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Jiakui K. Wang, Shan Wu, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Qingzhen Huang, Collin L. Broholm, E. Morosan
The complex magnetism and transport properties of tetragonal Ce 3Cu 4As 4O 2 were examined through neutron scattering and physical properties measurements on...
Daniel B. Gopman, Yury Kabanov, Robert D. Shull, Jizhai Cui, Christopher Lynch
We report the magnetization reversal behavior of microstructured $\mathrm{Ni_{80}Fe_{20}}$ rings using magneto-optic indicator film imaging and magnetometry...
Ian Garretson, Mahesh Mani, Kevin W. Lyons, Swee K. Leong, Karl Haapala
Common terminology is essential for accurate communication between researchers, scientists, engineers, and other decision makers. For manufacturing process...
We use the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism to analyze the ground state phases of harmonically trapped two-species fermion mixtures with unequal masses. In the...
The Sixth International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters was held from 2 July to 28 August 2001 at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), S...
Richard L. Steiner, Edwin R. Williams, Ruimin Liu, David B. Newell
This paper summarizes the latest uncertainty improvements in the NIST Electronic Kilogram experiment to obtain result of 7 +/- 37 nW/W for the ratio {W 90/W -1}...
Richard L. Steiner, David B. Newell, Edwin R. Williams
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) watt balance experiment completed a determination of Planck's constant in 1998 with a relative...
Jianyong Tang, Ana Jofre, G M. Lowman, Rani B. Kishore, Joseph E. Reiner, Kristian Helmerson, Lori S. Goldner, M E. Greene
individual hydrosomes into an immiscible solvent matrix composed of perfluorotriamylamine. Hydrosomes containing EGFP were optically trapped held at the focus...
Simon G. Kaplan, H M. Lawler, Eric L. Shirley, S Bhat, M E. Thomas
We present detailed temperature dependent absorption spectra of GaP and GaAs at wavenumbers from 20 cm-1 to 350 cm-1 and temperatures between 10 K and 295 K...
It is demonstrated that a thin polyimide foil can be employed to prevent contamination from the self-sputtering of a 252-Cf source under vacuum, with small...
Nitrogen is utilized as an interstitial solid solution strengthener in austenitic stainless steels. With increasing use of high nitrogen steels it is necessary...
A commercial silicon powder was studied by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and x-ray induced Auger electron spectroscopy (XAES). These techniques were...
The design and operating principles of a new laser polarimeter system capable of microsecond-resolution measurements of the polarization state of light and of...
William F. Egelhoff Jr., Robert D. McMichael, Mark D. Stiles, Cedric J. Powell, John E. Bonevich, M Wormington, D S. Eastwood, B K. Tanner
Pre-oxidation of the bottom electrode prior to deposition of Al_{2}O_{3} or MgO is very effective as a general approach to suppressing the unidirectional...
William F. Egelhoff Jr., Robert D. McMichael, Mark D. Stiles, Cedric J. Powell, John E. Bonevich, M Wormington
Pre-oxidation of the bottom electrode prior to deposition of Al2O3 or MgO is very effective as a general approach to suppressing orange-peel coupling in...
William F. Egelhoff Jr., Cedric J. Powell, L Gan, P J. Chen, H Ettedgui, D Tirosh, Robert D. McMichael, Mark D. Stiles, J Mallett, Alexander J. Shapiro, John E. Bonevich, J H. Judy, Erik B. Svedberg, A. E. Berkowitz
We have achieved excellent grain isolation in CoPd superlattices by using 10 nm Au as both an underlayer and an overlayer and diffusing Au into the grain...
Rangachar Kasturi, D Goldgof, K Soundararajan, V Manohar, M Boonstra, V Korzhova, J Zhang, Rachel J. Bowers, John S. Garofolo
Common benchmark datasets, standardized performance metrics, and baseline algorithms have demonstrated considerable impact on research and development in a...
Book Review for: Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability, by Chin-Diew Lai and Min Xie, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2006 ISBN-10: 0-387-29742-1 and ISBN...
The NIST Pressure Measurements Division provides calibration service for pressure instruments that customers in turn use to calibrate other instruments. Often...
Analysis of molecular mass distribution data for characterizing the complex synthetic polymer structure has demanded new statistical methods. As with many other...
This note gives an interpretation of Dobrushin?s conditions for uniqueness and mixing Markov field in terms of a random walk with an absorbing state. An example...
Vincent M. Stanford, Julien Aube, C Rochet, R. Xu, G. Mei, Z. Ren, C. Kwan
We summarize our research results on an innovative approach to making smart meeting rooms accessible to hands-free users. Specifically, we developed an...
Single stranded DNA is modeled as a flexible polymer. The motion of such DNA in a vessel partitioned by a membrane containing a cylindrical nanopore is modeled...
C. Kwan, K C. Ho, G. Mei, Y Li, Z. Ren, R. Xu, Y. Zhang, R. Lao, M. Stevenson, Vincent M. Stanford, C. Rochet
This paper presents a novel bird monitoring and recognition system in noisy environments. The project objective is to avoid bird strikes to aircraft. First, a...
Key Comparisons are international inter-laboratory studies used to establish the degree of equivalence between national measurement standards. These studies...
Noncentrosymmetric potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KH2PO4 or KDP) in the tetragonal crystal phase is arguably the most extensively studied nonlinear optical...
Bryant C. Nelson, Christa W. Wright, Yuko Ibuki, Maria Moreno-Villanueva, Hanna L. Karlsson, Giel Hendriks, Christopher M. Sims, Neenu Singh, Shareen H. Doak
The rapid development of the engineered nanomaterial (ENM) manufacturing industry has accelerated the incorporation of ENMs into a wide variety of consumer...
Daniel Josell, Ratan K. Debnath, Jong Yoon Ha, Jonathan E. Guyer, Nhan V. Nguyen, M. A. Sahiner, C Reehil, W. A. Manners
This paper presents a study of windowless CdSe/CdTe thin film photovoltaic devices with in-plane patterning at a submicrometer length scale. The photovoltaic...
Jinho Choi, Byong Chon Park, Sang Jung Ahn, Dal-Hyun Kim, J Lyou, Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi George Orji, Joseph Fu, Theodore V. Vorburger
The decreasing size of semiconductor features and the increasing structural complexity of advanced devices has placed continuously greater demands on...