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Journals

Nanotribology Application in the Coining Industry (II) - Optimization of Lubricant Film Formation on Blanks

June 25, 2013

Author(s)

Tsi-Neng Ying, Richard S. Gates

A new method has been developed to lubricate metal coin blanks during the coin production process. The lubricant is formed on the metal surfaces as a

Applications of Heat Transfer Fundamentals to Fire Modeling

June 25, 2013

Author(s)

Ofodike A. Ezekoye, M J. Hurley, Jose L. Torero, Kevin B. McGrattan

The fire industry relies on fire engineers and scientists to develop materials and technologies used to either resist, detect, or suppress fire. While

Solving the Robot-World/Hand-Eye Calibration Problem Using the Kronecker Product

June 24, 2013

Author(s)

Mili I. Shah

This paper constructs a closed-form solution to the robot-world/hand-eye calibration paper using the Kronecker product. In other words, it constructs the

Consideration of Envelope Airtightness in Modelling Commercial Building Energy Consumption

June 24, 2013

Author(s)

Lisa C. Ng, Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich

As various strategies for improving building envelope and HVAC equipment efficiencies are increasingly used to reduce building energy use, a greater percentage

Performance Analysis of an Integrated Micro Cryogenic Cooler and Miniature Compressor for Cooling to 200 K

June 24, 2013

Author(s)

Ryan J. Lewis, Mu Hong Lin, Yunda Wang, Jill Cooper, Peter E. Bradley, Ray Radebaugh, Marcia L. Huber, Yung-Cheng Lee

Joule-Thomson (J-T) based micro cryogenic coolers (MCCs) are attractive because they can provide the cryogenic temperatures needed for small electronic devices

Enabling an Enterprise-wide, Data-centric Operating Environment

June 21, 2013

Author(s)

David F. Ferraiolo, Serban I. Gavrila, Wayne Jansen

Although access control (AC) currently plays an important role in securing DSs, if properly envisaged and designed, access control can serve a more vital role

Effects of Processing on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ti-6Al-4V Fabricated using Electron Beam Melting (EBM), Part 1: Distance from Build Plate and Part Size

June 20, 2013

Author(s)

Nikolas W. Hrabe, Timothy P. Quinn, Ryan Kircher

Selective electron beam melting (EBM) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing technique that shows great promise for fabrication of medical devices and

Effects of Processing on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ti-6Al-4V Fabricated using Electron Beam Melting (EBM), Part 2: Energy Input, Orientation, and Location

June 20, 2013

Author(s)

Nikolas W. Hrabe, Timothy P. Quinn, Ryan Kircher

Selective electron beam melting (EBM) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing technique that shows great promise for fabrication of medical devices and

Detection of Topological Matter with Quantum Gases

June 20, 2013

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman

Creating and measuring topological matter with order deeply imbedded its quantum mechanical eigenstates structure presents unique experimental challenges

Just Add Water reproducible singly dispersed silver nanoparticle suspensions

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Robert I. MacCuspie, Andrew J. Allen, Matthew N. Martin, Vincent A. Hackley

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are of interest due to their antimicrobial attributes, which are derived from their inherent instability and subsequent release of

Spectral responsivity based calibration of photometer and colorimeter standards

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer

Several new generation transfer- and working-standard illuminance meters and tristimulus colorimeters have been developed at the National Institute of Standards

Resonant Microwave Absorption in Thermally Deposited Au Nanoparticle Films Near Percolation Coverage

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Jack F. Douglas, Oleg A. Kirillov, Fred Sharifi, James A. Liddle

We observe a resonant transition in microwave absorption in thin thermally deposited Au nanoparticle films near the geometrical percolation transition pc where

Cubic Silsesquioxanes as Tunable High Performance Coating Materials

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher Soles, Hyun W. Ro, Aaron M. Forster, Dave J. Krug, Vera Popova, Richard M. Laine

In this manuscript a series of cubic silsequioxane monomers with their eight vertices functionalized with different organic ligands terminated with

Stratified Sampling for the Ising Model: A Graph-Theoretic Approach

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Amanda A. Streib, Noah S. Streib, Isabel M. Beichl, Francis Sullivan

We present a new approach to a classical problem in statistical physics: estimating the partition function and other thermodynamic quantities of the

Recent Advances in Sharing Standardized STEP Composite Structure Design and Manufacturing Information

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan, Allison Barnard Feeney, Keith A. Hunten

Composite structures have been developed and used in the aerospace, automobile, sports, and marine industries since the early 1940s. Compared to conventional

Implementation of generalized quantum measurements for unambiguous discrimination of multiple nonorthogonal coherent states

June 18, 2013

Author(s)

Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

Generalized quantum measurements can perform perfect discrimination of nonorthogonal states by allowing for inconclusive results, task which is impossible

