Journals

Optical Measurements of Strong Microwave Fields with Rydberg Atoms in a Vapor Cell

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway

We demonstrate an approach for electric-field measurements of high power radiation sources with a room temperature Rydberg-atom gas. We present strong-field...

Statistical Issues in Testing Conformance with the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) Profile Claims

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Nancy Obuchowski

A major initiative of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) is to develop standards-based documents called Profiles, which describe one or more...

Factors Influencing the Stability of AFm and AFt in the Ca-Al-S-O-H System at 25 C

April 1, 2016

Author(s)

Pan Feng, Pan Feng, Jeffrey W. Bullard

The equilibrium phase assemblages that have been predicted in previous studies for the Ca-Al-S-O-H system at 25 C are revisited by calculating boundaries...

Genetic circuit design automation

April 1, 2016

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Alec Nielsen, Bryan Der, Jonghyeon Shin, Prashant Vaidyanathan, Douglas Densmore, Vanya M. Paralanov, Elizabeth Strychalski, David J. Ross, Christopher Voigt

Computation can be performed in living cells using DNA-encoded circuits that process sensory information and control biological functions. Their construction is...

Stiff modes in spinvalve simulations with OOMMF

April 1, 2016

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Spyridon Mitropoulos, Vassilis Tsiantos, Kyriakos Ovaliadis, Dimitris Kechrakos, Michael J. Donahue

Micromagnetic simulations are an important tool for the investigation of magnetic materials. Micromagnetic software uses various techniques to solve...

From Microgalaxies to Micro-oceans to Warhols Cellular Images: The Art in Science of MicroTAS 2015

March 31, 2016

Author(s)

Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez

Mid-infrared molecular spectroscopy in the quantum noise limit

March 31, 2016

Author(s)

David A. Long, Adam J. Fleisher, Qingnan Liu, Joseph T. Hodges

A cavity ring-down spectrometer was used to reach the quantum noise limit in the mid-infrared spectral region. Quantum noise was observed not only in the...

Silicon epitaxy on H-terminated Si (100) surfaces at 250° C

March 31, 2016

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Xiao Deng, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Kai Li, Xiqiao Wang, Gheorghe Stan, Alline F. Myers, Xinbin Cheng, Tongbao Li, Richard M. Silver

Silicon on silicon growth at low temperatures has become increasing important due to its use to encapsulate buried nanoscale dopant devices. The performance of...

Using a Capability Oriented Methodology to Build Your Cloud Ecosystem

March 31, 2016

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Michaela Iorga, Karen Scarfone

Organizations often struggle to capture the necessary functional capabilities for each cloud-based solution adopted for their information systems. Identifying...

Towards Establishing Compact Imaging Spectrometer Standards

March 31, 2016

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David W. Allen, Elmer T. Slonecker, Ronald G. Resmini

Remote sensing science is currently undergoing a tremendous expansion in the area of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology. Spurred largely by the explosive...

Thermal characteristics of temperature-controlled electrochemical microdevices

March 31, 2016

Author(s)

Nicholas M. Contento, Stephen Semancik

The development of novel, miniaturized sensing systems is driven by the demand for better and faster chemical measurements with lower power consumption and...

Defining the visual adaptation field for mesopic photometry: Effect of a surrounding source position on peripheral adaptation

March 31, 2016

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno

CIE 191:2010 recommends a mesopic photometry system based on peripheral visual tasks. For implementation of the system, the visual adaptation field needs to be...

Probing beyond the laser coherence time in optical clock comparisons

March 30, 2016

Author(s)

David B. Hume, David R. Leibrandt

We develop protocols that circumvent the laser noise limit in optical clock comparisons by synchronous probing of two clocks using phase-locked local...

Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers for High Breakdown Strength Polymer Film Capacitors

March 30, 2016

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Saumil P. Samant, Christopher A. Grabowski, Kim Kisslinger, Kevin G. Yager, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Michael F. Durstock, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Alamgir Karim

Characterizing the Effect of Salt and Surfactant Concentration on the Counter-ion Atmosphere around Surfactant Stabilized SWCNTs using Analytical Ultracentrifugation

March 29, 2016

Author(s)

Stephanie Lam, Ming Zheng, Jeffrey Fagan

Accurate characterization of dispersed-phase nanoparticle properties such as density, size, solvation, and charge is necessary for their utilization in...

The net benefits of human-ignited wildfire forecasting: the case of Tribal land units in the United States

March 29, 2016

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Jeffrey P. Prestemon, David Butry, Douglas Thomas

Influences of Substrate Adhesion and Particle Size on the Shape Memory Effect of Polystyrene Particles

March 29, 2016

Author(s)

Lewis M. Cox, Jason Killgore, Zhengwei Li, Rong Long, Aric Sanders, Jianliang Xiao, Yifu Ding

Formulations and applications of micro- and nano-scale polymer particles have proliferated rapidly in recent years, yet knowledge of their mechanical behavior...

