Journals

Advanced ACTPol Multichroic Polarimeter Array Fabrication Process for 150 mm Wafers

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

Shannon M. Duff, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, James A. Beall, Jason E. Austermann, Daniel T. Becker, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen

Advanced ACTPol is a third generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) receiver, deploying in 2016 on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in the Atacama

Outdoor-to-Indoor Channel Dispersion and Power-Delay Profile Models for the 700 MHz and 4.9 GHz Bands

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, David W. Matolak, Christopher L. Holloway, Camillo A. Gentile

We present outdoor-to-indoor channel dispersion results based on measurements made in several representative urban environments. Root-mean-square delay spread

Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy Beyond the Diffraction Limit

July 22, 2015

Author(s)

Andrea Centrone

Progress in nanotechnology is enabled by and dependent on the availability of measurement methods with spatial resolution commensurate with nanomaterials

Controlling the electronic structure of graphene using surface-adsorbate interactions

July 21, 2015

Author(s)

Piotr Matyba, Adra V. Carr, Cong Chen, David L. Miller, Thomas Orlando, Stefan Mathias, Mark W. Keller, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane

Hybridization of atomic orbitals in graphene on Ni(111) opens up a large energy gap of ≈2.8 eV between nonhybridized states at the K point. Here we use alkali

Analysis of the Boundary Conditions of the Spline Filter

July 21, 2015

Author(s)

D Ott, Hao H. Zhang, Daniel B. Ott, Xuezeng Zhao, Jun-Feng Song

The spline filter is a standard linear profile filter recommended by ISO/TS 16610-22 (2006). The primary advantage of the spline filter is that no end-effects

Perspective: What do we still need to understand to commercialize nanocellulose?

July 20, 2015

Author(s)

Chelsea S. Davis, Danielle L. Grolman, Alamgir Karim, Jeffrey W. Gilman

Cellulosic nanomaterials have the potential to become predominant nanoparticles utilized in materials engineering fields ranging from flexible electronic

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE: A REVIEW AND DISCUSSION

July 19, 2015

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich

NIST is developing a planning guide to define strategies to increase community-based resilience in the face of a broad range of natural disasters and other

Mathematical and computational science issues in high precision Hylleraas-configuration interaction variational calculations: III. Four-electron integrals

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

James S. Sims, Stanley A. Hagstrom

The four-electron correlated integrals, as well as the X auxiliaryintegral which is new in the four-electron case, arising in Hylleraas-Configuration (Hy-CI)

Diff use interface methods for modeling drug eluting stent coatings

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

James A. Warren, David Saylor, Christopher Forrey, Changsoo Kim

An overview of diff use interface models specific to drug eluting stent coatings is presented. Microscale heterogeneities, both in the coating and use

Uncertainty in the number of contributors in the proposed new CODIS set

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

Michael D. Coble, Jo-Anne Bright, John S. Buckleton, James Curran

The probability that multiple contributors are detected within a forensic DNA profile improves as more highly polymorphic loci are analysed. The assignment of

Strategies for Potential Age Dating of Fingerprints through the Diffusion of Sebum Molecules on a Non-porous Surface

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

Shinichiro Muramoto, Edward Sisco

Age dating of fingerprints can have a significant impact in forensic science, as it has the potential to facilitate the judicial process by assessing the

Quantifying and Improving Clinical-grade Coverage and Accuracy using Augmented Exome Sequencing

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Justin M. Zook, Anil Patwardhan, Marc L. Salit, Carlos Bustamante, Euan Ashley, Michael Snyder, John West, Richard Chen

Exome sequencing is increasingly used for the clinical evaluation of genetic disease, yet accuracy and coverage in medically interpretable parts of the genome

Direct Observation of Carrier Cooling in Organic Semiconductors

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Edwin J. Heilweil, Paul A. Lane, Paul D. Cunningham, Joseph S. Melinger

Photocurrent in an organic solar cell is generated by a charge transfer reaction between the electron donor and acceptor. The effect of excess excitation energy

ADAPTING OECD AQUATIC TOXICITY TESTS FOR USE WITH MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS: KEY ISSUES, CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS, AND DATA GAPS

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Alan Kennedy, Greg Goss, Ho Kay, Jamie Lead, Shannon Hanna, Kerstin Hund-Rinke, Brian Mader, Nicholas Manier, Pascal Pandard, Edward Salinas, Kathrin Schwirn, Doris Voelker

The unique or enhanced properties of manufactured nanomaterials (MNs) suggest that their use in nano-enabled products will continue to increase in the future

Impact of recent change in NIST standard for 18F on the relative response of 68Ge-based mock syringe dose calibrator standards

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna

As a result of a recent change in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) activity standard for 18F, we have determined new relative response

Kinetics of the Reactions of H and CH3 with n-Alkanes: Experiments with n-Butane and a Reevaluation Based on a Combustion Model Reaction Network Analysis

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Manion, David A. Sheen, Iftikhar A. Awan

Presented is a combined experimental and modeling study of the kinetics of the reactions of H and CH3 with n-butane, a representative aliphatic fuel

