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Surface Segregation Driven by Molecular Architecture Asymmetry in Polymer Blends

November 28, 2014

Author(s)

Jae Sik Lee, Nam-Heui Lee, Somesh Peri, Mark D. Foster, Charles Majkrzak, Renfeng Hu, David T. Wu

The contributions of chain ends and branch points to surface segregation of long-branched chains in blends with linear chains have been studied using Neutron...

Locally controlled magnetic anisotropy in transcritical permalloy thin films using ferroelectric BaTiO3 domains

November 26, 2014

Author(s)

Michael J. Donahue, Sean W. Fackler, Tieren Gao, Paris N. Nero, Sang-Wook Cheong, John Cumings, Ichiro Takeuchi

We investigated the local coupling between dense magnetic stripe domains in transcritical permalloy (tPy) thin films and ferroelectric domains of BaTiO 3 single...

Green Button: Building an Interoperable Ecosystem

November 25, 2014

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Martin J. Burns, John A. Teeter, David A. Wollman

Our goal in the Green Button Initiative is to provide electricity customers with easy access to their energy usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer...

Oxidatively Induced DNA Damage and Its Repair in Cancer

November 25, 2014

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar

Oxidatively induced DNA damage is caused in living organisms by endogenous and exogenous reactive species. DNA lesions resulting from this type of damage are...

DECISION GUIDANCE METHODOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING USING PROCESS ANALYTICS FORMALISM

November 25, 2014

Author(s)

Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, Seungjun Shin, Duck B. Kim

Sustainable manufacturing has significant impact on a companys business performance and competitiveness in todays world. A growing number of manufacturing...

Towards Development of a Testbed for Sustainable Manufacturing

November 25, 2014

Author(s)

Juyeon Lee, Seungjun Shin, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Don E. Libes

A growing number of manufacturing companies are treating sustainability as a strategic objective that will increase both their global competitiveness and their...

An interlaboratory comparison of sizing and counting of subvisible particles mimicking protein aggregates

November 24, 2014

Author(s)

Dean C. Ripple, Christopher B. Montgomery, Zhishang Hu

Accurate counting and sizing of protein particles has been limited by discrepancies of counts obtained by different methods. To understand the bias and...

Quantum engineering of atomic phase shifts in optical clocks

November 24, 2014

Author(s)

Andrew D. Ludlow, T Zanon-willette, S. Almonacil, E. de Clercq, Ennio Arimondo

Quantum engineering of time-separated Raman laser pulses in three-level systems is presented to produce an ultra-narrow, optical-clock transition free from...

High-Relaxivity Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoworms with Decreased Immune Recognition and Long-Circulating Properties

November 24, 2014

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Stephen E. Russek, Guankui Wang, Swetha Inturi, Natalie J. Serkova, Sergey Merkulov, Keith McCrae, Nirmal K. Banda, Dmitri Simberg

One of the core issues of nanotechnology involves masking the foreignness of nanomaterials to enable in vivo longevity and long-term immune evasion. Dextran...

Electron and Hole Photoemission Detection for Band Offset Determination of Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor Heterojunctions

November 24, 2014

Author(s)

Wei Li, Qin Zhang, R. Bijesh, Oleg A. Kirillov, Yiran Liang, Igor Levin, Lianmao Peng, Xuelei Liang, S. Datta, David J. Gundlach, Nhan V. Nguyen

The electrical performance of a tunnel field-effect transistor depends critically on the band offset at their semiconductor heterojunction interface...

Measurement of the Electrostatic Edge Effect in Wurtzite GaN Nanowires

November 24, 2014

Author(s)

Alex Henning, Benjamin Klein, Kristine A. Bertness, Paul T. Blanchard, Norman Sanford, Yossi Rosenwaks

The electrostatic effect of the hexagonal corner on the electronic structure in wurtzite GaN nanowires (NWs) was directly measured using Kelvin probe force...

Effect of Concentration on R134a/Al2O3 Nanolubricant Mixture Boiling on a Reentrant Cavity Surface

November 23, 2014

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a Turbo-BII-HP boiling surface...

Adaptive and Robust Statistical Methods for Processing Near-Field Scanning Microwave Microscopy Images

November 23, 2014

Author(s)

Kevin J. Coakley, Samuel Berweger, Atif A. Imtiaz, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis, Joel Weber, Pavel Kabos

Near-field scanning microwave microscopy offers great potential to facilitate characterization, development and modeling of materials. By acquiring microwave...

Broad Band Optical Properties of Large Area Monolayer CVD Molybdenum Disulfide

November 21, 2014

Author(s)

Wei Li, Glen Birdwell, Matin Amani, Yi-Hsien Lee, Ling Xi, Xuelei Liang, Lianmao Peng, Curt A. Richter, Kong Jing, David J. Gundlach, Nhan V. Nguyen

IR-enhanced Si reference detectors for 1-step scale transfers from 300 nm to 1000 nm

November 20, 2014

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Thomas C. Larason, Jeanne M. Houston, Robert E. Vest, Uwe Arp, Howard W. Yoon

IR-enhanced Si photodiodes have improved radiometric and electronic characteristics as compared to other widely used Si photodiodes and can be used as...

