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The development and application of digital imaging technology has been one of the major advancements in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) during the past...
Recent advances in communications technology are making it possible for manufacturing corporations to transmit data to each other in fractions of a second...
D M. Meekhof, C Monroe, B E. King, Wayne M. Itano, David J. Wineland
We report the creation of thermal, Fock, coherent, and squeezed states of motion of a harmonically bound 9Be+ ion. The last three states are coherently prepared...
C Monroe, D M. Meekhof, B E. King, David J. Wineland
A "Schrödinger cat"-like state of matter was generated at the single atom level. A trapped 9Be+ ion was laser-cooled to the zero-point energy and then prepared...
Due to the participation of inhibitors in flame chemistry, it is difficult to concurrently characterize the complex interaction between their cooling action...
J Mcclelland, Robert Celotta, Zeina J. Kubarych, R Gupta
Laser focusing of atoms has emerged as a viable form of nanofabrication. Structures are formed by focusing chromium atoms as they deposit onto a surface. The...
Precision hard turning provides an alternative to grinding in some finishing applications. Rapid tool wear, however, remains a bottleneck to the process being...
C.P. Dewolf, Cynthia J. Zeissler, A.N. Halliday, K. Mezger, E.J. Essene
The U-Pb and Sm-Nd dating of garnet are important tools for understanding rates of tectonometamorphic processes and have been widely applied in studies of...
A large aperture lens-less line-focus transducer for materials characterization is described. The transducer design is based on a time-domain Green?s function...
J. F. Scott, J. Price, James A. Beall, Ronald H. Ono, C. A. Paz de Araujo, L. D. McMillian
The use of high-dielectric films for microwave devices, especially phased-array radar systems, in the tens of GHz regime requires very low-loss (0.01 to 0.1)...
S. P. Tobin, J. P. Tower, P. W. Norton, Deane Chandler-Horowitz, Paul M. Amirtharaj, V. C. Lopes, William Duncan, A. J. Syllaios, C. K. Ard, N. C. Giles, R. Balasubramanian, A. B. Bollong, T. W. Steiner, E. D. Bowen, B. K. Tanner