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Shape-controlled, high fill-factor microlens arrays fabricated by a 3D diffuser lithography and plastic replication method
No full textThis paper describes a simple and effective method to fabricate a plastic microlens array with controllable shape and high fill-factor, which utilizes the conventional lithography and plastic replication. The only difference from conventional lithography is the insertion of a diffuser that randomizes paths of the incident ultraviolet (UV) light to form lens-like 3D latent image in a thick positive photoresist. After replication of the developed concave microlens mold onto the polydimethylsiloxane ( PDMS), the focal length of the fabricated hemispherical microlens was observed to be 13-88 mum depending on the UV exposure dose. Two PDMS curing conditions were tested, where the elevated temperature of 85 degreesC resulted in smoother surface roughness of 2.6 nm in RMS value in the microlens mold. The proposed method can be extensively applied for microlens fabrication with other plastic materials due to its simplicity and versatility. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America
A 3-D planar microlens for an effective monolithic optical interconnection system
No full textA three-dimensional (3-D) planar microlens with curved sidewalls was fabricated by using the recently developed 3-D diffuser lithography and the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) replication method. The sidewall of the fabricated 3-D planar microlens had a radius of curvature of 140 mu m, and a well-defined focal spot with a width of 1.5 mu m and a height of 3 mu m was observed. An excellent single-mode fiber-to-fiber coupling efficiency of 71% was demonstrated by applying the developed 3-D planar microlens, which displayed more than two times the coupling ability compared to that of a conventional two-dimensional planar microlens with straight sidewalls. Finally, it was verified that the coupling efficiency was little affected by variation in the process conditions used for the photoresist mold fabrication
Self-assembled monolayer-assisted thin metal polishing for fabricating uniform 3D microstructures
No full textA self-assembled monolayer (SAM) was actively used to improve the reproducibility and yield of micromachining technology. A harsh metal mechanical polishing process was replaced with a metal wet etching process by using a hexadecanethiol (HDT) SAM as an etch-protect mask. The fundamental results of the experiment show the excellent ability of the HDT SAM in protecting the gold from the gold wet etchant and the wide process margin. The proposed process, which was used to fabricate a 3D suspended inductor, greatly improves the process yield. The proposed micromachining technology with a SAM is expected to have a variety of applications for the highly reproducible and uniform fabrication of MEMS
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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