 °C. The laser parameters were set at: incident...
Artificially prepared microbial spores have excellent electromagnetic attenuation properties due to their special composition and structure. At present, studies on the optical properties of microbial spores have mainly focused on those with a single...
Dust aerosol has an impact on both the regional radiation balance and the global radiative forcing estimation. The Taklimakan Desert is the focus of the present research on the optical and micro-physical characteristics of the dust aerosol characteri...
A simple scheme for single-channel coherent perfect absorption (CPA) of transparent materials is proposed and experimentally realized using total internal reflection by grazing incidence, with a single dielectric layer sandwiched by semi-infinite die...
A new spectrophotometric technique for the determination of both ordinary and extraordinary complex refractive indices (CRIs) of a stretched polyethylene terephthalate (Mylar) film is proposed. The sample was placed between two identical polarizers,...
The composition, sizes and shapes of particles in the clouds of Venus have previously been studied with a variety of in situ and remote sensor measurements. A number of major questions remain unresolved, however, motivating the development of an expl...
Superconducting thin films are widely applied in various fields, including switching devices, because of their phase transition behaviors in relation to temperature changes. Therefore, it is important to quantitatively determine the optical constant...
Refractive index-sensitive plasmonic sensors are suitable for the on-site detection of fluid parameters in process engineering applications. The functionalization of optically sensitive nanostructured surfaces with stimuli-responsive hydrogels enable...
The construction of exactly solvable refractive indices allowing guided TE modes in optical waveguides is investigated within the formalism of Darboux–Crum transformations. We apply the finite-difference algorithm for higher-order supersymmetric quan...
A novel magnetic field sensor comprising a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is designed and investigated based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR). We use finite element analysis in order to analyze the sensing characteristics of the magnetic field sensor...
Stripe rust is one of the most common diseases challenging the safe production of wheat. Rapid identification and analysis of urediospores, responsible for disease transmission, are the key to preventing and controlling stripe rust. The current spore...
The curing of epoxy resin is a complex thermo-chemical process that is difficult to monitor using existing sensing systems. We monitored the curing process of an epoxy resin by using long-period fiber gratings. The refractive index of the epoxy resin...
We theoretically investigated a polyethylene-based rectangular and guided mode resonance (GMR) structure with a circular pattern by using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in the terahertz region. As the refractive index of the grating...
An in-line and real time chromatic sensor for liquids based on plastic optical fiber was developed. It uses an air gap, fiber to fiber, transmission principle. Its dependency to turbidity and refractive index is studied and characterized. This inform...
Based on the unique properties of optical Fano resonance and plasmonic-waveguide coupling systems, this paper explores a novel refractive index concentration sensor structure. The sensor structure is composed of a metal–insulator–metal (M...
For most of nanostructured glasses (NGs) (phase-separated glasses and glass-ceramics), the light scattering coefficient (turbidity) is described by a power function of the inverse wavelength with an exponent which differs appreciably from the Rayleig...
In the precise displacement measurement based on laser interferometry, the measurement technology for the refractive index of air is widely used to improve the measurement accuracy. However, the existing measurement method of the refractive index of...
In the face of increasingly severe global environmental challenges, the development of low-cost, high-precision, and easily integrable environmental monitoring sensors is of paramount importance. Existing optical refractive index sensors are often li...
The refractive index is one of the most important parameters of optical glasses and has a significant effect on optical properties. The measurement of optical glasses, especially for optical elements such as lenses, is urgently needed. However, sever...
Gradient refractive index (GRIN) lenses have been widely used for many applications. However, the traditional manufacturing methods of GRIN lenses are very time-consuming and only suitable for macro-scale operations. In addition, those methods do not...
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