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Resonant Microwave Absorption in Thermally Deposited Au Nanoparticle Films Near Percolation Coverage

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Jack F. Douglas, Oleg A. Kirillov, Fred Sharifi, James A. Liddle

We observe a resonant transition in microwave absorption in thin thermally deposited Au nanoparticle films near the geometrical percolation transition pc where...

Stratified Sampling for the Ising Model: A Graph-Theoretic Approach

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Amanda A. Streib, Noah S. Streib, Isabel M. Beichl, Francis Sullivan

We present a new approach to a classical problem in statistical physics: estimating the partition function and other thermodynamic quantities of the...

Recent Advances in Sharing Standardized STEP Composite Structure Design and Manufacturing Information

June 19, 2013

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan, Allison Barnard Feeney, Keith A. Hunten

Composite structures have been developed and used in the aerospace, automobile, sports, and marine industries since the early 1940s. Compared to conventional...

Photon-Number-Resolved Detection of Photon-Subtracted Thermal Light

June 18, 2013

Author(s)

Jingyun Fan, Yanhua (. Zhai, Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Boris L. Glebov, Adriana E. Lita, Brice R. Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Alan L. Migdall

We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light using photonnumberresolving detection. We show the photon-number distribution transforms...

Implementation of generalized quantum measurements for unambiguous discrimination of multiple nonorthogonal coherent states

June 18, 2013

Author(s)

Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

Generalized quantum measurements can perform perfect discrimination of nonorthogonal states by allowing for inconclusive results, task which is impossible...

Effect of Flow-Pressure Phase on Performance of Regenerators in the Range of 4 K to 20 K

June 17, 2013

Author(s)

Michael A. Lewis, Ryan P. Taylor, Peter E. Bradley, Ray Radebaugh

Modeling with REGEN3.3 has shown that the phase between flow and pressure at the cold end of 4 K regenerators has a large effect on their second-law efficiency...

Fermion Mediated Interactions Between Ultracold Bosons

June 16, 2013

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman, Subhadeep De

We describe a new method for creating spin-dependent long-range interactions between atomic ultra-cold neutral bosons in an optical lattice. In this proposal...

Mapping the Vif-A3G interaction using peptide arrays: a basis for anti-HIV lead peptides

June 15, 2013

Author(s)

Jeeseong Hwang, Ji Y. Lee, Abigail E. Miller, Tali Reingewertz, Elena Britan-Rosich, Shahar Rotem-Bamberger, Mathias Viard, Robert Blumenthal, Assaf Friedler

Human apolipoprotein-B mRNA-editing catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (A3G) is a cytidine deaminase that restricts retroviruses, endogenous retro-elements and DNA...

A comb-calibrated FMCW LADAR for absolute distance measurements

June 15, 2013

Author(s)

Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Laura C. Sinclair, Kevin O. Knabe, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

We present a comb calibrated frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LADAR system for absolute distance measurements to diffuse or specular surfaces. The...

The Filler Effect: The Influence of Filler Content and Surface Area on Cementitious Reaction Rates

June 15, 2013

Author(s)

Tandre Oey, Aditya Kumar, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Narayanan Neithalath, Gaurav Sant

Finely ground mineral powders are known to accelerate cement hydration rates. This "filler effect" has been attributed to the effects of dilution (w/c increase)...

ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE)

June 14, 2013

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan

For over a decade this journal has supported and advanced the research and applications at the intersection of information science and mechanical engineering...

Optimized superconducting detectors using the proximity effect in Ti/TiN multilayers

June 14, 2013

Author(s)

David P. Pappas, Michael R. Vissers, Jiansong Gao, Martin O. Sandberg, David S. Wisbey, Kent D. Irwin

We apply the superconducting proximity effect in TiN/Ti multi-layers films to tune the critical temperature, $T_C$ (to within 10 mK) with high uniformity (less...

Dephasing of Si singlet-triplet qubits due to charge and spin defects

June 14, 2013

Author(s)

Dimitrie Culcer, Neil M. Zimmerman

We study the effect of charge and spin noise on singlet-triplet qubits in Si quantum dots. We set up a theoretical framework aimed at enabling experiment to...

The continuum absorption in H2O+N2 mixture in the 3 - 5 ¿m spectral region at temperatures from 326 to 363 K

June 13, 2013

Author(s)

Yuri I. Baranov

The absorption spectra of H2O+N2 mixtures, as well, as the spectra of pure gases, have been measured using a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer at a...

The Spin Hall Effect in a Quantum Gas

June 13, 2013

Author(s)

Matthew C. Beeler, Ross A. Williams, Karina K. Jimenez Garcia, Lindsay J. LeBlanc, Abigail R. Perry, Ian B. Spielman

Electronic properties like current ﬂow are usually unaffected by the electrons spin angular momentum, an internal degree of freedom present in quantum...

Investigation of 304SS and Ti-6AI-4V during electrically-assisted forming at high deformation rates

June 11, 2013

Author(s)

Steven P. Mates, Brad Kinsey, Graham Cullen, Adam Jordan

Past research has investigated an electroplastic effect for metals, i.e., decreased flow stress and increased elongation, caused by the an applied electrical...

