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Catherine C. Cooksey, Gael Obein, Georgi T. Georgiev, Christopher Durell, Dan Scharpf, Greg McKee, Michelle L'Heureux
Spectralon is an extremely stable, near-perfect lambertian reflecting diffuser and calibration standard material that has been used by national labs, space
Steven R. Jefferts, Stephan E. Barlow, Thomas P. Heavner, Neil Ashby
We present measurements of the microwave lensing frequency shift in the Primary Frequency Standards (PFS) NIST-F1 and NIST-F2. This frequency bias is reasonably
Yaw S. Obeng, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Jungjoon Ahn, Lin You, Joseph J. Kopanski
The commercial introduction of three dimensional integrated circuits (3D-ICs) has been hindered by reliability challenges, such as stress related failures
Dustin A. Gilbert, Brian B. Maranville, Andy L. Balk, Brian J. Kirby, Peter Fischer, Daniel T. Pierce, John Unguris, Julie A. Borchers, Kai Liu
The topological nature of magnetic skyrmions deriving from broken symmetries leads to extraordinary static and dynamic properties that provide new insight in
Jon T. Hougen, Yueyue Zhao, Ha Vanh L. Nguyen, Wolfgang Stahl
The molecular beam Fourier-transform microwave spectrum of pinacolone (methyl tert-butyl ketone) has been measured in several regions between 4 and 40 GHz. Fits
Detailed, systematic experiments that demonstrate if certain mulch types may ignite building elements have not been demonstrated. To this end, this paper
Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Arun K. Sharma, Stephen A. Wise
We applied a combination of normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) with ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy and gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC/MS
Wan Si NMN Tang, Atsushi Unemoto, Wei Zhou, Vitalie Stavila, Motoaki Matsuo, Hui Wu, Shin-Ichi Orimo, Terrence J. Udovic
Solid electrolytes with sufficiently high conductivities and stabilities are the elusive answer to the inherent shortcomings of organic liquid electrolytes
Jesus M. Velazquez, Jimmy John, Daniel V. Esposito, Adam Pieterick, Ragip Pala, Guofeng Sun, Xinghao Zhou, Zhuangqun Huang, Shane Ardo, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Nathan S. Lewis
The spatial variation in the properties and performance of bare and Pt-decorated p-type WSe(sub2) photocathodes has been investigated by using Scaning
Standard classic Flory-Huggins (FH) theory is employed to describe the enigmatic cosolvency and co-nonsolvency phenomena for systems of polymers dissolved in
Chiao-Chi Lin, Peter J. Krommenhoek, Stephanie S. Watson, Xiaohong Gu
In this study, Raman imaging was used to depth profiling the chemical degradation of a commercial PPE (polyethylene terephthalate (PET)/PET/ethylene vinyl
A new hybrid-model fitting program for methylamine-like molecules has been developed, based on an effective Hamiltonian in which the ammonia-like inversion
Randall J. McDermott, Kevin B. McGrattan, Jason Floyd
A strategy is proposed to guarantee realizability of species mass fractions in explicit time integration of the partial differential equations governing fire
Wan Si NMN Tang, Terrence J. Udovic, Vitalie Stavila
The recent discovery of unusually high cationic conductivity in Na 2B 12H 12 above its entropy-driven, order-disorder phase transition near 529 K and the
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microspectroscopy has demonstrated significant potential for biological and materials imaging. To date, however
James V. Porto, Varun Vaidya, Jiraphat Tiamsuphat, Steven Rolston
We report the first realization of a quantum degenerate mixture of bosonic $^{87}$Rb and fermionic $^{171}$Yb atoms in a hybrid optical dipole trap with a
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) end-point limiting dilution techniques, collectively termed "digital PCR (dPCR)", have been proposed as providing a potentially
Asha K. Nurse, Sean A. Colbert-Kelly, Sam R. Coriell, Geoffrey B. McFadden
Motivated by recent investigations of toroidal tissue clusters that are observed to climb conical obstacles after self-assembly, we study a related problem of
The microwave spectrum of the molecular complex of sulfur dioxide (SO2) with carbon monoxide (CO) has been studied with a pulsed-beam Fourier Transform
James Alexander Liddle, Jeffrey Elam, Mahua Biswas, Seth B. Darling, Angel Yanguas-Gil, Jonathan Emery, Alex Martinson, Paul Nealey, Tamar Segal-Peretz, Qing Peng, Jonathan P. Winterstein, Y. C. Tseng
Sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS) is a process derived from ALD in which a polymer is infused with inorganic material using sequential, self-limiting
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael A. Galler, Steven T. Bushby, Daniel Choiniere
Automated commissioning tools are designed to facilitate the commissioning process, decreasing the amount of time and the skill level required to carry out
Zeeshan Ahmed, Bernard J. Filla, William F. Guthrie, John S. Quintavalle
In recent years there has been considerable interest in developing photonic temperature sensors such as the Fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) as an alternative to
Organic coatings adsorbed at a nanoparticle surface, together with the system properties, change the physicochemical properties of the nanoparticle, thereby
Time and its measurement belong to the most fundamental core of physics, and many scientific and technological advances are directly or indirectly related to
Franklyn J. Quinlan, A. J. Metcalf, Tara M. Fortier, Scott A. Diddams, Andrew M. Weiner
We investigate the low timing jitter properties of a tunable single-pass optoelectronic frequency comb generator. The scheme is flexible in that both the
Michael R. Vissers, Robert P. Erickson, Leila R. Vale, Xian Wu, Gene C. Hilton, David P. Pappas
We have fabricated a wide-bandwidth, high dynamic range, low noise cryogenic amplifier based on a superconducting kinetic inductance traveling-wave device. The
Ratan K. Debnath, MD R. Hasan, Ting Xie, Sara C. Barron, Guannan Liu, Nhan V. Nguyen, Abhishek Motayed, M V. Rao
A self-powered ultraviolet (UV) photodetector (PD) based on p-NiO and n-ZnO was fabricated using low-temperature sputtering technique on indium doped tin oxide