Journals

Nanoscale tomographic reconstruction of the subsurface mechanical properties of low-k high-aspect ratio patterns

October 2, 2016

Author(s)

Gheorghe Stan, Ebony Mays, Hui-Jae Yoo, Sean King

In this work, intermittent contact resonance (ICR)-AFM was performed on high-aspect ratio a-SiOC:H patterned fins (100 nm in height and width from 20 nm to 90

STANDARD REPRESENTATIONS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Mahesh Mani, Jon Larborn, Bjoern J. Johansson, Kevin W. Lyons, Katherine C. Morris

This paper describes ASTMs new guide for characterizing the environmental aspects of manufacturing processes (ASTM WK35705). The guide defines a generic

A New Family of Metal Borohydride Guanidinate Complexes: Synthesis, Structures and Hydrogen-Storage Properties

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Hui Wu, Xiuquan Zhou, Efrain E. Rodriguez, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, Taner Yildirim, John J. Rush

We report a new class of high-hydrogen-content inorganic-organic hybrid complex hydrides: borohydride guanidinate complexes (MBH 4•nCN 3H 5, M=Li, Mg, and Ca)

Security Fatigue

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Brian C. Stanton, Sandra S. Prettyman, Mary F. Theofanos, Susanne M. Furman

Freezing Time: Dynamic Laser Tracker Measurements with the Pixel Probe using Temporal Aliasing

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon, Steven S. Borenstein

We present a non-contact technique for measuring objects in motion with a laser tracker without the laser tracker needing to follow the object. This method

Realization, Maintenance and Dissemination of the Kilogram in the Revised SI

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Horst Bettin

How Novel Algorithms and Access to High Performance Computing Platforms are Enabling Scientific Progress in Atomic and Molecular Physics

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Barry I. Schneider

Over the past 40 years there has been remarkable progress in the quantitative treatment of complex many-body problems in atomic and molecular physics (AMP)

Rapid and Accurate C-V Measurements

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Jihong Kim, Pragya Shrestha, Jason Campbell, Jason Ryan, David M. Nminibapiel, Joseph Kopanski, Kin P. Cheung

We report a new technique for the rapid measurement of full capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristic curves. The displacement current from a 100 MHz applied

From Serendipity to Rational Design: Tuning the Blue Trigonal Bipyramidal Mn³⁺ Chromophore to Violet and Purple through Application of Chemical Pressure

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Jun Li, Simon Lorger, Judith K. Stalick, Arthur W. Sleight, M. A. Subramanian

We recently reported that an allowed d-d transition of trigonal bipyramidal (TBP) Mn 3+ is responsible for the bright blue color in the YIn 10xMn xO 3 solid

Correlation Between Morphology and Device Performance of pBTTT:PC₇₁BM Solar Cells

October 1, 2016

Author(s)

Wenluan Zhang, Hao Shen, Brett W. Guralnick, Brian Kirby, Ngoc A. Nguyen, Roddel Remy, Charles Majkrzak, Michael E. Mackay

Phenyl-C 71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC 71BM) could intercalate between the side-chains of poly(2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene

Raman spectroscopy based measurements of carrier concentration in n-type GaN nanowires grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy

September 30, 2016

Author(s)

Lawrence H. Robins, Elizabeth Horneber, Norman A. Sanford, Kristine A. Bertness, John B. Schlager

The carrier concentration in ensembles of n-type GaN nanowires (NWs) grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy was determined by curve-fitting analysis of

Quantification of cardiac troponin I in human plasma by immunoaffinity enrichment and targeted mass spectrometry

September 30, 2016

Author(s)

Nicole A. Schneck, Karen W. Phinney, Sang Bok Lee, Mark S. Lowenthal

Quantification of cardiac troponin I (cTnI), a protein biomarker used for diagnosing myocardial infarction, has been achieved in native patient plasma based on

Present Status and Future Growth of Advanced Maintenance Technology and Strategy in US Manufacturing

September 30, 2016

Author(s)

Xiaoning Jin, Brian Weiss, David Siegel, Jay Lee, Jun Ni

The goals of this paper are to 1) examine the current practices of diagnostics, prognostics, and maintenance employed by United States (U.S.) manufacturers to

First application of superconducting transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeters to hadronic-atom x-ray spectroscopy

September 30, 2016

Author(s)

Douglas Bennett, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Joseph Fowler, Johnathon Gard, James P. Hays-Wehle, Gene C. Hilton, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom

High-resolution pionic-atom x-ray spectroscopy was performed with an x-ray spectrometer based on a 240-pixel array of superconducting transition-edge-sensor

Optimizing Subfield Targets for Nanoscale Quantitative Optical Imaging

September 29, 2016

Author(s)

Mark Alexander Henn, Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Martin Y. Sohn, Richard M. Silver

The full 3-D scattered field above finite sets of features has been shown to contain a continuum of spatial frequency information, and with novel optical

Thermodynamic Properties and Similarity of Stacked-cup Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes and Graphite

September 29, 2016

Author(s)

Yauheni Paulechka, Gennady J. Kabo, Andrey V. Blokhin, Olga Voitkevich, Tatsiana Liavitskaya, Andrey G. Kabo

