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Quantitative contact resonance force microscopy for viscoelastic measurement of soft materials in liquid

October 1, 2015

Author(s)

Allison B. Churnside, Ryan C. Tung, Jason P. Killgore

Viscoelastic property measurements made in liquid are key to characterizing materials for a variety of biological and industrial applications, but obtaining...

Evaluating the Performance of DABO and HVAC-Cx Commissioning Tools using the Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed

October 1, 2015

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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...

Fiber Bragg Grating Based Thermometry

October 1, 2015

Author(s)

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...

Histone post-translational modifications in frontal cortex from human donors with Alzheimers disease

October 1, 2015

Author(s)

Kyle W. Anderson, Illarion V. Turko

Research highlights: Probing adsorbed organic coatings on nanoparticle surfaces

October 1, 2015

Author(s)

Stacey M. Louie, John M. Pettibone

Organic coatings adsorbed at a nanoparticle surface, together with the system properties, change the physicochemical properties of the nanoparticle, thereby...

Timekeeping in the Americas

October 1, 2015

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Michael A. Lombardi, Jose M. Lopez

Time and its measurement belong to the most fundamental core of physics, and many scientific and technological advances are directly or indirectly related to...

Electrodeposition of gold to conformally fill high-aspect-ratio nanometric silicon grating trenches: a comparison of pulsed and direct current protocols

October 1, 2015

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sami Znati, N Chedid, Houxun Miao, Lei Chen, Han Wen, Eric E. Bennett

Filling high-aspect-ratio trenches with gold is a frequent requirement in the fabrication of X-ray optics as well as micro-electronic components and other...

Spreading alerts quietly and the subgroup escape problem

October 1, 2015

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J. Aspnes, Z. Diamadi, A. Yampolskiy, K. Gjosteen, Rene Peralta

We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called a blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, a BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND...

The Influence of Calcium Chloride Deicing Salt on Phase Changes and Damage Development in Cementitious Materials

October 1, 2015

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Yaghoob Farnam, Sarah Dick, Andrew Wiese, Jeffrey M. Davis, Dale P. Bentz, Jason Weiss

The conventional CaCl2-H2O phase diagram is often used to describe how a calcium chloride behaves when it is used on a concrete pavement undergoing freezing and...

Report on Bilateral Key Comparison SIM.T-K6.1 on Humidity Standards in the Dew/Frost-point Temperature Range from –25 °C TO 20 °C

September 30, 2015

Author(s)

Christopher W. Meyer, Ken Hill

A Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Key Comparison of dew/frost point temperatures was carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Thermodynamic Properties of 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-nonafluoro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pentanone: Vapor Pressure, (p, ¿, T) Behavior, and Speed of Sound Measurements, and Equation of State

September 30, 2015

Author(s)

Mark O. McLinden, Richard A. Perkins, Eric W. Lemmon, Tara J. Fortin

We report comprehensive thermodynamic property measurements of 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-nonafluoro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pentanone. The pρT behavior was measured...

Mid-infrared spectroscopy beyond the diffraction limit via direct measurement of photothermal effect

September 30, 2015

Author(s)

Aaron M. Katzenmeyer, Glenn E. Holland, Jungseok Chae, Alan H. Band, Kevin Kjoller, Andrea Centrone

An atomic force microscope equipped with temperature sensitive probes was used to measure locally the photothermal effect induced by IR light absorption. This...

The Predictive Power of the Annellation Theory: The Case of the C26H16 Cata-Condensed Benzenoid Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

September 30, 2015

Author(s)

Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Ruiz-Morales Yosadara

The Annellation Theory was applied for the establishment of the locations of maximum absorbance for the p and β bands in the UV-Vis spectra of 8 benzenoid cata...

X-ray Powder Reference Patterns for Magnetoplumbite-like Compounds, (BaxSr1-x)Ti6Co6O19 (x=0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8)

September 30, 2015

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Guangyao Liu, James A. Kaduk

X-ray reference powder patterns and crystal structures have been determined for a series of titanium- and cobalt-containing layered alkaline-earth compounds...

Full elastic strain and stress tensor measurements from individual dislocation cells in copper through-Si vias

September 30, 2015

Author(s)

Lyle E. Levine, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Ruqing Xu

We report non-destructive measurements of the full elastic strain and stress tensors from individual dislocation cells distributed along the full extent of a 50...

Improving acoustic determinations of the Boltzmann constant with mass spectrometer measurements of the molar mass of argon

September 30, 2015

Author(s)

Inseok Yang, Laurent Pitre, Michael R. Moldover, Jintao Zhang, XiaoJuan Feng, Jin Seog Kim

We determined accurate values of ratios among the average molar masses MAr of 9 argon samples using two completely-independent techniques: (1) mass spectroscopy...

