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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...
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...
DNA replication is an essential process for all life forms. While the process is fundamentally conserved in the three domains of life, bioinformatics...
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...
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...
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...
Iron nanoparticles are of interest in fields such as water treatment and alternative energy due to their reactive properties and low cost. When combined with...
This paper quantifies the influence of acoustic excitation of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a commercial...
Robert D. Shull, Y. P. Kabanov, Andrew P. Chen, Cindi L. Dennis, V S. Gornakov, Valerian I. Nikitenko
New features of the magnetization reversal of a patterned bilayer in the form of a square mesh consisting of 16 um wide intersecting stripes of Ni(sub79)Fe...
SLDMOL is a program for modeling the one-dimensional scattering length density (SLD) profile of proteins at the lipid membrane-solution interface or adsorbed to...
Shingo Maruyama, Varatharajan Anbusathaiah, Amy Fennell, Mechthild Enderle, Ichiro Takeuchi, William D. Ratcliff
We report on the evolution of the magnetic structure of BiFeO 3 thin films grown on SrTiO 3 substrates as a function of Sm doping. We determined the magnetic...
Stefano Mazzuccoo, Ying Wang, Mihaela M. Tanase, Matthieu C. Picher, Kai Li, Zhijian WU, Stephan Irle, Renu Sharma
Iron and carbon interactions play an important role in various industrial processes such as steel manufacturing, liquid fuel the production by Fischer Tropsch...
Donald Windover, David Gil, Yasushi Azuma, Toshiyuki Fujimoto
We test the reproducibility of X-ray reflectometry(XRR) measurements and optimizations using an National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ)/National Institute...
Fan Zhang, Andrew Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Mark D. Vaudin, Drago Skrtic, Joseph M. Antonucci, Kathleen Hoffman, Anthony A. Giuseppetti, Jan Ilavsky
Amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) based composites are promising restorative dental materials attributable to ACP's capacity to release calcium and phosphate...
The objective of this study was to investigate how the heterogeneity due to nanoparticle dispersion of polymeric coatings affects surface morphological changes...
Robert P. Erickson, Michael Vissers, Martin O. Sandberg, Steven R. Jefferts, David P. Pappas
We have generated frequency combs spanning 0.5 to 20 GHz in superconducting λ=2 resonators at T ¼ 3 K. Thin films of niobium-titanium nitride enabled this...
We investigate two-photon transitions and strong-field effects on Rydberg atoms using Autler- Townes splitting of electromagnetically-induced transparency...
Greg B. Rieker, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Jonathan Kofler, Alexander M. Zolot, Laura C. Sinclair, Esther Baumann, Christopher L. Cromer, G. Petron, Colm Sweeney, P P. Tans, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
We demonstrate frequency comb tooth-by-tooth measurements of atmospheric gas absorption across a 2-km, turbulent, open-air path through coherent dual-comb...
Sungseob Lee, SuKyoung Lee, Kim KyungSoo, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
As data traffic demand in cellular networks grows exponentially, operators need to add new cell sites to keep up; unfortunately, it is costly to build and...
Steven J. Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily, Liangzhu Wang
Serious concerns exist about the hazard of acute residential carbon monoxide (CO) exposures from portable gasoline-powered generators, which can result in death...