103 citations
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physics.ins-det2011★ 103 cited
Development of transparent silica aerogel over a wide range of densities
Makoto Tabata, Ichiro Adachi, Yoshikazu Ishii +3
We have succeeded in developing hydrophobic silica aerogels over a wide range of densities (i.e. refractive indices). A pinhole drying method was invented to make possible producin…
physics.ins-det2011★ 61 cited
Hydrophobic silica aerogel production at KEK
Makoto Tabata, Ichiro Adachi, Hideyuki Kawai +2
We present herein a characterization of a standard method used at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) to produce hydrophobic silica aerogels and expand this met…