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Randolph E. Elmquist, David B. Newell, George R. Jones, Felipe L. Marquez-Hernandez, Mariano A. Real, Tian T. Shen
Many material and electronic contributions must be favorable to produce devices with strong quantum Hall effect (QHE) plateaus that are suitable for precise...
The electrical conductance of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices whose ultra-thin aluminum oxide tunnel barrier was irradiated by highly charged ions (HCIs)...
To protect structures from suffering significant damage during a major earthquake, fluid viscous dampers (FVDs) have been used in both newly constructed and...
To create effective and accurate two-way, free form, spoken language translation devices, the technologies must have appropriate training data. The goal of the...
Eric P. Whitenton, Iban Arriola, Jarred Heigel, Pedro Arrazola
Temperature and plastic strain maps were obtained during orthogonal cutting of two AISI 4140 steels with different machinability indexes using a high-speed dual...
The uniaxial strain dependence of the critical current was measured both in tension and compression in Bi-2212 high-temperature superconducting round wires. We...
David R. Black, Donald A. Windover, Albert Henins, James J. Filliben, James P. Cline
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certifies a suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to address specific aspects of instrument...
Michael D. Coble, Margaret C. Kline, John M. Butler
With the advent of Forensic DNA profiling in the mid-1980s, this technology has had a positive impact on the criminal justice system, helping to convict the...
Patrick M. Lenahan, Jason Campbell, A.T. Krishnan, S. Krishnan
The negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) is, arguably, the single most important reliability problem in present day metal oxide silicon field effect...
Frederico D. Nunes, Thiago Vasconcelos, Marcel Bezerra, John Weiner
The description of the energy density associated with an electromagnetic field propagating through matter must treat two different phenomena: dispersion, the...
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Stephan J. Stranick, Robert F. Cook
The theoretically-predicted anisotropic nature of the indentation phase transformation in silicon (Si) is observed directly in experiments using hyperspectral...
Dallas R. Trinkle, Hyunsu Ju, Brent J. Heuser, Terrence J. Udovic
Hydrogen arranges at dislocations in palladium to form nanoscale hydrides, changing the vibrational spectra. An ab initio hydrogen potential energy model versus...
The connectivity of the porosity in cement-based materials has an impact on material durability, the interpretation of experimental measurements such as...
Biology has been an inspiration for designing solutions to many engineering problems including chemical sensing. Modern approaches to chemical sensing have been...
John Kucklick, Lori Schwacke, Eric Zolman, Brian C. Balmer, Sylvain De Guise, Clay George, Jennifer Hoguet, Steve Lamb, Milton Levin, J. L. Litz, W E. McFee, Ned Place, Forrest Townsend, Teresa Rowles, Randall Wells, Aleta Hohn
Background: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other legacy organohalogens are often monitored in marine mammals both to understand health risks for...
Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway, James C. Booth, James R. Baker-Jarvis, David R. Novotny, Sung Kim, Yu Y. Wang
In this paper we demonstrate tunability of a metafilm, which is the two-dimensional equivalent of a metamaterial, also referred to as a metasurface, by changing...
For integral representations of associated Legendre functions in terms of modified Bessel functions, we establish justification for differentiation under the...
Jose M. Borreguero, Junhong He, F. Meilleur, Kevin Weiss, Craig Brown, D. A. A. Myles, Kenneth W. Herwig, Pratul K. Agarwal
Abstract Proteins are dynamic objects, constantly undergoing conformational fluctuations, yet the linkage between internal protein motion and function is widely...
We demonstrate collective atomic recoil motion with a dilute, ultracold, degenerate fermion gas in a single spin state. By utilizing an adiabatically...
Elizabeth G. Kelley, Thomas P. Smart, Andrew Jackson, Millicent O. Sullivan, Thomas H. Epps
The addition of tetrahydrofuran (THF) to aqueous solutions of poly(1,2-butadiene-b-ethylene oxide) [PBPEO] micelles decreased the core-corona interfacial...
Control of single photon wave-packets is an important resource for developing hybrid quantum systems which are composed of different physical systems...
Lijun Ma, Matthew T. Rakher, Martin Stevens, Oliver T. Slattery, Kartik Srinivasan, Xiao Tang
We demonstrate an approach to measure temporal correlations of photons in the near infrared range using frequency up-conversion. In this approach, the near...
Scarification and overlay (SO) procedures are often performed on concrete bridge decks to minimize the corrosion of reinforcing steel due to chloride ingress...
This contribution reviews experimental and theoretical work on spectroscopy of tungsten published since the last critical compilation of the energy levels and...
Jin-Tao Zhang, H. Lin, X.J. Feng, J.P. Sun, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, Y.Y. Duan
We used a single, fixed-path-length cylindrical-cavity resonator to measure c 0 = (307.8252 ± 0.0012) m•s −1, the zero-density limit of the speed of sound...
This article gives an example of improving the effectiveness of behavior modeling languages using ontological techniques. The techniques are applied to...