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Bubble Point Measurements of n-Propane + n-Decane Binary Mixtures with Comparisons of Binary Mixture Interaction Parameters for Linear Alkanes

July 1, 2016

Author(s)

Elisabeth Mansfield, Ian H. Bell, Stephanie L. Outcalt

To develop comprehensive models for multi-component natural gas mixtures (and other applications), it is necessary to have binary interaction parameters for...

TRECVid Semantic Indexing of Video: A 6-Year Retrospective

July 1, 2016

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George M. Awad, Cees Snoek, Alan Smeaton, Georges Quenot

Semantic indexing, or assigning semantic tags to video samples, is a key component for content-based access to video documents and collections. The Semantic...

Frustration by Design

July 1, 2016

Author(s)

Ian J. Gilbert, Cristiano Nisoli, Peter Schiffer

Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty from Data. Part 2: Uncertainty R&R

July 1, 2016

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Theodore D. Doiron

While check standards will eventually give the most accurate uncertainty for a calibration procedure, the time and expense can be discouraging. Another common...

Observation of strong radiation pressure forces from squeezed light on a mechanical oscillator

July 1, 2016

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Jeremy B. Clark, Florent Q. Lecocq, Raymond W. Simmonds, Jose A. Aumentado, John D. Teufel

Quantum-enhanced sensing is a powerful technique in which nonclassical states are used to optimize the sensitivity of a measurement. Although squeezed light in...

Enabling Interactive Measurements from Large Coverage Microscopy

July 1, 2016

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Peter Bajcsy, Antoine Vandecreme, Julien M. Amelot, Mary C. Brady, Joe Chalfoun, Michael P. Majurski

Microscopy could be an important tool for characterizing stem cell products if quantitative measurements could be collected over multiple spatial and temporal...

NIST DSQAP to Implement the Incremental Collaborative Study Approach for Chondroitin Sulfate

July 1, 2016

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Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood

Electron Enhanced Growth of Crystalline Gallium Nitride Thin Films at Room Temperature and 100 C Using Sequential Surface Reactions

July 1, 2016

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Alexana Roshko, Jaclyn Sprenger, Andrew S. Cavanagh, Steven George, Huaxing Sun, Kathryn J. Wahl

Low energy electrons may provide mechanisms to enhance thin film growth at low temperatures. In this work, gallium nitride (GaN) films were deposited over areas...

Operation Tomodachi -Fire Research Special Issue

July 1, 2016

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

NIST's Engineering Laboratory (EL-NIST) hosted "Operation Tomodachi - Fire Research" on March 16-18, 2015 in Gaithersburg, MD USA. Tomodachi means friendship in...

Addressing Pressing Cybersecurity Issues through Collaboration

July 1, 2016

Author(s)

William J. Fisher

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology addresses businesses most pressing cybersecurity...

Data Acquisition and Analysis Software for Gamma Coincidence Spectrometry

July 1, 2016

Author(s)

Martin Girchis Shetty, Dagistan Sahin

Coincidence counting in neutron activation analysis has well-known advantages, such as enhancement of signal and reduction in background. One obstacle to the...

Stabilizing Lithium and Sodium Fast-Ion Conduction in Solid Polyhedral-Borate Salts at Device-Relevant Temperatures

July 1, 2016

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Wan Si NMN Tang, Motoaki Matsuo, Hui Wu, Vitalie Stavila, Atsushi Unemoto, Shin-Ichi Orimo, Terrence J. Udovic

Mechanically milling a variety of lithium and sodium closo-borate compounds enables the room-temperature stabilization of their fast-ion-conducting, high-T-like...

Nanostructured Surface Phonon Polariton Systems for Mid-Infrared Nanophotonics

July 1, 2016

Author(s)

Alexander Giles, Richard Kasica, Joshua Caldwell

In this article, novel, phonon-based silicon carbide nanopillar antenna arrays are described. Using fabricated SiC structures, sub-diffractional, localized...

High-Pressure Synthesis of Manganese Oxyhydride with Partial Anion Order

July 1, 2016

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Cedric Tassel, Yoshinori Goto, Daichi Watabe, Ya Tang, Honcheng Lu, Yoshinori Kuno, Fumitaka Takeiri, Takafumi Yamamoto, Craig Brown, James Hester, Yoji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kageyama

We report the high-pressure synthesis of a manganese oxyhydride LaSrMnO 3.3H 0.7. Neutron and X-ray Rietveld analyses showed this compound adopts the K 2NiF 4...

Strong Correlations between Vacancy and Magnetic Ordering in Superconducting K_0.8Fe_2-ySe₂

July 1, 2016

Author(s)

Junjie Yang, Chunruo Duan, Qingzhen Huang, Craig Brown, Joerg Neuefeind, Despina Louca

The debate of whether or not magnetic and non-magnetic phases coexist in the superconducting potassium doped iron selenide, K xFe 2-ySe 2, is still ongoing...

