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7 Citations
3,289 Views
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23 February 2021

Studies on the influence of parasitism on plants based on hyperspectral analysis have not been reported so far. To fully understand the variation characteristics and laws of leaf reflectance spectrum and functional traits after the urban plant parasi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,352 Views
16 Pages

Infrared Ocean Image Simulation Algorithm Based on Pierson–Moskowitz Spectrum and Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function

  • Xueqi Chen,
  • Lin Zhou,
  • Meng Zhou,
  • Ajun Shao,
  • Kan Ren,
  • Qian Chen,
  • Guohua Gu and
  • Minjie Wan

Infrared ocean image simulation has been widely used in water-pollution prevention, meteorological observation and melting-ice monitoring. However, in actual remote sensing observation scenes, the simulation images provided by conventional algorithms...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,547 Views
27 Pages

24 August 2023

OEMT is an existing optimizing envelope method for thin-film characterization that uses only one transmittance spectrum, T(λ), of the film deposited on the substrate. OEMT computes the optimized values of the average thickness, d¯, and th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,801 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2024

High-k Ba4Sm28/3Ti18O54 ceramics with improved microwave dielectric characteristics were successfully fabricated using the one-step reaction sintering (RS) route. The sintering characteristics, microstructure, crystal structure, infrared reflection s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,461 Views
23 Pages

Application of the Doppler Spectrum of the Backscattering Microwave Signal for Monitoring of Ice Cover: A Theoretical View

  • Vladimir Karaev,
  • Yury Titchenko,
  • Maria Panfilova,
  • Maria Ryabkova,
  • Eugeny Meshkov and
  • Kirill Ponur

11 May 2022

In the radar remote sensing of sea ice, the main informative parameter is the backscattering radar cross section (RCS), which does not always make it possible to unambiguously determine the kind of scattering surface (ice/sea waves) and therefore lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,767 Views
12 Pages

Optically Monitored Electric-Field-Induced Phase Transition in Vanadium Dioxide Crystal Film

  • Peng-Fei Wang,
  • Qianqian Hu,
  • Tan Zheng,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Xiaofeng Xu and
  • Jia-Lin Sun

29 August 2020

Vanadium dioxide (VO2), due to its electrically induced metal-to-insulator transition with dramatic changes in electrical and optical properties, is considered to be a powerful material for electro-optical devices. However, there are still some contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,490 Views
8 Pages

20 September 2012

A restoration method for reflection spectra in a serial FBG sensor array with spectral shadowing is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in a WDM/TDM combined multiplexing system. The SNR of each FBG sensor is formulated and analyzed as a functio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,344 Views
11 Pages

27 March 2020

An amorphous precursor of Cr2O3 pigment was prepared via solution combustion synthesis. After calcination at 1000 °C for 1.0 h, the precursor was converted into well-crystallized submicron Cr2O3 crystals with uniform particle distribution and low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,150 Views
35 Pages

4 November 2022

The spectrum of light captured by a camera can be reconstructed using the interpolation method. The reconstructed spectrum is a linear combination of the reference spectra, where the weighting coefficients are calculated from the signals of the pixel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,364 Views
8 Pages

1 January 2017

N-type macroporous silicon microcavity structures were prepared using electrochemical etching in an HF solution in the absence of light and oxidants. The CdSe/ZnS water-soluble quantum dot-labeled DNA target molecules were detected by monitoring the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,065 Views
17 Pages

26 January 2016

Hyperspectral images possess properties such as rich spectral information, narrow bandwidth, and large numbers of bands. Finding effective methods to retrieve land features from an image by using similarity assessment indices with specific spectral c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,443 Views
16 Pages

Spectral Reflectance Characteristics and Chlorophyll Content Estimation Model of Quercus aquifolioides Leaves at Different Altitudes in Sejila Mountain

  • Jiyou Zhu,
  • Weijun He,
  • Jiangming Yao,
  • Qiang Yu,
  • Chengyang Xu,
  • Huaguo Huang and
  • Catherine Mhae B. Jandug

