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Ryan P. Fitzgerald, R Longland, C. Iliadis, E. Champagne, J.R. Newton, C. Ugalde
A new method based on Monte Carlo techniques is presented for evaluating thermonuclear reaction rates. We begin by reviewing commonly applied procedures and
Mary Bedner, Lane C. Sander, Katherine E. Sharpless
Theanine is the major amino acid present in Camellia sinensis, or green tea. A method for determining theanine in its native state using liquid chromatography
Dylan Morris, David Bahr, Ryan Need, Michael Anderson
A strategy to increase the performance of diaphragm-type transducers is to provide an initial curvature to the diaphragm, which converts in-plane strains to
In recent years, there has been a great deal of success in the development of MgO based tunnel barriers for use in magnetic devices, such as nanoscale magnetic
Andreas Jahn, Samuel M. Stavis, Jennifer S. Hong, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Don L. DeVoe, Michael Gaitan
We investigate the formation of unilamellar lipid vesicles (liposomes) with diameters of tens of nanometers by microfluidic hydrodynamic focusing (MHF). Our
Jocelyn L. Prendergast, Lorna T. Sniegoski, Michael J. Welch, Karen W. Phinney
NIST has been providing a Standard Reference Material (SRM) for glucose in human serum for many years to support accuracy in health care measurements. The
Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
Time-domain spectroscopy using dual, coherent frequency combs is used to measure free-induction decay from a molecular gas sample in the near-IR with a time
Katherine E. Sharpless, Catherine A. Rimmer, Karen W. Phinney, Bryant C. Nelson, David L. Duewer, Stephen A. Wise
Key Comparison CCQM-K62 was designed to enable demonstration of the equivalence in capabilities for measurement of vitamins in a food matrix. A milk-based
Matthew T. Rakher, Ranojoy Bose, Chee Wei Wong, Kartik A. Srinivasan
We use an optical fiber taper waveguide to probe PbS quantum dots (QDs) dried on Si photonic crystal cavities near 1.55 υm. We demonstrate that a low density (
Michael D. Niemack, Kent D. Irwin, Joern Beyer, Hsiao-Mei Cho, William B. Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale
Multiplexed superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) readout systems are a critical technology for measuring large arrays of superconducting
A spin wave Doppler technique is used to measure the temperature dependence of both the magnetization drift velocity and the current polarization in current
Behrang H. Hamadani, Suyong S. Jung, Paul M. Haney, Lee J. Richter, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
Photo generated charge transport in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is strongly dependent on the active layer nanomorphology resulting from phase
Applying the Monte Carlo method for propagation of measurement uncertainty described in the GUM Supplement 1, when the input quantities are correlated, involves
Vivek M. Prabhu, Shuhui Kang, Christopher L. Soles, Christopher K. Ober, Jing Sha, Jin-Kyun Lee, Peter V. Bonnesen
Understanding acid reaction-diffusion kinetics is crucial for controlling the lithographic performance of chemically amplified photoresists. In this work, we
David P. Pappas, Jeffrey S. Kline, Willim R. Kelley, Zachary Dutton, Thomas A. Ohki, john Schlafer, Bashkar Mookerji
The phenomenon of coherent population trapping (CPT) of an atom (or solid state artificial atom ), and the associated effect of electromagnetically induced
J. J. Brown, A. I. Baca, Kristine A. Bertness, D. A. Dikin, R. S. Ruoff, Victor M. Bright
This paper reports the first direct tensile tests on nearly defect free, n-type (Si-doped) gallium nitride single crystal nanowires. Here, for the first time
Claudette M. Rosado-Reyes, Jeffrey A. Manion, Wing Tsang
The reaction of hydrogen atoms with propyne(CH≡CCH3) has been investigated in a heated single pulse shock tube at temperatures of 870-1145K and pressures of 2-9
The tracer diffusion coefficients of the elements as well as the integrated interdiffusion coefficients are measured for the Cu(sub3)Sn and Cu(sub6)Sn(Sub5)
We present a novel beam shaping method to generate nondiffracting beams with a specific transverse shape. By tailoring the angular spectrum of a Helmholtz-Gauss
Theodore V. Vorburger, Jun-Feng Song, Wei Chu, Li Ma, Xiaoyu A. Zheng, Thomas B. Renegar, Son H. Bui
We describe several examples where we use cross-correlation functions to quantify the similarity of 2D surface profiles or of 3D surface topography images. The
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Guangyao Liu, Joshua B. Martin, Evan L. Thomas, Nathan Lowhorn, James A. Kaduk
Two low-dimensional cobaltite series in the Sr-Ca-Co-O system have been investigated for their solid solution limit, structure, and compatibility phase
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, X Shi, Joing Yang, S Bai, Jihui Yang, Hsin Wang, James Salvador, W Zhang, L Chen
We have developed a scheme for improving the thermoelectric properties of type I Ba8Ga16Ge30 clathrates by doping transition metals, TM, on the Ga sites. TM
Shuhui Kang, Wen-Li Wu, Kwang-Woo Choi, Vivek Prabhu, Anuja De Silva, Christopher K. Ober
A soft-contact film transfer method was developed to prepare multilayer photoresist thin films that enable high resolution spectroscopic and reflectivity
Critical flow venturis (CFVs) can be used to measure flow under transient pressure and flow conditions with uncertainties of 0.13 % or less (95 % confidence
This package implements a methodology for using cell volume distributions to estimate cell growth rates and division times that is described in the paper
Zachary H. Levine, Bruce R. Borchardt, Nolan J. Brandenburg, Charles W. Clark, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Craig M. Shakarji, Joseph J. Chen, Eliot L. Siegel
(a) Purpose: We wanted to test the extent to which two common methods of determining the sizes of tumors would perform when compared to a statistically
Christopher L. Holloway, E Genender, Catherine A. Remley, John M. Ladbury, Galen H. Koepke
We illustrate use of the reverberation chamber to simulate different wireless propagation environments including effects such as narrowband or frequency