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Journals

Analysis for Dynamic Metrology

January 30, 2014

Author(s)

Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Paul D. Hale

Diverse measurement contexts require estimates of time varying quantities. Ideally the measurement device responds to signal variations significantly more...

Strong coupling of single emitters interacting with phononic infrared antennae

January 30, 2014

Author(s)

Ruben Esteban, Javier Aizpurua, Garnett W. Bryant

A single emitter can couple with an electromagnetic mode excited in dielectric cavities or metallic particles. In a similar manner, it can couple with a...

The neural representation of faces and bodies in motion and at rest

January 29, 2014

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P J. Phillips, Alice O'Toole, Vaidehi Natu, Xiaobo An, Rice Allyson, James Ryland

The neural organization of person processing relies on brain regions functionally selective for faces or bodies, with a subset of these regions preferring...

Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory

January 28, 2014

Author(s)

Felix Bussieres, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, Boris Korzh, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Alban Ferrier, Harald Hermann, Christine Silberhorn, Wolfgang Sohler, Mikael Afzelius, Nicolas Gisin

In quantum teleportation [1], the state of a single quantum system is disembodied into classical information and purely quantum correlations, to be later...

Phase-slip lines as a resistance mechanism in transition-edge sensors

January 27, 2014

Author(s)

Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom

The fundamental mechanism of resistance in voltage-biased superconducting films is poorly understood despite its importance as the basis of transition-edge...

Si3N4 optomechanical crystals in the resolved-sideband regime

January 27, 2014

Author(s)

Marcelo I. Davanco, Serkan Ates, Yuxiang Liu, Kartik A. Srinivasan

We demonstrate sideband-resolved Si3N4 optomechanical crystals supporting 105 quality factor optical modes at 980 nm, coupled to approximately 4 GHz frequency...

Comment on Detection of Microwave Spin Pumping Using the Inverse Spin Hall Effect

January 27, 2014

Author(s)

Thomas J. Silva, Mathias A. Weiler, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw

In a recent Letter, Hahn et al. reported on the detection of an ac voltage in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/platinum (Pt) bilayer under the condition of...

Environmental Specimen Banks as a Resource for Mercury and Mercury Isotope Research in Marine Ecosystems

January 26, 2014

Author(s)

Russell D. Day, Paul R. Becker, O.F.X Donard, Rebecca S. Pugh, Stephen A. Wise

Environmental specimen banks (ESBs) have been a fundamental tool for many nations to monitor contaminant temporal and spatial trends, study fate and transport...

Stabilized Phospholipid Membranes in Chromatography: Towards Membrane Protein-Functionalized Stationary Phases

January 25, 2014

Author(s)

Elyssia S. Gallagher, Elisabeth Mansfield, Craig A. Aspinwall

Transmembrane protein (TMP)-functionalized analytical platforms represent a powerful new paradigm in chemical analysis. Of particular interest is the...

Optical phase-noise dynamics of Titanium:sapphire optical frequency combs

January 24, 2014

Author(s)

Qudsia Quraishi, Scott A. Diddams, Leo W. Hollberg

Stabilized optical frequency combs (OFC) can have remarkable levels of coherence across their broad spectral bandwidth. We study the scaling of the optical...

Optimally Focused Cold Atom Systems Obtained Using Density-Density Correlations

January 23, 2014

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman, Andika Putra, Daniel Campbell, Ryan Price, Subhadeep De

Resonant absorption imaging is a common technique for detecting the two-dimensional column density of ultracold atom systems. In many cases, the systems...

Nanoscale mechanics by tomographic contact resonance atomic force microscopy

January 23, 2014

Author(s)

Gheorghe NMN Stan, Santiago Solares, Bede Pittenger, Natalia Erina, Chanmin Su

We report on a quantifiable depth-dependent contact resonance AFM (CR-AFM) measurements over polystyrene-polypropylene (PS-PP) polymer blends to detail surface...

Emissivity of Silver and Stainless Steel From 80 K to 300 K: Application to ITER Thermal Shields Temperatures

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Solomon I. Woods, Timothy M. Jung, Dale R. Sears, Jie Yu

The emissivities of thermal shield mock-up samples for ITER have been measured at sample temperatures between 80 K and 300 K using an optical method employing a...

Exact solution of the thermodynamics and size parameters of a polymer confined to a lattice of finite size: Large chain limit

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Chad R. Snyder, Charles M. Guttman, Edmund A. DiMarzio

We extend the exact solutions of the Di Marzio-Rubin matrix method for the thermodynamic properties, including chain density, of a linear polymer molecule...

Isolation of Specific Small Diameter Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Species via Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Fagan, Constantine Y. Khripin, Carlos A. Silvera Batista, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Angela R. Hight Walker, Ming Zheng

Aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) is demonstrated to enable isolation of multiple semiconducting and metallic single-wall carbon nanotube species from a small...