Effect of Vapor Cell Geometry on Rydberg Atom-based Radio-frequency Electric Field Measurements

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Joshua A. Gordon

A new approach to detect absolute radio-frequency (RF) electric fields (E-fields) that uses Rydberg atoms at room temperature in vapor cells has recently been

Formic Acid oxidation on platinum- a simple mechanistic study

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Kathleen A. Schwarz, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Thomas P. Moffat, Thomas C. Allison

The oxidation of organic acids on noble metal sur-faces is of importance for industrial processes and of academic interest, but the basic reaction mechanisms

Experimental Study of Thermophysical Properties and Nanostructure of Self-Assembled Water/Polyalphaolefin Nanoemulsion Fluids

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Jiajun Xu, Boualem Hammouda, Fangyu Cao, Bao Yang

In this study, the nanostructures and thermophysical properties (thermal conductivity, viscosity and specific heat) of one new type of nanostructured heat

Mass spectrometry of analytical derivatives. 1. Cyanide cations in the spectra of N-alkyl-N-perfluoroacyl-alpha-amino acids and their methyl esters

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Nino G. Todua, Kirill V. Tretyakov, Anzor I. Mikaia

The central mission for the development of the NIST/NIH/EPA mass spectral library (The Library) is the acquisition of reference GC-MS data for important

Leveraging the Potential of Cloud Security Service-Level Agreements through Standards

July 15, 2015

Author(s)

Jesus Luna, Neeraj Suri, Michaela Iorga, Anil Karmel

This article takes a fresh view on cloud security by analyzing, from the risk management perspective, the specification of security in Cloud Service Level

Candidate Reference Measurement Procedure for the Determination of 24R,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 in Human Serum using Isotope-Dilution Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Susan Tai, Michael A. Nelson

The two major forms of vitamin D, vitamin D3 and vitamin D2, are metabolized in the liver through hydroxylation to 25-hydroxyvitamin D species, and then further

SIMULATION-BASED DESIGN CONCEPT EVALUATION FOR AMBULANCE PATIENT COMPARTMENTS

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Jennifer L. Marshall, Allison Barnard Feeney, Larry Avery, Allie Jacobs

To address the inadequacy of existing standards regarding interior layout design, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate

Density Functional Theory Meta-GGA+U Study of Water Incorporation in the Metal Organic Framework Material Cu-BTC

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Eric J. Cockayne, Eric B. Nelson

Water absorption in the metal-organic framework (MOF) material Cu-BTC, up to a concentration of 3.5 H2O per Cu ion, is studied via density functional theory at

Spherical Resonator for Vapor-Phase Speed of Sound and Measurements of 1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptafluoro-3-methoxypropane (RE347mcc) and trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene [R1234ze(E)]

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Richard A. Perkins, Mark O. McLinden

We describe an apparatus to measure the speed of sound of gas samples at temperatures from 265 K to 500 K with pressures up to 40 MPa. The speed of sound is

Using Indentation to Quantify Transport Properties of Nanophase Segregated Polymer Membranes

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Eric Davis, Nichole Nadermann, Kirt A. Page, Christopher Stafford, Edwin Chan

Heterogeneous, nanophase segregated polymers are ubiquitous in technologies such as fuel cells and batteries, water purification, and drug delivery, where the

Fractionation and characterization of high aspect ratio gold nanorods using asymmetric-flow field flow fractionation and single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Thao M. Nguyen, Jingyu Liu, Vincent A. Hackley

Development of methods for the in situ fractionation and characterization of high aspect ratio (AR) gold nanorods (GNRs) is a rapidly growing area of interest

Spin Waves and Spatially Anisotropic Exchange Interactions in the S = 2 Stripe Antiferromagnet Rb_0.8Fe_1.5S₂

July 13, 2015

Author(s)

Meng Wang, P. Valdivia, Ming Yi, J. X. Chen, W. L. Zhang, R. A. Ewings, T. G. Perring, Yang Zhao, Leland Harriger, Jeffrey W. Lynn, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Pengcheng Dai, D. H. Lee, D. X. Yao, R. J. Birgeneau

An inelastic neutron scattering study of the spin waves corresponding to the stripe antiferromagnetic order in insulating Rb 0.8Fe 1.5S 2 throughout the

An Itinerant Antiferromagnetic Metal Without Magnetic Constituents

July 13, 2015

Author(s)

E. Svanidze, Jiakui K. Wang, Tiglet Besara, L. Liu, Qingzhen Huang, T. Siegrist, Benjamin Frandsen, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Monica Barbara Gamza, M.C. Aronson, Y.J. Uemura, E. Morosan

Itinerant and local moment magnetism have substantively different origins, and require distinct theoretical treatment. A unified theory of magnetism has long

Review of superconducting transition-edge sensors for x-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy

July 13, 2015

Author(s)

Joel Ullom, Douglas Bennett

We present a review of emerging x-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers based on arrays of superconducting Transition-Edge Sensors (TESs). Special attention will be