Journals

NIST NeXT: a system for truly simultaneous neutron and X-ray tomography

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Jacob LaManna, Daniel S. Hussey, Victoria H. DiStefano, Eli Baltic, David L. Jacobson

Neutrons and X-rays provide excellent complementary, nondestructive probes to understand internal structure of systems across engineering and material science...

Theory of current-induced angular momentum transfer dynamics in spin-orbit coupled systems

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

Dongwook Go, Frank Freimuth, Jan-Philipp Hanke, Fei Xue, Olena Gomonay, Kyung-Jin Lee, Stefan Blugel, Paul M. Haney, Hyun-Woo Lee, Yuriy Mokrousov

Defining the Cardiac Fibroblast Secretome in a Fibrotic Microenvironment

September 13, 2020

Author(s)

Tova Ceccato, Rachel Starbuck, Jessica Hall, Cierra Walker, Tobin E. Brown, Jason Killgore, Kristi S. Anseth, Leslie Leinwand

Standard Connections for IIoT Empowered Smart Manufacturing

September 12, 2020

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Paul W. Witherell, Albert W. Jones

The use of Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) and related technology promises to transform manufacturing to the fourth Industry revolution era essentialized...

Chemical Shifts-Based Similarity Restraints Improve Accuracy of RNA Structures Determined via NMR

September 11, 2020

Author(s)

Chad Lawrence, Alexander Grishaev

Determination of structure of RNA via NMR is complicated in large part by the lack of a precise parameterization linking the observed chemical shifts to the...

Engineering of a Brighter Variant of the FusionRed Fluorescent Protein Using Lifetime Flow Cytometry and Structure-Guided Mutations

September 11, 2020

Author(s)

Srijit Mukherjee, Sheng-Ting Hung, Nancy Douglas, Premashis Manna, Connor Thomas, Annika Ekrem, Amy E. Palmer, Ralph Jimenez

Coating Thickness Controls Crystallinity and Enables Homoepitaxial Growth of Ultra-Thin-Channel Blade-Coated In2O3 Transistors

September 11, 2020

Author(s)

Ahmad R. Kirmani, Huilang Chen, Christopher Stafford, Emily Bittle, Lee J. Richter

Scalable, solution-deposited metal oxide (MO) thin films could enable low-cost, flexible, large- area electronics; however, the poor morphology of the typically...

Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Diffraction Reference Patterns, and Band Gap Studies for (BaxSr1-x)2CoWO6 (x=0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9)

September 11, 2020

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Guangyao Liu, Yuqi Yang, Rola M. Derbeshi, Donald A. Windover, James A. Kaduk

X-ray reference powder patterns and structures have been determined for a series of cobalt- and tungsten-containing cubic alkaline-earth perovskites, (BaxSr1-x...

High-density polyethylene - an inert additive with stabilizing effects on organic field-effect transistors

September 11, 2020

Author(s)

Alberto Scaccabarozzi, James Basham, Liyang Yu, Paul Westcott, Weimin Zhang, Aram Amassian, Iain McCulloch, Mario Caironi, David J. Gundlach, Natalie Stingelin

Organic electronics technologies have attracted considerable interest over the last decades and have become promising alternatives to conventional, inorganic...

A Reference High-Pressure CH4 Adsorption Isotherm for Zeolite Y: Results of an Interlaboratory Study

September 11, 2020

Author(s)

Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Christopher M. Sims, Blaza Toman, Jarod C. Horn, Roger D. van Zee, Mathias Thommes, Riaz Ahmad, Joeri F. Denayer, Gino V. Baron, Emilio Napolitano, Marek Bielewski, Enzo Mangano, Stefano Brandani, Broom Darren, M.J. Benham, Anne Dailly, Frieder Dreisbach, Satyannarayana Edubilli, Sasidhar Gumma, Jens Mollmer, Marcus Lange, Mi Tian, Tim Mays, T. Shigeoka, S. Yamakita, M. Hakuman, Y. Nakada, K. Nakai, Junyoung Hwang, Ronny Pini, Huan Jiang, Armin Ebner, Marjorie Nicholson, James Ritter, Judit Farrando Perez, Carlos Cuadrado, Joaquin Silvestre Albero, Christos Tampaxis, Theodore Steriotis, Daniela Rimnacova, Martina Svabova, Maryna Vorokhta, Hai Wang, Eric Bovens, Nicolas Heymans, Guy de Weireld

This paper reports the results of an international interlaboratory study led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the measurement of...

Electric-field imaging using polarized neutrons

September 10, 2020

Author(s)

Y.- Y. Jau, Daniel S. Hussey, Thomas R. Gentile, Wangchun Chen

We experimentally demonstrate that electrically neutral particles, neutrons, can be used to directly visualize the electrostatic field inside a target volume...

Graphene/Polymer Nanocomposite Degradation by Ultraviolet Light: The Effects of Graphene Nanofillers and their Potential for Release

September 10, 2020

Author(s)

David Goodwin, Shih Jia Shen, Ronald S. Lankone, Wendel Wohlleben, Tinh Nguyen, Li Piin Sung, Francois Perreault, Ana Barrios

The ultraviolet (UV)-induced degradation of graphene/polymer nanocomposites was investigated in this study. Specifically, the effect of few-layer graphene...

Continuous Angular Control over Anisotropic Photoemission from Spherical Gold Nanoshells

September 10, 2020

Author(s)

Jacob Pettine, Andrea Marton Menendez, David Nesbitt

Continued Growth of IEEE RAS Standards Efforts

September 10, 2020

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff

This has been a very eventful quarter for standardization efforts within the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Even the virtual nature of the 2020...