24 May 2020

Quercus aquifolioides is one of the most representative broad-leaved plants in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with important ecological status. So far, understanding how to quickly estimate the chlorophyll content of plants in plateau areas is still an urgent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,059 Views
18 Pages

The Inversion of Rice Leaf Pigment Content: Using the Absorption Spectrum to Optimize the Vegetation Index

  • Longfei Ma,
  • Yuanjin Li,
  • Ningge Yuan,
  • Xiaojuan Liu,
  • Yuyan Yan,
  • Chaoran Zhang,
  • Shenghui Fang and
  • Yan Gong

11 December 2024

The pigment content of rice leaves plays an important role in the growth and development of rice. The accurate and rapid assessment of the pigment content of leaves is of great significance for monitoring the growth status of rice. This study used th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,444 Views
20 Pages

Self-Seeded RSOA-Fiber Cavity Lasers vs. ASE Spectrum-Sliced or Externally Seeded Transmitters—A Comparative Study

  • Simon A. Gebrewold,
  • Romain Bonjour,
  • Sophie Barbet,
  • Anaelle Maho,
  • Romain Brenot,
  • Philippe Chanclou,
  • Marco Brunero,
  • Lucia Marazzi,
  • Paola Parolari and
  • Juerg Leuthold
  • + 4 authors

17 December 2015

Reflective semiconductor optical amplifier fiber cavity lasers (RSOA-FCLs) are appealing, colorless, self-seeded, self-tuning and cost-efficient upstream transmitters. They are of interest for wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,597 Views
8 Pages

5 September 2014

In this work, we have proposed a novel long-range surface plasmon resonance (LRSPR) sensor with sharp reflection spectrum, which consists of a glass prism, a (A/B)4-type waveguide-coupled layer and a metal layer. To reveal its sharp reflection spect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,625 Views
16 Pages

Metal-Printing Defined Thermo-Optic Tunable Sampled Apodized Waveguide Grating Wavelength Filter Based on Low Loss Fluorinated Polymer Material

  • Jihou Wang,
  • Changming Chen,
  • Chunxue Wang,
  • Xibin Wang,
  • Yunji Yi,
  • Xiaoqiang Sun,
  • Fei Wang and
  • Daming Zhang

24 December 2019

In this work, thermo-optic (TO) lateral shift apodized sampled waveguide grating for 1550 nm wavelength is designed and fabricated by the metal-printing technique based on fluorinated epoxy-terminated polycarbonates (FBPA-PC EP) and fluorinated epoxy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,633 Views
24 Pages

29 June 2022

Surface spectral reflectance is useful for color reproduction. In this study, the reconstruction of spectral reflectance using a conventional camera was investigated. The spectrum reconstruction error could be reduced by interpolating camera RGB sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,606 Views
13 Pages

A Miniaturized and Fast System for Thin Film Thickness Measurement

  • Ran Hao,
  • Linlin Zhu,
  • Zexiao Li,
  • Fengzhou Fang and
  • Xiaodong Zhang

18 October 2020

Transparent films are significant industrial components that are widely used in modern optics, microelectronics, optical engineering, and other related fields. There is an urgent need for the fast and stable thickness measurement of industrial films...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
10,981 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2009

The design, operation, and properties of the Finnish Geodetic Institute Field Goniospectrometer (FIGIFIGO) are presented. FIGIFIGO is a portable instrument for the measurement of surface Bidirectional Reflectance Factor (BRF) for samples with diamete...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,887 Views
12 Pages

19 February 2021

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received much interest from both academia and industry due to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness in adjusting the phase and amplitude of wireless signals with low-cost passive reflecting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,015 Views
16 Pages

Evaluating Normalization Methods for Robust Spectral Performance Assessments of Hyperspectral Imaging Cameras

  • Siavash Mazdeyasna,
  • Mohammed Shahriar Arefin,
  • Andrew Fales,
  • Silas J. Leavesley,
  • T. Joshua Pfefer and
  • Quanzeng Wang

