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Normal (geometry)

Known as: Polygon's normal, Unit normal, Outer-pointing normal 
In geometry, a normal is an object such as a line or vector that is perpendicular to a given object. For example, in the two-dimensional case, the… 
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Airborne laser swath mapping of the summit of Erebus volcano, Antarctica: Applications to geological mapping of a volcano
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Two-component nanopillar arrays grown by Glancing Angle Deposition
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Absence of Strong Gate Effects in Electrical Measurements on Phenylene-Based Conjugated Molecules
The electronic transport characteristics of self-assembled monolayers of phenylene-based -conjugated molecules were measured in a… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The Orientation of Semifluorinated Alkanes Attached to Polymers at the Surface of Polymer Films
The surface molecular orientation of a liquid crystalline (LC) layer made up of semifluorinated (SF) single side groups [−CO−(CH2… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A comparison of local surface geometry estimation methods
Abstract. The performance of several methods for estimating local surface geometry (the principal frame plus the principal… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Interfacial quantum well states of Xe and Kr adsorbed on Ag(111)
The energies and dispersions of the image states and quantum well electronic states in layers of Xe and Kr on a Ag(111) substrate… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Laser‐induced desorption of NO from NiO(100): Ab initio calculations of potential surfaces for intermediate excited states
In order to interpret the experimental results of the state resolved UV‐laser‐induced desorption of NO from NiO(100) (rotational… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Shape from periodic texture using the spectrogram
  • J. KrummS. Shafer
  • Proceedings IEEE Computer Society Conference on…
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 9729511
It is shown how local spatial image frequency is related to the surface normal of a textured surface. It is found that the… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Extremely low-voltage Fabry-Perot reflection modulators
A normally-on-electroabsorptive surface-normal Fabry-Perot reflection modulator with a reflection change of 47% for an operating… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Equilibrium conditions for the average stresses measured by X-rays
True macro-stresses are measured with X-rays after material processing, only if there is auniform plastic deformation in the… 
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