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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has adapted a frequency up-conversion technique to develop highly efficient and sensitive single...
Warren E. Thompson, Catherine L. Lugez, Marilyn E. Jacox
When a Ne:H2O2 mixture is codeposited at 4.3 K with a beam of neon atoms that have been excited in a microwave discharge, three new, photosensitive absorptions...
Lawrence T. Hudson, C T. Chantler, Mark N. Kinnane, John D. Gillaspy, A.T. Payne, L F. Smale, Albert Henins, Joseph N. Tan, J A. Kimpton, E Takacs, K Makonyi, Joshua M. Pomeroy
We report the measurement of the w (1s2p 1P1 ! 1s2 1S0) resonance line transition energy in helium-like titanium. Our result, 4749.85(7) eV, deviates from the...
Michael A. Lewis, Peter E. Bradley, Ryan P. Taylor, Ray Radebaugh
Recent advances in superconducting electronic systems are requiring larger envelopes for cooling power, efficiency, and operational environments from commercial...
Yuri Ralchenko, Deirdre Kilbane, G. O'Sullivan, John D. Gillaspy, Joseph Reader
Measurements of extreme ultraviolet radiation from highly-charged gadolinium ions were made at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The ions were...
Eduard Rocas, Carlos Collado, Robert Aigner, Jordi Mateu, A Hueltes, James Booth
We present a methodology to characterize BAW resonators both linearly and nonlinearly. The procedure uses physical modeling along with measurements that exploit...
Xiao Hua Liu, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Jian Yu Huang
In lithium-ion batteries, the electrochemical reaction between the electrodes and lithium is a critical process that controls the capacity, cyclability and...
Alison M. Kraigsley, Kathy Tang, John A. Howarter, Katrice Lippa, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Nancy Lin
The effects of key material properties of polymeric composite restorations on cariogenic oral biofilms are needed to provide insight into the materials' role in...
Zhijun Xu, Jinsheng Wen, E. Mamontov, Chris Stock, Peter M. Gehring, Guangyong Xu
We report measurements of the neutron diffuse scattering in a single crystal of the relaxor ferroelectric material 95.5%Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-4.5%PbTiO3 (PZN-4.5%PT)...
John D. Wason, John T. Wen, Jason J. Gorman, Nicholas Dagalakis
This paper describes the algorithm development and experimental results of a vision-guided multi-probe microassembly system. The key focus is to develop the...
Many robust parameter design (RPD) studies involve a split-plot randomization structure and to obtain valid inferences in the analysis, it is essential to...
Svenja A. Knappe, L. Weller, K.S. Kleinbach, M.A. Zentile, C.S. Adams, I.G. Hughes
Here we report on measurements of the absolute absorption and dispersion properties of an isotopically pure 87Rb vapour for magnetic fields up to and including...
Lu Deng, Xinyu Luo, Edward W. Hagley, Ruquan Wang, Kuiyi Gao
We present experimental evidence supporting the postulation that the secondary effects of light assisted collisions are the main reason that the superradiant...
Francesco Intravaia, Paul S. Davids, Ricardo Decca, Vladimir Aksyuk, Daniel Lopez, Diego A. Dalvit
We present an almost fully analytical technique for computing Casimir interactions between 1D periodic lamellar gratings based on a modal approach. Our method...
Apolipoprotein E isoforms (apoE2, apoE3, and apoE4) strongly affect the likelihood of developing Alzheimers disease (AD) with apoE4 being a major risk factor...
Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Typically, transition edge sensors resolve photon number of up to 10 or 20 photons, depending on the wavelength and TES design. We extend that dynamic range up...
We fix several errors in "Developments in determining the gravitational potential using toroidal functions" (Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 321, Issue 5/6, p...
Li Liu, Dan Bearden, Juan C. Rodriguez, Kathleen S. Rein
Pahayokolides A-B are cyanobacteria derived non-ribosomal peptides which exhibit cytotoxicity against a number of cancer cell lines. The biosynthetic origin of...
Leonardo M. Ranzani, Lafe F. Spietz, Jose A. Aumentado, Zoya Popovic
We present a 4 : 1 superconducting transmission-line impedance transformer for cryogenic applications. The device transforms 25 {Ω} in the coplanar waveguide to...
Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, William C. Davis, Wayne E. McFee, Carola A. Neumann, Jennifer Schulte, Gregory D. Bossart, Steven J. Christopher
More than half of pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) that strand exhibit signs of cardiomyopathy (CMP). Many factors may contribute to the development of...
In this paper we firstly propose a block-code based general model to combat the Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) caused by frequency selective channels in a...
The microsecond is the most discussed unit in industrial timing systems, because microsecond accuracy is required to support critical infrastructure. Most...
Chih-Ming Wang, Paul D. Hale, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Dylan F. Williams, Catherine A. Remley
We present a procedure for correcting the timebase distortion and jitter of temporal waveforms of arbitrary lengths. This is achieved by estimating the timebase...
Jason T. Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, John S. Suehle
Frequency dependent charge pumping (FD-CP) has emerged as a popular technique for studying the spatial and energetic distribution of defect centers in advanced...
Lee L. Yu, William C. Davis, Rabia Oflaz, Gregory C. Turk, Jeff M. Jarrett, Liza Valentin, Benjamin C. Blount, Dennis D. Leber, Eric L. Kilpatrick
Perchlorate, an inorganic anion, has recently been recognized as an environmental contaminant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Assessment of...
Martin O. Sandberg, Fabio C. da Silva, Kent D. Irwin, David P. Pappas, Sae Woo Nam, David Wisbey, Ben Mazin, Seth Meeker, Jonas Zmuidzinas, Henry G. Leduc
We demonstrate single-photon counting at 1550 nm with titanium-nitride (TiN) microwave kinetic inductancedetectors. Full-width-at-half-maximum energy resolution...
Brett A. McGuire, Ryan A. Loomis, Cameron M. Charness, Geoffery A. Blake, Jan M. Hollis, Francis J. Lovas, Philip R. Jewell, Anthony J. Remijan
Historically, searches for new astronomical molecules resulted in the detection of favorable, high line strength transitions based on a thermal approximation to...
The Juliet Test Suite 1.1 is a collection of over 81,000 synthetic C/C++ and Java programs with known flaws. These programs are useful as test cases for testing...
Laura Toppozini, Clare L. Armstrong, Matthew A. Barrett, Songbo Zheng, Lindy Luo, Hirsh Nanda, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Maikel C. Rheinstadter
We present a combined neutron and x-ray scattering investigation to study the effect of ethanol on molecular structure and dynamics of lipid membranes. DMPC...