4 January 2025

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology, which offers both spatial and spectral information, holds significant potential for enhancing diagnostic performance during endoscopy and other medical procedures. However, quantitative evaluation of HSI camera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,062 Views
16 Pages

13 August 2022

The detection performance of cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is poor when there are obstacles blocking. Therefore, fusion schemes based on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enhanced CSS are investigated. Existing fusion schemes can be divided i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,881 Views
27 Pages

21 August 2022

The recovery of surface spectral reflectance using the quadcolor camera was numerically studied. Assume that the RGB channels of the quadcolor camera are the same as the Nikon D5100 tricolor camera. The spectral sensitivity of the fourth signal chann...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,039 Views
9 Pages

14 June 2016

This study presents reflectance spectra, determined with an ASD Inc. TerraSpec® spectrometer, of five types of ore and gangue minerals from the Mboukoumassi sylvite deposit, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The spectral absorption features, with pea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,229 Views
19 Pages

1 April 2021

Vicarious calibration, as one on-orbit calibration method, is a supplement to onboard calibration of sensors. The application of vicarious calibration, however, is greatly limited due to the time- and effort-consuming field measurements of atmosphere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,203 Views
18 Pages

29 August 2022

Recently, the growing demand of various emerging applications in the realms of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has made the term internet of Things (IoT) very popular. Device-to-device (D2D) communication has emerged as one of the significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
814 Views
24 Pages

10 October 2025

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) relies on Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications to enable cooperative perception among vehicles, infrastructures, and devices, where Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) links are crucial for reliable transmission. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,574 Views
37 Pages

3 April 2020

This work applies the Second-Order Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology (2nd-ASAM) to compute the 1st-order and unmixed 2nd-order sensitivities of a polyethylene-reflected plutonium (PERP) benchmark’s leakage response with respect to the be...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,772 Views
21 Pages

The Experiences of Motor Skill Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Reflected through Parental Responses

  • Anetta Müller,
  • Éva Bácsné Bába,
  • Peter Židek,
  • Attila Lengyel,
  • Judit Herpainé Lakó,
  • Nóra Laoues-Czimbalmos,
  • Anikó Molnár and
  • Eszter Boda

14 October 2024

Background/Objectives: Understanding movement development in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is critical for creating effective intervention strategies. This study aims to explore parental perspectives on the movement development of chil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,187 Views
28 Pages

Evaluating the Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging Endoscopes: Mitigating Parameters Affecting Spectral Accuracy

  • Siavash Mazdeyasna,
  • Mohammed Shahriar Arefin,
  • Andrew Fales,
  • Silas J. Leavesley,
  • T. Joshua Pfefer and
  • Quanzeng Wang

4 November 2025

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is increasingly used in studies for medical applications as it provides both structural and functional information of biological tissue, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making. Recently, HSI cameras (HS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,058 Views
13 Pages

Effects of LiF-Addition on Sintering Behavior and Dielectric Response of LaPO4 Ceramics at Microwave and Terahertz Frequency for LTCC Applications

  • Hu Li,
  • Dongfeng Wang,
  • Kainan Zhang,
  • Weijia Guo,
  • Xiaoyu Xu,
  • Yanbin Zhang,
  • Yan Sun,
  • Xingqi Xu,
  • Jialun Du and
  • Zhenxing Yue
  • + 2 authors

29 June 2023

This paper reports on the successful preparation of LaPO4-x wt.% LiF (x = 0–5) ceramics using the traditional solid-state reaction method. The crystal structures, sintering behaviors, and dielectric response at microwave and terahertz frequenci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,763 Views
13 Pages

Inversion Evaluation of Rare Earth Elements in Soil by Visible-Shortwave Infrared Spectroscopy

  • Zhaoqiang Huang,
  • Wenxuan Huang,
  • Sheng Li,
  • Bin Ni,
  • Yalong Zhang,
  • Mingwei Wang,
  • Maolin Chen and
  • Fuxiao Zhu

