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Journals

Quantum electrical standards

Author(s)
Neil M. Zimmerman
The ampere and other electrical units defined by international agreement are presently established through challenging experiments. A redefinition of those

The Role of Folding in the Degradation of Ballistic Fibers

Author(s)
Gale A. Holmes, Walter G. McDonough, Jae H. Kim, Derek L. Ho
Failures of certified soft body armor led to a call to understand the underlying mechanisms of the failure. Research has indicated that the folding of ballistic

Economic optimization of wildfire intervention activities

Author(s)
David T. Butry, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Karen L. Abt, Rhonda Sutphen
We describe how two important tools of wildfire management, wildfire prevention education and prescribed fire for fuels management, can be coordinated to

From the Editor's Desk: Re-Visioning Reviews

Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley
This is an Editorial for the August, 2010 issue of IEEE Microwave Magazine. Kate Remley, the Editor-in-Chief, writes about timely topics for the members of the

Standard Reference Material 660b for X-ray Metrology

Author(s)
David R. Black, Donald A. Windover, Albert Henins, James J. Filliben, James P. Cline
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certifies a suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to address specific aspects of instrument

Editorial: Editorial re. Associate Editors

Author(s)
Dylan F. Williams
Our editing team is key to the success of the Transactions. The Associate Editors who commit to a term of service are dedicated individual who work on a

Zero-Doping State and Electron-Hole Asymmetry in an Ambipolar Cuprate

Author(s)
Kouji Segawa, M. Kofu, S.-H. Lee, I. Tsukada, H. Hiraka, M. Fujita, Sung Chang, K Yamada, Yoichi Ando
What exactly happens when a charge carrier is doped into a Mott insulator is a key question in many-body physics, for it lies at the heart of the problem of the

Tripartite interactions between two phase qubits and a resonant cavity

Author(s)
Fabio Altomare, Jae Park, Katarina Cicak, Mika Sillanpaa, Michael S. Allman, Adam J. Sirois, Joshua Strong, Jed D. Whittaker, Raymond Simmonds
The ability to create and manipulate the entanglement of a large number of quantum systems lies at the heart of emerging quantum information technologies. Thus

Modeling and Monitoring of Construction Supply Chains

Author(s)
Jack C. Cheng, Kincho H. Law, Hans Bjornsson, Albert T. Jones, Ram D. Sriram
The planning and management of supply chains require properly specifying the participating members and the relationships among them. Construction supply chains

Investigation into the Standardization of Tc-99

Author(s)
Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Ronald Colle, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Brian E. Zimmerman, Lonnie T. Cumberland
The standardization of 99Tc by several primary methods was investigated. This was performed to support a new 99Tc transfer standard that has been developed and

Demonstration of a Meissner-Effect Transition Edge Sensor

Author(s)
Solomon I. Woods, Stephen M. Carr, Timothy M. Jung, Adriaan C. Carter, Raju V. Datla
We have built and tested a transition edge sensor which monitors temperature change by measuring magnetic flux expulsion from a superconducting element. Flux
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