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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...
Alexander Yulaev, Guangjun Cheng, Angela R. Hight Walker, Ivan Vlassiouk, Alline Myers, Marina S. Leite, Andrei Kolmakov
The application of suspended graphene as electron transparent supporting media in electron microscopy, vacuum electronics, and micromechanical devices requires...
Denis E. Bergeron, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Leticia S. Pibida, Stefaan Pomme
The exponential decay of radionuclides as a function of time is a cornerstone of nuclear physics and radionuclide metrology. Decay constants for spontaneous...
Applications of magnetic fluids are ever increasing, as well as the corresponding need to be able to characterize these fluids in situ. Commercial magnetometers...
In this study, the attraction between the large hard polystyrene (PS) spheres is studied by using three types of small microgels as bridging agents. One is...
Magnus G. Find, Mika Goos, Matti Jarvisalo, Petteri Kaski, Miko Koivisto, Janne Korhonen
Given a boolean n x n matrix A we consider arithmetic circuits for computing the transformation x 7! Ax over different semirings. Namely, we study three circuit...
We asked 7 experts 7 questions to find out what has occurred recently in terms of applying formal methods (FM) to security-centric, cyber problems. We were...
Adele P. Peskin, Alden A. Dima, Ganesh Saiprasad, Andrew Buckler
Quantifying changes in lung tumor volume is important for diagnosis, therapy planning, and evaluation of the response to therapy. Lung tumor volume change is...
Sumona Sarkar, Bryan A. Baker, Desu Chen, Patrick S. Pine, Jennifer H. McDaniel, Marc L. Salit, Wolfgang Losert, Carl G. Simon Jr., Joy P. Dunkers
Nanofiber technology has emerged as a promising tool to recapitulate the native extracellular matrix structure; however the properties of nanofibers governing...
N. M. Bruno, Y. J. Huang, Cindi L. Dennis, J. G. Li, Robert D. Shull, J. H. Ross Jr., Y. I. Chumlyakov, I. Karaman
The influence of grain constraint on the magnetic field levels required to complete the isothermal martensitic transformation in magnetic shape memory alloys...
Hui Wu, Wan Si NMN Tang, Wei Zhou, Jacob Daniel Tarver, Vitalie Stavila, Craig Brown, Terrence J. Udovic
Two ordered phases of the novel solid superionic conductor sodium 1-carba-closo-decaborate (NaCB 9H 10) were identified via synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction...
R R Sbiaa, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, M Al Bahri, M Ranjbar, J. ?kerman, S. N. Piramanayagam
Multilayers of [Co/Ni(t)/Co/Pt]×8 with varying Ni thickness were investigated for possible use as a free layer in magnetic tunnel junctions and spintronics...
Engineering information systems play an important role in the current era of digitization of manufacturing, which is also known as smart manufacturing...
Gregory W. Hoth, Bruno M. Pelle, Stefan Riedl, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley
We demonstrate a two axis gyroscope by use of light pulse atom interferometry with an expanding cloud of atoms in the regime where the cloud has expanded by 1.1...
Mirjana NMN Dimitrievska, James L. White, Wei Zhou, Vitalie Stavila, Leonard E. Klebanoff, Terrence J. Udovic
The structure-dependent vibrational properties of different Mg(BH 4)d2^ polymorphs (α, β, γ and δ phases) were investigated with a combination of neutron...
Jing Yu, Jun Mao, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Wei Chen, Matthew Tirrell
Surface tethered polyelectrolyte brushes are of great importance to many applications, ranging from colloidal stabilization to responsive and tunable materials...
Yaw S. Obeng, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Papa K. Amoah, Victor H. Vartanian
In this paper, we attempt to understand the physico-chemical changes that occur in devices during device burn-in. We discuss the use of low frequency...
Jeffrey J Richards, Austin D. Scherbarth, Norman J. Wagner, Paul Butler
Slurry base electrodes have shown promise as an energy dense and scalable platform for the flowable electrodes used in electrochemical flow battery technology...
Tian-Heng Han, M. R. Norman, J.-J. Wen, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Joel Helton, Collin L. Broholm, Young S. Lee
New low energy inelastic neutron scattering data on the kagome spin liquid ZnCu 3(OD) 6Cl 2 (Herbertsmithite) reveals diffuse spots near wavevectors (100) and...
Jacob E. Ricker, Felix Charipov, Yuanchao Yang, Jay H. Hendricks
Currently, the piston-cylinder assembly known as PG39 is used as a primary pressure standard at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the...
Kil-Won Moon, Carelyn E. Campbell, Maureen E. Williams, William J. Boettinger
Diffusion couple experiments between various Co-rich face centered cubic alloys in the Co-W-Al ternary system have been conducted at 900 degree C and 1000...
Stephen E. Long, Brittany L. Kassim, Ashley S. Boggs-Russell, Susan Tai, Stephen A. Wise
Iodine deficiency remains a significant global public health challenge. Analytical measurements are therefore made routinely to assess iodine intake from food...
Xiang Wang, Tara C. Hutchinson, Rodrigo Astroza, Joel P. Conte, Jose I. Restrepo, Matthew Hoehler, Waldir Ribeiro
This paper investigates the seismic performance of a functional traction elevator as part of a full-scale five-story building shake table test program. The test...
Ryan Poling-Skutvik, Katrina Irene S. Mongcopa, Antonio Faraone, Suresh Narayanan, Jacinta C. Conrad, Ramanan Krishnamoorti
We investigate the structure and dynamics of silica nanoparticles and polymer chains in semidilute solutions of high molecular weight polystyrene in 2-butanone...
Stacey M. Louie, Justin M. Gorham, Eric A. McGivney, Jingyu Liu, Kelvin B. Gregory, Vincent A. Hackley
Photochemical reactions can result in significant transformations of manufactured nanomaterials in sunlit environments. While transformations of inorganic...