Mechanochromic photonic gels

June 10, 2013

Author(s)

Edwin P. Chan, A M. Urbas, Joseph J. Walish, Edwin L. Thomas

Polymer gels are remarkable materials with physical structures that can adapt significantly and quite rapidly with changes in the local environmental changes...

Formation of Disk- and Stacked Disk-Like Self-Assembled Morphologies from Cholesterol Functionalized Aliphatic Polycarbonate Containing Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers

June 10, 2013

Author(s)

Vivek M. Prabhu, Shrinivas Venkataraman, Ashlynn Lee, Yi Yan Yang, James Hedrick, Hareem Maune

In this study, a cholesterol functionalized aliphatic cyclic carbonate monomer, 2-(5-methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dioxane-5-carboxyloyloxy)ethyl carbamate (MTC-Chol) was...

High-Resolution Photocurrent Microscopy Using Near-Field Cathodoluminescence of Quantum Dots

June 10, 2013

Author(s)

Heayoung Yoon, Youngmin Lee, Christopher C. Bohn, Seung H. Ko, Anthony G. Gianfrancesco, Jonathan S. Steckel, Seth Coe-Sullivan, Albert A. Talin, Nikolai B. Zhitenev

We report a fast, versatile photocurrent imaging technique to visualize the local photo response of solar energy devices and optoelectronics using near-field...

The Effect of Turbulence on a Multi-Hole Pitot Calibration

June 10, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher J. Crowley, Iosif I. Shinder, Michael R. Moldover

Abstract- Accurate calibrations of multi-hole Pitot tubes require thousands of measurements spanning ranges of the fluids velocity, and the pitch and yaw...

Nanosecond-scale timing jitter in transition edge sensors at telecom and visible wavelengths

June 10, 2013

Author(s)

Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana Lita, Joern Beyer, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

Transition edge sensors (TES) have the highest reported efficiencies (> 98%) for single photon detection in the visible and near infrared. Experiments in...

Laser-Machined Ultra-High-Q Microrod Resonators for Nonlinear Optics

June 7, 2013

Author(s)

Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams

Optical whispering-gallery microresonators are useful tools in microphotonics, and non-linear optics at very low threshold powers. Here, we present details...

Anchor Molecules Affect Structure and Properties of Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes. Unsaturation in the Alkyl Chains.

June 7, 2013

Author(s)

David J. Vanderah, Rima Budvytyte, Gintaras Valincius, Gediminas Niaura, Vladislava Voiciuk, Mindaugas Mickevicius, Haw-Zan Goh, Hilary Stauffer, Frank Heinrich, Siddharth Shenoy

The self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of the new lipidic anchor molecule, Z 20-(Z-octadec-9-enyloxy)-3,6,9,12,15,18,22-heptaoxatetracont-31-ene-1-thiol (HC18)...

Critical dimension metrology by through-focus scanning optical microscopy beyond the 22 nm node

June 7, 2013

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, Benjamin D. Bunday, Victor Vertanian

We present results using simulations and experiments to demonstrate metrological applications of the through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) down to...

The Impact of Characteristic Impedance on Waveform Calibrations

June 7, 2013

Author(s)

Dylan F. Williams, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Paul D. Hale

We examine the impact of the characteristic impedance on mismatch corrections for temporal waveform calibrations based on high-speed electro-optic sampling...

Feasibility of Real-Time Graphical Simulation for Active Monitoring of Visibility-Constrained Construction Processes

June 7, 2013

Author(s)

Sanat Talmaki, Vineet Kamat, Kamel Saidi

The lack of clear visibility and spatial awareness frequently results in construction accidents such as workers being struck by heavy equipment; and collisions...

CM-BOF: Visual Similarity based 3D Shape Retrieval Using Clock Matching and Bag-of-Features

June 6, 2013

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Zhouhui Lian

Content-based 3D object retrieval has be- come an active topic in many research communities. In this paper, we propose a novel visual similarity based...

Extreme Bottom-up Filling of Through Silicon Vias and Damascene Trenches with Gold in a Sulfite Electrolyte

June 6, 2013

Author(s)

Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat

Superconformal Au deposition is demonstrated in a Na_{3}Au(SO_{3})_{2} based electrolyte that exhibits critical behavior with addition of the deposition-rate...

Fourier, Gegenbauer and Jacobi expansions for a power-law fundamental solution of the polyharmonic equation and polyspherical addition theorems

June 5, 2013

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl

We develop complex Jacobi, Gegenbauer and Chebyshev polynomial expansions for the kernels associated with power-law fundamental solutions of the polyharmonic...

Transition Energies of the D-lines in Na-like Ions

June 5, 2013

Author(s)

John D. Gillaspy, Dmitry D. Osin, Yuri Ralchenko, Joseph Reader, S A. Blundell

The NIST electron beam ion trap (EBIT) was used to measure the D1 (3s-3p1/2) and D2 (3s-3p3/2) transitions in Na-like ions of xenon, barium, samarium...

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