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Mapping Return Values of Extreme Wind Speeds

Author(s)
Adam L. Pintar
Structures subjected to wind loads must be designed to perform adequately from the points of view of stress and serviceability. Wind loading specified for

Nonlinear Vibrational Spectrometry

Author(s)
Lee J. Richter
Second order nonlinear spectroscopies such as sum frequency generation (SFG) are intrinsically interface sensitive and enable sub monolayer sensitivity to be

Atomic-level stick-slip

Author(s)
Robert W. Carpick, Rachel J. Cannara, Ashlie Martini
Atomic level stick-slip refers to the behavior of a sliding interface, usually an atomic force microscope tip sliding along a crystalline surface, whereby the

Chapter 13. Color Quality of White LEDs

Author(s)
Yoshihiro Ohno
This chapter overviews the fundamentals of chromaticity and color rendering as the two important aspects of color quality of light sources for general

Dynamics of a pulsed single photon source

Author(s)
Sergey V. Polyakov, Edward B. Flagg, Tim O. Thomay, Glenn S. Solomon
We propose and demonstrate a method for an independent verification of a degree of single photon purity and coherence applicable for all single-photon emitters

Bi2Te3 and Bi2Te3-xSx FOR THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATIONS

Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, N D. Lowhorn, Joshua B. Martin, Peter Zavalij, Howard Joress, Qingzhen Huang, Yonggao Y. Yan, Azzam Mansour, Evans L. Thomas, Jihui Yang, Martin L. Green
The increased interest in research and development on thermoelectric materials is partly due to the need for improved efficiency in the global utilization of

Spin Dynamics in the Time and Frequency Domain

Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva
The current status of experimental approaches to analyze the spin wave dynamics in ferromagnetic nanoscale structures is reviewed. Recent developments in

Wireless Networks for Smart Grid Applications

Author(s)
David W. Griffith, Michael R. Souryal, Nada T. Golmie
This chapter discusses the use of wireless networks in the context of the smart grid. First, it provides an overview of the various applications envisaged in

Properties of Saturated Liquid D2O

Author(s)
Allan H. Harvey
This is a small section (two pages) for the next edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
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