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Journals

Ave Atque Vale

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl

Indoor Air Quality Analyses of Commercial Reference Buildings

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Lisa C. Ng, Amy Musser, Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich

Sixteen commercial reference buildings were created in the multizone airflow and contaminant transport program CONTAM in order to support airflow and indoor air...

OpenADR Advances

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg, Girish Ghatikar, Ed Koch, Jim Boch

One important goal for the advancement of smart grid deployments is to enable buildings to dynamically respond to the supply of electricity. Buildings should...

Experimental set up for in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy observations of chemical processes

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Renu Sharma

Recently, the applications of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) related techniques have extended from ex situ nanoscale characterization of structure and...

Simultaneous Imaging and Precision Alignment of Two mm Wave Antennas Based on Polarization-Selective Machine-Vision

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon

In this paper, we present an optical imaging tool, the Overlay Imaging Aligner (OIA), developed to aid in the mechanical alignment of antenna components in the...

Simultaneous Imaging and Precision Alignment of Two mm Wave Antennas Based on Polarization-Selective Machine-Vision

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon, David R. Novotny

In this paper, we present an optical imaging tool, the Overlay Imaging Aligner (OIA), developed to aid in the mechanical alignment of antenna components in the...

Simultaneous Imaging and Precision Alignment of Two mm Wave Antennas Based on Polarization-Selective Machine-Vision

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon, David R. Novotny

In this paper, we present an optical imaging tool, the Overlay Imaging Aligner (OIA), developed to aid in the mechanical alignment of antenna components in the...

Manipulating the Color and Shape of Single Photons

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Michael G. Raymer, Kartik Srinivasan

Giant piezoelectricity in PMN-PT thin films: Beyond PZT

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

S. H. Baek, M. S. Rzchowski, Vladimir Aksyuk

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) incorporating piezoelectric layers provide active transduction between electrical and mechanical energy, which enables...

Remote sensing of chiral signatures on Mars

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

William Sparks, James H. Hough, Thomas Germer, Frank Robb, Ludmilla Kolokolova

We describe circular polarization as a remote sensing diagnostic of chiral signatures which may be applied to Mars. The remarkable phenomenon of homochirality...

Infrared hemispherical reflectance of carbon nanotube mats and arrays in the 5 µm to 50 µm wavelength region

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Chris Chunnilall, Aric Sanders, John H. Lehman, Evangelos Theocharous

We present the absolute infrared (5 u}m to 50 u}m) hemispherical reflectance of films produced from commercially available carbon nanotubes. Data were obtained...

Bright single photon emission from a quantum dot in a circular Bragg grating microcavity

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Serkan Ates, Luca Sapienza, Marcelo I. Davanco, Antonio Badolato, Kartik Srinivasan

(001) FePt Graded Media with PtMn Underlayers

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Chao-Chien Chiang, Wu-Chang Tsai, Liang-Wei Wang, Hao-Cheng Hou, Jung-Wei Liao, Hong-Ji Lin, Fan-Hsiu Chang, Brian Kirby, Chih-Huang Lai

(001)-oriented FePt graded media are obtained by using PtMn underlayers. The PtMn underlayer does not only behave as the (001) structural template, but provides...

Controlling the size and the activity of Fe particles for synthesis of carbon nanotubes

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

See-Wee Chee, Renu Sharma

The properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are controlled by their structure and morphology. Therefore, their selective synthesis, using catalytic chemical vapor...

R134a/Al₂O₃ Nanolubricant Mixture Pool Boiling on a Rectangular Finned Surface

October 31, 2012

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a rectangular finned boiling surface...

A Study on Safety: Highlights from Workshop on Ambulance Patient Compartments

October 31, 2012

Author(s)

Jennifer L. Marshall, Yung-Tsun T. Lee

In 2010, there were more than 250 U.S. ambulance crashes that were reported in the news media [Ballam 2011]. During such accidents, emergency medical...

Statics and Dynamics of the Highly Correlated Spin Ice, Ho₂Ge₂O₇

October 31, 2012

Author(s)

A. M. Hallas, J. A. M. Paddison, H. J. Silverstein, A. L. Goodwin, J. R. Stewart, A. Wildes, J. G. Cheng, J. S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, E. S. Choi, G. Ehlers, Jason S. Gardner, C. R. Wiebe, H. D. Zhou

The pyrochlore, Ho 2Ge 2O 7, is a new highly correlated spin ice material. Physical property measurements including X-ray diffraction, DC susceptibility and AC...

