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Andrew J. Allen, Fan Zhang, Lyle E. Levine, Gabrielle G. Long, Jan Ilavsky, Pete R. Jemian
The history and development over more than 25 years is presented and discussed of an ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering (USAXS) instrument dedicated to serving...
Quantitative leak tests with vacuum technology have become an important tool in industry for safety and operational reasons and to meet environmental...
Richard W. Hendler, Curtis W. Meuse, Paul Smith, John W. Kakareka
We recently published procedures describing the isolation of absolute infrared spectra for the intermediates of the bacteriorhodopsin (BR) photocycle and from...
Asha K. Nurse, Geoffrey B. McFadden, Sam R. Coriell
An analysis of the motion of a spherical bubble in a two-phase, single component system with a vertical linear temperature gradient is presented. The model for...
During 2012, the main emphasis of the Metrology Technical Working Group was to revise the Metrology Technology Requirements Tables and initiate the new text for...
The paper discusses the current status of biometric standards development activities, with a focus on international standards developments. Published standards...
The spectrum of singly-ionized iron (Fe II) has been recorded using high-resolution Fourier transform and grating spectroscopy over the wavelength range 900 Å...
Emil Simiu, Chris Letchford, Nicholas Isyumov, Arindam Chowdhury, DongHun Yeo
The purpose of this work is to present an assessment of methods for determining wind loads on buildings and other structures that warrant comment, correction or...
Concrete can develop tensile stress when it is restrained from shrinking freely. Standard tests, like the restrained ring test (ASTM C1581-09) can be used to...
Endogenous and exogenous sources cause oxidatively induced DNA damage in living organisms by a variety of mechanisms. Resulting DNA lesions are mutagenic and...
Dazhen Gu, James P. Randa, Robert L. Billinger, Dave K. Walker
We report a verification method for noise-temperature (NT) measurements on cryogenic low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) at liquid helium temperature. The method uses a...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Hui Wu, Matthew Suchomel
M2(dhtp)nH2O, (M= Mn, Co, Ni, Zn; dhtp= 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalate), known as MOF74, is a family of excellent sorbent materials for CO2 that contains of...
Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams
Optical frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers have proven to be invaluable tools for a wide range of applications in precision spectroscopy and metrology...
Edwin P. Chan, Allison P. Young, Jung-Hyun Lee, Jun-Young Chung, Christopher M. Stafford
We study the water swelling behavior of semi-aromatic crosslinked polyamide ultrathin films in order to characterize the materials properties of the polymer...
Jessica L. Staymates, Mark M. Bailey, Steven R. Kline, Michael D. Anderson, Cory Berkland
Recently there has been interest in developing imaging contrast media for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that contain biologically rare, magnetically active...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, William J. Laws, Yonggao Y. Yan
The phase diagram of the La-Ca-Co-O system at 885 °C in air has been determined. The system consists of two materials that have interesting thermoelectric...
Carolyn R. Steffen, Margaret C. Kline, John Butler, Robert S. McLaren, Jaynish Patel, Margaret Ewing, Douglas R. Storts, Fabrice Noel, Sophie Dognaux
The SE33 locus is one of the most polymorphic markers used in human identification. However, it also possesses multiple microvariants both within the repeat and...
Jacob M. Taylor, Yigit Subasi, Chris Fleming, Bei L. Hu
In this work we investigate the late-time stationary states of open quantum systems coupled to a thermal reservoir in the strong coupling regime. This is...
M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga, Guldal Kirkali, Bryant C. Nelson, Gamze Tuna, Prasad T. Reddy
Accumulated evidence points to DNA repair capacity as an important factor in cancer and other diseases. DNA repair proteins are promising drug targets and are...
James V. Porto, Hoi-Yin Hui, Ryan Barnett, Sankar Das Sarma
In this work, we consider excited many-body mean-field states of bosons in a double-well optical lattice by investigating stationary Bloch solutions to the non...
H. D. Zhou, Cenke Xu, A. M. Hallas, H. J. Silverstein, C. R. Wiebe, I. Umegaki, J. Q. Yan, T. P. Murphy, J.-H. Park, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, Jason S. Gardner, Y. Takano
Using magnetic, thermal and neutron measurements on single-crystal samples, we show that Ba 3CoSb 2O 9 is a spin-1/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet with...
Constantine Y. Khripin, Xiaomin X. Tu, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Ming Zheng
Length fractionation of colloidal carbon nanotube dispersions is required for many studies. Size- exclusion chromatography (SEC) has been reported as a reliable...
Thomas J. Silva, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Stefan Mathias, Roman Adam, Patrik Grychtol, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus M. Schneider, Emrah Turgut, Dennis Rudolf
We review recent progress in femtosecond magnetization dynamics probed by extreme ultraviolet pulses from high-harmonic generation. In a transverse magneto...
Justin M. Shaw, Stefan Mathias, Chan La-O=Vorakiat, Emrah Turgut, Patrik Grychtol, Roman Adam, Dennis Rudolf, Hans T. Nembach, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus Schneider, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane
We review recent progress in femtosecond magnetization dynamics probed by extreme ultraviolet pulses from high-harmonic generation. In a transversal magneto...
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology a new watt balance, NIST-4, is currently being designed. This apparatus will be used to realize the unit...
Edwin J. Heilweil, Shu-Zee A. Lo, Gagan Kumar, Thomas E. Murphy
Infrared spectroscopy is a valuable tool for probing and characterizing the macro-molecular motions of complex molecules, including vibrational and phonon modes...
Varun B. Verma, Francesco F. Marsili, Adriana E. Lita, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Single-photon detectors are an essential tool for a wide range of applications in quantum information, quantum communications, and quantum optics. Over the past...
Facing the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression, efforts to reestablish acceptable growth rates for the U.S. economy are relying almost entirely...
Peng Tong, Despina Louca, Gongyao Wang, Peter K. Liaw, Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Anna Llobet, Hiroshi Kawaji, Yiming Qiu, Yunfeng Shi
Amorphous metals are solid metallic materials devoid of periodicity, with disordered atomic structures achieved by supercooling the viscous liquid to avoid...