Scientists in China developed a method for preparing porous SiO2 materials by combining electron beam co-evaporation with selective chemical etching. Based on this method, all-silica ultraviolet laser ...

Researchers made nanoporous SiO2 coatings for ultraviolet laser optics, achieving uniform large area films and higher damage ...

Since the 1950s, scientists have worked around this problem by coating samples with a thin layer of gold before imaging. While this approach made electron microscopy possible for countless discoveries ...

An international research group has developed a new surface coating technology that is capable of significantly increasing electron emission in materials. Their breakthrough is expected to improve the ...

The hydrogen industry requires large quantities of reliable and cost-effective components. Bipolar plates in fuel cells and electrolyzers play a central role in this regard. Researchers at the ...

Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) claims to have applied crystalline titanium oxide to ultra-thin glass for the first time in a ...

The stator vanes and rotor blades used in high-pressure gas turbines represent some of the world’s most highly loaded engineering components 1. Gas turbines reach tens of thousands of revolutions per ...

South Korean researchers developed a process that allows the use of aluminum-doped zinc oxide film in radiation-shielding quartz glass. A demonstration in III-V solar photovoltaic space modules showed ...