Diode-array UV solar spectroradiometer implementing a digital micromirror device

November 20, 2014

Author(s)

Ari D. Feldman, Tim Burnitt, Geiland Porrovecchio, Marek Smid, Luca Egli, Julian Gr¿bner, Katherine M. Nield

The solar ultraviolet spectrum captured by commercially available diode-array spectroradiometers is dominated by stray light from longer wavelengths with higher...

A detector combining quantum and thermal primary radiometric standards in the same artefact

November 20, 2014

Author(s)

Malcolm G. White, Nathan A. Tomlin, Jarle Gran

We present the concept of a dual mode cryogenic detector, utilising a predictable quantum efficient silicon photodiode, and demonstrate the behaviour of the...

Characterization of AlgMsp, an Alginate Lyase from Microbulbifer sp. 6532A

November 19, 2014

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Steven M. Swift, Ryan D. Heselpoth, Patrick M. Bales, Daniel C. Nelson

Alginate is a polysaccharide produced by certain seaweeds and bacteria that consists of mannuronic acid and guluronic acid residues. Seaweed alginate is used in...

Particle Moment Canting in CoFe₂O₄ Nanoparticles

November 19, 2014

Author(s)

K. Hasz, Y. Ijiri, Kathryn L. Krycka, Julie Borchers, R. A. Booth, S. Oberdick, S. A. Majetich

Polarization-analyzed small-angle neutron scattering methods are used to determine the spin morphology in high crystalline anisotropy, 11 nm diameter CoFe 2O 4...

High Resolution Imagery Collection for Post-Disaster Studies Utilizing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

November 19, 2014

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Stuart M. Adams, Marc L. Levitan, Friedland J. Carol

This paper examines the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to capture imagery for use in post-disaster field studies at the neighborhood and individual...

Preface

November 19, 2014

Author(s)

Daniel G. Friend, Marcia L. Huber, Neil T. Wright

This is a preface for a special issue of the International Journal of Thermophysics that contains papers presented at the 18th Symposium on Thermophysical...

Homogeneous Linewidth Narrowing of the Charged Exciton via Nuclear Spin Screening in an InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Ensemble

November 18, 2014

Author(s)

Galan A. Moody, Mingming M. Feng, Corey A. McDonald, Richard P. Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman

In semiconductor quantum dots, the electron hyperfine interaction with the nuclear spin bath is the leading source of spin decoherence at cryogenic temperature...

Origin of the Charge Gap in LaMnPO

November 18, 2014

Author(s)

D. E. McNally, J. W. Simonson, K. W. Post, Z. P. Yin, M. Pezzoli, G. J. Smith, V. Leyva, C. Marques, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, A. I. Kolesnikov, Yang Zhao, Jeffrey W. Lynn, D. N. Basov, G. Kotliar, M. C. Aronson

We present inelastic neutron scattering and magnetization measurements of the antiferromagnetic insulator LaMnPO that are well described by a Heisenberg spin...

Photon Number Resolution Enables Quantum Receiver for Realistic Coherent Optical Communications

November 17, 2014

Author(s)

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

Quantum-enhanced measurements can provide information about the properties of a physical system with sensitivities beyond what is fundamentally possible with...

A rational strategy for characterization of nanoscale particles by asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation

November 16, 2014

Author(s)

Julien C. Gigault, John M. Pettibone, Charlene E. Schmitt, Vincent A. Hackley

This tutorial proposes a comprehensive and rational measurement strategy that provides specific guidance for the application of asymmetric-flow field flow...

Structure and Magnetic Properties of the α-NaFeO₂-Type Honeycomb Compound Na₃Ni₂BiO₆

November 15, 2014

Author(s)

Elizabeth M. Seibel, J. H. Roudebush, Hui Wu, Qingzhen Huang, Mazhar N. Ali, Huiwen Ji, R. J. Cava

We present the structure and magnetic properties of Na 3Ni 2BiO 6, which is an ordered variant of the α-NaFeO 2 structure type. This layered compound has a 2:1...

Broadband Noise Limit in the Photodetection of Ultralow Jitter Optical Pulses

November 14, 2014

Author(s)

Franklyn J. Quinlan, W. Sun, Tara M. Fortier, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Yang Fu, Scott A. Diddams, Joe Campbell

Applications with optical atomic clocks and precision timing often require the transfer of optical frequency references to the electrical domain with extremely...

A study of the adhesive foot of the gecko

November 14, 2014

Author(s)

Elmar Kroner, Chelsea S. Davis

In recent years, hundreds of scientific studies have been published regarding gecko-inspired adhesives. The primary reason for this increasing interest lies in...

Hydrocarbon Flame Inhibition by C3H2F3Br (2-BTP)

November 14, 2014

Author(s)

Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris, Donald R. Burgess Jr., Patrick T. Baker

The kinetic mechanism of hydrocarbon flame inhibition by the potential halon replacement 2-BTP has been assembled, and is used to study its effects on premixed...

Toward Metamodels for Composable and Reusable Additive Manufacturing Process Models

November 13, 2014

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell, Shaw C. Feng

In this paper, we advocate for a more harmonized approach to model development for additive manufacturing (AM) processes, through classification and...

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