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Effect of Sputtering Technique and Properties of TiO2 Doped with SnO2 Thin Films
摘要： Doped oxide materials of 90% of TiO2 was doped with 10% of SnO2 that target has been deposited at a substrate temperature of 250°C for 1 hour by using DC Sputtering technique. The as synthesized target was TiO2-SnO2 was used to deposit on the glass substrates. The deposited oxide thin film was characterized for their structural, surface morphological, electrical and optical properties. X-ray diffraction is used for studying the nature and structure, scanning electron, atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy are used to identify the surface morphology of the prepared films. The Van der Pauw technique is employed to measure electrical resistivity and Hall mobility of the film. Wide varieties of methods are available for measuring thin film thicknesses. Stylus profilometry will be helpful to find the thickness of the film, structural studies by X-ray, and micros structural analysis of the film.
关键词： Scanning Electron microscopy (SEM),Stylus profilometry,TiO2-SnO2,X-ray diffraction (XRD),UV-Vis-NIR spectrometer
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Low-cost, readily available 3D microscopy imaging system with variable focus spinner
摘要： A large open aperture in an optical system can capture high-resolution images but yields a shallow depth of ?eld. To overcome this issue, we investigated a low-cost, readily available method for retro?tting microscopy imaging systems to achieve 3D focus scanning in this study. Speci?cally, a procedure for fabricating variable focus spinners with dissimilar plates was introduced, and a sequence of 12 images was captured in di?erent focal planes. The image scale and phase were corrected, and the in-focus pixels were abstracted by employing the Laplacian operator. Finally, an all-in-focus sharp image was generated, and a depth map was obtained.
关键词： low-cost,image processing,depth of field,variable focus,3D microscopy
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography as a Diagnosis Tool: Recent Progress with Multimodal Imaging
摘要： Full-?eld optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) is a variant of OCT that is able to register 2D en face views of scattering samples at a given depth. Thanks to its superior resolution, it can quickly reveal information similar to histology without the need to physically section the sample. Sensitivity and speci?city levels of diagnosis performed with FF-OCT are 80% to 95% of the equivalent histological diagnosis performances and could therefore bene?t from improvement. Therefore, multimodal systems have been designed to increase the diagnostic performance of FF-OCT. In this paper, we will discuss which contrasts can be measured with such multimodal systems in the context of ex vivo biological tissue examination. We will particularly emphasize three multimodal combinations to measure the tissue mechanics, dynamics, and molecular content respectively.
关键词： dynamics,multimodality,cellular metabolism,?uorescence microscopy,biomechanics,mechanical properties,full-?eld optical coherence tomography
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Analysis of the corneal endothelium in eyes of chickens using contact specular microscopy
摘要： The corneal endothelium is a single layer of polygonal cells essential for corneal transparency. The objective of this study was to assess the parameters corneal endothelial cells in healthy chickens of different ages using a contact specular microscopy. A total 36 eyes of 18 chickens were evaluated in this study. After the humane slaughter of birds and subconjunctival enucleation, the eye bulbs were arranged into three groups according to the age of the chickens. Group 1 consisted of bulbs eyes of 6 chickens with ages ranging from 1 to 3 months old. Group 2 consisted of ocular bulbs 6 chickens with ages ranging from 5 to 12 months old. Group 3 consisted of bulbs eyes of 6 chickens with ages ranging from 24 to 40 months old. The contact specular microscopy was easy to perform and provided data such as endothelial cell density, average cell area and cellular pleomorphism. The results obtained with a contact specular microscopy revealed that the aging causes a decrease in the density of the corneal endothelium healthy chickens. Similarly, increasing the average endothelial cell area as well as the pleomorphism occurs. The present work suggests that the parameters of corneal endothelium of healthy chickens present change with advancing age.
关键词： cornea,contact specular microscopy,Chickens,endothelium
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Studies of Surface Electrical Properties of Al doped ZnO Nanorods by STM
摘要： Pure and aluminum (Al) doped ZnO (Al:ZnO) nanorods (NRs) were deposited on silicon substrates by the hydrothermal method. The Al composition was kept at 2 % and 5 % for the Al:ZnO NR samples. The surface morphology and structural properties of the pure and Al:ZnO NRs were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), respectively. The XRD study revealed the hexagonal phase of the ZnO with (101), (002) and (100) peaks and it also revealed that the major orientation of ZnO NRs was along the (002) planes. The SEM micrographs showed perfectly grown ZnO NRs with hexagonal shaped tips. The electrical characterization of the pure and Al:ZnO NR thin film surface was done by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Local electron spectroscopy was conducted to measure the tunneling current with respect to the applied bias. The n-type behavior and bandgap of the pure and Al:ZnO NRs were confirmed from the dI/dV – V characteristics. These studies are of fundamental importance for the fabrication of pure and Al:ZnO NR based nanodevices.
