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Normal (geometry)
Known as:
Polygon's normal
, Unit normal
, Outer-pointing normal
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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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2008
2008
Microstructure of Oligofluorene Asymmetric Derivatives in Organic Thin Film Transistors
Q. Yuan
,
S. Mannsfeld
,
+4 authors
Zhenan Bao
2008
Corpus ID: 55273779
In organic thin film transistors (OTFT), modifying the molecular chemical structure affects the molecular packing and thin film…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Interfacial quantum well states of Xe and Kr adsorbed on Ag(111)
J. McNeill
,
R. Lingle
,
R. Jordan
,
D. Padowitz
,
C. Harris
1996
Corpus ID: 11805120
The energies and dispersions of the image states and quantum well electronic states in layers of Xe and Kr on a Ag(111) substrate…
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1995
1995
Vector field curvature and applications
H. Theisel
1995
Corpus ID: 12136445
The treatment of tangent curves is a powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing the behavior of vector fields. Unfortunately…
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1994
1994
Room-temperature chemistry of acetylene on Pd(111) : formation of vinylidene
R. Mark Ormerod
,
R. Lambert
,
+4 authors
W. Tysoe
1994
Corpus ID: 50999170
The surface species formed following acetylene adsorption on Pd(111) at 300 K is identified as a vinylidene. It is oriented with…
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1994
1994
Selective imaging of self-assembled monolayers by tunneling microscopy
J. Bucher
,
L. Santesson
,
K. Kern
1994
Corpus ID: 56006184
The properties of thin organic films offer many challenging opportunities for science and technology. A crucial requirement for…
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1994
1994
Five computer programs for testing weighted residuals and calculating linear confidence and prediction intervals on results from the ground-water parameter-estimation computer program MODFLOWP
M. Hill
1994
Corpus ID: 59777261
This report documents five computer programs, YR, NORM, BCINT, YCINT, and BEALEP, that use results from the ground-water flow and…
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1992
1992
A finite-difference approximate-factorization algorithm for solution of the unsteady transonic small-disturbance equation
J. Batina
1992
Corpus ID: 117073383
A time-accurate approximate-factorization (AF) algorithm is described for solution of the three-dimensional unsteady transonic…
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Polyatomic ion/surface collisions at self-assembled monolayers films
V. Wysocki
,
Jennifer L. Jones
,
Jian-Mei Ding
1991
Corpus ID: 98549742
The chemical and physical properties of ordered molecular monolayers and thin films have been extensively investigated because of…
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1987
1987
Group actions on the complex projective plane
Dariusz M. Wilczyński
1987
Corpus ID: 30014754
0. Introduction. In this paper we consider homologically trivial, locally smooth actions of finite and compact Lie groups on…
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1983
Highly Cited
1983
Equilibrium conditions for the average stresses measured by X-rays
I. C. Noyan
1983
Corpus ID: 136962507
True macro-stresses are measured with X-rays after material processing, only if there is auniform plastic deformation in the…
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