Recently, many studies have been conducted on the use of glassy carbon (GC) in advanced
technological applications due to its excellent chemical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal …

The global energy market is seeing increases in the electricity demand of a couple of
percentage points annually. The photovoltaic (PV) industry is also growing rapidly every …

Diffractive optical surfaces have attractive properties for use in optical systems, like reducing
weight and correcting for chromatic aberrations, but fabrication of high-quality glass …

The curved compound eye microlens array (CEMLA) glass optical element is widely used in
optoelectronic detectors because it affords a high image quality and a large field of view …

Hot embossing forming technology is a key technology for fabricating micro-nanostructures
on optical glass, providing a process for efficient, large-scale, and economical production of …

In the nanoscale glass formation, the flow and deformation behavior of glass materials are
quite different from those in the macroscale because the mold cavity influences the viscous …

Micro/nano-precision glass molding (MNPGM) is an efficient approach for manufacturing
micro/nanostructured glass components with intricate geometry and a high-quality optical …

This study investigated the effect of Pt doping on the microstructure, mechanical and
tribological property of the CrN coating. Results showed that this CrN coating exhibited a …

An annealed high-phosphorus electroless Ni–P coating was developed as the mold material
for precision glass molding. The coating with a phosphorus content of 11.6 wt% was …

Chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) are emerging as critical infrared (IR)-enabled materials in
advanced IR optical systems by the wealth of their transparency in the key wide infrared (IR) …