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Frank W. DelRio, Kristen L. Steffens, Cherno Jaye, Daniel A. Fischer, Robert F. Cook
The elastic, adhesive, and charge transport properties of a metal-molecule-metal junction are studied via conducting-probe atomic force microscopy (AFM) and...
James E. Maslar, Ramon Cusco, Esther Alarcon-Llado, Luis Artus, Wilbur S. Hurst
We present a detailed investigation of the phonons and LO-phononplasmon coupled modes in the Ga1−x InxAsy Sb1−y alloy by means of Raman scattering. A...
Kathryn L. Krycka, R. Booth, C. Hogg, Y. Ijiri, Julie A. Borchers, WangChun Chen, Stephanie S. Watson, M. Laver, Thomas R. Gentile, L.R. Dedon, S. Harris, J. J. Rhyne, S. A. Majetich
Generation of heat using optically excited nanoparticles can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the application. Therefore, clinically applicable studies...
Ryan Murphy, Denis Pristinski, Kalman D. Migler, Jack F. Douglas, Vivek Prabhu
We use dynamic light scattering to characterize the kinetics of nanoparticle aggregation. The aggregation process was conveniently initiated in photoacid...
Changwoo Doe, Hyung-Sik Jang, Steven R. Kline, Sung-Min Choi
Fabrication of highly ordered superstructures of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is of great interest for a wide range of potential applications. Here...
Y. P. Kabanov, Y. L. Iunin, Valerian I. Nikitenko, Alexander J. Shapiro, Robert D. Shull, L. Y. Zhu, C. L. Chien
We studied how the application of an in-plane field affects the asymmetries of the domain nucleation activity and domain wall velocity revealed previously in...
Mark S. Lowenthal, David M. Bunk, Karen W. Phinney
An isotope-dilution liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (ID LC-MS/MS) reference measurement procedure was developed to accurately quantify amino acid...
Michael S. Gaither, Frank W. DelRio, Richard S. Gates, Edwin R. Fuller, Robert F. Cook
A new test specimen has been developed for micro-scale tensile strength measurements, allowing direct assessment of surface effects on strength. Specimens were...
Daniel C. van der Laan, J. F. Douglas, John (Jack) W. Ekin, Loren F. Goodrich, Theodore C. Stauffer, Cameron C. Clickner
A large, magnetic-field-dependent, reversible reduction in critical current density with axial strain in YBa 2Cu 3O 7-δ coated conductors at 75.9 K has been...
The two-channel reaction of collision-induced dissociation (CID) of the n-butylbenzene cation under the conditions of multipole collision cells of tandem mass...
Bruce D. Ravel, C. Scorzato, D. P. Siddons, S. D. Kelly, S. R. Bare
A four-channel ionization chamber has been designed, constructed and tested. This ionization chamber allows X-ray absorption spectra to be collected in...
Consider a path of non-degenerate eigenstates |psi_s>, 0 Solutions to this problem have applications ranging from quantum physics simulation to optimization...
One failure mode of all-ceramic crown restorations is radial cracking at the cementation surface, from occlusally-induced flexure of the stiffer crown layer on...
Currently, there is a desire to extend or enhance petroleum-derived diesel fuel with biodiesel fuel. Biodiesel fuel is a renewable, biomass-derived fluid that...
Daniel Steiauf, Jonas Seib, Manfred Faehnle, Keith Gilmore, Mark D. Stiles
The Gilbert parameter alpha describing the damping of magnetization dynamics is commonly taken to be an isotropic scalar. We argue that it is a tensor, that is...
Douglas T. Smith, Jon R. Pratt, Francesca M. Tavazza, Lyle E. Levine, Anne M. Chaka
We describe a surface probe instrument capable of sustaining single-atomic-bond junctions in the electronic quantum-conduction regime for tens of minutes, and...
Andrew J. Allen, Jeffrey Thomas, Hamlin M. Jennings
Relationships between composition, mass density, and atomic packing density for CaO{SiO2{H2O (C{S{H) gel, the main hydration product of ce- ment, and its...
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Sergey V. Polyakov, Sarah E. Beavan, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall
We use spectral hole burning in Pr3+:Y2SiO5 in order to prepare spectral distributions of ions optimized for using such a material as a quantum memory for...
Timofey Frolov, William J. Boettinger, Yuri Mishin
The goal of this paper is to explore mechanisms of hillock and whisker growth in stressed poly-crystalline films by molecular dynamics simulations. Our stress...
Gery R. Stafford, E. Rouya, Ugo Bertocci, J. J. Mallett, R. Schad, M. R. Begley, R. G. Kelly, M. Reed, G. Zangari
The electrodeposition of Au-Ni alloys from near neutral, sulfite-based electrolytes derived from a commercial bath for soft gold plating is investigated. Alloy...
Methionine is an essential amino acid and is the primary source of sulfur for humans. Using the double spike (33S-36S) multi-collector thermal ionization mass...
Ngoc Nguyen, Polly Berseth, Qiyin Lin, Catalin Chiritescu, D.G. Cahill, Anastassios Mavrokefalos, Li Shi, Paul Zschack, Michael D. Anderson, Ian M. Anderson, David C. Johnson
Turbostratically disordered tungsten diselenide (WSe2) thin films with as few as two c-axis-oriented (basal plane) structural units were synthesized from...
Statistical modeling of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) signals is undertaken to examine the existence of short term fading and shadowing. Based on the data collected from...
Rick D. Davis, Joannie W. Chin, Chiao-Chi Lin, Sylvain H. Petit
Exposure to simulated ultraviolet sunlight at 50 C and 50% relative humidity caused a significant deterioration in the mechanical performance of polyaramid and...
P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Geof H. Givens, Bruce A. Draper, David Bolme, Yui M. Lui
This paper summarizes a study of how three state-of-the-art algorithms from the Face Recognition Vendor Test 2006 (FRVT 2006) are effected by factors related to...
Seung Koo Shin, Bonghwan Chon, Sung Jun Lim, Wonjung Kim, Hyeong G. Kang, Taiha Joo, Jeeseong C. Hwang
Blinking of zinc-blende CdSe-based core/shell nanocrystals are studied as a function of shell materials. CdSe/ZnS, CdSe/ZnSe/ZnS, and CdSe/CdS/ZnS core/shell...
Xin Li, Chwen-Yang Shew, Yun Liu, Roger Pynn, Emily Liu, Kenneth W. Herwig, Gregory S. Smith, J. L. Robertson, Wei-Ren Chen
The application of the spin-echo small angle neutron scattering (SESANS) technique for structural characterization of interacting colloidal suspensions is...
Amanda L. Forster, Guillaume Messin, Kirk D. Rice, Pierre Pintus, Joannie W. Chin, Sylvain H. Petit
Previous work conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to investigate the field failures of soft body armor containing the...