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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...

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...

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...

A Low-Temperature Crossover in Water Dynamics in an Aqeous LiCl Solution: Diffusion Probed by Neutron Spin-Echo and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Antonio Faraone, E. W. Hagaman, K. S. Han, Emiliano Fratini

Aqueous solutions of lithium chloride are an excellent model system for studying the dynamics of water molecules down to low temperatures without freezing. The...

SANS from Pluronic P85 in d-water

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Boualem Hammouda

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) has been used to investigate pluronic P85 (EO 26PO 40EO 26) copolymer in deuterated water. A range of P85 fractions were...

The Role of High-Field Stress in the Negative Bias Temperature Instability

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, John S. Suehle, A Oates

In this study, a fast drain current measurement methodology which supports the standard threshold voltage and transconductance extractions associated with the...

A NIST Disciplined Oscillator: Delivering UTC(NIST) to the Calibration Laboratory

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now offers a service that provides customers with an oscillator locked to UTC(NIST), the United States...

Derivation of Isosceles Trapezoidal Distribution

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker, James F. Lawrence

It is known that, if the mid-point of a rectangular distribution is specified, the half-width is inexactly known, and the state of knowledge about the half...

Melting Point Equations for the Ternary System Water/Sodium Chloride/Ethylene Glycol Revisited

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

James D. Benson, Aniruddha Bagchi, Xu Han, John K. Critser, Erik J. Woods

Partial phase diagrams are of considerable utility in the development of optimized cryobiological procedures. Recent theoretical predictions of the melting...

In situ Experimental Study of Carbon Monoxide Generation by Gasoline-powered Electricity Generator in an Enclosed Space

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Liangzhu Wang, Steven J. Emmerich

About 98 % of generator-related carbon monoxide (CO) fatalities in recent years were caused by running operating gasoline-powered generators in enclosed spaces...

Quantitative Permittivity Measurements of Nanoliter Liquid Volumes in Microfluidic Channels to 40 GHz.

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Jordi Mateu, James A. Beall, Matthew Rinehart

We describe the design, fabrication, and evaluation of a new on-wafer measurement platform for the rapid, quantitative determination of the complex permittivity...

Quantitative Permittivity Measurements of Nanoliter Liquid Volumes in Microfluidic Channels to 40 GHz

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Jordi Mateu, Michael D. Janezic, Matthew Rinehart, James A. Beall

We describe the design, fabrication, and evaluation of a new on-wafer measurement platform for the rapid, quantitative determination of the complex permittivity...

From the Editor's Desk: A Little Friendly Competition

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley

This is an Editorial for the December, 2010 issue of IEEE Microwave Magazine. Kate Remley, the Editor-in-Chief, writes about timely topics for the members of...

Spin-Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Scattering (SERGIS) at Pulsed and CW Neutron Scources

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Rana Ashkar, P. Stonaha, A. Washington, V. R. Shah, M .R. Fitzsimmons, Brian B. Maranville, Charles Majkrzak, W. T. Lee, Roger Pynn

The Effect of Substrate Material on Silver Nanoparticle Antimicrobial Efficacy

December 1, 2010

Author(s)

Benita Dair, Dave M. Saylor, T. E. Cargal, Grace R. French, Kristen M. Kennedy, Rachel S. Casas, Jonathan E. Guyer, James A. Warren, Steven K. Pollack

With the advent of Nanotechnology, silver nanoparticles increasingly are being used in coatings, especially in medical device applications, to capitalize on...

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