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Optimal Diffusion Coefficient Estimation in Single-Particle Tracking

June 21, 2012

Author(s)

Xavier Michalet, Andrew J. Berglund

Recent results provide new theoretical concepts and practical algorithms for diffusion coefficient estimation in single-particle tracking. We compare two recent...

Experimental and Thermodynamic Assessment of Phase Equilibria in the Co-Mo system

June 20, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Controlling Spin Ordering in Frustrated Magnets via Thin Film Heteroepitaxy

June 20, 2012

Author(s)

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

In situ stress measurement during electrodeposition of Ni_(x)Pt_(1-x) alloys

June 20, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Sample prefractionation for mass spectrometry quantification of low-abundance membrane proteins

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Demonstration of Superluminal Images

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

Ryan T. Glasser, Ulrich Vogl, Paul D. Lett

Optical pulse propagation with group velocities larger than the speed of light in vacuum, c, or negative, have been demonstrated theoretically and...

Analysis of Thermal-Conductivity Measurement Data from International Comparison of National Laboratories

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Metastable Crystalline AuGe Catalysts Formed During Isothermal Germanium Nanowire Growth

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Ancilla assisted calibration of a measuring apparatus

June 19, 2012

Author(s)

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...

A Software for Diffraction Stress Factor Calculations for Textured Materials

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold

A software for the calculation of diffraction elastic constants (DEC) for materials both with and without preferred orientation was developed. All grain...

Hydrocarbon Binary Diffusion Coefficient Measurements for Use in Combustion Modeling

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

William S. McGivern, Jeffrey A. Manion

Recent studies have identified uncertainties in fuel diffusion coefficients as a source of significant uncertainty in combustion modeling. This paper presents...

Investigation of Silica Nanoparticles Accumulated on the Surface of Polymer Nanocomposites Exposed to UV Radiation Using ICP-OES

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

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...

A non-statistical atomic model for beam emission and motional Stark effect diagnostics in fusion plasmas

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Investigation of Encapsulation of Insulin Biotemplate within C-methylresorcin[4]arenes

June 18, 2012

Author(s)

Harshita Kumari, Steven R. Kline, Jerry L. Atwood

Solution structure of insulin templated C-mehtylrescorcin[4]arene nanocapsules has been investigated using neutron scattering techniques. Insulin biotemplate...

Neutron Diffuse Scattering in Lead-Based Relaxor Ferroelectrics and its Relationship to the Ultra-High Piezoelectricity

June 15, 2012

Author(s)

Peter Gehring

A brief review is presented that summarizes recent neutron diffuse scattering measurements on single crystal PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 (PMN) and PbZn1/3Nb2/3O3 (PZN) doped...

Generation of a 6602100 nm laser frequency comb based on an erbium fiber laser

June 15, 2012

Author(s)

Gabriel G. Ycas, Steve Osterman, Scott A. Diddams

We present a laser frequency comb based upon a 250 MHz mode-locked erbium fiber-laser that spans more than 300 terahertz of bandwidth, from 660 nm to 2000 nm...

Reverberation Chamber Measurement Correlation

June 15, 2012

Author(s)

Ryan J. Pirkl, Catherine A. Remley, Christian S. Lotback Patane

This contribution evaluates the utility of several different metrics for studying reverberation chamber measurement correlation. Metrics considered are the...

Assessment of Variability in the Thermophysical Properties of Rocket Propellant RP-1

June 14, 2012

Author(s)

Tara J. Fortin

Density, speed of sound, and viscosity has been measured for eleven orthogonal blends of the rocket propellant RP-1. Density and speed of sound were measured...

VISCOSITY AND DENSITY OF CuO NANOLUBRICANT

June 14, 2012

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper presents liquid kinematic viscosity and density measurements of a synthetic polyolester based copper (II) oxide (CuO) nanoparticle dispersion...

