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P R. Jemian, F Lofaj, Gabrielle G. Long, Sheldon M. Wiederhorn
Ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering provides quantitative and statistically significant information on the size distribution of electron density inhomogeneities...
Matthew Beekman, James A. Kaduk, Qingzhen Huang, Winnie Wong-Ng, Zhi Yang, Dongli Wang, George S. Nolas
During an attempt to synthesize NaGe136 (a Type-II clathrate) using a vacuum decomposition technique, a novel Na-Ge phase was obtained instead. The framework of...
The dynamic properties of magnetic materials are important for magnetic data storage. The primary measurement technique for understanding magnetization damping...
N M. Balzaretti, E J. Gonzalez, Gasper J. Piermarini, T Russell
The design and fabrication of a modified gem-anvil high pressure cell capable of statically heating gasketed samples to temperatures in the range of 1100...
W Li, A I. Frenkel, Joseph Woicik, C Ni, S I. Shah
Doping large bandgap semiconductors is typically done in order to enhance photocatalytic, photovoltaic and other chemical and optoelectronic properties. The...
During the track accessing mode ofa hard disk drive, theflying height of the slider over thedisk surface becomes smaller and smaller as the demand in data...
To investigate the possibility of cavity formation in silica glass during subcritical crack growth, the topography of fracture surfaces formed in water at a...
Charles E. Bouldin, Joseph Woicik, Bruce Ravel, Debra Kaiser, Mark D. Vaudin
X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) have been used to study the stoichiometry and phase composition of...
Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Nicos Martys, Charles C. Han
Lattice Boltzmann simulations have been carried out for two-phase systems in homogeneous shear flow at supercritical Capillary numbers and a viscosity ratio of...
D M. Goldfarb, Eric K. Lin, Christopher Soles, B C. Trinque, S D. Burns, Ronald L. Jones, Joseph~undefined~undefined~undefined~undefined~undefined Lenhart, M Angelopoulos, C G. Wilson, Sushil K. Satija, Wen-Li Wu
State-of-the-art lithographic technologies combine chemically amplified photoresists and sophisticated radiation sources to delineate patterned areas with high...
A technique has been developed to characterize the elastic modulus of zirconium oxide-8% yttrium oxide plasma sprayed deposits. A commercial hardness indenter...
Using a strain percolatin model proposed for the transport of mobile dislocations through a dislocation cell structure in a deforming metal, we have further...
P A. Fuchs, A V. Clark, M G. Lozev, U Halabe, P Klinkhachorn, S Petro, H GangaRao
The measurement of applied stress on bridges can provide valuble information on the condition of the structure. The conventional technique for applied stress...
D J. Lee, Chu-Shik Kang, D H. Baek, K K. Lee, Kil-Won Moon, C A. Handwerker
The effects of thickening of intermetallic compound layers formed at the interface and shear properties of solder joints were studied as a function of aging...
V Vaithyanathan, J Lettieri, W Tian, A Kochhar, H Ma, A Sharan, A Vasudevarao, J. A. Aust, Y Li, Long-Qing Chen, P Zschack, Joseph Woicik
c-axis oriented epitaxial films of the ferroelectric BaTiO3 have been grown on (001) Si by reactive molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE). The orientation relationship...
An earlier FEM analysis of inner cone cracks in monolithic brittle solids subject to cyclic indentation in liquids is extended to include the case of a brittle...
The 'phase diagram' of a non-Brownian carbon nanotube suspension is measured as a function of concentration, shear stress, and geometrical confinement. We...
C H. Hsueh, J Haynes, M Lance, P Becher, M Ferber, Stephen A. Langer, W Carter, W R. Cannon, Lin-Sien H. Lum
The adherence of plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) is dependent on mechanical interlocking at the interface between the ceramic top coat and the...
The structure of a fluorescent probe's rotating group is expected to affect the sensitivity of its response to the resin microviscosity. The purpose of this...
Magnetic measurements were conducted on as received and strained samples taken from LC, HSLA, and ULC sheet steels. ASTM tensile samples were loaded in...
A Sugawara, K Fujikawa, S K. Kusama, Shozo Takagi, Laurence Chow
Previous studies have shown that a calcium phosphate cement (CPC), consisting of tetracalcium phosphate and dicalcium phosphate anhydrous, was highly...
Q Lin, Stephen Cohen, Lynne Gignac, Brian Herbst, David Klaus, Eva Simonyi, Jeffrey Hedrick, John Warlaumont, Hae-Jeong Lee, Wen-Li Wu
Low dielectric constant (low-k) nanocomposite thin films have been prepared by spin coating and thermal cure of solution mixtures of two organic low-k thermoset...
C H. Hsueh, P Becher, Lin-Sien H. Lum, Stephen A. Langer, W Carter
Both analytical modeling and numerical simulations were performed to analyze the stress transfer in platelet-reinforced composites in a two-dimensional sense...
William F. Egelhoff Jr., Robert McMichael, P J. Chen, W. Wyatt Miller, D Barak, Cedric J. Powell
One of the most promising opportunities in the rapidly emerging field of spintronics is the integration of ultrathin magnetic films on Si substrates for the...
For over forty years the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD) has maintained an effort to prepare high quality x-ray reference powder diffraction...
S B. Geiger, D Gurbatov, M P. Dariel, F Eichmiller, R Liberman, M Ratzker
Finishing and polishing methods were examined for two metallic direct restorative materials being proposed as possible alternatives to amalgam, namely a gallium...
P Achalla, Jennifer L. McCormick, T Hodge, C Moreland, P Esnault, Alamgir Karim, H Raghavan
The bulk mechanical properties of a blend of elastomers are found to depend on the micro and nano scale morphology of the phases of the materials in the blend...
Patrick S. Lysaght, Joseph Woicik, Daniel A. Fischer, Gennadi Bersuker, Joel Barnett, Brendan Foran, Hsing-Huang Tseng, Raj Jammy
Nitrogen incorporation in HfO2/SiO2 films utilized as high-k gate dielectric layers in advanced metal-oxide field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has been...