Realisation of an accurate and repeatable wavelength scale for double subtractive monochromators

October 30, 2012

Author(s)

Malcolm G. White

We present the results and discussion of two methods for achieving a higher degree of wavelength accuracy of double grating monochromators. In particular, we...

Metrology, Inspection & Failure Analysis: Introduction

October 30, 2012

Author(s)

David G. Seiler

Magnetic Resonance Properties of Gd(III)-Bound Lipid-Coated Microbubbles and their Cavitation Fragments

October 30, 2012

Author(s)

Jameel Feshitan, Michael A. Boss, Mark Borden

Gas-filled microbubbles are potentially useful theranostic agents for magnetic resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRIgFUS). Previously, MRI at...

First-principles modeling of gold adsorption on BeO (0001)

October 29, 2012

Author(s)

Shmuel Barzilai, Francesca M. Tavazza, Lyle E. Levine

Gold nanowire chains are considered a good candidate for nanoelectronics devices since they exhibit remarkable structural and electrical properties. For...

Quantifying Dithiothreitol Displacement of Functional Ligands from Gold Nanoparticles

October 27, 2012

Author(s)

De-Hao D. Tsai, Frank W. DelRio, Sherrie R. Elzey, Suvajyoti S. Guha, Michael R. Zachariah, Vincent A. Hackley, Melanie P. Shelton

Dithiothreitol (DTT)-based displacement is widely utilized for separating ligands from their gold nanoparticle (AuNP) conjugates, a critical step for...

Effects of phase-breaking scattering on the thermopower of molecular systems.

October 26, 2012

Author(s)

Adrian Popescu, Paul M. Haney

We study the effects of elastic and inelastic scattering on the thermoelectric transport properties of molecular systems. These systems can exhibit high...

Use of Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions to Model Guided Waves on Metasurfaces/Metafilms

October 26, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Derik Love, Joshua A. Gordon, David A. Hill, Edward E. Kuester

In this paper we use generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) to investigate the existence of surface waves on a metasurface (also referred to as a...

Super-resolution Optical Measurement of Nanoscale Photoacid Distribution in Lithographic Materials

October 26, 2012

Author(s)

Adam J. Berro, Andrew J. Berglund, Peter T. Carmichael, Jong S. Kim, James Alexander Liddle

Chemically amplified resists are the principal lithographic materials used in the semiconductor industry. The photoacid distribution generated upon exposure and...

High temperature thermoelectric properties of p-type skutterudites BaxYbyCo4-zFezSb12

October 23, 2012

Author(s)

Yongkwan Dong, Pooja Puneet, Terry M. Tritt, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas

Several polycrystalline p-type skutterudites with compositions BaxYbyCo4-zFezSb12, with varied filler concentrations x and y, and z = 1 to 2, have been...

An Empirical Bayes Approach to Robust Variance Estimation: A Statistical Proposal for Quantitative Medical Image Testing

October 23, 2012

Author(s)

John Lu, Charles D. Fenimore

The current standard for measuring tumor response using X-ray, CT and MRI is based on the response evaluation crite- rion in solid tumors (RECIST) which, while...

Temperature-dependent mechanical-resonance frequencies and damping in ensembles of gallium nitride nanowires

October 22, 2012

Author(s)

Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, J. R. Montague, H.S. Park, Victor M. Bright, Charles T. Rogers

We have measured singly clamped cantilever mechanical-resonances in ensembles of as-grown gallium nitridenanowires (GaN NWs), from 12 K to 320 K. Resonance...

Slot-mode-coupled optomechanical crystals

October 22, 2012

Author(s)

Marcelo I. Davanco, Jasper Chan, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Oskar Painter, Kartik A. Srinivasan

We design a cavity optomechanical system in which a localized GHz frequency mechanical mode of a nanobeam resonator is evanescently coupled to a high quality...

Characterization of a SI-Traceable Vacuum-Compatible Precision Nanoindentation Platform

October 22, 2012

Author(s)

Bartosz K. Nowakowski, Douglas T. Smith, Stuart Smith

This paper discusses the ongoing development of a vacuum-compatible, precision nano-indentation platform (PNP) that is directly traceable to Système...

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