As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition
provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials …

The identification and quantification of metals bound to proteins is a crucial problem to be
solved in structural biology. This paper describes the technique of particle induced X-ray …

Ion beam analysis (IBA) is a cluster of techniques including Rutherford and non-Rutherford
backscattering spectrometry and particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE). Recently, the …

The beam optics in a nuclear microprobe is considered on the basis of quality criteria for
focusing systems. In this consideration, empirical criteria with dominant chromatic or intrinsic …

Aluminium-doped ZnO (AZO) thin films were deposited by remote plasma sputtering of a
ZnO: Al 2 O 3 98: 2 wt% ceramic target in a pulsed DC configuration. The target power was …

Hard α-keratins such as hair, nail, wool and horn are stiff epidermal appendages used by
mammals in a variety of functions including thermoregulation, feeding and intraspecific …

Abstract The discovery of Mn-Ca complex in photosystem II stimulates research of
manganese-based catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, conventional …

Modern linear accelerators, the predominant teletherapy machine in major radiotherapy
centres worldwide, provide multiple electron and photon beam energies. To obtain …

Metalloproteins comprise over one-third of proteins, with approximately half of all enzymes
requiring metal to function. Accurate identification of these metal atoms and their …

When fabricating photonic crystals from suspensions in volatile liquids using the horizontal
deposition method, the conventional approach is to evaporate slowly to increase the time for …