Heat capacity of stacked-cup multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNT) was measured in an adiabatic calorimeter over the temperature range (5 to 370) K. Results are

Toward Achieving Harmonization in a Nano-cytotoxicity Assay Measurement through an Interlaboratory Comparison Study

September 29, 2016

Author(s)

John T. Elliott, Matthias Roesslein, Nam W. Song, Blaza Toman, Agnieszka Kinsner-Ovaskainen, Rawiwan Maniratanachote, Marc L. Salit, Elijah J. Petersen, Fatima Sequeira, Jieun Lee, Francois Rossi, Cordula Hirsch, Harald Krug, Wongsakorn Suchaoin, Peter Wick

Design and development of reliable cell-based nanotoxicology assays is important for ranking of potential hazardous engineered nanomaterials. Challenges to

Displacement Sensing Based on Resonant Frequency Monitoring of Electrostatically Actuated Curved Micro Beams

September 29, 2016

Author(s)

Naftaly Krakover, Robert Ilic, Slava Krylov

The ability to control nonlinear interactions of suspended mechanical structures offers a unique opportunity to engineer rich dynamical behavior that extends

Advancing Measurement Science to Assess Monitoring, Diagnostics,and Prognostics for Manufacturing Robotics

September 29, 2016

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao, Brian Weiss

From the moment a robot system is put into service to enable a manufacturing process, the overall process, its constituent sub-systems, and components begin to

Spatially inhomogeneous electron state deep in the extreme quantum limit of strontium titanate

September 29, 2016

Author(s)

Anand Bhattacharya, Brian Skinner, Guru S. Khalsa, Alexey V. Suslov

When an electronic system is subjected to a suffciently strong magnetic field that the cyclotron energy is larger than the Fermi energy, the system enters the

Ullmann-like reactions for the synthesis of complex two-dimensional materials

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Rebecca C. Quardokus, Vinod K. Tewary, Frank W. DelRio

Engineering two-dimensional materials through surface-confined synthetic techniques is a promising avenue for designing new materials with tailored properties

Low Temperature Plasma for Compositional Depth Profiling of Thin Inorganic Multilayers

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Shinichiro Muramoto, Joseph A. Bennett

RATIONALE: A helium low temperature plasma (LTP) containing 0.01% of SF6 was evaluated as a way to prepare bevel craters for the compositional depth profiling

Milligram mass metrology using an electrostatic force balance

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Gordon A. Shaw, Julian Stirling, John A. Kramar, Alexander D. Moses, Patrick J. Abbott, Richard L. Steiner, Andrew D. Koffman, Jon R. Pratt, Zeina J. Kubarych

Although mass is typically defined within the International System of Units (SI) at the Kilogram level, the pending redefinition of the SI provides an

Evaluation of chemical purity using quantitative 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Blaza Toman, Michael A. Nelson, Katrice A. Lippa

Chemical purity assessment using quantitative 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a method based on ratio references of mass and signal intensity of

Bridging classical and quantum mechanics

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Darine El Haddad, Frank C. Seifert, Leon S. Chao, Shisong Lee, David B. Newell, Jon R. Pratt, Carl J. Williams, Stephan Schlamminger

Using a watt balance and a frequency comb, a mass-energy equivalence is derived. The watt balance compares mechanical power measured in terms of the meter, the

The watt balance: a technique for implementing the new SI definition of the unit of mass

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Ian Robinson

The redefinition of the SI unit of mass in terms of a fixed value of the Planck constant has been enabled by the watt balance. Once the new definition has been

Robust Upward Dispersion of the Neutron Spin Resonance in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor Ce_1-xYb_xCoIn₅

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Yu Song, John Van Dyke, I. K. Lum, B. D. White, L. Shu, A. Schneidewind, Petr Cermak, Yiming Qiu, M. B. Maple, Dirk K. Morr, Pengcheng Dai

Understanding the origin of unconventional superconductivity in strongly correlated electron materials continues to be at the forefront of modern condensed

Preparation of entangled states through Hilbert space engineering

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

Yiheng Lin, John P. Gaebler, Florentin Reiter, Ting R. Tan, Ryan S. Bowler, Yong Wan, Adam C. Keith, Emanuel Knill, Kevin Coakley, Dietrich Leibfried, David J. Wineland, Scott Glancy

Entangled states are a crucial resource for quantum-based technologies such as quantum computers and quantum communication systems. Exploring new methods for

Evaluation of Two Methods for Determining Shell Thicknesses of Core-Shell Nanoparticles by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

September 27, 2016

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, Wolfgang Werner, Alexander Shard, David G. Castner

We evaluated two methods for determining shell thicknesses of core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). One of these methods had

Ultrafast time-resolved hard x-ray emission spectroscopy on a table top

September 27, 2016

Author(s)

Luis Miaja Avila, Galen C. O'Neil, Young Il Joe, Bradley K. Alpert, Niels Damrauer, William B. Doriese, Steven Fatur, Joseph W. Fowler, Gene C. Hilton, Ralph Jimenez, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Kevin L. Silverman, Daniel S. Swetz, Hideyuki Tatsuno, Joel N. Ullom

Chemical reactions driven by light are fundamental to biology and a source of inspiration for engineering materials to perform tasks such as solar energy