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Many objects in nature prefer to spiral in one particular direction to the other. A nanostructured magnetic system with strong spin-orbit coupling now shows...
Alexander J. Grutter, Dustin A. Gilbert, U. S. Alaan, E. Arenholz, Brian B. Maranville, Julie A. Borchers, Y. Suzuki, Kai Liu, Brian J. Kirby
We demonstrate reversible control of magnetization and anisotropy in La 0.67Sr 0.33MnO 3 films through interfacial oxygen migration. Gd metal capping layers...
Nicholas E. Sharp, John D. Fassett, David S. Simons
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) plays an important role in nuclear forensics through its ability to identify isotopic ratios of particles accurately and...
Daniel B. Gopman, June W. Lau, Kotekar P. Mohanchandra, Kyle Wetzlar, Greg Carman
We present measurements of the exchange stiffness D and the exchange constant A of a sputtered 80 nm Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe2 film. Using a broadband ferromagnetic...
Leonid A. Bendersky, Haoting Shen, Kwo-hsiung Young
The microstructures of three Laves phase-related body-center-cubic (bcc) solid solution metal hydride alloys with different phase abundances were closely...
The symposium was titled Multicomponent Alloy Metallurgy: Bridge from Materials Science to Materials Engineering with focus on the physical metallurgy of...
K. Zhang, X.J. Feng, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, Jintao Zhang, Hong Lin, Jifeng Qu
Relative primary acoustic gas thermometry determines the ratios of thermodynamic temperatures from measured ratios of acoustic and microwave resonance...
Tian Zhang, Brian Simonds, Keita Nomoto, Binesh Puthen Veettil, Ziyun Lin, Ivan Perez Wurfl, Gavin Conibeer
We demonstrate that a pulsed KrF excimer laser (λ=248 nm, τ=22 ns) can be used as a post-furnace annealing method to greatly increase the electrically active...
Eugene Paulechka, Andrey V. Blokhin, Ana Rodriguez, Marisa A. Rocha, Luis M.N.B.F. Santos
The heat capacities in the temperature range (5 to 370) K and the parameters of solid-phase phase transitions and fusion were determined for three [Cnmim][NTf2]...
Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Robert E. Schwall, Samuel P. Benz
The root-mean-square (rms) output voltage of the NIST Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer (JAWS) has been doubled from 1 V to a record 2 V by combining two...
Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Kehao Zhang, Gheorghe Stan, Berc Kalanyan, Ganesh R. Bhimanapati, Sarah M. Eichfeld, R A. Burke, Pankaj B. Shah, Terrance P. O'Regan, Frank J. Crowne, A. Glen Birdwell, Joshua A. Robinson, Albert Davydov, Tony G. Ivanov
When designing semiconductor heterostructures, it is expected that epitaxial alignment will facilitate low-defect interfaces and efficient vertical transport...
Thomas J. Bruno, Jessica L. Burger, Tara M. Lovestead
Analysis of fuel gas (such as natural gas) for compounds with more than 6 carbon atoms (the C6+ fraction) has historically been technically complex and...
Lisa Y. Choe, Chao Zhang, William E. Luecke, John L. Gross, Amit Varma
Finite-element (FE) analysis was used to compare the high-temperature responses of steel columns with two different stressstrain models: the Eurocode 3 model...
George C. Rhoderick, Duane Kitzis, Michael E. Kelley, Walter R. Miller Jr., Bradley Hall, Edward Dlugokencky, Pieter Tans, Antonio M. Possolo, Jennifer Carney
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently began to develop standard mixtures of greenhouse gases as part of a broad program mandated by...
Lawrence Henry Friedman, Mark D. Vaudin, Stephan J. Stranick, Gheorghe Stan, Yvonne B. Gerbig, William Alexander Osborn, Robert F. Cook
The accuracy of electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) and confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) for small-scale strain mapping are assessed using the multi-axial...
Bhaven Mehta, Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik, Mona E. Zaghloul
The motivation behind this work is to study the gas phase chemical sensing characteristics of optical (plasmonic) nano antennas (ONA) and graphene/graphene...
Wojtek J. Tutak, Carl Simon Jr., Jyotsnendu J. Giri, Peter Bajcsy
Recent work has shown that osteoprogenitor cell culture on nanofiber scaffolds can promote differentiation. This response may be driven by changes in cell...
Jose M. Ortiz, Tam H. Duong, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Jih-Sheng Lai
A multi-scale electro-thermal simulation approach is presented to optimize the design of a hybrid switch soft-switching inverter using a library of dynamic...
Paul A. Williams, Joshua A. Hadler, Frank C. Maring, Robert Lee, Kyle A. Rogers, Brian J. Simonds, Matthew T. Spidell, Ari D. Feldman, John H. Lehman
We describe a unique optical power meter which measures the radiation pressure to accurately determine a lasers optical power output. This approach traces its...
The IR spectra of water vaporcarbon dioxide mixtures as well as the spectra of pure gas samples have been recorded using a Fourier-transform infrared...
The interactions of molecules and particles in solution often involve an interplay between isotropic and highly directional interactions that lead to a mutual...
Energy levels, lifetimes, and wave function compositions have been computed for all atomic states of the 4p6 and 4p54d configurations using a single-reference...
Megan Harries, Santiago Bukovsky-Reyes, Thomas J. Bruno
This paper details the sampling methods used with the field portable PLOT-cryoadsorption (PLOT-cryo) approach, described in Part I of this two-part series...
Lior Medina, Rivka Gilat, Robert Ilic, Slava Krylov
We demonstrate dynamic snap-through from a primary to a secondary statically inaccessible stable configuration in single crystal silicon, curved, doubly clamped...
Samuel Berweger, Paul T. Blanchard, Matthew Brubaker, Kevin J. Coakley, Norman A. Sanford, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis, Kris A. Bertness, Pavel Kabos
Despite their uniform crystallinity, the shape and faceting of semiconducting nanowires (NWs) can give rise to variations in structure and associated electronic...
Semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with long lengths are highly desirable for many applications such as thin film transistors and circuits...
Tracey B. Schock, Sheri Strickland, Edna J. Steele, Daniel W. Bearden
Environmental metabolomics studies employing earthworms as sentinels for soil contamination are numerous, but the instability of the metabolite extracts from...
Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Hao Zhu, Emily G. Bittle, Sean Natoli, Tong Ren, Curt A. Richter, Qiliang Li, Christina A. Hacker
Non-volatile Flash-based memory devices, which incorporate a novel redox-active diruthenium molecule, is demonstrated. The memory device is in a capacitor...