Purified meta-Cresol Purple dye perturbation: how it influences spectrophotometric pH measurements

September 10, 2020

Author(s)

Xinyu Li, Maribel Garc?a-Ib??ez, Brendan Carter, Baoshen Chen, Qian Li, Regina Easley, Wei-Jun Cai

Ocean acidification, a phenomenon of seawater pH decreasing due to increasing atmospheric CO2, has a global effect on seawater chemistry, marine biology, and...

Optical and electrical properties in Na and Rh co-doped Ruddlesden-Popper layered Ca3Ti2O7

September 9, 2020

Author(s)

Qiang Gu, Weifang Liu, Winnie Wong-Ng, Xingxing Wu, Yao Jiang, Chao Wang, Shuang Ma, Shouyu Wang

Layered perovskite Ca2.91Na0.09Ti2-xRhxO7 (x=0.00, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06) were synthesized by a conventional solid-state reaction. The two strongest peaks of XRD...

Accelerating Bubble Detachment in Porous Transport Layers with Patterned Through-Pores

September 9, 2020

Author(s)

Jason K. Lee, ChungHyuk Lee, Kieran F. Fahy, Pascal J. Kim, Kevin Krause, Jacob LaManna, Eli Baltic, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Aimy Bazylak

Mass transport losses ultimately suppress gas evolving electrochemical energy conversion technologies, such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide electrolyzers, from...

Quantum Simulation of Hyperbolic Space with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: From Graphs to Geometry

September 9, 2020

Author(s)

Igor Boettcher, Przemek Bienias, Ron Belyansky, Alicia Kollar, Alexey Gorshkov

Evaluating Uncertainty of Nonlinear Microwave Calibration Models with Regression Residuals

September 9, 2020

Author(s)

Dylan F. Williams, Benjamin F. Jamroz, Jake D. Rezac

We use synthetic data to investigate the performance of a recently developed algorithm that uses regression residuals to evaluate the uncertainty of nonlinear...

Optical and Mechanical Design of a Telescope for Lunar Spectral Irradiance Measurements from a High-Altitude Aircraft

September 8, 2020

Author(s)

Clarence Zarobila, Steven Grantham, Steven W. Brown, John T. Woodward IV, Stephen Maxwell, Dana R. Defibaugh, Thomas Larason, Kevin Turpie

We have designed a non-imaging telescope for measurement of the spectral irradiance of the moon. The telescope was integrated into a wing pod of a NASA ER-2...

Protocol for Light-Shift Compensation in a Continuous-Wave Microcell Atomic Clock

September 8, 2020

Author(s)

Moustafa A. Hafiz, Remy Vicarini, Nicolas Passilly, Claudio Calosso, Vincent N. Maurice, Juniper Pollock, V Yudin, John Kitching, Rodolphe Boudot

Light shifts are known to be an important limitation to the mid- and long-term fractional frequency stability of different types of atomic clocks. In this...

Electrically Conductive 3D Metal–Organic Framework Featuring π-Acidic Hexaazatriphenylene Hexacarbonitrile Ligands with Anion–π Interaction and Efficient Charge-Transport Capabilities

September 8, 2020

Author(s)

Ashok Yadav, Dillip K. Panda, Shiyu Zhang, Wei Zhou, Sourav Saha

Owing to their unparalleled synthetic simplicity, structural tunability, and functional versatility, electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)...

Lymphatic Vessel on a Chip with Capability for Exposure to Cyclic Fluidic Flow

September 7, 2020

Author(s)

Parinaz Fathi, Glenn E. Holland, Dipanjan Pan, Mandy B. Esch

Lymph nodes comprise a complex organ system that is essential in regulating the development of host immune responses. Due to the complexity of lymph nodes and...

Development of NIST Atomic Databases and OnlineTools

September 5, 2020

Author(s)

Yuri Ralchenko, Alexander Kramida

Over the last 25 years, the atomic standard reference databases and online tools developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provide...

Restricting Orbital Angular Momentum by Transverse Coherence

September 5, 2020

Author(s)

Ronald L. Cappelletti, John T. Vinson

A traveling wave or wave packet may possess orbital angular momentum in the form of a phase vortex about its axis of propagation. These orbital angular momentum...

Nanoelectronic Characterization using Microwave Near-Field Microscopy

September 4, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel Berweger, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis, Pavel Kabos

Photorealistic full-color nanopainting enabled by a low-loss metasurface

September 4, 2020

Author(s)

Pengcheng Huo, Maowen Song, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Lu Chen, Henri Lezec, Yanqing Lu, Amit Agrawal, Ting Xu

We design and experimentally demonstrate a TiO2 metasurface that enables full-color generation and ultrasmooth color brightness variations. The reproduced...

Dynamic Compression Strength of Ceramics: What was Learned from an Interlaboratory Round Robin Exercise

September 4, 2020

Author(s)

Jeffrey Swab, Wayne Chen, James Hogan, Hangjie Liao, Calvin Lo, Steven Mates, Christopher Meredith, John Pittari, Richard Rhorer, George Quinn

The dynamic compressive strength of a commercial alumina was determined by five participants using the Split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) method with a...

Trace Detection and Chemical Analysis of Homemade Fuel-Oxidizer Mixture Explosives: Emerging Challenges and Perspectives

September 4, 2020

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, Shannon T. Krauss, John Gillen

The chemical analysis of homemade explosives (HMEs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) remains challenging for fieldable analytical instrumentation and...

Measurements and Correlations of the Thermal Conductivity of Three Polyol Esters and a Polyol Ester-Based Lubricant

September 4, 2020

Author(s)

Richard A. Perkins, Marcia L. Huber

This work describes measurements of the thermal conductivity of three polyol esters pentaerythritol tetrapentanoate (POE5), pentaerythritol tetraheptanoate...