The Characterization of Copolymers and Blends by Quintuple-Detector Size-Exclusion Chromatography

June 14, 2012

Author(s)

Andre M. Striegel, Steven Rowland

The properties imparted, oftentimes synergistically, by the different components of copolymers and blends account for the widespread use of these in a variety...

Magnetic Phase Diagram of Magnetoelectric LiMnPO₄

June 14, 2012

Author(s)

Rasmus Toft-Petersen, Niels H. Andersen, Haifeng Li, Jiying Li, Wei Tian, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Thomas B. S. Jensen, Christof Niedermayer, Mark Laver, Oksana Zaharko, Jeffrey W. Lynn, David Vaknin

The nature of the spin-flop (SF) transition in the magnetoelectric quasi-2D Heisenberg system LiMnPO 4 is studied in fields applied along the a axis. A...

Correlation effects on transition probabilities in Mo vi

June 13, 2012

Author(s)

Charlotte F. Fischer

The effect of correlation on transitions in Mo vi from 4p64d 2D and 4p65s 2S to 4p64f, 4p65p, 4p65f, 4p54d2 with J = 1/2 - 7/2 is investigated. Non-relativistic...

Energies and E1, M1, E2, M2 transition rates for states of the 2s22p, 2s2p2, and 2p3configurations in boron-like ions between N III and Zn XXVI.

June 13, 2012

Author(s)

P. Rynkun, P. Jonsson, G. Gaigalas, Charlotte F. Fischer

Energies, E1, M1, E2, M2 transition rates, line strengths, oscillator strengths, and lifetimes from relativistic configuration interaction calculations are...

Limitations of X-ray reflectometry in the presenceof surface contamination

June 13, 2012

Author(s)

Donald A. Windover, David L. Gil

Intentionally deposited thin films exposed to atmosphere often develop unintentionally deposited few monolayer films of surface contamination. This...

The water-vapor self- and water-nitrogen continuum absorption in the 1000 and 2500 cm-1 atmospheric windows

June 13, 2012

Author(s)

Yuri I. Baranov, Walter J. Lafferty

The pure water-vapor and water-nitrogen continuum absorption in the 1000 and 2500 cm-1 atmospheric windows has been studied using a 2 m base-length White-type...

Glycoprotein Analysis Using Mass Spectrometry: Unraveling the Layers of Complexity

June 12, 2012

Author(s)

John E. Schiel

It is generally understood that DNA serves as the direct template that eventually encodes a protein responsible for biochemical function. Alterations of a...

Coexistence and Competition of the Short-Range Incommensurate Antiferromagnetic Order with Superconductivity in BaFe_2-xNi_xAs₂

June 12, 2012

Author(s)

Huiqian Luo, Rui Zhang, Mark Laver, Zahra Yamani, Meng Wang, Xingye Lu, Miaoyin Wang, Yanchao Chen, Shiliang Li, Sung Chang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Pengcheng Dai

Superconductivity in the iron pnictide develops near antiferromagnetism, and the antiferromagnetic (Af) phase appears to overlap with the superconducting phase...

Reference lines in the optogalvanic spectra of uranium and thorium in the wavelength range 422 nm to 462 nm

June 11, 2012

Author(s)

W DeGraffenreid, Sarah C. Campbell, Craig J. Sansonetti

The spectra of uranium and thorium are convenient sources of reference lines for wavelength calibration at the level of a few parts in 108. We observed these...

Towards a fiber-coupled picowatt cryogenic radiometer

June 11, 2012

Author(s)

Nathan A. Tomlin, John H. Lehman, Sae Woo Nam

A picowatt cryogenic radiometer (PCR) has been fabricated at the microscale level for electrical substitution optical fiber power measurements. The absorber...

Innovative Approach to Rapid Growth of Highly Clay-Filled Coatings on Porous Polyurethane Foam

June 11, 2012

Author(s)

Yeon S. Kim, Richard H. Harris Jr., Rick D. Davis

: An innovative twist to fabricating layer-by-layer coatings resulted in transparent, high-content clay coatings on porous polyurethane foam. The addition of an...

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