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Ryan P. Birringer, Roey Shaviv, Roy H. Geiss, David T. Read, Reinhold Dauskardt
The effects of electroplating chemistry and dielectric diffusion barrier composition on Cu voiding and barrier adhesion are reported. Adhesion was quantified...
Ji Y. Lee, Matthew L. Clarke, Fuyuki Tokumasu, John F. Lesoine, David W. Allen, Robert C. Chang, Maritoni A. Litorja, Jeeseong Hwang
We report a hyperspectral imaging and analysis technique to resolve unique physico-chemical characteristics of subcellular substances in single erythrocytes. We...
The impact of potassium (K) addition on the electronic structure of oligo- (phenylene ethynylene) (OPE) and NO2 substituted OPE (NO2-OPE) self-assembled...
Dietrich G. Leibfried, Christian Ospelkaus, Ulrich J. Warring, Yves Colombe, Kenton R. Brown, J. M. Amini, David J. Wineland
Achieving control over physical systems at the quantum level is a goal shared by scientific fields as diverse as metrology, information processing, simulation...
We develop a set of computationally efficient and accurate interatomic interactions for an atomistic simulation of the properties of graphene on nickel surface...
Kristine A. Bertness, Jason M. Gray, Norman A. Sanford, Charles T. Rogers
We report on the fabrication, piezoresistive readout, and frequency response of doubly-clamped c-axis gallium nitride (GaN) nanowire (NW) resonators that show...
A unified kinetic pathway for the enzyme catalyzed polymerization and degradation of poly(ε-caprolactone) was developed. This model tracks the complete...
Sangcheol Kim, Alamgir Karim, Jack F. Douglas, Christopher L. Soles, R M. Briber
We utilize the self-assembly of cylinder-forming block copolymer (BCP) films to create templates for dendritic polymer crystallization patterns. This templating...
Biofilm density, porosity, and thickness are biofilm architecture properties that are important but often difficult to measure. In this study, wet and dry...
Eric D. Bloch, Leslie J. Murray, Wendy Queen, Sachin Chavan, Sergey N. Maximoff, Julian P. Bigi, Rajamani Krishna, Vanessa Peterson, Fernande Grandjean, Berend Smit, Silvia Bordiga, Craig Brown, Jeffrey R. Long
The air-free reaction of FeCl 2 and H 4dobdc (dobdc 4- = 2,5-dioxido-1,4- benzenedicarboxylate) in a mixture of DMF and methanol affords Fe 2(dobdc), a metal...
Eric D. Bloch, Leslie J. Murray, Wendy Queen, Sachin Chavan, Sergey N. Maximoff, Julian P. Bigi, Rajamani Krishna, Vanessa K. Peterson, Fernande Grandjean, Berend Smit, Silvia Bordiga, Craig Brown, Jeffrey R. Long
Deepak Singh, A. Thamizhavel, Sung Chang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, D. A. Joshi, S. K. Dhar, Song Xue Chi
We report on the experimental evidences for an unusual coupling between the magnetic field-induced fluctuations of correlated Ce-ions coinciding with the...
Martin Chiang, Anthony A. Giuseppetti, Joy Dunkers, Jing Qian, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Gary E. Schumacher, Joseph M. Antonucci
Analytical and finite element analyses have been performed on a cantilever-beam based methodology (tensometer) for evaluating the development of stresses as the...
Kai Li, Pradeep Namboodiri, Sumanth B. Chikkamaranahalli, Gheorghe Stan, Ravikiran Attota, Joseph Fu, Richard M. Silver
Micro scale features are fabricated on Si (100) surfaces using lithographic techniques and then thermally processed in an ultra high vacuum (UHV) environment...
We describe ongoing work in a Fabry-Perot interferometry system designed to measure displacements over a range of 50~mm with sub-pm uncertainty. The apparatus...
Thomas J. Silva, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, Michael Schneider, Matt Carey, Stefan Maat, Jeff Childress
X-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetometry, and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements were performed on sputtered thin films of the nominal Heusler alloy (Co...
Wei Chen, Tao Xu, Feng He, Wei Wang, Cheng Wang, Joseph Strzalka, Yun Liu, Jianguo Wen, Dean J. Miller, Jihua Chen, Kunlun Hong, Luping Yu, Seth B. Darling
PTB7 semiconducting copolymer comprising thieno[3,4-b]thiophene and benzodithiophene alternating repeat units set a historic record of solar energy conversion...
George P. Eppeldauer, Howard W. Yoon, Jinan Zeng, Thomas C. Larason
Integrating-sphere-input InGaAs radiometers have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to extend the detector-based...
Kristina Verdal, Terrence J. Udovic, John R. Copley, John J. Rush
We have tested the transmission of very cold neutrons as a method to measure dynamical transitions in hydrogenous materials. Transmitted intensities vs...
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) monomers assemble to form a ring-shaped clamp complex that encircles duplex DNA. PCNA binding to other proteins...
Russell E. Lake, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Holger Grube, C E. Sosolik
We report on a measurement of craters in thin dielectric films formed by XeQ+ (26 Q 44) projectiles. Tunnel junction devices with ion-irradiated barriers were...
Limin Sun, Laurence C. Chow, John E. Bonevich, James W. Mitchell
Previously, a nano-sized calcium fluoride (CaF2) was prepared using a spray drying method by simultaneously feeding Ca(OH)2 and NH4F solutions to a two-liquid...
Efrain E. Rodriguez, Christopher K. Stock, P. Zajdel, Kathryn L. Krycka, Charles Majkrzak, P. Zavalij, Mark Green
Through neutron diffraction experiments, including spin-polarized measurements, we construct a magnetic-crystallographic phase diagram of the superconducting...
M. Ramazanoglu, William D. Ratcliff, H. T. Yi, A. A. Sirenko, S.- W. Cheong, V. Kiryukhin
Neutron diffraction is used to show that small (7 MPa, or 70 bar) uniaxial pressure produces significant changes in the populations of magnetic domains in a...
Ultra-high-speed (UHS) miniature spindles are widely used for mechanical micromachining processes, such as micromilling and microdrilling, as well as for...
Stephen L. Redman, James E. Lawler, Gillian Nave, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Suvrath Mahadevan
We provide new measurements of wavenumbers and line identifications of 10100 UI and UII near-infrared (NIR) emission lines between 2500 cm−1 and 12000 cm−1...
Panagiotis Keivanidis, Frederic Laquai, Joseph W. Robertson, Baluschev Stanislav, Josemon Jacob, Klaus Mullen, Gerhard Wegner
The mechanism of triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) induced up-converted delayed luminescence is studied in two different binary organic systems consisting of...