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Alexander (. Vergara Tinoco, Kurt D. Benkstein, Christopher B. Montgomery, Stephen Semancik
Performance characteristics of gas-phase microsensors will determine the ultimate utility of these devices for a wide range of chemical monitoring applications...
Yihua Y. Liu, Carlos M. Hangarter, Thomas P. Moffat
Self-terminating electrodeposition was developed for depositing ultrathin Pt overlayers on segmented electrodeposited Ni films supported on Au. The partitioned...
Zhe Wang, Kao-Hsiang Liu, Peisi Le, Mingda Li, Wei-Shan Chiang, Juscelino Leao, John R. Copley, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Andrey Podlesnyak, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Chung-Yuan Mou, Sow-Hsin Chen
The Boson peak in deeply-cooled water confined in nanopores is studied with inelastic neutron scattering. We show that the emergence of the Boson peak is...
Sebastian Peter, Udumula Subbarao, Sudhindra Rayaprol, Joshua Martin, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Christos D. Malliakas, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
The new compound Yb6.6Ir6Sn16 was obtained as single crystals in high yield from the reaction of Yb with Ir and Sn run in excess indium. Single crystal X-ray...
A method is presented for using a single laser pulse to transform polymorphic polycrystalline gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) into uniformly crystalline nanospheres...
We present an experimental method, based on analytical hydrodynamic theory, to accurately predict the inertial and viscous fluid loading forces at arbitrary...
In a previous work Sims and Hagstrom [Phys. Rev. A 83,032518(2011)] reported Hylleraas-configuration-interaction (Hy-CI) method variational calculations for the...
Brendan T. O'Connor, Obadiah G. Reid, Xinran Zhang, Regis J. Kline, Lee J. Richter, David J. Gundlach, Dean DeLongchamp, Michael F. Toney, Nikos Kopidakis, Garry Rumbles
The morphological origin of anisotropic charge transport in uniaxially strain aligned poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) films is investigated. The macroscale field...
Houxun Miao, Andrew A. Gomella, Nicholas Chedid, Lei Chen, Han Wen
Far field x-ray grating interferometry achieves extraordinary phase sensitivity in imaging weakly absorbing samples, provided that the grating period is within...
Adam J. Fleisher, Bryce Bjork, Thinh Q. Bui, Kevin C. Cossel, Mitchio Okumura, Jun Ye
Quantitative measurements in chemical kinetics require unambiguous determinations of reactant, intermediate, and product concentrations on time scales faster...
Li Xiong, Laken Kendrick, Hannele Heusser, Bradley J. Sparks, Christopher Stafford, James T. Goetz, Sergei Nazarenko, Derek L. Patton
Superamphiphobic surfaces, exhibiting high contact angles and low contact angle hysteresis to both water and low surface tension liquids, have attracted a great...
Mark T. Edmonds, Jack T. Hellerstedt, Anton Tadich, Alex Schenk, Kane Michael O'Donnell, Jacob Tosado, Nicholas Butch, Paul Syers, Johnpierre Paglione, Michael S. Fuhrer
We report on electronic transport measurements of dual-gated nano-devices of the low-carrier density topological insulator Bi 1.5Sbd0.05Te 1.7Se 1.3. In all...
Hao Zhu, John E. Bonevich, Haitao Li, Hui H. Yuan, Oleg A. Kirillov, Qiliang Li
In this work, multi-bit Flash memory based on self-aligned Si nanowire field-effect transistor and multiple Ta2O5 charge-trapping layers have been fabricated...
Frank Seifert, Alireza Panna, Leon Chao, Bing Han, Shisong Li, Yusi A. Cao, Darine El Haddad, Stephan Schlamminger, Heeju Choi, Lori Haley
The magnet system is one of the key elements of a watt balance. For the new watt balance currently under construction at the National Institute of Standards and...
Felipe Guzman, Lee M. Kumanchik, Jon R. Pratt, Jacob M. Taylor
We present an optically detected mechanical accelerometer that achieves a sensitivity of 100 ng/√Hz over a bandwidth of 10 kHz and is traceable. We have...
Yong Sik Kim, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Satyandra K. Gupta
A new design of three degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) translational motion stage (XYZ-stage) is presented in this paper. This XYZ-stage is based on Micro-electro...
Xiaoyu (Sara) Yang, Pedatsur Neta, Stephen E. Stein
Electrospray ionization (ESI) tandem mass spectrometry coupled with liquid chromatography is a routine technique for identifying and quantifying compounds in...
Michael G. Huber, Muhammad D. Arif, Wei-Chen N. Chen, Thomas R. Gentile, Daniel S. Hussey, T C. Black, Dimitry A. Pushin, F. E. Wiefeldt, C.B Shahi, L Yang
We report a new determination of the n-Helium-3 scattering length difference Δ b = (−5.411 ± 0.031 (statistical) ± 0.039 (systematic) ) fm between the triplet...
In a recent letter (Cromer et al. Phys. Fluids 2013) we showed, for the first time, the existence of a steady shear-banded velocity profile for a polymer...
Chad R. Snyder, Ryan C. Nieuwendaal, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Christine K. Luscombe, Prakash Sista, Shane D. Boyd
We extend a recent comprehensive study of 3-hexylthiophene oligomers to high molar mass poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) fractions, such as those used in organic...
Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Joe W. Magee, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Michael D. Frenkel, Jeongwon J. Kang
Data quality assessment procedures for various types of phase equilibrium data are reviewed and analyzed. Experimental data for vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE)...
George C. Rhoderick, Franklin R. Guenther, David L. Duewer, Jeongsoon Lee, Jin Seog Kim, Dongmin Moon, Jinbok Lee
The growing awareness of climate change/global warming and continuing concerns regarding stratospheric ozone depletion will require future measurements and...
On February 12, 2014 President Obama issued a statement that, "[c]yber threats pose one the gravest national security dangers that the United States faces. To...
Conrad E. Bock, Raphael Barbau, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan
An important aspect of systems and products is how they interact with their environment, including how they are operated. Behaviors external to systems usually...
Qian Dong, Xinjian Yan, Lisa E. Kilpatrick, Yuxue Liang, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Jeri S. Roth, Stephen E. Stein
This work presents a method for creating a mass spectral library containing tandem spectra identifiable peptide ions in the tryptic digestion of a single...