Standardizing 25-Hydroxyvitamin D values from the Canadian Health Measures Survey

September 30, 2015

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Kurtis Sarafin, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Lu Tian, Karen W. Phinney, Susan Tai, Johanna Camara, Hubert W. Vesper, Joyce M. Merkel, Evan Green, Christopher T. Sempos, Stephen P. Brooks

Background: The Canadian Health Measures survey (CHMS) is an ongoing cross sectional national survey that includes a measure of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) by...

240 Hz linewidth Brillouin laser from a microrod whispering gallery mode resonator

September 29, 2015

Author(s)

William Loh, Aurelien C. Coillet, Frederick N. Baynes, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams, Joe Becker

We demonstrate an ultra-low noise laser that oscillates based on the stimulated Brillouin scattering nonlinearity in an optical microresonator. Our Brillouin...

Toward 5G Emerging Technologies: Selected Papers from IEEE PIMRC 2014

September 28, 2015

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Kamya Yazdandoost

Surface conductance and microwave scattering in semicontinous gold films

September 28, 2015

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut

Semicontinous gold films 4 nm to 12 nm thick were characterized using patterned coplanar waveguides over a frequency range of 100 MHz to 20 GHz. Such films can...

Topological Magnon Bands in Kagome Lattice Ferromagnet

September 28, 2015

Author(s)

Robin Michael Daub Chisnell, Joel Helton, D. E. Freedman, D. K. Singh, R. I. Bewley, D. G. Nocera, Y. S. Lee

The success of band theory in describing the motion of quantum particles inside solids is a foundational accomplishment in modern physics. Recent excitement has...

Degradation of 14C-labeled Graphene via Fenton Reaction: Reaction rates, characterization of reaction products, and potential ecological effects

September 28, 2015

Author(s)

Yiping Feng, Elijah Petersen, Kun Lu, Xiangke Guo, Shixiang Gao, Liang Mao

Graphene has attracted considerable interest due to its numerous emerging applications. It is inevitable that graphene will be released into the environment...

Integrated tuning fork nanocavity optomechanical transducers

September 28, 2015

Author(s)

Rui Zhang, Chaoyang Ti, Marcelo I. Davanco, Yundong Ren, Vladimir Aksyuk, Yuxiang Liu, Kartik Srinivasan

Reparameterization of COSMO-SAC for Phase Equilibrium Properties Based on Critically Evaluated Data

September 25, 2015

Author(s)

Yauheni Paulechka, Vladimir Diky, Andrei F. Kazakov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Michael D. Frenkel

COSMO-SAC model was re-parameterized using the critically evaluated data generated by the NIST ThermoData Engine for vapor-liquid equilibria, excess enthalpies...

A Strategy for Characterization of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in a Reference Material

September 25, 2015

Author(s)

Kevin M. Kiesler, Katherine Gettings, Peter Vallone

The advent and adoption of next generation sequencing (NGS) is enabling analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at an unprecedented scale, limited...

An algorithm for compensation of short-period errors in optical encoders

September 24, 2015

Author(s)

Marcus H. Mendenhall, Donald A. Windover, Albert Henins, James P. Cline

We present a simple way to collect data from an optical position or angle encoder with a readout which interpolates values between the optical features, and to...

Metal-Dielectric-Metal Resonators with Deep Subwavelength Dielectric Layers Increase the Near-Field SEIRA Enhancement

September 24, 2015

Author(s)

Jungseok Chae, Basudev Lahiri, John M. Kohoutek, Glenn Holland, Henri Lezec, Andrea Centrone

Plasmonic nanostructures presenting either structural asymmetry or metal-dielectric-metal (M-D-M) architecture are commonly used structures to increase the...

The next dimension in STR sequencing: Polymorphisms in flanking regions and their allelic associations

September 24, 2015

Author(s)

Katherine Gettings, Rachel A. Aponte, Kevin M. Kiesler, Peter Vallone

Sequence data was analyzed from the flanking and repeat regions of 22 autosomal STR loci in 183 population samples. The flanking regions of the loci sequenced...

Some dual definite integrals for Bessel functions

September 24, 2015

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl, Rebekah M. Palmer, Sean Nair

Based on known definite integrals of Bessel functions of the first kind, we obtain exact solutions to unknown definite integrals using the method of integral...

In-source collision induced dissociation of inorganic explosives for mass spectrometric signature detection and chemical imaging

September 23, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas P. Forbes, Edward R. Sisco

In-source collision induced dissociation (CID) coupled with laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS) demonstrated the trace detection, bulk...

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