Athermal avalanche in bilayer superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

March 28, 2016

Author(s)

Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

We demonstrate that two superconducting nanowires separated by a thin insulating barrier can undergo a thermal avalanche process. In this process, Joule heating...

Thermodynamic temperature assignment to the point of inflection of the melting curve of high-temperature fixed points

March 28, 2016

Author(s)

Howard W. Yoon, John T. Woodward IV, E. R. Woolliams, Joaquin Campos-Acosta

The thermodynamic temperature of the point of inflection of the melting transition of Re-C, Pt-C and Co-C eutectics has been determined to be 2747.84±0.35 K...

Probing surface recombination velocities in semiconductors using two-photon microscopy

March 28, 2016

Author(s)

Paul M. Haney, Benoit H. Gaury

The determination of minority-carrier lifetimes and surface recombination velocities is essential for the development of semiconductor technologies such as...

Coherent coupling between radio frequency, optical, and acoustic waves in piezo-optomechanical circuits

March 28, 2016

Author(s)

Krishna Coimbatore Balram, Marcelo I. Davanco, Jin Dong Song, Kartik Srinivasan

Optomechanical cavities have been studied for applications ranging from sensing to quantum information science. Here, we develop a platform for nanoscale cavity...

An analytical approach for estimating uncertainty in measured temperatures of concrete slab during fire

March 26, 2016

Author(s)

Dilip K. Banerjee

To evaluate the fire resistance of concrete slabs used in composite floor systems, the temporal and spatial variation of measured temperatures must be...

Reproducibility in density functional theory calculations of solids

March 25, 2016

Author(s)

Francesca Tavazza, Kurt Lejaeghere, Stefaan Cottenier, Gustav Bihlmayer

Density functional theory (DFT) is now routinely used for simulating material properties. Many software packages are available, which makes it challenging to...

Multispectrum analysis of the Oxygen A-band

March 25, 2016

Author(s)

Joseph T. Hodges, Brian J. Drouin, D C. Benner, L.R. Brown, Matthew J. Cich, Timothy Crawford, Malathy Devi, Alexandre Guillaume, Eli Mlawer, D J. Robichaud, Oyafuso Fabiano, Keeyon Sung, Wishnow Edward, Shanshan Yu

Retrievals of atmospheric composition from near-infrared measurements require measurements of airmass to better than the desired precision of the composition...

Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome

March 25, 2016

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Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Clyde A. Hutchinson III, Ray-Yuan Chuang, Vladimir Noskov, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Tom J. Deerinck, Mark H. Ellisman, John Gill, Krishna Kannan, Bogumil J. Karas, Li Ma, James F. Pelletier, Zhi-Qing Qi, Alexander Richter, Lijie Sun, Yo Suzuki, Billyana Tsvetanova, Kim S. Wise, Hamilton O. Smith, John I. Glass, Chuck Merryman, Daniel G. Gibson, J. C. Venter

We used whole-genome design and complete chemical synthesis to minimize the 1079kilobase pair synthetic genome of Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. An initial...

Laser Trackers for Large Scale Dimensional Metrology: A Review

March 25, 2016

Author(s)

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Steven D. Phillips, Daniel S. Sawyer

Thirty years since their invention, laser trackers are now recognized as the measurement tool of choice in the manufacture and assembly of large components...

EUV-induced oxidation of carbon on TiO2

March 25, 2016

Author(s)

Nadir S. Faradzhev, Shannon B. Hill

Previously we reported on the etch rates of C on TiO2 by oxidizers including NO, O3 and H2O2 when irradiated by extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation at 13.5 nm...

On the role of experimental imperfections in constructing 1H spin diffusion NMR plots for domain size measurements

March 24, 2016

Author(s)

Ryan C. Nieuwendaal

We discuss the precision of 1D chemical-shift-based 1H spin diffusion NMR experiments as well as straightforward experimental protocols for reducing errors. The...

Fast Sequential Creation of Random Realizations of Degree Sequences

March 24, 2016

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux

We examine the problem of creating a random realizations of very large degree sequences. While fast in practice, the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for...

National Institute of Standards and Technology measurement service of the optical properties of biomedical phantoms: Current status

March 24, 2016

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Paul Lemaillet, Catherine C. Cooksey, Zachary H. Levine, Adam L. Pintar, Jeeseong Hwang, David W. Allen

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained scales of reflectance and transmittance over several decades. Those scales are...