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Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Brian P. Dougherty, Howard W. Yoon
An absolute differential spectral response measurement system for solar cells is presented. The system couples an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) with an
In this paper, we present an evaluation strategy based on human-generated ground truth to measure the performance of 3D interest point detection techniques. We
Wenjuan Wei, Sylvester M. Greer, Cynthia H. Reed, Andrew K. Persily, Yinping Zhang
A liquid-inner tube diffusion-film-emission (LIFE) reference was developed to quickly evaluate the performance of a chamber system for furniture/building
Christopher C. Bohn, Amit Agrawal, Erich C. Walter, Mark D. Vaudin, Andrew Herzing, Paul M. Haney, Albert A. Talin, Veronika Szalai
Sputtered-deposited films of α-Fe2O3 of thickness 600 nm were investigated as photoanodes for solar water splitting and found to have photocurrents as high as 0
Highly accurate spectroscopic models for O2 A-band absorption are required in numerous satellite- and ground-based remote sensing measurements of atmospheric
Paul Constantino, James J. Lee, Yvonne Gerbig, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Mauricio Talebi, Brian R. Lawn, Peter Lucas
Primate teeth adapt to the physical properties of foods in a variety of ways including changes in occlusal morphology, enamel thickness, and overall size. We
All therapeutic protein products contain particles formed by the aggregation of protein monomers. There is a growing interest in the understanding of particles
Dipak Paramanik, Abhishek Motayed, Geetha G. Aluri, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov
This paper details the fabrication of GaN nanoscale structures using deep ultraviolet lithography and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) etching techniques. We
Martin O. Sandberg, Jeffrey S. Kline, Martin P. Weides, David S. Wisbey, David P. Pappas
We have investigated the correlation between the microwave loss and patterning method for coplanar waveguide titanium nitride resonators fabricated on silicon
Marcelo I. Davanco, Jun Rong Ong, Andrea B. Shehata, Alberto Tosi, Imad I. Agha, Solomon Assefa, Fengnian Xia, William Green, Shayan Mookherjea, Kartik A. Srinivasan
The binary systems ethanol + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane and 2-butanol + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane were studied as models for blends of gasoline with biofuels. Their
Yun Liu, Craig M. Brown, Dan A. Neumann, David B. Geohegan, Alexander A. Puretzky, Christopher M. Rouleau, Hui Hu, David Styers-Barnett, Pavel O. Krasnov, Boris I. Yakobson
Current methods to study the spillover effect in hydrogen storage materials typically must compare the results from a separate reference sample. This makes it
Justin M. Gorham, Tinh Nguyen, Coralie Bernard, Deborah S. Jacobs, Richard D. Holbrook
The physicochemical, UV-induced surface modifications to silica nanoparticle (SiNP) - epoxy composites have been investigated. The silica nanocomposites (SiNCs)
Nikolai N. Klimov, Suyong S. Jung, Shuze Zhu, Teng Li, C. Alan Wright, Santiago Solares, David B. Newell, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Joseph A. Stroscio
The electro-mechanical properties of a suspended graphene layer are determined by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) measurements and
Hydrodynamic chromatography (HDC) has experienced a resurgence in recent years for particle and polymer characterization due, principally, to its coupling to a
Konrad Rykaczewski, William A. Osborn, Jeff Chinn, Marlon L. Walker, John H. Scott, Wanda Jones, Chonglei Hao, Shuhuai Yao, Zuankai Wang
Surfaces which evince superhydrophobic properties during water condensation have a potential to dramatically enhance energy efficiency in power generation and
Recent results provide new theoretical concepts and practical algorithms for diffusion coefficient estimation in single-particle tracking. We compare two recent
Katsunari Oikawa, Ursula R. Kattner, J. Sato, T. Omori, M. Jang, K. Anzai, Kiyohito Ishida
Phase equilibria of the solid phases in the Co-Mo system were investigated using two-phase alloys and the diffusion couple technique. In addition, systematic
Jodi M. Iwata-Harms, Franklin J. Wong, Urusa S. Alaan, Brian Kirby, Julie Borchers, Michael F. Toney, Brittany B. Nelson-Cheeseman, Marco Liberati, Elke Arenholz, Yuri Suzuki
Jae W. Shin, Carlos M. Hangarter, Ugo Bertocci, Yihua Y. Liu, Thomas P. Moffat, Gery R. Stafford
Stress generation was examined during the electrodeposition of NixPt1-x alloys from 0.5 M NaCl + 3 mM K2PtCl4 + 0.1 M NiCl2 (pH=2.5), using the wafer curvature
Illarion V. Turko, Meiyao Wang, Gun-Young Heo, Saida Omarova, Irina A. Pikuleva
Quantitative analysis of low-abundance membrane proteins remains a challenge and requires further optimization of analytical methods developed for their soluble
Alan L. Migdall, Giorgio Brida, L. Ciavarella, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, M. G. Mingolla, M. G. A. Paris, Fabrizio Piacentini, Sergey Polyakov
The rapid development of quantum systems has enabled a wide range of novel and innovative technologies, from quantum information processing to quantum etrology
Bruno Hay, Robert R. Zarr, Clark Stacey, Leonel Lira Cortes, Ulf Hammerschmidt, Nikolay Sokolov, J.T. Zhang, Jean Remy Filtz
For the first time under the auspices of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), seven national metrology institutes (NMIs) participated in an
Andrew D. Gamalski, Jerry Tersoff, Renu Sharma, Caterina Ducati, Stephan Hofmann
We observe the formation of metastable AuGe phases without quenching, during strictly isothermal nucleation and growth of Ge nanowires, using video-rate lattice
Recent studies have identified uncertainties in fuel diffusion coefficients as a source of significant uncertainty in combustion modeling. This paper presents
Savelas A. Rabb, Lee L. Yu, Deborah S. Jacobs, Tinh Nguyen
Silica nanoparticles (nanosilica) are being utilized to enhance the mechanical performance of polymeric materials used in many industries. However, cumulative
Yuri Ralchenko, O. Marchuk, W. Biel, T. Schlummer, David R. Schultz, E. Stambulchik
In this work we analyze magnetic sublevel populations in a neutral beam penetrating a fusion plasma. The collisional-radiative model NOMAD was extended to
A software for the calculation of diffraction elastic constants (DEC) for materials both with and without preferred orientation was developed. All grain