1 December 2021

According to historical information, more than 300 metal smelting enterprises have been in the southwest of Xiongan for 300 years; however, these polluting enterprises have been gradually closed with the increased intensity of environmental protectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,896 Views
21 Pages

To overcome challenges such as limited energy availability for terminal devices, constrained network coverage, and suboptimal spectrum resource utilization, with the overarching objective of establishing a sustainable and efficient interconnection in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,007 Views
12 Pages

Quantitative Spectrochip-Coupled Lateral Flow Immunoassay Demonstrates Clinical Potential for Overcoming Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Screening Challenges

  • Kai-Feng Hung,
  • Chih-Hsing Hung,
  • Chitsung Hong,
  • Szu-Chia Chen,
  • Yi-Chen Sun,
  • Jyun-Wei Wen,
  • Chao-Hung Kuo,
  • Cheng-Hao Ko and
  • Chao-Min Cheng

18 March 2021

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world, the establishment of decentralized severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) diagnostics and point-of-care testing is invaluable. While polymerase chain r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,994 Views
29 Pages

20 July 2021

Radiative Transfer (RT) in a continuous spectrum in plasmas is caused by the emission and absorption of electromagnetic waves (EM) by free electrons. For a wide class of problems, the deviation of the velocity distribution function (VDF) of free elec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,793 Views
23 Pages

27 May 2022

For decades, how to improve the resolution limit of seismic data has been a concern for seismologists. For this reason, several geoscientists have proposed various methods of improving the bandwidth of the data. Discovering an easy and scientifically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,443 Views
11 Pages

The Use of Hemispherical Directional Reflectance to Evaluate the Interaction of Food Products with Radiation in the Solar Spectrum

  • Bartosz Błoński,
  • Sławomir Wilczyński,
  • Magdalena Hartman-Petrycka and
  • Łukasz Michalecki

2 July 2022

Food product packaging should block light to protect nutrients, color and active ingredients in functional food from degradation. Currently, packages are not optimized in terms of the solar radiation impact on the products they contain. The aim of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
886 Views
14 Pages

8 May 2025

The existing linear frequency increment cable defect detection method using frequency domain reflectometry suffers from severe pseudo-peak phenomena due to non-targeted frequency domain sampling, which interferes with diagnosis. To address this issue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,212 Views
21 Pages

24 January 2025

A photovoltaic-thermal side-absorption concentrated module (PT-SACM) based on spectrum division for photovoltaic-thermal hybrid applications is carried out. In order to reduce the absorption by materials and the axial-chromatic aberration caused by t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,332 Views
12 Pages

20 June 2014

We present a wide-angle, broad-spectrum cylindrical lens based on reflections from an array of three-dimensional, high-aspect-ratio micro-mirrors fabricated on a cylindrical elastomeric substrate, functionally inspired by natural reflecting superposi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
15,252 Views
16 Pages

Fractal, Scale Free Electromagnetic Resonance of a Single Brain Extracted Microtubule Nanowire, a Single Tubulin Protein and a Single Neuron

  • Komal Saxena,
  • Pushpendra Singh,
  • Pathik Sahoo,
  • Satyajit Sahu,
  • Subrata Ghosh,
  • Kanad Ray,
  • Daisuke Fujita and
  • Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Biomaterials are primarily insulators. For nearly a century, electromagnetic resonance and antenna–receiver properties have been measured and extensively theoretically modeled. The dielectric constituents of biomaterials—if arranged in di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,266 Views
17 Pages

This study represents a first step toward improving the repeatability, reproducibility, and accuracy of a process designed to enhance dynamic water structuring. We aim is to investigate the optical reflectivity of a watery magnesium chloride solution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,586 Views
13 Pages

High Quality-Factor and Spectrum-Clean AlN Lamb-Wave Resonators with Optimized Lateral Reflection Boundary Conditions and Transducer Design

