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Journals

Thoughts on Higher Education and Scientific Research

Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Voas, George Hurlburt, Keith Miller, Phillip Laplante, Bret Michael
The notion of a "tipping point" isn't new, al though the concept has relevance in differing ways. Academia seems to be at a tipping point, whereby the steady...

Revealing the Interphase in Polymer Nanocomposites

Author(s)
Mauro Zammarano, Paul H. Maupin, Li Piin Sung, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Douglas M. Fox
Morphological characterization of polymer nanocomposites is a fundamental challenge that is complicated by multiple length scales. Here, we report a technique...

H Atom Attack on Propene

Author(s)
Claudette M. Rosado-Reyes, Jeffrey A. Manion, Wing Tsang
The reaction of propene(CH3CH=CH2) with hydrogen atoms has been investigated in a heated single-pulsed shock tube at temperature between 929K-1212K and...

Coupled quantized mechanical oscillators

Author(s)
Kenton R. Brown, Christian Ospelkaus, Yves Colombe, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
The harmonic oscillator is one of the simplest physical systems but also one of the most fundamental. It is ubiquitous in nature, often serving as an...

Introduction to special issue on single-photon technologies

Author(s)
Alan L. Migdall, Sergey V. Polyakov, Jingyun Fan, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Jessica Cheung
This special issue accompanies the 4th international conference on single-photon technologies held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Circuit cavity electromechanics in the strong-coupling regime

Author(s)
John Teufel, Dale Li, Michael S. Allman, Katarina Cicak, Adam Sirois, Jed D. Whittaker, Raymond Simmonds
Demonstrating and exploiting the quantum nature of macroscopic mechanical objects would help us to investigate directly the limitations of quantum-based...

Improving Face Recognition Technology

Author(s)
P Phillips
US-government sponsored evaluations and challenge problems have helped spur over two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in face recognition system performance.
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