Direct time-domain observation of attosecond final-state lifetimes in photoemission from solids

July 1, 2016

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Zhensheng Tao, Cong Chen, Tibor Szilvasi, Mark W. Keller, Manos Mavrikakis, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane

Attosecond spectroscopic techniques have made it possible to measure differences in transport times for photoelectrons from localized core levels and...

The Effect of Pearlite Dissolution on the Transient Dynamic Strength of Rapidly-Heated Plain Carbon Steels

June 30, 2016

Author(s)

Steven Mates, Mark R. Stoudt, Sindhura Gangireddy

Carbon steels containing ferrite-pearlite microstructures weaken dramatically when pearlite dissolves into austenite on heating. The kinetics of this phase...

Costs, Benefits, and Adoption of Additive Manufacturing: A Supply Chain Perspective

June 30, 2016

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

Currently, additive manufactured products represent less than one percent of all manufactured products in the US; however, as the costs of additive...

Attractive Interactions between DNA-Carbon Nanotube hybrids in Monovalent Salts

June 30, 2016

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Ming Zheng, Xiangyun Qiu, Fuyou Ke, Raju Timsina, Constantine Y. Khripin

DNA-carbon nanotube (DNA-CNT) hybrids are nanometer-sized, highly-charged, rod-like molecules with complex surface chemistry, and their behaviors in aqueous...

Measuring multiple, weak heteronuclear 13C-2H couplings involving large 2H quadrupolar coupling constants and large 13C chemical shift anisotropy values: An experimental and theoretical REDOR study

June 30, 2016

Author(s)

Ryan C. Nieuwendaal

We discuss the implementation of a REDOR experiment that is capable of measuring multiple, weak 13C-2H dipolar couplings when 2H is a strong quadrupole and 13C...

Determination of Residual Stress Distributions in Polycrystalline Alumina using Fluorescence Microscopy

June 30, 2016

Author(s)

Chris A. Michaels, Robert F. Cook

Maps of residual stress distributions arising from anisotropic thermal expansion effects in a polycrystalline alumina are generated using fluorescence...

Measured Wavelength-Dependent Absorption Enhancement of Internally Mixed Black Carbon with Absorbing and Nonabsorbing Materials

June 30, 2016

Author(s)

Rian You, James Radney, Michael R. Zachariah, Christopher D. Zangmeister

Optical absorption spectra of laboratory generated aerosols consisting of black carbon (BC) internally mixed with nonabsorbing materials (ammonium sulfate, AS...

Neutron Scattering Studies of Lithium-Ion Diffusion in Ternary Phosphate Glasses

June 30, 2016

Author(s)

Gavin Hester, Tom Heitmann, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Munesh Rathore, Anshuman Dalvi, Saibal Mitra

We have studied the diffusion mechanism of lithium ions in glassy oxide-based solid sate electrolytes using elastic and electrolytes using elastic and...

Stability of Single Electron Devices: Charge Offset Drift

June 29, 2016

Author(s)

Michael D. Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman

Abstract: Single electron devices (SEDs) afford the opportunity to isolate and manipulate individual electrons. This ability imbues SEDs with potential...

Transient thermometry and high-resolution analysis of filamentary resistive switches

June 28, 2016

Author(s)

Jonghan Kwon, Chao-Yang Chen, Abhishek Sharma, Andrea Fantini, Malgorzata Jurczak, James A. Bain, Yoosuf Picard, Marek Skowronski, Andrew Herzing

We present data on the filament size and temperature distribution in Hf0.82Al0.18Ox-based Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) devices obtained by transient...

Predicting Energy Performance of a Net Zero Energy Building: A Statistical Approach

June 28, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David H. Webb

Reusing Metamodels and Notation with Diagram Definition

June 28, 2016

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock, Maged Elaasar

It is increasingly common for language specifications to separate visual forms (concrete syntax) from underlying concepts (abstract syntax), enabling languages...

Spin wave localization in tangentially magnetized films

June 28, 2016

Author(s)

Elena V. Tartakovskaya, Martha Pardavi-Horvath, Robert McMichael

We present an analytical description of localized spin wave modes that form in a parabolic field minimum in a thin ferromagnetic film. Mode profiles...

Demystifiying the Internet of Things

June 27, 2016

Author(s)

Jeffrey M. Voas

This short column introduces the need for a foundational science to the Internet of Things (IoT). It introduces the notion of primitives and elements, and their...

Kompakt und kostenguenstig (Compact and cost-effective: Groundbreaking technologies in Gravitational Physics)

June 27, 2016

Author(s)

Felipe Guzman

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