  • Haiyan Sun,
  • Shitao Lv,
  • Aoyu Zhang,
  • Chenguang Song,
  • Xinyi Sun,
  • Fazeng Tan,
  • Liuhong Liang,
  • Yinfang Zhu and
  • Jicong Zhao

This paper presents a high quality-factor (Q) and spectrum-clean AlN Lamb-wave resonator (LWR). The width of its lateral reflection boundary was optimized to weaken the transverse modes’ coupling and wave guiding, and then to improve the LWR&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,186 Views
19 Pages

Signal Classification of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Based on the Hemispherical–Conical Reflectance Factor Spectrum Shape in the Yellow and Red Regions

  • Fernanda Sayuri Yoshino Watanabe,
  • Nilton Nobuhiro Imai,
  • Enner Herenio Alcântara,
  • Luiz Henrique Da Silva Rotta and
  • Alex Garcez Utsumi

15 April 2013

The water column overlying the submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) canopy presents difficulties when using remote sensing images for mapping such vegetation. Inherent and apparent water optical properties and its optically active components, which are...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,710 Views
24 Pages

Resonant Cavity Antennas for 5G Communication Systems: A Review

  • Azita Goudarzi,
  • Mohammad Mahdi Honari and
  • Rashid Mirzavand

Resonant cavity antennas (RCAs) are suitable candidates to achieve high-directivity with a low-cost and easy fabrication process. The stable functionality of the RCAs over different frequency bands, as well as, their pattern reconfigurability make th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,945 Views
11 Pages

Study on the Influence of Accelerated Aging on the Properties of an RTV Anti-Pollution Flashover Coating

  • Junwei Chen,
  • Bo Li,
  • Xiaomei Zeng,
  • Zhenggang Li,
  • Yi Wen,
  • Quan Hu,
  • Qiu Yang,
  • Mi Zhou and
  • Bing Yang

1 February 2023

The purpose of this work is to study the accelerated aging behavior of a room-temperature vulcanized (RTV) silicone rubber anti-pollution flashover coating. Red, blue and gray RTV rubber samples were selected to prepare coatings on the surface of sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,417 Views
14 Pages

Interpretation of Reflection and Colorimetry Characteristics of Indium-Particle Films by Means of Ellipsometric Modeling

  • Hao-Tian Zhang,
  • Rong He,
  • Lei Peng,
  • Yu-Ting Yang,
  • Xiao-Jie Sun,
  • Yu-Shan Zhang,
  • Yu-Xiang Zheng,
  • Bao-Jian Liu,
  • Rong-Jun Zhang and
  • Liang-Yao Chen
  • + 3 authors

18 January 2023

It is of great technological importance in the field of plasmonic color generation to establish and understand the relationship between optical responses and the reflectance of metallic nanoparticles. Previously, a series of indium nanoparticle ensem...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,067 Views
14 Pages

Measuring and Modelling Structural Colours of Euphaedra neophron (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Finely Tuned by Wing Scale Lower Lamina in Various Subspecies

  • Zsolt Bálint,
  • Gergely Katona,
  • Szabolcs Sáfián,
  • Steve Collins,
  • Gábor Piszter,
  • Krisztián Kertész and
  • László Péter Biró

21 March 2023

The nymphalid butterfly Euphaedra neophron (Hopffer, 1855) is the only structurally coloured species representing the genus along the Indian Ocean coast in East Africa and Southern Africa, with a distribution from southern Somalia to the Kwa-Zulu-Nat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,624 Views
14 Pages

Breeding Polyommatus icarus Serves as a Large-Scale and Environmentally Friendly Source of Precisely Tuned Photonic Nanoarchitectures

  • Gábor Piszter,
  • Zsolt Bálint,
  • Krisztián Kertész,
  • Lajos Szatmári,
  • Gábor Sramkó and
  • László Péter Biró

18 August 2023

The colour of the butterfly wing serves as an important sexual and species-specific signal. Some species produce structural colouration by developing wing scales with photonic nanoarchitectures. These nanostructures are highly conservative, allowing...

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