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Non-white frequency noise in spin torque oscillators and its effect on spectral linewidth

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Mark W. Keller, Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard, Thomas J. Silva

We measure the power spectral density of frequency fluctuations from the output voltage waveform of nanocontact spin torque oscillators over timescales up to 50...

Purification Chemical Structure Electrical Property Relationship in Gold Nanoparticle Liquids

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Robert I. MacCuspie, Andrea M. Elsen, Steve J. Diamanti, Steve T. Patton, Igor Altfeder, J. D. Jacobs, Andrey A. Voevodin, Richard A. Vaia

Macroscopic assemblies of nanoparticles are a new class of materials that exhibit unique properties compared to both bulk and isolated nanoparticle states. To...

Quartz crystal microbalance for in-situ monitoring of laser cleaning of carbon nanotubes

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Katie Hurst, Abram Van Der Geest, Mark T. Lusk, Elisabeth Mansfield, John H. Lehman

Photochemical changes of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), graphite and amorphous carbon have been investigated with a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM)...

From the Editor's Desk: Re-Visioning Reviews

August 1, 2010

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

August 1, 2010

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

August 1, 2010

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...

Editorial: Special Issue on: "Developing Sustainable Products, Processes and Services"

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Dimitris Kiritsis, Masaru Nakano

We are witnessing an increased interest to ensure that future generations have adequate resources to maintain a high standard of living. The World Commission on...

Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Capture in an Iron-Based Sodalite-Type Metal-Organic Framework (Fe-BTT) Discovered via High-Throughput Methods

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Kenji Sumida, Satoshi Horike, Steven S. Kaye, Zoey R. Herm, Wendy Queen, Craig Brown, Fernande Grandjean, Gary J. Long, Anne Dailly, Jeffrey R. Long

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

August 1, 2010

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

August 1, 2010

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

August 1, 2010

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...

Impact of molecular mass on the elastic modulus of polystyrene thin films

July 31, 2010

Author(s)

Jessica M. Torres, Christopher Stafford, Bryan D. Vogt

Euler wrinkling was used to determine the elastic modulus at ambient temperature of polystyrene (PS) films of varying thickness and relative molecular mass (Mn)...

Micro-feature dimensional and form measurements with the NIST fiber probe on a CMM

July 30, 2010

Author(s)

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Jack A. Stone Jr., John R. Stoup, Chittaranjan Sahay

The NIST fiber probe is a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) probing system intended for diameter and form measurement of micro features and small holes. This...

Non-Coherent Amplify-and-Forward Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test Receiver

July 30, 2010

Author(s)

Michael R. Souryal

This paper proposes a simple non-coherent amplify-and-forward receiver for the relay channel and evaluates its diversity performance for Rayleigh fading...

Investigation into the Standardization of Tc-99

July 30, 2010

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...

Thermally-Reversible Surface Morphology Transition Between Cylinders and Spheres in Thin Diblock Copolymer Films

July 28, 2010

Author(s)

Xiaohua Zhang, Kevin G. Yager, Jack F. Douglas

Many phase transitions exhibit ordering transitions at the boundary of the material that are distinct from the interior where the intermolecular interactions...

Arbitrary Control of Entanglement between Two Superconducting Resonators

July 27, 2010

Author(s)

Raymond W. Simmonds

We present a method to synthesize an arbitrary quantum state of two superconducting resonators. This state-synthesis algorithm utilizes a coherent interaction...

Predictive correlations based on large experimental datasets: Critical constants for pure compounds

July 27, 2010

Author(s)

Andrei F. Kazakov, Chris D. Muzny, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Michael D. Frenkel

A framework for development of estimation methods is demonstrated using prediction of critical constants for pure compounds as an example. The dataset of...

Demonstration of a Meissner-Effect Transition Edge Sensor

July 26, 2010

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...

The Use of Gelatin-Based Samples for Verification of Trace Contraband Vapor Detectors

July 25, 2010

Author(s)

Jessica L. Staymates, John Gillen

This work describes a method to produce inexpensive and field deployable samples that can be used to verify the working condition of trace contraband vapor...

A Modified Damascene Electrodeposition Process for Bottom-up Filling of Recessed Surface Features

July 23, 2010

Author(s)

Chang H. Lee, Thomas P. Moffat

A modification of the conventional Damascene metallization process is described whereby selective removal of the thin wetting/seed layer from the sidewalls and...

Ontological Product Modeling for Collaborative Design

July 22, 2010

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock, XuanFang Zha, Hyo-won Suh, Jae H. Lee

This paper shows how to combine ontological and model-based techniques in languages that facilitate collaborative design exploration. The proposed approach uses...

Statistics of Camera-Based Single-Particle Tracking

July 22, 2010

Author(s)

Andrew J. Berglund

Through analysis of digital images, camera-based single-particle tracking enables quantitative determination of transport properties of nanoparticles and...

Hyper-Ramsey spectroscopy of optical clock transitions

July 22, 2010

Author(s)

Christopher W. Oates, V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev, Zeb Barber, Nathan D. Lemke, Andrew D. Ludlow, U Sterr, Ch. Lisdat, F Riehle

We present nonstandard optical Ramsey schemes that use pulses individually tailored in duration, phase and frequency to cancel spurious frequency shifts related...

Laser-produced MeV electrons and hard X-ray spectroscopic diagnostics

July 21, 2010

Author(s)

Lawrence T. Hudson, John F. Seely

A new spectroscopic technique for the measurement of the sizes of hard X-ray sources produced by the irradiation of solid-density targets by intense laser...

A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Frequency Transfer Uncertainty, Including Frequency Transfer into TAI

July 21, 2010

Author(s)

Thomas E. Parker, Gianna Panfilo

In this work we present a study of the determination of frequency transfer uncertainty in time series measurements. The first part of this paper is dedicated to...

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a Coal Tar Standard Reference Material - SRM 1597a Updated

July 20, 2010

Author(s)

Stephen A. Wise, Dianne L. Poster, Stefan D. Leigh, Catherine A. Rimmer, Stephanie Mossner, Patricia Schubert, Lane C. Sander, Michele M. Schantz

SRM 1597 Complex Mixture of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Coal Tar, originally issued in 1987, was recently reanalyzed and reissued as SRM 1597a with 34...

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a Coal Tar Standard Reference Material - SRM 1597a Updated

July 20, 2010

Author(s)

Stephen A. Wise, Dianne L. Poster, Stefan D. Leigh, Catherine A. Rimmer, Stephanie Mossner, Patricia Schubert, Lane C. Sander, Michele M. Schantz

SRM 1597 Complex Mixture of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Coal Tar, originally issued in 1987, was recently reanalyzed and reissued as SRM 1597a with 34...

Analysis of trace impurities in semiconductor gas via cavity-enhanced direct frequency comb spectroscopy

July 20, 2010

Author(s)

Kristine A. Bertness, Kevin C. Cossel, F Adler, M J. Thorpe, Jun Ye

Cavity-enhanced direct frequency comb spectroscopy (CE-DFCS) has demonstrated powerful potential for trace-gas detection based on its unique combination of high...

Vulnerability Trends: Measuring Progress

July 19, 2010

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Christopher S. Johnson

What is the state of security engineering today? Are we as an industry making progress? What are prospects for the future? To address these questions we analyze...

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