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Yuqin Zong, Steven W. Brown, George P. Eppeldauer, Keith R. Lykke, Yoshihiro Ohno
Continuous-wave (CW) tunable lasers have been used for detector calibrations, especially for spectral irradiance and radiance responsivity, for many years at
George P. Eppeldauer, Howard W. Yoon, Jinan Zeng, Thomas C. Larason, Jeanne M. Houston, Vladimir Khromchenko
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working to extend the upper wavelength limit of the spectral power-responsivity calibration service
William C. Thomas, Christopher C. White, Walter E. Byrd
A mathematical model is presented and validated for predicting the temperature of thin polymeric films bonded to substrate materials. The National Institute of
One of the critical factors related to the environmental fate of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is their phase distribution between soil or sediment and water. To
James E. Maslar, William A. Kimes, Brent A. Sperling
An in situ gas-phase diagnostic for the metal alkylamide compound tetrakis(ethylmethylamino) hafnium (TEMAH), Hf[N(C2H5)(CH3)]4, was demonstrated. This
The spatial resolution of electron diffraction within the scanning electron microscope (SEM) has progressed from channelling methods capable of measuring
This paper give the 2010 self-consistent set of values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on
The evolution of a Stokes vector through depolarizing media is considered. A general form for the differential matrix is derived that is appropriate in the
Girish Kumar, Carl G. Simon Jr., Michael S. Waters, Tanya M. Farooque, Marian F. Young
We demonstrate that imparting freeform fabricated (FFF) scaffolds with surface roughness on their struts enhances osteogenic differentiation of primary human
Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, John B. Schlager, Alexana Roshko, Todd E. Harvey, Paul T. Blanchard, Matthew D. Brubaker, Andrew M. Herrero, Aric W. Sanders
Catalyst-free growth of GaN nanowires with molecular beam epitaxy produces material of exceptionally high quality with long minority carrier lifetimes and low
Ibrahim Reda, Jinan Zeng, Jonathan Scheuch, Leonard Hanssen, Daryl Myers, Boris Wilthan, Tom Stoffel
This article describes a method of measuring the absolute outdoor longwave irradiance using an absolute cavity pyrgeometer (ACP). The ACP consists ofa domeless
William L. George, Pascal Hebraud, Didier Lootens, Mouhamad Khalil, Nicos Martys
The stress propagation in a concentrated attractive colloidal suspension, under shear, is studied using mumerical simulations. A novel way of describing the
At peak luminosity, Type Ia supernovae can be even brighter than their parent galaxies, and their light curves display a very uniform and regular behavior. This
Laura Toppozini, Clare L. Armstrong, Martin D. Kaye, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Timothy Jenkins, Maikel C. Rheinstadter
We present a high temperature and high energy resolution neturon scattering investigation of hydration water freezing in single supported lipid bilayers. Single
Stuart B. Kirschner, Nathaniel P. Smith, Kevin A. Wepasnick, Howard E. Katz, Brian Kirby, Julie Borchers, Daniel H. Reich
We used neutron reflectivity to complement x-ray reflectivity characterization of PCMB-based layers formed on poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). Single-layer
Bruce Ravel, Stephen W. Price, Nicholas Zonias, Chris-Kriton Skylaris, Andrea Russell
It has been shown that for highly disordered systems, EXAFS underestimates coordination number and thus particle size when compared with the theoretical
The 2009 Materials Science and Technology Conference and Exhibition (MS&T09) took place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
An equation of state (EOS) is presented for the thermodynamic properties of benzene that is valid from the triple point temperature (278.6784 K) to 725 K with
The tremendous growth of fluorescence applications in the life and material sciences has proceeded largely without sufficient concern for the reliability and
Fan Zhang, Andrew Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Laura Espinal, Joseph M. Antonucci, Drago Skrtic, Justin N. O'Donnell, Jan Ilavsky
The local structural changes in amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) based dental composites were studied upon heating using both static, bulk measurement
Douglas A. Olson, Alaaeldin A. Eltawil, Shaker A. Gelany
The results of an informal pressure comparison between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, and the National Institute of Standards
Vladimir L. Orkin, Victor Khamaganov, Michael J. Kurylo III
Rate constants for the gas phase reactions of OH radicals with 2-propanol and three fluorine substituted 2-Propanols, (CH3)2CHOH (k0), CF3)2COH (k1), (CF3)2C(OH
Jacqueline L. Mann, Robert D. Vocke Jr., William R. Kelly
An isotope dilution (ID) multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) method combined with an internal normalization approach for
Jean Van Buren, Kathryn Abel, Tara Lovestead, Thomas J. Bruno
In recent years, civilian and military users of aviation kerosene have been interested in expanding the scope of fuel feed stocks to include non-petroleum
Michael Weinrich, Hirsh Nanda, David Worcester, Charles Majkrzak, Brian B. Maranville, Sergey M. Bezrukov
X-ray and neutron diffraction studies of model lipid raft membranes demonstrate that halothane at physiological concnetrations produces redistribution of lipids
Raymond W. Simmonds, Frederick W. Strauch, Kurt Jacobs, Douglas Onyango
We present a theoretical analysis of methods to synthesize entangled states of two superconducting resonators. These methods use experimentally demonstrated
Robert C. Hagwood, Javier Bernal, Michael W. Halter, John T. Elliott
Cell segmentation is a critical step in the analysis pipeline for most imaging cytometry experiments and the segmentation algorithm can effect the quantitative
Han-Jong H. Chia, Feng Guo, Lyubov Belova, Robert D. McMichael
We utilize ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy (FMRFM) to generate and detect multiple localized spin wave modes with spatial dimensions less than 100 nm
M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga, R Olinski, Rafal Rozalski
Rationale: We hypothesized that oxidatively induced DNA damage products (5'R)-8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (R-cdA) and (5'S)-8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (S-cdA