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Book Chapters

Properties of Saturated Liquid D2O

May 30, 2012

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey

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

Exotic behavior in quantum dot mode-locked lasers: dark pulses and bistability

May 24, 2012

Author(s)

Kevin L. Silverman, Mingming M. Feng, Richard P. Mirin, Steven T. Cundiff

Passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers with self-assembled quantum dot active regions can be operated in exotic output modes, stabilized by the complex gain...

Understanding Interfacial Structure of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

May 7, 2012

Author(s)

Kirt A. Page, Sangcheol Kim, Christopher L. Soles

Although substantial improvements have been demonstrated for fuel cell technology over the past decade, the major technical challenges as associated with cost...

Inelastic Neutron Scattering on Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

May 7, 2012

Author(s)

Huagen H. Peng, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Kirt A. Page, Christopher Soles

The relationship between ion transport and polymer dynamics is central to the pursuit of solid polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries. This understanding is...

An Overview of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications

May 7, 2012

Author(s)

Brandon W. Rowe, Kirt A. Page

While fuel cells have receive considerable attention over the last 10-20 years, the history of hydrogen fuel cells dates back to 1838. It would take more than a...

Concrete rheometers

May 1, 2012

Author(s)

Chiara F. Ferraris, Nicos Martys

The scope of this chapter is to introduce the current technology for measuring the rheological properties of concrete. The need to evaluate or assess the flow...

Microscopy of Clinker and Hydraulic Cements

April 2, 2012

Author(s)

Paul E. Stutzman

Electronic properties of multilayer graphene

March 31, 2012

Author(s)

Hongki Min

In this chapter, we study the electronic structure of arbitrarily stacked multilayer graphene in the absence or presence of magnetic field. Energy band...

Graphene Carrier Transport Theory

March 31, 2012

Author(s)

Shaffique Adam

In this chapter we study the mechanisms for carrier transport in two dimensional graphene sheets. We demonstrate that at high carrier density, graphene's...

The Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database

March 6, 2012

Author(s)

David Travis Gallagher, Michael Tung

The Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (BMCD) is described. The database currently contains 14372 entries with crystallization information for...

Populations of excited parabolic states of hydrogen beam in fusion plasmas

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Oleksandr Marchuk, Yuri Ralchenko

The injection of a neutral beam into the core of magnetically confined plasmas is a foundation for various plasma diagnostics, including charge-exchange...

Model-Based Interpolation, Prediction, and Approximation

January 1, 2012

Author(s)

Antonio M. Possolo

Model-based interpolation, prediction, and approximation are contingent on the choice of model: since multiple alternative models typically can reasonably be...

Foreword to Information Modeling for Interoperable Dimensional Metrology

December 30, 2011

Author(s)

John A. Horst

The value of information exchange standards development is described and defended against other data exchange interoperability options in the context of...

Metrology and Characterization Challenges for Emerging Research Materials and Devices

December 28, 2011

Author(s)

Yaw S. Obeng, C. M. Garner, Dan Herr

The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) Emerging Research Materials (ERM) and Emerging Research Devices (ERD) Technology Workgroups have...

Imaging and Micronaylsis of Supported Metal Catalysts in the Analytical Electron Microscope

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher J. Kiely, Andrew Herzing

The modern analytical electron microscope (AEM) is a powerful and versatile tool for the characterization of supported metal catalysts. The combination of...

Automated Data Processing and Quantification in Polymer Mass Spectrometry

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Till Gruendling, Christopher Barner-Kowollik, William E. Wallace, Charles M. Guttman, Anthony J. Kearsley

An overview is given of some new techniques in quantitative composition and molecular mass distribution measurement of synthetic polymers by mass spectrometry...

Environmental Analysis: Persistent Organic Pollutants

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Lane C. Sander, Michele M. Schantz, Stephen A. Wise

The term persistent organic pollutants (POPs) describes a broad range of anthropogenic compounds that are present in the environment. Persistent organic...

Quantum-based Voltage Waveform Synthesis

November 11, 2011

Author(s)

Samuel P. Benz

More than a decade of research and development was required to practically exploit the quantum behavior of superconducting Josephson junctions for ac...

Quantum Metrology

November 11, 2011

Author(s)

Richard E. Harris, Juergen Niemeyer

100 Years of Superconductivity: Electromagnetic and Particle Detection and Readout

November 11, 2011

Author(s)

Kent D. Irwin, John Clarke

Superconductivity was found at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, by Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911. Since then superconductivity has developed in to a modern...

Nanoscale Friction: Measurement and Analysis

October 19, 2011

Author(s)

Rachel J. Cannara

Single Photon Detection Using Frequency Up-conversion with Pulse Pumping

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang

This chapter delivers a general overview of the theoretical and experimental results of single photon up-conversion detectors with pulse pumping. After a brief...

Modeling electromigration using the peridynamics approach

August 28, 2011

Author(s)

David T. Read, Walter Gerstle, Vinod K. Tewary

This chapter presents a summary of the information and reasoning needed to justify learning about peridynamics for the purpose of analyzing electromigration and...

Springer Handbook of Metrology and Testing, Electrical Properties

August 1, 2011

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Bernd Schumacher, Heinz-Gunter Bach, Petra Spitzer

The dielectric properties of materials are used to describe electrical energy storage, dissipation and energy transfer. The most relevant physical processes in...

Application Software

July 22, 2011

Author(s)

Craig M. Shakarji

Surface-directed Growth of Nanowires: A Scalable Platform for Nanodevice Fabrication

July 11, 2011

Author(s)

Babak Nikoobakht

Optical lithography continues to be the popular technique for further miniaturization of electronic circuitry and its components. However, as further device...

Microscopy and Microanalysis of Individual Collected Particles- Chapter 10

July 5, 2011

Author(s)

Robert A. Fletcher, Nicholas W. Ritchie, Ian M. Anderson, John A. Small

This chapter describes microscopy and microanalysis techniques used for the characterization of collected, individual particles in a variety of instruments. The...