关键词： X-ray diffraction,Al doped ZnO,scanning tunnelling microscopy,nanorods,hydrothermal
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Synthesis and Pholuminescence studies of polymer capped SnO2 nanoparticles synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method
摘要： In recent years many research works have been focused on the electrical and optical properties of metal oxides. In this present paper SnO2 nanoparticles have been synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method using different capping agents like EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid), PVP (polyvinylpyrrolidone), PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) and studied the influence of capping agent on various properties of SnO2 nanoparticles. Structural, surface morphology, chemical analysis and luminescence properties of prepared SnO2 nanoparticles were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscope (SEM) attached with energy dispersive analysis of X-rays (EDAX) and photoluminescence studies (PL). X-ray diffraction study reveals the nano-size particle distribution of the prepared samples with tetragonal rutile structure in the range of 3 to 9 nm. FTIR spectra show the structural confirmation of SnO2 nanoparticles. Various PL signals were observed in the visible region around 375 nm to 600 nm due to oxygen vacancies and interfacial Sn vacancies present in the prepared nanosamples.
关键词： X-ray diffraction,scanning electron microscopy,Nano-size distribution,Chemical co-precipitation,Photoluminescence
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Amorphous Quantum Nanomaterials
摘要： In quantum materials, macroscopic behavior is governed in nontrivial ways by quantum phenomena. This is usually achieved by exquisite control over atomic positions in crystalline solids. Here, it is demonstrated that the use of disordered glassy materials provides unique opportunities to tailor quantum material properties. By borrowing ideas from single-molecule spectroscopy, single delocalized π-electron dye systems are isolated in relatively rigid ultra-small (<10 nm diameter) amorphous silica nanoparticles. It is demonstrated that chemically tuning the local amorphous silica environment around the dye over a range of compositions enables exquisite control over dye quantum behavior, leading to efficient probes for photodynamic therapy (PDT) and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM). The results suggest that efficient fine-tuning of light-induced quantum behavior mediated via effects like spin-orbit coupling can be effectively achieved by systematically varying averaged local environments in glassy amorphous materials as opposed to tailoring well-defined neighboring atomic lattice positions in crystalline solids. The resulting nanoprobes exhibit features proven to enable clinical translation.
关键词： photodynamic therapy (PDT),optical super-resolution microscopy,organic dyes,amorphous silica nanoparticles
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Hot spots for GPCR signaling: lessons from single-molecule microscopy
摘要： G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are among the best-studied membrane receptors, mainly due to their central role in human physiology, involvement in disease and relevance as drug targets. Although biochemical and pharmacological studies have characterized the main steps in GPCR signaling, how GPCRs produce highly specific responses in our cells remains insufficiently understood. New developments in single-molecule microscopy have made it possible to study the protein–protein interactions at the basis of GPCR signaling in previously inconceivable detail. Using this approach, it was recently possible to follow individual receptors and G proteins as they diffuse, interact and signal on the surface of living cells. This has revealed hot spots on the plasma membrane, where receptors and G proteins undergo transient interactions to produce rapid and local signals. Overall, these recent findings reveal a high degree of dynamicity and complexity in signaling by GPCRs, which provides a new basis to understand how these important receptors produce specific effects and might pave the way to innovative pharmacological approaches.
关键词： single-molecule microscopy,plasma membrane,GPCR signaling,protein–protein interactions,pharmacological approaches
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Quantifying the Initial Unfolding of Bacteriorhodopsin Reveals Retinal Stabilization
摘要： The forces that stabilize membrane proteins remain elusive to precise quantification. Particularly important but poorly resolved are the forces present during a membrane protein’s initial unfolding, where the most native set of interactions are present. We developed a high-precision, atomic force microscopy assay to study the initial unfolding of bacteriorhodopsin. We discovered rapid near-equilibrium folding between the first three unfolding states that corresponded to the unfolding of 5 and 8 amino-acids respectively when using a cantilever optimized for 2-μs resolution. Interestingly, the third of these states was retinal stabilized and previously undetected despite being the most mechanically stable state in the whole unfolding pathway, supporting 150 pN for >1 min. We expect that this ability to measure the rapid and reversible dynamics in the initial unfolding of bacteriorhodopsin provides a platform for quantifying the energetics of membrane proteins under native-like conditions.
关键词： protein folding,single molecule force spectroscopy,site-specific bioconjugation,membrane proteins,atomic force microscopy
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Monitoring circulating tumor cells in vivo by a confocal microscopy system
摘要： Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) play a key role in cancer metastasis but are very difficult to detect. in vivo monitoring CTCs has been recognized as an important technique for cancer research and clinical diagnosis. Recently, a noninvasive method, in vivo flow cytometry (IVFC) has been developed to enable continuous, real-time, and long-duration detection of CTCs in animal models by detecting CTC fluorescence in blood vessels excited by lasers. In this study, we present a simple optical scheme for direct noninvasive CTC detection using confocal microscopes. We demonstrate that line scanning of confocal microscopy can provide effective and quantitative CTC detection in live mice during cancer development. Rare CTC signals can be acquired at the early stage of the tumor development after implantation of subcutaneous tumor and monitored continuously to the end. Signals from CTC clusters can also be acquired and distinguished from single CTCs. Our results suggest confocal microscopy is a simple and reliable method for biologists and doctors to use for cancer research.
关键词： line scanning,circulating tumor cells,confocal microscopy,CTC clusters
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14