Background: Depression is a common mental health disorder but can be difficult to diagnose. Its prevalence in Black mothers is nine times the national rate, possibly due to barriers in receiving care. In addition, depression may present differently in this group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA low-temperature chemical cleaning approach has been developed to improve the performance of multilayer dielectric pulse-compressor gratings for use in the OMEGA EP laser system. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results guided the selection of targeted cleaning steps to strip specific families of manufacturing residues without damaging the grating's fragile 3D profile. Grating coupons that were cleaned using the optimized method consistently met OMEGA EP requirements on diffraction efficiency and 1054 nm laser-damage resistance at 10 ps.
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