Double optical monitoring of dip coating with a time-varying refractive index

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1491-1494

  Michels, Alexandre F ^a   Menegotto, Thiago ^a   Grieneisen, Hans Peter H ^a   Susin, Maurício B ^a   Horowitz, Flavio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; OPTICAL FILMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

DIP-COATING PROCESS; FILM-FLOW PROPERTIES; MULTICOMPONENT ZIRCONYL CHLORIDE; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE;

OPTICAL COATINGS;

EID: 33645299549     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001491     Document Type: Review

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