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CONTAM is a multizone building airflow and contaminant transport computer program often used for ventilation and indoor air quality analysis. The program was...
Guerda Massillon, Ronaldo Minniti, Michael G. Mitch, Christopher G. Soares
An investigation of the three-dimensional (3D) absorbed dose distribution around two low-energy photon (125I and 103Pd) brachytherapy seeds is presented. A high...
Mechanical instabilities such as wrinkles, creases, and folds have long been viewed as a source of frustration for engineers and often a point of curiosity...
Jessica M. Torres, Nathan Bakken, Christopher Stafford, Jian Li, Bryan D. Vogt
The intrinsic flexibility of organic molecules has been suggested to enable bendable electronics in comparison to their stiffer, inorganic counterparts. However...
H P. Hubner, M. Moertelmaier, Pavel Kabos, M. Fenner, C Rankl, Atif A. Imtiaz
A scanning microwave microscope (SMM) for spatially resolved capacitance measurements in the attofarad-to-femtofarad regime is presented. The system is based on...
Jayne B. Morrow, Catalina Arango, Richard D. Holbrook
Quantum dots (QDs) of two different surface chemistries (carboxyl (COOH) and poly ethylene glycol (PEG) modified) were utilized to determine the impact of...
Robert R. Lipman, Pingbo Tang, Daniel Huber, Burcu Akinci, Alan M. Lytle
Building information models (BIMs) are maturing as a new paradigm for storing and exchanging knowledge about a facility. BIMs constructed from a CAD model do...
We report a miniaturized phase shifter operating in the frequency range from 5 GHz to 7 GHz for noise-parameter extraction. Such a tunable solid-state unit...
James E. Noble, David M. Bunk, R. H. Christenson, Kenneth D. Cole, Hua-Jun He, Alexei Katrukha, Mauro Panteghini, Robert Porter, Heinz Schimmel, Jillian Tate, Lili Wang
The development of a reference measurement procedure to support the cardiac troponin I (cTnI) standardization initiative is described. The reference measurement...
D. J. Guo, A. Abdulagatov, Devin M. Rourke, Kristine A. Bertness, S M. George, Y. C. Lee, Wei Tan
We report the use of atomic layer deposition (ALD) coating as a nanobiosensor functionalization strategy for enhanced surface immobilization that may enable...
The performance of a pyroelectric detector with a "sprayed" multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) coating was evaluated in the 0.9 υm-24 υm wavelength range. The...
Charles S. Tarrio, Steven E. Grantham, D Kumar, D Stutman, K Tritz, M Finkenthal, NSTX Team N/A
A free standing transmission grating based imaging spectrometer in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV)range has been developed for the National Spherical Torus...
Call admission control between heterogeneous networks,such as an integrated 3GPP LTE and WLAN network, plays an important role to utilize the system resources...
Roger V. Bostelman, Ji-Chul Ryu, Tommy Chang, Joshua Johnson, S K. Agrawal
The Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair has a unique design and novel capabilities when compared to conventional powered wheelchairs. In...
Eric L. Shirley, H. K. Mao, Yang Ding, Peter Eng, Yong Q. Cai, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Jinfu Shu, Russell J. Hemley, Chichang Kao, Wendy L. Mao
At high pressures, helium crystallizes as a unique insulator with the widest known electronic band gap. However, in the vicinity of the band gap and above...
In this work the fracture behavior of a model brittle/ductile (Si/Ag) multilayer evaporated on a thick substrate is studied with the aid of a four-point bending...
A heat pump equipped with a thermostatic expansion valve (TXV) was tested in environmental chambers during steady-state no-fault and imposed-fault operation...
Kavita M. Jeerage, Stephanie M. LaNasa, Holly A. Hughes, Damian S. Lauria, Stephanie J. Bryant, Andrew J. Slifka
Scanning electrochemical microscopy has been used to examine the molecular transport properties of photopolymerized poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels having...
Paul D. Dresselhaus, Mike Elsbury, David I. Olaya, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel P. Benz
Programmable Josephson voltage standard (PJVS) circuits were developed that operate at 16 GHz to 20 GHz with operating margins larger than 1 mA. Two circuit...
Justin M. Shaw, Miles Olsen, June W. Lau, Michael L. Schneider, Thomas J. Silva, Olav Hellwig, Elizabeth Dobisz, Bruce D. Terris
Intrinsic magnetic defects in perpendicularly magnetized nanostructures reduce the predictability of device and developing recording technologies. In addition...
Lawrence T. Hudson, C.I Szabo, J. Workman, K. Flippo, Uri Feldman, Albert Henins
The dual crystal spectrometer (DCS) is an approved diagnostic at the OMEGA and the OMEGA-EP laser facilities for the measurement of high energy x-rays in the 11...
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
Time-resolved, high-accuracy and high-resolution spectroscopy of frequency-agile cw lasers is critical to realizing their full potential for sensing, but is not...
Edward Garboczi, Sinan T. Erdogan, Yang Lu, Xuefeng Liu, Mircea Grigoriu
The shape of particles often plays an important role in how they are used and in the properties of composite systems in which they are incorporated. When...
The three dimensional (3-D) shape of a fairly broad size range of the particles of the lunar regolith simulant JSC-1A was characterized. After wet screening...