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Lawrence T. Hudson, Albert Henins, C.I Szabo, Uri Feldman, John F. Seely, John J. Curry
The potential of an x-ray magnifier prepared from a pair of asymmetrically cut crystals is studied to explore high energy x-ray imaging capabilities at high
Charles D. Fenimore, Andrew Buckler, Lawrence H. Schwartz, Nicholas Petrick, Michael McNitt-Gray, Binsheng Zhao, Anthony P. Reeves, P. David Mozeley, Ricardo S. Avila
The drug development industry is faced with increasing costs and decreasing success rates. New ways to understand biology as well as the increasing interest in
Peter C. Sebastian, James Salvador, Joshua B. Martin, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
The intermetallic compounds YbAu2In4 and Yb2Au3In5 were obtained as single crystals in high yield from reactions run in liquid indium. Single crystal X-ray
Jennifer Y. Kelly, Julie N. Albert, John A. Howarter, Shuhui Kang, Christopher Stafford, Thomas H. Epps, Michael J. Fasolka
We report the use of a gradient library approach to characterize the structure and behavior of thin films of a thermally-responsive block copolymer (BCP), poly
Young Jong Lee, Sapun Parekh, Jeffrey Fagan, Marcus T. Cicerone
The dephasing and population decay dynamics of optical phonons are studied for semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) using broadband time
Francis J. Lovas, David F. Plusquellic, Susanna L. Widicus Weaver, B. A. McGuire, G. A. Blake
Geometry optimization calculations on 13 members of the C3H6O3 family of organic species have been carried out to determine their relative binding energies
Sheng Lin-Gibson, Jirun Sun, Nancy J. Lin, Jing N. Zhou, Hyun W. Ro, Christopher L. Soles, Marcus T. Cicerone, Yifu Ding
Understanding the correlation between cell contact guidance (CG) and nanoscale surface features is vital in designing advanced medical devices to manipulate
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) has become one of the new hot topics in materials science and engineering in recent years, and worldwide
Dean C. Ripple, Richard Davis, Bernd Fellmuth, Joachim Fischer, Graham Machin, Terry Quinn, Peter Steur, Osamu Tamura, David R. White
The mise en pratique (practical realization) for the definition of the kelvin (MeP-K) was created by the Consultative Committee for Thermometry (CCT) in 2006
Changbo Fu, Thomas R. Gentile, Wangchun Chen, Ross Erwin, Shannon M. Watson, Collin L. Broholm, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Julia Scherschligt, G L. Jones
Polarized 3He neutron spin filters can operate over a wide neutron energy range and provide a large angular acceptance. A compact 3He neutron spin filter system
Eric S. Windsor, Marcela N. Najarro, Anna N. Bloom, Bruce A. Benner Jr, Robert A. Fletcher, John G. Gillen, Richard Lareau, Inho Cho, Mike Boldmand
The feasibility of using piezoelectric drop-on-demand inkjet printing to prepare test materials for trace explosive analysis is demonstrated. Both pure high
Rolf L. Zeisler, Rick L. Paul, Rabia Oflaz, Lee L. Yu, Jacqueline L. Mann, William R. Kelly, Brian E. Lang, Stefan D. Leigh, Jeffrey A. Fagan
A material containing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) together with other carbon species, cata-lyst residues, and trace element contaminants has been
Christopher D. Bass, Tiffany D. Bass, B R. Heckel, C. R. Huffer, Paul R. Huffman, D Luo, D M. Markoff, A M. Micherdzinska, William M. Snow, H E. Swanson, S. C. Walbridge
A liquid helium target system was designed and built to perform a precision measurement of the parity-violating neutron spin rotation in helium due to nucleon
Nadine Gergel-Hackett, Nizeet Aquilar, Curt A. Richter
We demonstrate that charge transport through a CMOS-compatible molecular electronic device is dominated by one of two different transport regimes depending on
A Bloom filter is a space-efficient data structure used for probabilistic set membership testing. When testing an object for set membership, a Bloom filter may
Cyber-physical systems feature a tight combination of a system's computational and physical elements. Understanding how to assess and design trustworthiness
The term trust has had a well understood definition for centuries. However after e-trust came along, and then cloud, where e-trust is not sufficient due to the
Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
Dual coherent frequency combs can be used in Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTS) to generate the full optical response of a sample with high frequency, and
H.-F. Li, Collin Broholm, David Vaknin, R.M. Fernandes, D.L. Abernathy, M. B. Stone, D.K. Pratt, Wei Tian, Yiming Qiu, N. Ni, S.O. Diallo, J. L. Zarestky, S. L. Bud'Ko, P. C. Canfield, R.J. McQueeney
Because of the complexity in determining the 3D structure of a protein, the use of partial information determined from experimental techniques can greatly
Siao-Kwan Wang, E. Mamontov, Mengjun Bai, F.Y. Hansen, Haskell Taub, John R. Copley, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Goran Gasparovic, Timothy Jenkins, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Kenneth W. Herwig, David B. Neumann, Wouter Montfrooij, U.G. Volkmann
High-energy-resolution quasielastic neutron scattering on three complementary spectrometers has been used to investigate molecular diffusive motion in solid
Hildenbrand and coworkers have shown recently that the vapor above solid ammonium nitrate includes molecules of NH4NO3, not only NH3 and HNO3 as previously
Robert G. Downing, Z Tun, J.J. Noel, Th Bohdanowicz, L.R. Cao
A recent experiment at NIST has demonstrated that neutron depth profiling (NDP) based on (n,α) reaction could be developed into a tool routinely used for the
Hua Xu, Lei Chen, Liangbing Hu, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
We studied the contact properties of different metals to flexible optically-transparent single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNTs) films. The SWCNT films are
In this paper we review statistical models that describe measurements from a multiple-method study such as in the development of a reference material. We also
The effects of an Ar ion assist beam during Al film growth by electron beam evaporation on the film composition, microstructure, and texture were assessed in
Lafe F. Spietz, Kent D. Irwin, Minhyea Lee, Jose A. Aumentado
We report on the noise of a lumped element Direct Current Superconducting Quantum Interference Device amplifier. We show that the noise temperature in the 4 GHz