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Emre H. Brookes, Nadeem Anjum, Joseph E. Curtis, Suresh Marru, Raminder Singh, Marlon Pierce
A new framework (GenApp) for rapid generation of scientific applications running on a variety of systems including science gateways has recently been developed...
A dimensional analysis on firebrand penetration through a mesh screen was carried out to provide a framework to correlate a limited set of experimental data...
In this article, recent work on calculating high-quality enthalpies of formation for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) based on both density functional...
A key issue in testing is how many tests are needed for a required level of coverage or fault detection. Estimates are often based on error rates in initial...
Equations of state are presented for the refrigerants 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane (R-227ea) and 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane (R-365mfc). Typical...
Aric W. Sanders, Kavita M. Jeerage, Cindi Schwartz, Alexandra Curtin, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay
Many proposed biomedical applications for engineered gold nanoparticles require their incorporation by mammalian cells in specific numbers and locations. Here...
Continuous Authentication has been around but has been met with several limitations. Recent development of mobile platforms are providing relief for many of...
Charles S. Tarrio, Robert F. Berg, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Bruce Lairson, Heidi Lopez, Travis Ayers
We investigated several types of thin-film filters for high intensity work in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) spectral range. In our application, with a peak EUV...
Mark Alexander Henn, Richard M. Silver, John S. Villarrubia, Nien F. Zhang, Hui Zhou, Bryan M. Barnes, Andras Vladar, Bin Ming
Hybrid metrology, e.g. the combination of several measurement techniques to determine critical dimensions, is an important approach to meet the needs of...
Joseph W. Fowler, Bradley K. Alpert, William B. Doriese, Young Il Joe, Galen C. O'Neil, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz
The analysis of data from x-ray microcalorimeters requires great care; their excellent intrinsic energy resolution cannot usually be achieved in practice...
We show how to to achieve spin-selective excitation of the valley-orbit states of group-V donors (P, As, Sb, Bi) in silicon using optical fields. We consider...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Igor Levin, James A. Kaduk, Laura Espinal, Hui Wu
Ambient-temperature capture of CO2 by metal-organic framework Cu3(BTC)2 (BTC ≡ 1,3,5-benzenecarboxylate), known as HKUST-1, have been studied in situ in a...
Moneer M. Helu, Katherine C. Morris, Kiwook Jung, Kevin W. Lyons, Swee K. Leong
Smart manufacturing has the potential to address many of the innovation drivers faced by industry. However, the manufacturing community often needs assistance...
Walter B. Wilson, Bassam Alfarhani, Cristina Bisson, Stephen A. Wise, Andres Campiglia
This article presents an alternative approach for the analysis of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HMW-PAHs) with molecular mass 302 Da...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed a prototype field test standard (FTS) that incorporates three test methods that could be...
Purpose: Industry and regulatory bodies desire more accurate methods for counting and characterizing particles. Measurements of proteinaceous-particle...
June W. Lau, Jiaqi Qiu, Chunguang Jing, Sergey Baryshev, Bryan W. Reed, Yimei Zhu
A device and a method for producing ultrashort electron pulses with GHz repetition rates via pulsing an input direct current (dc) electron beam are provided...
Utsab R. Shrestha, Debsindhu Bhowmik, John R. Copley, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Juscelino Leao, Xiang-Qiang Chu
Inorganic Pyrophosphatase (IPPase) from Thermococcus thioreducens is a large oligomeric protein derived from a hyperthermophilic microorganism that is found...
Ahmed M. Hassan, Luis F. Vargas Lara, Jack Douglas, Edward Garboczi
In composites, Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) are rarely perfectly straight and they usually exhibit complex shapes. In this paper, we employ the Method of Moments...
Jing Qin, Richard M. Silver, Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Ronald G. Dixson, Mark Alexander Henn
Quantitative optical measurements of deep sub-wavelength, three-dimensional, nanometric structures with sensitivity to sub-nanometer details address an...
Kar T. Tan, Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Justin M. Gorham, Michael Imburgia, Aaron M. Forster, Vogt D. Bryan
Engineering joints consisting of polymer/inorganic interfaces are commonly exposed to less than ideal conditions during normal service; these environmental...
Montmorillonite clay (MMT) is frequently used to create fire resistance in Layer-by-Layer (LbL) applied coatings. This manuscript reports that switching the MMT...
Alejandro Duran-Herrera, Joana K. Campos-Dimas, P Valdez, Dale P. Bentz
In this study, a copolymer composed of hollow spherical particles with an average particle size of 90 µm was evaluated as a lightweight aggregate in Portland...
Ian B. Spielman, Setiawan Wenming, Krishnendu Sengupta, Jay Sau
We demonstrate that non-equilibrium dynamics provides a direct means of detecting the topological phase transition (TPT) between conventional and topological...
Jessica L. Staymates, Matthew E. Staymates, Jeffrey A. Lawrence
This work addresses the need for a method to measure the collection efficiency performance of surface wipe materials as a function of wipe reuse number. The...
D Ott, Hao H. Zhang, Daniel B. Ott, Wei Chu, Jun-Feng Song
This paper proposes a general use areal isotropic spline filter. This new areal spline filter can achieve isotropy by approximating the transmission...
Daniel Straus, E. D. Goodwin, E. A. Gaulding, Shinichiro Muramoto, Murray B. Christopher, Cherie R. Kagan
Passivating surface defects and controlling the carrier concentration and mobility in quantum dot (QD) thin films is a prerequisite to designing electronic and...
George C. Rhoderick, Bradley Hall, Christina Harth, Jin Seog Kim, Jeogsoon Lee, Stephen Montzka, J. Muhle, Stefan Reimann, Martin Vollmer, Ray Weiss
The growing awareness of climate change/global warming, and continuing concerns regarding stratospheric ozone depletion, will require continued measurements and...
Timothy J. Burns, Steven P. Mates, Richard L. Rhorer, Eric P. Whitenton, Debasis Basak
An inverse method is presented for estimating the shear stress in the work material in the region of chip-tool contact along the rake face of the tool during...