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Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Craig D. McGray, John E. Bonevich, Jon C. Geist
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a multifaceted program in atomic force microscope (AFM) dimensional metrology. One component of
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Eric N. Dattoli, Albert Davydov, Kurt D. Benkstein
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V. Thampy, J. Kang, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, W. Bao, A. T. Savici, J. Hu, T. J. Liu, B. Qian, D. Fobes, Z. Q. Mao, C. B. Fu, Wangchun Chen, Q. Ye, Ross Erwin, Thomas R. Gentile, Z. Tesanovic, Collin L. Broholm
Using polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering we show that interstital Fe in superconducting Fe 1=yTe 1-xSe x induces a magnetic Friedel-like oscillation
Gabriel G. Ycas, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams, Steve Osterman, Chad F. Bender, Brandon Botzer, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Ryan Terrien, Suvrath Mahadevan, Stephen L. Redman
We describe and characterize a 25 GHz laser frequency comb based on a cavity-filtered erbium fiber mode-locked laser that provides a uniform array of optical
Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna
An international Key Comparison of 177Lu has recently been carried out. Twelve laboratories performed assays for radioactivity content on aliquots of a common
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Qin Zhang, Guangle Zhou, Huili G. Xing, Alan C. Seabaugh, Kun Xu, Sio Hong, Oleg A. Kirillov, Curt A. Richter, Nhan Van Nguyen
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Indentation-induced phase transformation processes were studied by in situ Raman microspectroscopy of the deformed contact region of silicon on sapphire samples
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Hydrogen is known to damage or degrade piezoelectric materials, at low pressure for ferroelectric random access memory applications, and at high pressure for
Denis E. Bergeron, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Brian E. Zimmerman, Jeffrey T. Cessna
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Lisa R. Karam, Marios J. Anagnostakis, Arunas Gudelis, Pujadi Marsoem, Alexander Mauring, Gatot Wurdiyanto, Ulku Yucel
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