Antifog coating for bronchoscope lens

Surface Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 468-472

  Leonard, R L ^a   Terekhov, A Y ^a   Thompson, C ^b   Erck, R A ^c   Johnson, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Carbon; Characterisation; Coating; Doping

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOGGING; BIOMEDICAL; CHARACTERISATION; DOPED DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SECONDARY PROCESSING; SILICON MONOXIDE; SIMULATED BODY FLUIDS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; CARBON FILMS; COATINGS; CONTACT ANGLE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84864056550     PISSN: 02670844     EISSN: 17432944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743294412Y.0000000007     Document Type: Article

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