Saponins: A sustainable surfactant. From its microwave-assisted extraction to the synthesis of monodisperse latices

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Charlene Schnitt, Bruno Grassl, Julien C. Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley, Gaetane Lespes, Jacques Desbrieres, Virginie Pellerin, Stephanie Reynaud

Synthetic surfactants are widely used in emulsion polymerization, but it is increasingly desirable to replace them with naturally derived molecules with a...

Ghost Modes and Continuum Scattering in the Dimerized Distorted Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet Rb₂Cu₃SnF₁₂

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

K. Matan, Y. Nambu, Yang Zhao, T.J. Sato, Y. Fukumoto, T. Ono, H. Tanaka, Collin L. Broholm, A. Podlesnyak, G. Ehlers

Magnetic excitations of the pinwheel valence bond solid state in the distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet Rb 2Cu 3SnF 12 were studied using high-resolution...

Facile Smiles-type rearrangement in radical cations of N-acyl arylsulfonamides and analogs

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Karl Irikura, Nino G. Todua

RATIONALE: N-Alkylation of sulfonylbenzamides was reported recently to cause a dramatic and surprising change in electron ionization mass spectrometry (EIMS)...

Quantification of total serum transferrin and transferrin sialoforms in human serum; an alternative method for the determination of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin in clinical samples

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Yoana Y. Nuevo Ordonez, William C. Davis, Raymond F. Anton

Carbohydrate deficient transferrin (CDT) measurements in human serum constitute the most specific marker for chronic heavy alcohol use and congenital disorders...

SPRITE: A modernized approach to scanning probe contact resonance imaging

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Anthony B. Kos, Jason P. Killgore, Donna C. Hurley

We describe a system for contact resonance tracking called Scanning Probe Resonance Image Tracking Electronics (SPRITE). SPRITE can image two contact resonance...

Measurement Techniques for RF Nanoelectronics

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Thomas M. Wallis, Luca Pierantoni

In 1882, in a lecture at the University of Leiden, Nobel prize-winner Heike Kammerlingh Onnes coined the motto: Through Measurement to Knowledge [1]. In that...

Hybrid-Phospholipid Bilayer Coatings for Separations of Cationic Proteins in Capillary Zone Electrophoresis

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Elyssia S. Gallagher, Seid M. Adem, Leonard K. Bright, Elisabeth Mansfield, Craig A. Aspinwall

Separations of proteins and peptides in capillary zone electrophoresis suffer from non-specific adsorption of the analytes to the capillary surface. Semi...

Thermodynamic properties of 1-phenylnaphthalene and 2-phenylnaphthalene

January 18, 2014

Author(s)

Robert D. Chirico, Andrei F. Kazakov, William V. Steele

Measurements leading to the calculation of thermodynamic properties in the ideal-gas state for 1- phenylnaphthalene (Chemical Abstracts registry number [605-02...

Study of CeI₃ evaporation in the presence of Group 13 metal-iodides

January 17, 2014

Author(s)

John J. Curry, Albert Henins, E. G. Estupinan, S. D. Shastri, Jonathan E. Hardis, W. P. Lapatovich

The influence of GaI$_3$, InI, and TlI on the evaporation characteristics of CeI$_3$ have been studied over the temperature range 900 K to 1400 K using x-ray...

Second-harmonic generation using 4-bar-quasi-phasematching in a GaAs whispering-gallery-mode microcavity

January 17, 2014

Author(s)

Paulina S. Kuo, Glenn S. Solomon

The 4-bar crystal symmetry in materials such as GaAs can enable quasi-phasematching for efficient optical frequency conversion without poling, twinning or other...

Acoustic Gas Thermometry

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Michael R. Moldover, Roberto M. Gavioso, James B. Mehl, Laurent Pitre, Michael de Podesta, Jintao Zhang

Primary acoustic gas thermometry (AGT) exploits the simple relationship between the speed of sound in a dilute gas u and the thermodynamic temperature T of the...

Quantitative Testing of Fire Scenario Hypotheses: A Bayesian Inference Approach

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Kristopher J. Overholt, Ofodike A. Ezekoye

Fire models are routinely used to evaluate life safety aspects of building design projects and are being used more often in fire and arson investigations as...

ACOUSTIC GAS THERMOMETRY

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Michael R. Moldover, Roberto M. Gavioso, James B. Mehl, Laurent Pitre, Michael de Podesta, Jintao Zhang

We review the principles, techniques and results from primary acoustic gas thermometry (AGT). Since the establishment of ITS-90, the International Temperature...

Template synthesis of gold nanoparticles with an organic molecular cage

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Ryan McCaffrey, Hai Long, Yinghua Jin, Aric Sanders, Wounjhang Park, Wei Zhang

We report a novel strategy for the controlled synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with narrow size distribution (1.9 plus or minus} 0.4 nm) through NP...

2013 NCNR Annual Report

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Steven R. Kline

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