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Application of Pellicles in Clean Surface Technology

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The protection of optically critical surfaces against the effects of particle contamination by means of transparent barriers has been a long-established approach applied to a broad range of cases, ranging from combustion monitoring(1) to space-borne(2) sensing. Such protective transparent barriers can take the form of cleanable windows, as in the case of the rather prosaic automotive windshield/wiper, or of flow screens, typified by the clean-air curtains incorporated in several types of gas(1) and aerosol(3) monitoring instruments.

Shadow is the diminution of light by the intervention of an opaque body. Shadow is the counterpart of the luminous rays which are cut off by an opaque body.

A shadow may be infinitely dark, and also of infinite degrees of absence of darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Lilienfeld, P. (1987). Application of Pellicles in Clean Surface Technology. In: Mittal, K.L. (eds) Treatise on Clean Surface Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9126-5_13

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