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Jiwu Lu, Canute I. Vaz, Guangfan Jiao, Jason P. Campbell, Jason T. Ryan, Kin P. Cheung, Gennadi Bersuker, Chadwin D. Young
Accurate reliability predictions of real world digital logic circuits rely heavily on the relevancy of device level testing. In the case of bias temperature...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that up to half of non-fatal monoxide (CO) poisoning incidents during the hurricane...
Julien C. Gigault, Thao M. Nguyen, John M. Pettibone, Vincent A. Hackley
In this work we have developed and validated a methodology for determining the size distribution in polydisperse cationic nanoparticle (NP) samples using...
The (p, ρ, T, x) behavior of three (methane + propane) mixtures was measured with a two-sinker magnetic suspension densimeter over the temperature range of (248...
V. Goian, S. Kamba, D Nuzhnyy, Nathan Orloff, T. Birol, C.-H Lee, D. G. Schlom, James Booth
Recently, Lee et al. [1] used1% tensile strain to induce a ferroelectic instability in thin films of Srdn+1uTi nuO 3n+1u (n=1-6) phases. They showed that the...
We have studied the influence of experimental factors and specimen geometry on the quality of the mass spectra in copper (Cu) during pulsed-laser atom-probe...
Thomas R. Gentile, M J. Bales, H Breuer, T E. Chupp, Kevin J. Coakley, R L. Cooper, Jeffrey S. Nico, B. O'Neill
We present measurements of nonproportionality in the scintillation light yield of bismuth germanate (BGO) for gamma-rays with energies between 6 keV and 662 keV...
Robert N. Goldberg, Jacob Schliesser, Ashutosh Mittal, Stephen R. Decker, Ana Filipa L. Santos, Vera L. Freitas, Aaron A. Urbas, Brian E. Lang, Christian Heisse, Maria D. Ribeiro da Silva, Brian F. Woodfield, Rui Katahira, Wei Wang, David K. Johnson
The thermochemistry of samples of amorphous cellulose, cellulose I, cellulose II, and cellulose III was studied by using oxygen bomb calorimetry, solution...
Samuel P. Benz, Steven B. Waltman, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Alain Rufenacht, Logan A. Howe, Robert E. Schwall, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs
The performance of the NIST Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer has been improved such that it generates a root-mean-square (RMS) output voltage of 1 V...
John T. Vinson, Terrence J Jach, W. T. Elam, J. D. Denlinger
A comparison of the N Kα emission spectrum of crystalline ammonium nitrate to molecular orbital calculations reveals a unique observation: the peak associated...
J. R. Machacek, D. P. Mahapatra, D. R. Schultz, Yuri Ralchenko, A. Chutjian, J. Simcic, S. M. Madzunkov, R. J. Mawhorter
Absolute single and double charge-exchange (CE) cross sections for the astrophysically-prominent O6+ ion with the atomic and molecular targets He and H2 are...
We describe the results of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of thermal rippling in graphene, obtained with a simple, low computational cost, harmonic...
Andrew M. Klose, Gabriel G. Ycas, Daniel I. Maser, Scott A. Diddams
Ultrashort pulses of light in the 2 υm region were generated using supercontinuum broadening from an erbium fiber system. The output of a mode-locked erbium...
Trong D. Pham, Matthew Ross Hudson, Craig Brown, Raul F. Lobo
The structure-property relationship for CO 2 adsorption in Li-, Na-, K-CHA (Si/Al = 5 and = 12), and pure silica chabazite (Si-CHA) zeolites was investigated by...
Lin You, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Jungjoon Ahn, Joseph Kopanski, Yaw S. Obeng, Rhonda R. Franklin
In this paper, we discuss the use of broadband high frequency electromagnetic waves (RF) to non- destructively identify, classify and characterize performance...
Nicholas P. Young, Sebnem Inceoglu, Gregory M. Stone, Andrew J. Jackson, Steven R. Kline, Stephane Costeux, Nitash P. Balsara
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) was used to probe the phase behavior of multicomponent mixtures of supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2), styrene...
We present measurements of approximately 70 isolated, self-broadened, water vapor lines which are assigned to the (1,0,1)(0,0,0), (0,0,2)(0,0,0), (1,2,0)(0,0...
Lei Jiang, Eite Tiesinga, Xie-Ji Liu, Hui Hu, Han Pu
Motivated by recent experimental breakthroughs in generating spin-orbit coupling in ultracold Fermi gases using Raman laser beams, we present a systematic study...
Ryan S. Bowler, M. Palmer, John P. Gaebler, Dietrich G. Leibfried, J. G. Ceremuga
We investigate the dynamics of mixed-species ion crystals during transport between spatially distinct locations in a linear Paul trap in the diabatic regime. In...
Logan A. Howe, Anna Fox, Alain Rufenacht, Charles J. Burroughs, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz, Robert E. Schwall
Rising costs of and difficulty in obtaining liquid helium in many areas of the world provides strong motivation for cryogen-free operation of superconducting...
Sang M. An, Santiago D. Solares Rivera, Sergio Santos, Daniel Ebeling
We present experimental and computational investigations of tetramodal and pentamodal atomic force microscopy (AFM), respectively, whereby the first four or...
We use video-rate magneto optical Kerr effect (MOKE) microscopy to study zero field magnetic fluctuations in a perpendicularly magnetized cobalt film at room...
Jeffrey S. Nico, T J. Langford, Christopher D. Bass, H Breuer, Craig Heimbach, D. K. Erwin
A fast neutron spectrometer consisting of segmented plastic scintillator and He-3 proportional counters was constructed for the measurement of neutrons in the...
Maynard S. Dewey, V. Gressier, A. C. Bonaldi, David M. Gilliam, H. Harano, A. Masuda, T Matsumoto, N. Moiseev, Jeffrey S. Nico, R. Notle, S. Oberstedt, N. J. Roberts, S. Rottger, D. J. Thomas
To ensure the validity of their national standards, National Metrology Institutes, NMIs, participate regularly in international comparisons. In the area of...
Christopher W. Meyer, Peter H. Huang, Julio Brionizio
A Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Key Comparison of dew/frost point temperatures TDP/FP was carried out by NIST and the Instituto Nacional de Metrologia...
DNA replication is an essential process for all life forms. While the process is fundamentally conserved in the three domains of life, bioinformatics...
Thinh Q. Bui, David Long, Agata Cygan, Vincent T. Sironneau, Daniel Hogan, Priyanka M. Rapusinghe, Mitchio Okumura
Frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS) was used to study CO2 lineshapes in the (20013)←(00001) band centered near 2.06 um. Two...
Yaghoob Farnam, Dale P. Bentz, Allison Hampton, Jason Weiss
This paper describes a series of experiments that were performed to assess the freeze-thaw behavior of mortar samples exposed to NaCl solutions. A low...
Przemek Bienias, Soonwon Choi, Ofer Firstenberg, Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Mikhail Lukin, Alexey Gorshkov, Hans Peter Buchler
We provide a rigorous framework describing a low-density gas of slow-light polaritons propagating in one dimension under the conditions of electromagnetically...
We use time-dependent density functional theory to examine the character of various resonances corresponding to peaks in the optical response of small metallic...