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Manon C. Lafouresse, Ugo Bertocci, Carlos R. Beauchamp, Gery R. Stafford
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is applied to in-situ stress measurements of a gold cantilever electrode in 0.1 M HClO4 as a new technique for studying...
Ryan J. Lewis, Yunda Wang, Mu Hong Lin, Marcia L. Huber, Ray Radebaugh, Yung-Cheng Lee
Micro cryogenic coolers (MCCs) are useful to a number of small electronic devices which require low cooling power. The cooling power of MCCs operating with...
Fahmida Ferdous, Houxun H. Miao, Pei-Hsun Wang, Daniel E. Leaird, Kartik Srinivasan, Lei Chen, Vladimir Aksyuk, Andrew M. Weiner
Recent investigations of microcavity frequency combs based on cascaded four-wave mixing have revealed a link between the evolution of the optical spectrum and...
Edwin P. Chan, Qinhuang Lin, Christopher M. Stafford
We apply thermal wrinkling, which is a surface instability that occurs during thermal annealing of polymer films geometrically confined by a rigid substrate and...
We utilize accurate experimental data available in the literature to yield bounds on the polarizabilities of the ground and first excited states of atomic Yb...
A procedure is described for assigning the number of equivalent reference fluorophores (ERF) values to microspheres labeled with a fluorophore designed to...
Using finite element analysis, we have developed a metrology simulation to model errors in the measurement of the Seebeck coefficient. This physical parameter...
Atomically uniform nucleation products of ligated metal nanoclusters are observed irrespective of reduction conditions for metal-bidentate ligand systems...
Elijah J. Petersen, Xiaomin X. Tu, M Miral Dizdar, Ming Zheng, Bryant C. Nelson
Ultrasonication is a physical process known to generate abundant levels of oxygen-derived species such as hydroxyl radicals, hydrogen atoms, and hydrogen...
Christopher M. Dodson, Patrick Parkinson, Kristine A. Bertness, Hannah J. Joyce, Laura M. Herz, Norman Sanford, Michael B. Johnston
The first noncontact photoconductivity measurements of gallium nitride nanowires (NWs) are presented, revealing a high crystallographic and optoelectronic...
Nayool Shin, Dean DeLongchamp, Jihoon Kang, Regis J. Kline, Lee J. Richter, Vivek Prabhu, Balaji Purushothamanc, John E. Anthony, Do Y. Yoon
The phase-segregated structure and the electrical properties of thin film blends of the small-molecule semiconductor fluorinated 5,11-bis(triethylsilylethynyl)...
Jason Streit, Sergei M. Bachilo, Anton V. Naumov, Constantine Y. Khripin, Ming Zheng, R B. Weisman
A new method is demonstrated for measuring the length distributions of dispersed single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) samples by analyzing diffusional motions...
Cynthia J. Zeissler, Lawrence Forsley, Richard M. Lindstrom, Sean Newsome, Adrean Kirk, P.A. Mosier-Boss
A nondestructive analytical method based on autoradiography and gamma spectrometry was developed to perform activity distribution analysis for particulate...
Dazhen Gu, Thomas M. Wallis, Pavel Kabos, Paul T. Blanchard, Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford
We present detailed on-wafer scattering parameter measurements and equivalent circuit modeling of metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) that...
Dazhen Gu, Thomas M. Wallis, Pavel Kabos, Paul T. Blanchard, Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford
We present detailed on-wafer scattering parameter measurements and equivalent circuit modeling of metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) that...
Ryan S. Bowler, John P. Gaebler, Yiheng Lin, Ting Rei Tan, David Hanneke, John D. Jost, J. Home, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
We investigate ion motion dynamics during the transport between and separation into spatially distinct trap locations in a multi-zone trap array. We laser-cool...
Accurate cantilever spring constants are important in atomic force microscopy in both control of sensitive imaging and to provide correct nanomechanical...
Young M. Choi, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Jason J. Gorman, Seung Ho Yang, Yong Sik Kim, Jae M. Yoo
This paper presents the design, fabrication and experimental results of an out-of-plane electromagnetic motion stage. The combination of electromagnetic...
Ultrasonic degradation is a convenient means of studying the degradation of macromolecules in transient elongational flows. Cavitation results in non-random...
David L. Duewer, Hugo H. Gasca-Aragon, Katrice A. Lippa, Blaza Toman
The analysis of higher-order value-assigned materials (HOVAMs) such as certified reference materials (CRMs) and value-assigned proficiency testing materials can...
We have developed a MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) -based method for fatigue testing of micro- to millimeter-sized specimens of any material (hence...
Andrew M. Herrero, Paul T. Blanchard, Aric W. Sanders, Matthew D. Brubaker, Norman A. Sanford, Alexana Roshko, Kristine A. Bertness
The development of Ni/Au contacts to Mg-doped GaN nanowires (NWs) is examined. Current-voltage (I-V) measurements of these Mg-doped nanowire devices frequently...
Sara E. Campbell, Roy H. Geiss, Steve A. Feller, Virginia L. Ferguson
Backscatter electron (BSE) microscopy provides graylevel contrast resulting from variations in atomic composition. Through the use of standards, quantitative...
S Sainis, J. M. Sage, D DeMille, Eite Tiesinga, Svetlana Kotochigova
We present spectroscopic data on moderately bound levels in the Cs2 a3Sigma+ u state. The data have sufficient resolution to be sensitive to rotational and...
Xuenian Chen, Yongsheng Zhang, Yongli Wang, Wei Zhou, Douglas A. Knight, Teshome B. Yisgedu, Zhenguo Huang, Hima K. Lingam, Beau Billet, Terrence J. Udovic, Gilbert M. Brown, Sheldon G. Shore, Christopher M. Wolverton, Ji-Cheng Zhao
The structure of the amorphous aluminoborane compound AlB 4H 11 was identified through a collaborative study closely coupling theoretical predictions via the...
Hongliang Shi, Hai-Jun Su, Nicholas Dagalakis, John A. Kramar
This paper covers the kinematic modeling of a flexure-based, hexapod nanopositioner and a new method of calibration for this type of nanopositioner. This six...
A multifunctional glycoprotein clusterin has been associated with late-onset Alzheimers disease (AD). This finding should prompt further investigation to...
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Sten Vollebregt, R. Ishihara, Hugo Schellevis, Kees Beenakker
In this work the electrical contact resistance and length dependant resistance of vertically aligned carbon nano- tubes (CNT) grown at 500 °C with high tube...
We calculated the eigenvalues of the radially-symmetric acoustic modes of a gas-filled, spherical cavity to order (δ T/a) 2, where δ T is the thickness of the...
Jungjae Park, Lingfeng Chen, Quandou (. Wang, Ulf Griesmann
We describe a method to simultaneously measure thickness variation and refractive index homogeneity of 300 mm diameter silicon wafers using a wavelength...