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Katherine Gettings, Kevin M. Kiesler, Peter Vallone
Forensic DNA casework samples are often of insufficient quantity or quality to generate full profiles by conventional DNA typing methods. Amplification of STR...
A resolution metric intended for the resolution analysis of arbitrary spatially calibrated images is presented in this paper. By fitting a simple sigmoidal...
Tamar Segal-Peretz, Jonathan P. Winterstein, Manolis Doxastakis, Abelardo Ramirez-Hernandez, Mahua Biswas, Jiaxing Ren, Hyo S. Suh, Seth B. Darling, James Alexander Liddle, Jeffrey Elam, Juan J. de Pablo, Nestor Zaluzec, Paul Nealey
Understanding and controlling the three-dimensional structure of block copolymer (BCP) thin films is critical for utilizing these materials for sub-20 nm...
Sebastian Engmann, Felicia A. Bokel, Andrew Herzing, Hyun W. Ro, Dean DeLongchamp, Lee J. Richter, Claudio Girotto, Bruno Caputo
We have studied the influence of the additive diiodoctane on the formation dynamics of high performance bulk heterojunction (BHJ) films based the small molecule...
Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Claude Bailat, Christophe Bobin, John Keightley
The 4-pi-beta-gamma coincidence counting method and its close relatives are widely used for the primary standardization of radioactivity. Both the general...
Michael P. Unterweger, L Johansson, M Rodriques, A Yunoki, Lisa R. Karam
The uncertainties in internal gas counting can, for the most part, be split into two areas: counting and sample gas measurement uncertainties and the counting...
The uncertainties in surface emission rates determined by gas-flow proportional counters (multiwired) will be broken down into alpha and beta emission rate...
The development of organic photovoltaic technologies would benefit from the introduction of non-fullerene materials to replace the dominant fullerene acceptors...
Joseph T. Hodges, A. Cygan, P. Wcislo, S. Wojtewicz, Piotr Maslowski, R. Ciurylo, D Lisak
Recent developments in optical metrology have tremendously improved the precision and accuracy of the horizontal (frequency) axis in measured spectra. However...
Marie Noelle Amiot, V Chiste, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, F Juget, Carine Michotte, Andrew Pearce, G Ratel
Pressurized re-entrant (or 4π) pressurized ionization chambers (ICs) connected to current- measuring electronics are used for activity measurements of photon...
Nuclear counting is affected by pulse pileup and system dead time which induce rate-related count loss and alter the statistical properties of the counting...
Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) is a first principles based method to determine absolute sedimentation coefficients and buoyant molar masses of...
Catherine C. Cooksey, Benjamin K. Tsai, David W. Allen
Knowledge of the spectral reflectance signature of human skin over a wide spectral range will help advance the development of sensing systems for many...
Marko Vujasinovic, Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou
Distributed manufacturing requires an agile supply chain which reduces time to market and responds efficiently to changes. Our research aims to enable agile...
Much has been written over the last two decades about the advantages of separation orthogonality for the characterization of complex polymers and blends, and of...
Richard S. Gates, William A. Osborn, Gordon A. Shaw
Calibration of the flexural spring constant for atomic force microscope colloid probe cantilevers provides significant challenges. The presence of a large...
Justin K. Perron, Michael D. Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman
We present measurements of bias triangles in several biasing configurations. Using a capacitive model and two fit parameters we are able to predict the shapes...
Hyuk-Jae Jang, Jun-Sik Lee, Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Ich C. Tran, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker
We present the results of experiments that explore the influence of molecular self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on characteristics of spin injection into an...
Mark S. Lowenthal, Eric L. Kilpatrick, Karen W. Phinney
Chromatographic separation of monosaccharides hydrolyzed from glycoconjugates or complex, aggregate biomaterials, can be achieved by classic analytical methods...
Chengling Song, Yajing Ling, Yunlong Feng, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Yabing He
A copper-based NbO-type metal-organic framework ZJNU-50 constructed from a tetracarboxylate incorporating phenylethyne as spacer exhibited exceptionally high...
Evegeniya Lock, Dean DeLongchamp, Scott Schmucker, Blake Simpkins, Matthew Laskoski, Shawn Mulvaney, Daniel R. Hines, Mira Baraket, Sandra Hernandez, Jeremy Robinson, Paul Sheehan, Cherno Jaye, Daniel A. Fischer, Scott Walton
In this paper we apply a transfer print approach that relies on differential adhesion to remove graphene from Cu foil to polystyrene (PS) and ultra-high...
The following errors and misprints have been detected in the monograph of Nambudiripad (2014) "Bessel Functions", Alpha Science International Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
Arthur H. Fanney, William V. Payne, Tania Ullah, Lisa C. Ng, Matthew T. Boyd, Farhad Omar, Mark W. Davis, Harrison M. Skye, Brian P. Dougherty, Brian J. Polidoro, William M. Healy, Joshua D. Kneifel, Betsy Pettit
A Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility has been constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The facility...
Recommended practices supplement data exchange standards by providing common implementation guidance associated with specific requirements. ISO 10303 (STEP)...
As building envelope performance and HVAC equipment efficiencies are increasingly improved to reduce building energy use, a greater percentage of the total...
The ability to share precise models of suppliers manufacturing service capability (MSC) information is necessary to develop reliable methods that enable...
Hiroki Takesue, Shellee D. Dyer, Martin Stevens, Varun Verma, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Using high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on MoSi, we successfully achieved quantum teleportation of weak coherent states...
All organisms use multiple DNA polymerases to replicate and maintain their genomes. In archaea, members of family B and family D (polD) DNA polymerases were...
Allan Reiman, Antoine Cerfon, Geoffrey B. McFadden
In comparing equilibrium solutions for a DIII-D shot that is amenable to analysis by both stellarator and tokamak 3D equilibrium codes, a significant...
Michael S. Allman, Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Thomas Gerrits, Robert D. Horansky, Adriana E. Lita, Francesco Marsili, A. Beyer, Matthew Shaw, D. Kumor, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate a 64-pixel free-space-coupled array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors optimized for high detection efficiency in the near...