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Progress at NIST in measuring the D-lines of Li isotopes using an optical frequency comb

December 20, 2010

Author(s)

Clayton Simien, Samuel M. Brewer, Joseph N. Tan, John D. Gillaspy, Craig J. Sansonetti

Precise spectroscopic experiments with light atoms can provide information about nuclear properties that are very difficult to obtain in electron scattering...

Femtotesla atomic magnetometry in a microfabricated vapor cell

December 20, 2010

Author(s)

William C. Griffith, Svenja A. Knappe, John Kitching

We describe an optically pumped 87Rb magnetometer with 4.5 fT/Hz 1/2 sensitivity when operated in the spin-exchange relaxation free (SERF) regime. The...

Quantum Fluctuations in the Chirped Pendulum

December 19, 2010

Author(s)

Jose A. Aumentado

Detection of Heteroplasmic Mitochondrial DNA in Single Mitochondria

December 17, 2010

Author(s)

Joseph E. Reiner, Rani Kishore, Barbara C. Levin, Thomas Albanetti, Nicholas Boire, Ashley Knipe, Kristian Helmerson, Koren Deckman

Background Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome mutations can lead to energy and respiratory-related disorders like myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fiber disease...

ThermoData Engine (TDE): Software Implementation of the Dynamic Data Evaluation Concept. 5. Experiment Planning and Product Design

December 17, 2010

Author(s)

Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Andrei F. Kazakov, Chris Muzny, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Jeon-Hong Kang, Kenneth Kroenlein, Michael D. Frenkel

ThermoData Engine (TDE) is the first full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept, as reported recently in this journal. In the...

Measurement of Nanoparticle Concentration Using Quartz Crystal Microgravimetry

December 16, 2010

Author(s)

Vytautas Reipa, Geoffrey Purdum, Jonghoon Choi

A common issue, encountered in nanoparticle-biological system interaction studies is accurate nanoparticle concentration expression, given the critical...

Engineering Time-Reversal Invariant Topological Insulators With Ultra-Cold Atoms

December 16, 2010

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman, Nathan Goldman, Indubala I. Satija, Predrag Nikolic, Alejandro Bermudez, Miguel A. Martin-Delgado, Maciej Lewenstein

Topological insulators are a broad class of unconventional states that respect all symmetries of the system, but have non-trivial transport and topological...

Methods for Static and Dynamic Performance Evaluation of Commercially-Available Ultra Wideband Tracking Systems

December 15, 2010

Author(s)

Kamel S. Saidi, Marek Franaszek, Alan M. Lytle, Jochen Teizer

Locating and tracking resources (e.g., personnel, equipment, and materials) is critical in many industrial applications for monitoring productivity and safety...

Modern Size-Exclusion Liquid Chromatography: Practice of Gel Permeation and Gel Filtration Chromatography, 2nd edition, by A Striegel, WW Yau, JJ Kirkland, and DD Bly

December 15, 2010

Author(s)

Melissa M. Phillips

Three dimensional optical manipulation and structural imaging of soft materials by use of laser tweezers and multimodal nonlinear microscopy

December 15, 2010

Author(s)

Rahul P. Trivedi, Kristine A. Bertness, Ivan I. Smalyukh

We develop an integrated system of holographic optical trapping and multimodal nonlinear microscopy and perform simultaneous three-dimensional optical...

Tapering Control of Si Nanowires Grown from SiCl4 at Reduced Pressure

December 15, 2010

Author(s)

Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Igor Levin

Device applications of tapered Si nanowire (SiNW) arrays require reliable technological approaches for fabricating nanowires with controlled shape and...

Water droplet calibration of the Cloud Droplet Probe (CDP) and in-flight performance in liquid, ice and mixed-phase clouds during ARCPAC

December 14, 2010

Author(s)

Sara Lance, Charles Brock, Dave Rogers, Josh Gordon

Laboratory calibrations of the CDP sample area and droplet sizing are performed using water droplets of known size, generated at a known rate. Following...

Polarized neutron beam properties for measuring parity-violating spin rotation in liquid He4

December 14, 2010

Author(s)

A M. Micherdzinska, C. D. Bass, T. D. Bass, K. F. Gan, D Lou, D M. Markoff, Hans Pieter Mumm, Jeffrey S. Nico, A. K. Opper, E I. Sharapov, M Snow, H E. Swanson, V Zhumabekova

Measurements of parity-violating neutron spin rotation can provide insight into the poorly nderstood nucleon-nucleon weak interaction. Because the expected...

Zone-Refinement Effect in Small Molecule-Polymer Blend Semiconductors for Organic Thin Film Transistors

December 14, 2010

Author(s)

Yeon Sook Chung, Nayool Shin, Jihoon Kang, Youngeun Jo, Vivek Prabhu, Regis J. Kline, John E. Anthony, Do Y. Yoon

The blend films of small molecule semiconductors with insulating polymers exhibit not only an excellent solution processability, but also superior performance...

Free and Open Source Software

December 13, 2010

Author(s)

Keith Miller, Jeff Voas, Tom Costello

In this paper, free and open source software are discussed. Open source is an intellectual property destroyer. Nothing could be worse than this for the software...

