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Potential Hazard Due to Induced Radioactivity Secondary to Radiotherapy: The Report of AAPM Task Group 136

December 1, 2014

Author(s)

Fred B. Bateman, Bruce R. Thomadsen, Ravinder Nath, Jonathan Farr, Cal Glisson, Mohammad K. Islam, T. LaFrance, M. E. Moore, X. G. Xu, Mark Yudelev

External-beam radiation therapy mostly uses high-energy photons (x-rays) produced by medical accelerators but many facilities now use proton beams and a few use...

New Methods for Measurement of Neutron Detector Efficiency up to 20 MeV

December 1, 2014

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Fred B. Bateman, Allan D. Carlson, N. A. Kornilov, S M. Grimes, T N. Massey, C E. Brient, D E. Carter, J E. O'Donnell, R. C. Haight, N Boukharouba

A new approach to neutron detector effciency has been taken. A neutron detector has been calibrated with a Cf-252 source at low energy. The calibration was...

Dissipation due to pure spin current generated by spin pumping

December 1, 2014

Author(s)

Wayne M. Saslow, Tomohiro Taniguchi

Based on spin-dependent transport theory and thermodynamics, we develop a generalized theory of the Joule heating in the presence of a spin current. Along with...

2014 Accomplishments and Opportunities

December 1, 2014

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Steven R. Kline

Multi-Scale Investigation of the Performance of Limestone in Concrete

December 1, 2014

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Dale P. Bentz, Ahmad Ardani, Tim Barrett, Scott Z. Jones, Didier Lootens, Max A. Peltz, Taijiro Sato, Paul E. Stutzman, Jussara Tanesi, Jason Weiss

Limestone (calcium carbonate) has long been a critical component of concrete, whether as the primary raw material for cement production, a fine powder added to...

Flat lens criterion by small-angle phase

December 1, 2014

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Peter Ott, Mohammed H. Al Shakhs, Henri Lezec, Kenneth J. Chau

It is sometimes possible to image using a flat lens consisting of planar, uniform media. There is conceptual division between theoretical flat lens proposals...

Bubble Nucleation of Highly Superheated Water on Thin Film Platinum Films supported by SiN Membranes using a Low-Noise Bridge Circuit

December 1, 2014

Author(s)

Eric J. Ching, Michael J. Carrier, C. T. Avedisian, James R. Young, Bruce R. Land, Richard E. Cavicchi

This study describes the use of stress-minimized thin film platinum (Pt) membrane configurations (200 nm thick, 150 μm long, 10 μm wide) for promoting bubble...

HIV-1 TAT Membrane Interactions Probed using X-ray and Neutron Scattering, CD Spectroscopy and MD Simulations

December 1, 2014

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Kiyotaka Akabori, Kun Huang, Bradley W. Treece, Michael S. Jablin, Brian B. Maranville, Arthur Woll, John F. Nagle, Angel E. Garcia, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle

A material model and its application to simulate the composite material structure of mortar and concrete using real-shape particles

November 30, 2014

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Edward Garboczi, Zhiwei Qian, Erik Schlangen, Guang Ye

The mesostructures of mortar and concrete can be represented by a model consisting of particles (sand, gravel) embedded in a cement paste matrix. Traditionally...

High Resolution Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging for Single Cells

November 30, 2014

Author(s)

Alexander Peterson, Michael Halter, Alessandro Tona, Anne Plant

Background Surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI) is a label-free technique that can image refractive index changes at an interface. We have previously shown...

Invited Article: Autonomous Assembly of Atomically Perfect Nanostructures Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

November 30, 2014

Author(s)

Joseph Stroscio, Robert Celotta, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Aaron P. Fein, Frank M. Hess, Gregory Rutter

A major goal of nanotechnology is to develop the capability to arrange matter at will by placing individual atoms at desired locations in a predetermined...

Liquid Chromatography with Isotope-Dilution Mass Spectrometry for Determination of Water-Soluble Vitamins in Foods

November 30, 2014

Author(s)

Melissa Phillips

Vitamins are essential for improving and maintaining human health, and the main source of vitamins in the diet. Measurement of the quantities of water-soluble...

Combustion Kinetic Model Uncertainty Quantification, Propagation and Minimization

November 29, 2014

Author(s)

Hai Wang, David Sheen

The current interest in the combustion chemistry of hydrocarbon fuels, including the various alcohol and biodiesel compounds, motivates this review of the...

A Cross-Domain Survey of Metrics for Modeling and Evaluating Collisions

November 28, 2014

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Marvel, Roger V. Bostelman

This paper provides a brief assessment of the metrics for measuring probability, degree, and severity of collisions as applied to autonomous and intelligent...

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

Author(s)

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

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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

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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

Author(s)

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

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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 Larason, Jeanne Houston, Robert Vest, Uwe Arp, Howard 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

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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...

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