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Joon Ho Roh, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Robert M. Briber, Sarah A. Woodson, Alexei P. Sokolov
We have used quasielastic neutron scattering spectroscopy to study the dynamics of unfolded tRNA under low ionic strength and tRNA folded through the addition...
Alexander V. Skripov, N. V. Mushnikov, P. B. Terent'ev, V. S. Gaviko, Terrence J. Udovic, John J. Rush
The vibrational spectrum of hydrogen and parameters of H jump motion in the rhombohedral Th 2Zn 17d-type compound Ce 2Fe 17H 5 have been studied by means of...
In this article, a new scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image composition technique is de- scribed, which can significantly reduce drift-distortion related...
H. D. Zhou, S.T. Bramwell, J. G. Cheng, C. R. Wiebe, G. Li, L. Balicas, J. A. Bloxsom, H. J. Silverstein, J. S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, Jason S. Gardner
The gas of magnetic monopoles in spin ice is governed by one key parameter: the monopole chemical potential 1,2. A significant variation of this parameter could...
A reversed-flow chromatographic apparatus for the measurement of binary diffusion coefficients is described and utilized to measure the binary diffusion...
A reversed-flow chromatographic apparatus for the measurement of binary diffusion coefficients is described. Hydrocarbons are detected using flame ionization...
Experimental techniques of laser cooling and trapping, along with other cooling techniques have produced gaseous samples of atoms so cold that they are, for...
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Bin Ming, Charles Archie
Scanning electron microscopy has been employed as an imaging and measurement tool for more than 50 years and it continues as a primary tool in many research and...
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, John A. Dagata, Natalia Farkas, Bin Ming, Ryan Wagner, Arvind Raman, Robert J. Moon, Ronald Sabo, Theodore H. Wegner, James Beecher
The development of metrology for nanoparticles is a significant challenge. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) are one group of nanoparticles that have high potential...
Jeffrey W. Hudgens, John M. Pettibone, Thomas P. Senftle, Ryan N. Bratton
This report outlines the determination of a reaction mechanism that can be manipulated to develop directed syntheses of gold monolayer protected clusters (MPCs)...
Marcelo I. Davanco, Matthew T. Rakher, W. Wegscheider, Dieter Schuh, Antonio Badolato, Kartik A. Srinivasan
We demonstrate a spectrally broadband and efficient technique for collecting photoluminescence from a single InAs quantum dot directly into a standard single...
Edwin Chan, Joseph J. Walish, Edwin L. Thomas, Christopher Stafford
In this work, we describe a strategy based on mechanochromic sensing, the coupling between mechanical and optical properties, of a block copolymer photonic gel...
Mark D. Richards, Elizabeth S. Drexler, James R. Fekete
Strain aging in low-carbon steels is a well-known strengthening phenomenon, the typical results of which are an increase in yield stress and/or an increase in...
Alfons Weber, J E. Price, K A. Coulterpark, Tony Masiello, Joseph W. Nibler, A Maki, Thomas A. Blake
Infrared spectra of spiropentane (C5H8) have been recorded at a resolution (0.002 cm-1) sufficient to resolve for the first time individual rovibrational lines...
M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga, Prasad T. Reddy, Guldal Kirkali, Didem Keles, Gulgun Oktay, Aras E. Canda
Molecular pathways that play a role in the development of colorectal cancer involve multiple genetic changes in cancer-related genes that may be caused by...
Mark S. Lowenthal, Hugo H. Gasca-Aragon, John E. Schiel, Nathan Dodder, David M. Bunk
A mass spectrometry-based antibody selection procedure targeting human cardiac troponin I (cTnI) was established for the purpose of developing a well...
Craig D. McGray, Richard A. Allen, Marc J. Cangemi, Jon C. Geist
Etching of monocrystalline diamond in oxygen and water vapor at 1100° C through small pores in a silicon nitride film produced smooth-walled rectangular...
Corey A. Barnes, Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, David A. Howe
The measurement of close-to carrier phase modulation (PM) noise of state-of-the-art oscillators is always challenging. Quite often the residual noise of the...
This paper addresses the importance of standards when implementing or using biometric systems. Standards have been developed to ensure that biometric systems...
Jean-Yves Chauleau, Benjamin James McMorran, R. Belkhou, Nicolas Bergeard, Tevfik Mente?, Miguel Angel Nino, Andrea Locatelli, John Unguris, Stanislas Rohart, Jacques Miltat, Andre Thiaville
We have observed peculiar magnetization textures in Ni80Pd20 nanostructures, by three different imaging techniques (MFM, XMCD-PEEM and SEMPA). The appearance of...
Kenton R. Brown, Andrew C. Wilson, Yves Colombe, Christian Ospeklaus, Adam M. Meier, Emanuel H. Knill, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
In theory, quantum computers can solve certain problems much more efficiently than classical computers [1]. This has motivated experimental efforts to construct...
Francesca M. Tavazza, Douglas T. Smith, Lyle E. Levine, Jon R. Pratt, Anne M. Chaka
Experimental conductivity measurements made during highly stable tensile deformation of Au nanowires show a rich variety of behaviors, including non-integer...
We have used low-frequency noise (LFN) spectroscopy to measure generation-recombination (G-R) centers in boron-doped silicon nanowires (SiNWs), which were grown...
Eric L. Shirley, Maria K. Chan, Naba Karan, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Yang Ren, Jeffrey P. Greeley, Timothy T. Fister
The reliable identification of lithium oxides species, especially lithium peroxide (Li2O2), is of vital importance to the study of Li-air batteries. Previous x...
Dale P. Bentz, Alejandro Duran-Herrera, Daniel Galvez-Moreno
Currently, the (pozzolanic) strength activity indices of fly ashes and natural pozzolans are typically evaluated using the procedures outlined in ASTM C311,...
This paper shows the experimental details of the stabilization scheme that allows full control of the repetition rate and the carrier-envelope offset frequency...
We demonstrate a simplified dual-comb lidar setup for precision absolute ranging that can achieve a ranging precision at a meter of 2 υm in 140 υs acquisition...