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    Preparation of Au and Au-Pt nanoparticles within PMMA matrix using UV and X-ray irradiation
    (2009) Ozkaraoglu, E.; Tunc, I.; Süzer, Şefik
    Au and Au-Pt alloy nanoparticles are prepared and patterned at room temperature within the PMMA polymer matrix by the action of 254 nm UV light or X-rays. The polymer matrix enables us to entangle the kinetics of the photochemical reduction from the nucleation and growth processes, when monitored by UV-vis spectroscopy. Accordingly, increase of the temperature to 50 °C of the reaction medium increases the nucleation and growth rates of the nanoparticle formation by more than one order of magnitude, due to enhanced diffusion and nucleation at the higher temperature, but has no effect on the photochemical reduction process. Presence of Pt ions also increases the same rate, but by a factor two only. Similar photochemical reduction and particle growth take also place within the PMMA matrix, when these metal ions are subjected to prolonged exposure to X-rays, as evidenced by XPS analysis. Both angle-resolved and charge-contrast measurements using XPS reveal that the resultant Au and Pt species are in close proximity to each other, indicating the Au-Pt alloy formation to be the most likely case.
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    Spatial mutual information and PageRank-Based contrast enhancement and Quality-Aware relative contrast measure
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016) Celik, T.
    This paper proposes a novel algorithm for global contrast enhancement using a new definition of spatial mutual information (SMI) of gray levels of an input image and PageRank algorithm. The gray levels are used to represent nodes in PageRank algorithm, and the weights between the nodes are computed according to their dependence and spatial spread over the image, which is quantified by using SMI. The rank vector of gray levels resulted from PageRank algorithm is used in mapping input gray levels to output. The damping factor of the PageRank algorithm is utilized to control the level of perceived global contrast on the output image. Furthermore, a new metric is proposed for image quality-Aware relative contrast measurement between input and output images. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm consistently produces good results. © 1992-2012 IEEE.