Photon-Number-Resolved Detection of Photon-Subtracted Thermal Light

June 18, 2013

Author(s)

Jingyun Fan, Yanhua (. Zhai, Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Boris L. Glebov, Adriana E. Lita, Brice R. Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Alan L. Migdall

We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light using photonnumberresolving detection. We show the photon-number distribution transforms

Effect of Flow-Pressure Phase on Performance of Regenerators in the Range of 4 K to 20 K

June 17, 2013

Author(s)

Michael A. Lewis, Ryan P. Taylor, Peter E. Bradley, Ray Radebaugh

Modeling with REGEN3.3 has shown that the phase between flow and pressure at the cold end of 4 K regenerators has a large effect on their second-law efficiency

Fermion Mediated Interactions Between Ultracold Bosons

June 16, 2013

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman, Subhadeep De

We describe a new method for creating spin-dependent long-range interactions between atomic ultra-cold neutral bosons in an optical lattice. In this proposal

Mapping the Vif-A3G interaction using peptide arrays: a basis for anti-HIV lead peptides

June 15, 2013

Author(s)

Jeeseong Hwang, Ji Y. Lee, Abigail E. Miller, Tali Reingewertz, Elena Britan-Rosich, Shahar Rotem-Bamberger, Mathias Viard, Robert Blumenthal, Assaf Friedler

Human apolipoprotein-B mRNA-editing catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (A3G) is a cytidine deaminase that restricts retroviruses, endogenous retro-elements and DNA

A comb-calibrated FMCW LADAR for absolute distance measurements

June 15, 2013

Author(s)

Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Laura C. Sinclair, Kevin O. Knabe, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

We present a comb calibrated frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LADAR system for absolute distance measurements to diffuse or specular surfaces. The

The Filler Effect: The Influence of Filler Content and Surface Area on Cementitious Reaction Rates

June 15, 2013

Author(s)

Tandre Oey, Aditya Kumar, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Narayanan Neithalath, Gaurav Sant

Finely ground mineral powders are known to accelerate cement hydration rates. This "filler effect" has been attributed to the effects of dilution (w/c increase)

ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE)

June 14, 2013

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan

For over a decade this journal has supported and advanced the research and applications at the intersection of information science and mechanical engineering

Optimized superconducting detectors using the proximity effect in Ti/TiN multilayers

June 14, 2013

Author(s)

David P. Pappas, Michael R. Vissers, Jiansong Gao, Martin O. Sandberg, David S. Wisbey, Kent D. Irwin

We apply the superconducting proximity effect in TiN/Ti multi-layers films to tune the critical temperature, $T_C$ (to within 10 mK) with high uniformity (less

Dephasing of Si singlet-triplet qubits due to charge and spin defects

June 14, 2013

Author(s)

Dimitrie Culcer, Neil M. Zimmerman

We study the effect of charge and spin noise on singlet-triplet qubits in Si quantum dots. We set up a theoretical framework aimed at enabling experiment to

The Spin Hall Effect in a Quantum Gas

June 13, 2013

Author(s)

Matthew C. Beeler, Ross A. Williams, Karina K. Jimenez Garcia, Lindsay J. LeBlanc, Abigail R. Perry, Ian B. Spielman

Electronic properties like current ﬂow are usually unaffected by the electrons spin angular momentum, an internal degree of freedom present in quantum

The continuum absorption in H2O+N2 mixture in the 3 - 5 ¿m spectral region at temperatures from 326 to 363 K

June 13, 2013

Author(s)

Yuri I. Baranov

The absorption spectra of H2O+N2 mixtures, as well, as the spectra of pure gases, have been measured using a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer at a

Investigation of 304SS and Ti-6AI-4V during electrically-assisted forming at high deformation rates

June 11, 2013

Author(s)

Steven P. Mates, Brad Kinsey, Graham Cullen, Adam Jordan

Past research has investigated an electroplastic effect for metals, i.e., decreased flow stress and increased elongation, caused by the an applied electrical

Mechanochromic photonic gels

June 10, 2013

Author(s)

Edwin P. Chan, A M. Urbas, Joseph J. Walish, Edwin L. Thomas

Polymer gels are remarkable materials with physical structures that can adapt significantly and quite rapidly with changes in the local environmental changes

Formation of Disk- and Stacked Disk-Like Self-Assembled Morphologies from Cholesterol Functionalized Aliphatic Polycarbonate Containing Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers

June 10, 2013

Author(s)

Vivek M. Prabhu, Shrinivas Venkataraman, Ashlynn Lee, Yi Yan Yang, James Hedrick, Hareem Maune

In this study, a cholesterol functionalized aliphatic cyclic carbonate monomer, 2-(5-methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dioxane-5-carboxyloyloxy)ethyl carbamate (MTC-Chol) was