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On 29 December 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, Richard Feynman gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology titled...
Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner, Zi-Kui Liu
The future development of the CALPHAD method requires establishing file and data repositories and tools to automate the modeling process and to enable efficient...
Enrico Ronchi, Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke
This paper presents an innovative method to study stair evacuation data based on a probabilistic analysis of occupant travel paths. This type of approach relies...
Lyle E. Levine, Karena Chapman, Leonid A. Bendersky, Gabrielle G. Long, John W. Cahn, Peter Chupas, Judith K. Stalick, Frederic Mompiou
We used high-energy synchrotron-based X-ray scattering to investigate the structure of an isotropic AlFeSi metallic glass that nucleates and grows from the melt...
This report describes a bi-lateral key-comparison between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt...
Erich N. Grossman, Oscar D. Friedman, Andrew O. Nelson
We describe the design, simulation, and measured performance of concentrators designed to couple submillimeter wavelength radiation from free space into highly...
Medical physics, the joining of physics with healthcare, requires a level of quality assurance beyond many applications of the physical sciences. Always the...
The sensitivity of composite floor system response at elevated temperatures to variations in structural features is examined. Four structural features were...
Since 2005, human and machine performance has been systematically compared as part of face recognition competitions, with results being been reported for both...
Marina S. Leite, Maxim Abashin, Henri J. Lezec, Anthony G. Gianfrancesco, Albert A. Talin, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
To boost the efficiency of thin film polycrystalline solar cells that are microscopically inhomogeneous, it is imperative to understand how the grain cores (GCs...
Chukwudi A. Okoro, June W. Lau, Yaw S. Obeng, Klaus Hummler
In this work, a detailed failure analysis of the physical root cause for the increase in electrical resistance and radio-frequency (RF) transmission coefficient...
A neutron powder diffraction measurement was performed to distinguish between the proposed monoclinic (I2/a) structure of LaCoO 3, which is consistent with...
In this paper, we consider the approximate pointwise control of a linear parabolic system with multiple targets. The location of the pointwise controls are...
Brandon M. Lane, Eric P. Whitenton, Viswanathan Madhavan, M A. Donmez
This paper presents the methodology and results of a comprehensive measurement uncertainty analysis for infrared thermography of a cutting tool during the metal...
Rafa Marin-Lopez, Fernando Bernal-Hidalgo, Subir Das, Lidong Chen, Yoshihiro Ohba
When enabling handover between different radio interfaces (e.g., handover from 3G to Wi-Fi), reducing network access authentication latency and securing...
Thomas J. Bruno, Benjamin Kehimkar, Jamin C. Hoggard, Luke C. Marney, M. C. Billingsley, C. G. Fraga, R. E. Synovec
There is an increased need to more fully assess and control the composition of kerosene-based rocket propulsion fuels such as RP-1. In particular, it is...
Rusen Yan, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Simone Bertolazzi, Jacopo Brivio, Michael Watson, Xufei Wu, Andras Kis, Tengfei Luo, Angela R. Hight Walker, Huili G. Xing
Atomically thin molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) is emerging as a potential alternative to graphene due to presence of bandgap, which is particularly advantageous...
Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Carl T. Boone
We demonstrate that the spectroscopic g−factor can be determined with high precision and accuracy by use of a broadband ferromagnetic resonance measurements and...
Elisabeth Mansfield, Aparna Kar, Chih-Ming Wang, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay
Carbon nanotubes are one of the most promising nanomaterials on the market, with applications in electronics devices, sensing, batteries, composites and medical...
Shin-ichiro Yano, Despina Louca, Songxue Chi, Masaaki Matsuda, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, Sang-Wook Cheong
Residual magnetic frustration in the multiferroic LuMNO 3 may be key towards understanding magneto-elastic coupling in hexagonal manganites. Critical magnetic...
Carolyn R. Steffen, Martin G. Ensenberger, Robert S. McLaren, Cynthia J. Sprecher, Douglas R. Storts
The PowerPlex(®) 21 System is a STR multiplex that has been optimized for casework samples while still being capable of database workflows including direct...
Virus-like particles are powerful platforms for the development of functional hybrid materials. Here, we have grown a cross-linked polymer (cross-linked...
Vladimir Diky, Sergey Verevkin, Vladimir Emel?yanenko, Olga Dorofeeva
Enthalpy of combustion of highly pure nitromethane and nitrobenzene have been measured with the precise combustion calorimetry. Enthalpies of vaporization for...
Chandler A. Becker, J Agren, Marcello Baricco, Qing Chen, Sergei A. Decterov, Ursula R. Kattner, John Perepezko, Gernot Pottlacher, Malin Selleby
Here we describe current approaches to modelling liquids in CALPHAD. available experimental methods and results, and considerations in the use of molecular...
John P. Gaebler, Yiheng Lin, Florentin Reiter, Ting Rei Tan, Ryan S. Bowler, Anders Sorensen, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Entangled states are a key resource in fundamental quantum physics, quantum cryptography, and quantum computation [1]. To date, controlled unitary interactions...
Recently, gas-phase absorptions in the 3000 to 4300 cm-1 spectral region have been assigned to combination bands built on (v1 + v5) of ground-state cyc-O4+...
Kyung-Jin Lee, H.-W. Lee, Aurelien Manchon, Mark D. Stiles, Paul M. Haney
In bilayer systems consisting of an ultrathin ferromagnetic layer adjacent to a metal with strong spin-orbit coupling, an applied in-plane current induces...
We study electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and nonlinear pulse propagation in a resonant atomic gas confined in a micro-waveguide. We find that...
Jack A. Stone Jr., Patrick F. Egan, Donavon Gerty, Jay H. Hendricks, Douglas A. Olson, Jacob E. Ricker, Gregory E. Scace, Gregory F. Strouse
Fabry-Perot interferometers can be used for very precise measurement of the refractive index of gasses. This can enable increased accuracy of interferometer...