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Effects of Polymeric Nanogratings on Cell Orientation

December 30, 2010

Author(s)

Nancy J. Lin, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Jirun Sun, Yifu Ding

Surface topography is known to play a critical role in the biological response to materials, with surface features on the order of both microns and nanometers...

Development of a Four-channel System for Johnson Noise Thermometry

December 30, 2010

Author(s)

Alessio Pollarolo, Chiharu Urano, Paul Dresselhaus, Jifeng Qu, Horst Rogalla, Samuel Benz

Long integration time is necessary to reach low uncertainty when measuring temperature through Johnson Noise Thermometry (JNT). The main goal of the NIST JNT...

Thickness effect on the viscoelastic properties of polystyrene thin films as measured by thermal wrinkling

December 29, 2010

Author(s)

Edwin P. Chan, Santanu S. Kundu, Qinhuang Lin, Christopher M. Stafford

The viscoelastic properties of polymer thin films can have a significant impact on the performance in many small-scale devices. In this work, we use thermal...

A 10 mK Scanning Probe Microscopy Facility

December 29, 2010

Author(s)

Young J. Song, Alexander F. Otte, Steven R. Blankenship, Alan H. Band, Frank M. Hess, Young Kuk, Vladimir Shvarts, Zuyu Zhao, Joseph A. Stroscio

We describe the design, development and performance of a scanning probe microscopy (SPM) facility operating at a base temperature of 10 mK in magnetic fields up...

Exploring the use of internal and external controls for assessing microarray technical performance

December 28, 2010

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, David L. Duewer, Marc L. Salit, Laurence Game, Helen Causton

Background: The maturing of gene expression microarray science and interest in the use of microarray-based applications for clinical and diagnostic applications...

Introduction to Modern Liquid Chromatography

December 23, 2010

Author(s)

Catherine Rimmer

Influence of Polyethyleneimine Graftings of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Their Accumulation and Elimination by and Toxicity to Daphnia magna

December 23, 2010

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Roger A. Pinto, Danielle J. Mai, Peter E. Landrum, Walter J. Weber

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are often modified for different intended applications which often changes the nanotubes physicochemical properties, such as surface...

Evidence that the reversible strain effect on critical current density and flux pinning in Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox tapes is caused entirely by the pressure dependence of the critical temperature

December 23, 2010

Author(s)

Daniel C. van der Laan, J. F. Douglas, Cameron C. Clickner, Theodore C. Stauffer, Loren F. Goodrich, Hans J. van Eck

It is well known that the critical temperature of cuprate- and iron-based high-temperature superconductors changes with pressure. YBa 2Cu 3O 7-δ coated...

Superconducting multiplexer filter bank for a frequency-selective power limiter

December 23, 2010

Author(s)

Eduard Rocas, Alberto Padilla, Jordi Mateu, Juan C. Collado Gomez, James C. Booth, Juan M. O'Callaghan

This work proposes a superconducting multiplexer filter bank configuration to be used as a frequency-selective power limiter. The proposed configuration limits...

Metal-Insulator-Metal Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguide Filters with Cascaded Transverse Cavities

December 23, 2010

Author(s)

Lorena O. Diniz, Frederico D. Nunes, Euclydes Marega, Jr., John Weiner, Ben-Hur V. Borges

In this work we propose a new approach for the desgn of resonant structures aiming at wavelength filtering applications. The structure consists of a...

High Temperature Seebeck Coefficient Metrology

December 22, 2010

Author(s)

Joshua B. Martin, Terry M. Tritt, Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Ctirad Uher

We present an overview of the challenges and practices of thermoelectric metrology at high temperature (300 K-1300 K). The Seebeck coefficient, when combined...

Combinatorial Library Designs for Quantifying Thin Film Adhesion via the Edge Delamination Test

December 22, 2010

Author(s)

Jae H. Kim, Martin Chiang, D Kawaguchi, Naomi Eidelman, Christopher Stafford, Chang K. Moon

In this paper, we demonstrate a combinatorial thin film library design for investigating the adhesion between film and substrate as measured by the edge...

Characterizing a Scatterfield Optical Platform for Semiconductor Metrology

December 21, 2010

Author(s)

Bryan M. Barnes, Ravikiran Attota, Richard Quintanilha, Martin Y. Sohn, Richard M. Silver

Scatterfield microscopy is the union of a high-magnification imaging platform and the angular and/or wavelength control of scatterometry at the sample surface...

Scanning Probe Microscope Dimensional Metrology at NIST

December 21, 2010

Author(s)

John A. Kramar, Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) dimensional metrology efforts at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology are reviewed. The main SPM instruments...

A Mathematical Model of Atmospheric Retention of Man-made CO_2 Emissions

December 21, 2010

Author(s)

Bert W. Rust

Rust and Thijsse [Proc. CSC'07 (2007) pp. 10-16], [CiSE, Vol. 10 (2008) pp. 49-59] have shown that global annual average temperature anomalies T(t) vary...

TDCR Measurements on Pu-241 at NIST

December 21, 2010

Author(s)

Denis E. Bergeron, Brian E. Zimmerman

We have performed a series of measurements on a Pu-241 solution using the triple-to-double coincidence ratio (TDCR) liquid scintillation technique. A similar...

Combined scanning probe and light scattering characterization of multi-stage self-assembly of targeted liposome-based delivery systems

December 21, 2010

Author(s)

Natalia Farkas, John A. Dagata, Chengli Yang, Antonina Rait, Kathleen Pirollo, Esther Chang

The mean size and size distribution of a targeted nanoparticle delivery system (NDS) strongly influences the intrinsic stability and functionality of this...

The effect of growth orientation and diameter on the elasticity of GaN Nanowires - a combined insitu TEM and atomistic modeling investigation

December 20, 2010

Author(s)

Kristine A. Bertness, Norman Sanford, Albert Davydov

We characterized the elastic properties of GaN nanowires grown along different crystallographic orientations. In situ transmission electron microscopy tensile...

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...

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...

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