Mobile Applications: the Fifth Cycle

December 13, 2010

Author(s)

George Hurlburt, Jeff Voas, Keith Miller

Using the analogy of an existing smart car, this paper explores Power to the Edge , where the edge is commercial mobile computing. The world is poised for a 5th...

Ordered metal nanostructure self-assembly using metal-organic frameworks as templates

December 13, 2010

Author(s)

Benjamin Jacobs, Houk Ronald, Stephen House, Ian Robertson, Albert A. Talin, Mark Allendorf, Mitchell Anstey

Synthesis of metal nanoparticles and nanowires with controlled size and aspect ratio is well developed,1-4 but the creation of ordered nanostructures comprising...

Generalized ellipsometry of artificially designed line width roughness

December 10, 2010

Author(s)

Martin Foldyna, Thomas A. Germer, Brent Bergner, Ronald G. Dixson

We use azimuthally-resolved spectroscopic Mueller matrix ellipsometry to study a periodic silicon line structure with and without artificially-generated line...

Band Alignment of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Structure by Internal Photoemission Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

December 10, 2010

Author(s)

Nhan V. Nguyen, Oleg A. Kirillov, John S. Suehle

In this paper, we will provide an overview of the internal photoemission (IPE) and the significance of this technique when combined with spectroscopic...

Modeling of Self-Heating Mechanism in the Design of Superconducting Limiters

December 10, 2010

Author(s)

Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth

This work proposes a modeling method to simulate how temperature rise, due to power dissipation, affects the performance of a HTS limiter. The spatial...

Antiferromagnetic Ordering in the Absence of Structural Distortion in Ba(Fe_1-xMn_x)₂As₂

December 10, 2010

Author(s)

M. G. Kim, A. Kreyssig, A. Thaler, D. K. Pratt, W. Tian, J. L. Zarestky, Mark Green, S. L. Bud'Ko, P. C. Canfield, R.J. McQueeney, A. I. Goldman

Deuterium-Induced Volume Expansion in Fe_0.5V_0.5/V Superlattices

December 10, 2010

Author(s)

Gunnar K. Palsson, Vassilios Kapaklis, Joseph Dura, Julie Jacob, Sumedha Jayanetti, Adrian R. Rennie, Bjorgvin Hjorvarsson

Hydrated Mo₇₂Fe₃₀} Clusters: Low-Frequency Hydrogen Modes and Self-Aggregation

December 10, 2010

Author(s)

Emiliano Fratini, Antonio Faraone, Ana Maria Todea, Piero Baglioni

Low loss superconducting titanium nitride coplanar waveguide resonators

December 9, 2010

Author(s)

Michael Vissers, Jiansong Gao, David S. Wisbey, David P. Pappas, C. C. Tsuei, A. D. Corcoles, Matthias Steffen

Thin films of TiN were sputter-deposited onto Si and sapphire wafers with and without SiN buffer layers. The films were fabricated into RF coplanar waveguide...

Far-ultraviolet signatures of the 3He(n,tp) reaction in noble gas mixtures

December 8, 2010

Author(s)

Patrick Hughes, Alan K. Thompson, Michael Coplan, Robert E. Vest, Charles W. Clark

Previous work showed that the 3He(n,tp) reaction in a cell of 3He at atmospheric pressure generated tens of far-ultraviolet photons per reacted neutron. Here we...

Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of Kerosene-based Rocket Propellants. 3. RP-2 with Varying Concentrations of the Stabilizing Additive 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinoline

December 8, 2010

Author(s)

Jason A. Widegren, Thomas J. Bruno

The thermal stability of the kerosene-based rocket propellant RP-2 with varying concentrations of the stabilizing additive 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (THQ) was...

Mapping Crystal Orientation in High Performance Thienothiophene Copolymer Thin Films

December 8, 2010

Author(s)

Xinran Zhang, Steven D. Hudson, Dean M. DeLongchamp, David J. Gundlach, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch

Mapping of crystalline grain orientation for solution-processed semiconducting polymer thin films is key to understanding charge transport in electronic devices...

Precise Throughput Determination of the PanSTARRS Telescope and the Gigapixel Imager using a Calibrated Silicon Photodiode and a Tunable Laser: Initial Results

December 2, 2010

Author(s)

Christopher W. Stubbs, Peter Doherty, Claire Cramer, Gautham Narayan, Yorke Brown, Ned Henry, Keith R. Lykke, John T. Woodward IV, John L. Tinry

We have used a precision calibrated photodiode as the fundamental metrology reference in order to determine the relative throughput of the PanSTARRS telescope...

Probing the Room Temperature Spatial Distribution of Hydrogen in Nanoporous Carbon by Use of Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

December 2, 2010

Author(s)

Cheng-Si Tsao, Mingda Li, Yang Zhang, Juscelino Leao, Wei-Shan Chiang, Tsui-Yun Chung, Yi-Ren Tzeng, Ming-Sheng Yu, Sow-Hsin Chen

Neutron Imaging Studies of Metal-Hydride Storage Beds

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

David Jacobson, Daniel Hussey, Elias Baltic, Terrence J. Udovic, John J. Rush, Robert C. Bowman

Neutron radiography and tomography were used to study the transient and steady-state distributions, respectively, of hydrogen within a prototypical, LaNi4.78Sn0...

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