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Christopher D. Bass, Maynard S. Dewey, Thomas R. Gentile, Hans Pieter Mumm, Alan Keith Thompson, M J. Bales, R. Alarcon, E J. Beise, H Breuer, Jim Byrne, T E. Chupp, Kevin Coakley, R L. Cooper, B. O'Neill, F E. Wietfeldt
The theory of quantum electrodynamics predicts that a continuous spectrum of photons is emitted in the beta decay of the free neutron in addition to a proton...
Walter Wilson, Hugh Hayes, Lane Sander, Andres Campiglia, Stephen Wise
A normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) fractionation procedure was developed for the characterization of a complex mixture of polycyclic aromatic...
Kevin A. Gilmore, Justin G. Bohnet, Brian C. Sawyer, Joseph W. Britton, John J. Bollinger
We present measurements of the amplitude of a center-of-mass (COM) motion of a two-dimensional ion crystal composed of 100 ions in a Penning trap. For motion...
Nicolas Marquez Peraca, D T. Bilir, Behrang Hamadani
The frequency dependence of the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of high-quality multijunction solar cells was examined by the modulated photocurrent...
Veruska D. Malave, Jason Killgore, Edward Garboczi, John Berger
Indentation-based studies of inhomogeneous structural materials depend on indenting a surface by loading with a small indenter. The load versus displacement...
Brian C. Sales, Ke Jin, Hongbin Bei, John Nichols, Matthew F. Chisholm, F. May, Nicholas Butch, Andrew D. Christianson, Michael A. McGuire
Concentrated solid solutions of transition metal atoms, such as NiCoCr, have extreme chemical disorder within a simple face-centered-cubic crystal structure...
With any roughness at the interface of an indirect-bandgap semiconducting dot, the phase of the valley-orbit coupling can take on a random value. This random...
Lixiang Xu, Judith Specht, Philip Nagler, Kha Tran, Akshay Singh, Chandriker K. Dass, Andreas Knorr, Xiaoqin Li, Galan Moody
In atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), reduced dielectric screening of the Coulomb interaction leads to strongly correlated many-body...
Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Lane C. Sander, Walter Brent Wilson, Stephen Wise
The relationship of reversed-phase liquid chromatography retention on a polymeric C18 stationary phase and the shape of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)...
James B. Marro, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Yaw S. Obeng, Kathleen C. Richardson
Organic additives are typically used in the pulse electrodeposition of copper (Cu) to prevent void formation during the filling of high aspect ratio features...
Bradley Alpert, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Lawrence T. Hudson, Young I. Joe, Kelsey Morgan, Carl D. Reintsema, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Csilla Szabo-Foster, Joel Ullom, Joseph Fowler, Galen O'Neil, Douglas Bennett
We introduce a new technique for determining x-ray fluorescence line energies and widths, and we present measurements made with this technique of 22 x-ray L...
The quest for a reliable means to detect cannabis intoxication with a br eathalyzer is ongoing. In order to design such a device, it is important to understand...
Lee L. Yu, Rolf L. Zeisler, Rachel C. Stanoyevitch
Kelp is a dietary supplement that contains significant amount of arsenic. Accurate assessment of dietary safety of kelp requires the determination of the...
Daniel R. Schiffels, Veronika A. Szalai, James A. Liddle
Robust self-assembly across length scales is a ubiquitous feature of biological systems, but remains challenging for synthetic structures. Taking a cue from...
Jessica A. Cloy-McCoy, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Jessica L. Reiner, John Bowden, John Schnorr, Michael Slowey, Tom O'Leary, Louis J. Guillette, Benjamin B. Parrott
Endocrine disrupting contaminants, in combination with other environmental variables, are associated with altered reproductive health. Assisted reproductive...
The results of residual stress measurements on autofrettage monoblock pressure vessels before and after 100+ pressure and temperature cycles; and, for the first...
Thomas P. Purdy, Karen E. Grutter, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Jacob M. Taylor
By shining laser light through a nanomechanical beam, we measure the beams thermally driven vibrations and perturb its motion with optical forces at a level...
William J. Boettinger, Maureen E. Williams, Kil-Won Moon
Diffusion couple experiments between Ni and Re at 1200°C and 1350°C were performed. These experiments established the limits of the two-phase FCC + HCP region...
Yiliang Bao, Feng Zhou, Thomas W. LeBrun, Jason J. Gorman
A detailed study of the fabrication of silicon concave micromirrors for hemispherical microcavities is presented that includes fabrication yield, surface...
Timothy J. Blattner, Walid Keyrouz, Mary C. Brady, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Milton Halem
Designing applications for scalability is key to improving their performance in hybrid and cluster computing. Scheduling code to utilize parallelism is...
Jessica L. Burger, Tara M. Lovestead, Mark LaFollette, Thomas J. Bruno
Although they are amongst the most efficient engine types, compression-ignition engines have difficulties achieving acceptable particulate emission and NOx...
Emilio Hernandez-Bautista, Sadoth Sandoval-Torres, Prisciiano Cano Barrita, Dale P. Bentz
During steam curing of concrete, temperature and moisture gradients are developed, which are difficult to measure experimentally and can adversely affect the...
Natalia Mast, Kyle Anderson, Kevin Johnson, Thanh Phan, F. Peter Guengerich, Irina A. Pikuleva
Cytochrome P450 46A1 (CYP46A1 or cholesterol 24-hydroxylase) is the central nervous system-specific enzyme responsible for the majority of cholesterol...
Prachi Kulkarni, Nathanael David Olson, Greg Raspanti, Rachel F. Rosenberg Goldstein, Shawn G. Gibbs, Amir Sapkota, Amy Sapkota
The objective of this study was to evaluate concentrations of antibiotics in differentially treated wastewater and reclaimed water. Wastewater (from several...
Jose Torres-Jimenez, Idelfonso Izquierdo-Marquez, Daniel Ramirez-Acuna, Rene Peralta
For a positive integer k let S = 0, 1, . . . , k − 1} be the alphabet whose symbols are the integers from 0 to k − 1. The set off all strings of length n ∈ Z+...
Quantum networks with independent sources of entanglement (hidden variables) and nodes that execute joint quantum measurements can create strong quantum...
This article reviews the mechanism of tip enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and its importance for characterizing graphene. The theoretical foundation of TERS...
WangChun Chen, John Barker, Ronald L. Jones, Kathryn Krycka, Shannon Watson, Cedric Victor Lucien Gagnon, T. Perevozchivoka, Paul Butler, Thomas R. Gentile
The small angle neutron scattering (SANS) of nearly Q-independent nuclear spin-incoherent scattering from hydrogen present in most soft matter and biology...
Since 2004 standards for calibration of CD-AFM tip width have been available both commercially and through national metrology institutes (NMIs) such as the...