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Reconfigurable Data Driven Virtual Machine Tool: Geometric Error Modeling and Evaluation

August 31, 2015

Author(s)

Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., Shawn P. Moylan, Gregory W. Vogl, M A. Donmez

Standards communities are actively working to establish robust machining and measurement tests used to evaluate the machining performance of 5-axis machining...

An Experimental and Kinetic Modeling Study of N-dodecane Pyrolysis and Oxidation in a Flow Reactor

August 31, 2015

Author(s)

S. Banerjee, Rei Tangko, David Sheen, Hai Wang, Craig T. Bowman

N-dodecane (n-C12H26) is a straight chain alkane that forms an important constituent of surrogate blends for common aviation fuels such as JP8 and Jet-A. The...

Design of MEMS vision tracking system based on a micro fiducial marker

August 31, 2015

Author(s)

Yong Sik Kim, Yang Seung Ho, KwangWoong Yang, Nicholas Dagalakis

In this study, a MEMS-based vision tracking system is developed based on micro fiducial markers. The vision tracking system recognizes the predetermined...

Large-scale core-level Bethe-Salpeter equation calculations

August 31, 2015

Author(s)

Keith Gilmore, John Vinson, Eric L. Shirley, David Prendergast, Chaitanya D. Pemmaraju, Josh J. Kas, John J. Rehr, Fernando D. Vila

We present an efficient implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) method for obtaining core-level spectra including x-ray absorption (XAS), x-ray...

SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES WITH ISOSORBIDE CHAIN EXTENDER

August 28, 2015

Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Ivan Javni, Olivera Bili?, Nikola Bili? , Zoran S. Petrovic, Jan Ilavsky

Isosorbide, a renewable diol derived from starch, was used in combination with butane diol or alone as the chain extender in two series of thermoplastic...

Morphological transitions during Au electrodeposition: from porous to compact films and nanowires

August 28, 2015

Author(s)

Daniel Josell, Igor Levin, Thomas P. Moffat

Gold electrodeposition was studied in a sulfite electrolyte to which micromolar concentrations of Tl2SO4 were added. Hysteresis and a regime of negative...

Substitutional Doping in Nanocrystal Superlattices

August 27, 2015

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Aaron C. Johnston-Peck, Matteo Cargnello, Benjamin T. Diroll, Eric Wong, Bianca Datta, Divij Damodar, Vicky V. Doan-Nguyen, Andrew A. Herzing, Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray

Multiferroicity in Doped Hexagonal LuFeO₃

August 27, 2015

Author(s)

Steven M. Disseler, Xuan Luo, Bin Gao, Yoon Seok Oh, Rongwei Hu, Yazhong Wang, Dylan Quintana, Alexander Zhang, Qingzhen Huang, June W. Lau, Rick L. Paul, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Sang-Wook Cheong, William D. Ratcliff

The hexagonal phase of LuFeO 3 is a rare example of a multiferroic material possessing a weak ferromagnetic moment, which is predicted to be switchable by an...

Narrow linewidth source of greatly non-degenerate photon pairs for quantum repeaters from a short singly-resonant cavity

August 26, 2015

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery, Paulina S. Kuo, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang

Quantum repeaters require entangled photon pair sources to connect flying qubits in the telecommunication band and stationary qubits at atomic transition...

Wetting-Dewetting and Dispersion-Aggregation Transitions are Distinct for Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles in Chemically Dissimilar Polymer Matrix

August 26, 2015

Author(s)

Tyler B. Martin, Katrina Irene S. Mongcopa, Rana N. Ashkar, Paul Butler, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Arthi Jayaraman

Simulations and experiments are conducted on polymer mixtures (or blends) containing polymer grafted nanoparticles in a chemically distinct polymer matrix...

Diluvian clustering - A fast, effective algorithm for clustering compositional and other data

August 25, 2015

Author(s)

Nicholas Ritchie

Diluvian clustering is an unsupervised grid-based clustering algorithm well suited to interpreting large sets of noisy compositional data. The algorithm is...

Retrieval and classification methods for textured 3D models: A comparative study

August 25, 2015

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil

This paper presents a comparative study of six methods for the retrieval and classification of tex- tured 3D models, which have been selected as represen-...

Direct Observation of Critical Adsorption on Colloidal Particles

August 25, 2015

Author(s)

Christopher E Bertrand, P. D. Godfrin, Yun Liu

Despite the fundamental role adsorbed solvent layers play in generating critical Casimir forces between colloidal particles, the structure of these layers has...

Microcalorimeter Spectroscopy at High Pulse Rates: a Multi-Pulse Fitting Technique

August 24, 2015

Author(s)

Joseph W. Fowler, Bradley K. Alpert, William B. Doriese, Young Il Joe, Galen C. O'Neil, Cherno Jaye, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel A. Fischer, Daniel S. Swetz

Transition edge sensor microcalorimeters can measure x-ray and gamma-ray energies with very high energy resolution and high photon-collection efficiency. For...

Diffraction limited focusing and directing of gap plasmons by a metal-dielectric-metal lens

August 24, 2015

Author(s)

Brian S. Dennis, David Czaplewski, Michael Haftel, Daniel Lopez, Girsh Blumberg, Vladimir Aksyuk

Passive optical elements can play key roles in photonic applications such as plasmonic integrated circuits. Here we experimentally demonstrate passive gap...

Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties for Cu2ZnSnSe4 with Ga-doping

August 22, 2015

Author(s)

Kaya Wei, Laura Beauchemin, Hsin Wang, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas

Gallium doped Cu2ZnSnSe4 quaternary chalcogenides with and without excess Cu have been synthesized by elemental reaction and densified using hot pressing in...

Long Term Air Quality Monitoring in a Net-Zero Energy Residence Designed with Low Emitting Interior Products

August 21, 2015

Author(s)

Dustin G. Poppendieck, Lisa C. Ng, Andrew K. Persily, Al Hodgson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) constructed a Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) to support the development and...

The PTEN Tumor Suppressor Forms Homodimers in Solution

August 21, 2015

Author(s)

Frank Heinrich, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Hirsh Nanda, Antonella Papa, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Alonzo H. Ross, Rakesh K. Harishchandra, Arne Gericke, Peter M. Loesche

The PTEN tumor suppressor exerts phosphatase activity on PI(3,4,5)P 3 in the plasma membrane and was recently reported to dimerize in cell models. Here we show...

Overwhelming thermomechanical motion with microwave radiation pressure shot noise

August 21, 2015

Author(s)

John D. Teufel, Florent Q. Lecocq, Raymond W. Simmonds

We measure the fundamental noise processes associated with a continuous linear position measurement of a micromechanical membrane incorporated in a microwave...

Persistent Draining Crossover in DNA and Other Semi-Flexible Polymers: Evidence from Hydrodynamic Models and Extensive Measurements on DNA Solutions

August 20, 2015

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Marc Mansfield

Although the scaling theory of polymer solutions has had many successes, this type of argument is deficient when applied to hydrodynamic solution properties...

Tuning photo-catalytic activities of TiO2 nanoparticles using dimethacrylate resins

August 20, 2015

Author(s)

Jirun Sun, Stephanie S. Watson, David Allsopp, Deborah Jacobs, Drago Skrtic

Unique photo-catalytic activities (PCAs) of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) made them attractive in many potential applications for medical devices...

Zero-compensation method and reduced inductive voltage error for the AC Josephson voltage standard

August 20, 2015

Author(s)

Kunli Zhou, Jifeng Qu, Samuel Benz

In the pulse-driven ac Josephson voltage standard, the low frequency component of the drive signal increases the system complexity and induces unwanted voltages...

Probing the Structure, Composition and Spatial Distribution of Ligands on Gold Nanorods

August 20, 2015

Author(s)

Michael J. A. Hore, Xingchen Ye, Jamie Ford, Yuzhi Gao, Jiayang Fei, Qiong Wu, Stuart J. Rowan, Russell J. Composto, Christopher B. Murray, Boualem Hammouda

The structure and size of ligands attached to the surfaces of gold nanorods, such as adsorbed surfactants or grafted polymers, are important considerations that...

Improved electronic measurement of the Boltzmann constant by Johnson noise Thermometry

August 19, 2015

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew, Samuel P. Benz, Horst Rogalla, Alessio Pollarolo, David R. White, Jifeng Qu, Kunli Zhou

The unit of thermodynamic temperature, the kelvin, will be redefined in 2018 by fixing the value of the Boltzmann constant, k. The present CODATA recommended...

Dimensional Reduction of Duplex DNA Under Nanofluidic Slit Confinement

August 19, 2015

Author(s)

Luis Fernando Vargas Lara, Jack F. Douglas, Samuel M. Stavis, Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Jon C. Geist, Brian J. Nablo

There has been much recent interest in the dimensional properties of duplex DNA under nanoscale confinement conditions as a problem of fundamental interest in...

Test of a virtual cylindrical acoustic resonator for determining the Boltzmann constant

August 19, 2015

Author(s)

XiaoJuan Feng, Hong Lin, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, Jintao Zhang

We report progress in determining the Boltzmann constant k B using a virtual acoustic resonator derived by combining the measured frequencies of the...

Performance of a dual Fabry-Perot cavity refractometer

August 18, 2015

Author(s)

Patrick F. Egan, Jack A. Stone Jr., Jay H. Hendricks, Jacob E. Ricker, Gregory E. Scace, Gregory F. Strouse

We have built and characterized a refractometer that utilizes two Fabry-Perot cavities formed on a dimensionally stable spacer. In the typical mode of operation...

Utilizing Vapor Swelling of Surface-Initiated Polymer Brushes to Develop Quantitative Measurements of Brush Thermodynamics and Grafting Density

August 18, 2015

Author(s)

Sara V. Orski, Richard J. Sheridan, Edwin P. Chan, Kathryn L. Beers

The stimuli-responsive behavior of densely grafted polymer brushes makes them attractive for designing tunable coatings and thin film sensors, provided physical...

A compact optically coherent fiber frequency comb

August 18, 2015

Author(s)

Laura C. Sinclair, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Lindsay I. Sonderhouse, William C. Swann, Isaac H. Khader, Esther Baumann, Nathan R. Newbury, Ian R. Coddington

We describe design and operation of a robust self-referenced, optically coherent frequency comb. The system robustness is derived from a combination of an...

svviz: a read viewer for validating structural variants

August 18, 2015

Author(s)

Noah Spies, Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Arend Sidow

We present svviz, a sequencing read visualizer for structural variants (SVs) that sorts and displays only reads relevant to a candidate SV. This is accomplished...

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