Bare-Eye View at the Nanoscale: New Visual Interferometric Multi-Indicator (VIMI)
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Abstract
By exploiting the interferometric antireflection action of a probe sample, consisting of a diamond-like carbon (DLC) film grown on Si, combined with a specific illumination spectrum, we designed and constructed an optical device for the visual remote sensing of radiation (either plasma or atomic oxygen) and for the visual inspection of adsorbed organic contamination as thin as a few molecular layers. The capabilities of this new visual interferometric multi-indicator (VIMI) enable the bare-eye color detection of thickness changes on the order of a few nanometers without the intervention of any instrumental or computer interface.
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OpenAlex topics: Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements · Thin-Film Transistor Technologies · Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
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Department of Physics and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece, and ESTEC Materials, Physics and Chemistry Section, European Space Agency, Keplerlaan 1, 2200AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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