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Factors Affecting Quantification of Total DNA by UV Spectroscopy and PicoGreen Fluorescence

August 26, 2009

Author(s)

Marcia J. Holden, Ross J. Haynes, Savelas A. Rabb, Neena Satija, Kristina Yang, Joe Blasic

The amount of total DNA in a preparation extracted from tissues can be measured several ways, each method offering advantages and disadvantages. It is of

Waveguide source of correlated photon pairs for chip-scale quantum information processing

August 26, 2009

Author(s)

Jun Chen, Aaron Pearlman, Alexander E. Ling, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

We present a systematic study of a correlated photon-pair source based on a periodically-poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) waveguide. The waveguide was fabricated on a

Energy Decay in Josephson Qubits from Non-equilibrium Quasiparticles

August 26, 2009

Author(s)

Jose A. Aumentado, John M. Martinis, M Ansmann

We calculate the energy decay rate of Josephson qubits and superconducting resonators from non-equilibrium quasiparticles. The decay rates from experiments are

Large-Area Chemically Modified Graphene Films: Electrophoretic Deposition and Characterization by Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

August 25, 2009

Author(s)

Daniel A. Fischer, V. J. Lee, Luisa Whittaker, Cherno Jaye, K. Baroudi, S Banerjee

A facile, rapid, and scalable electrophoretic deposition approach is developed for the fabrication of large-area chemically derived graphene films on conductive

Composition and concentration anomalies for structure and dynamics of Gaussian-core mixtures

August 25, 2009

Author(s)

Vincent K. Shen, Mark J. Pond, William P. Krekelberg, Jeffrey R. Errington, Thomas M. Truskett

We report molecular dynamics simulation results for two-component fluid mixtures of Gaussian-core particles, focusing on how tracer diffusivities and static

Synthetic Mica: A Very Promising Substrate for Studying Solid Thin Films by Proton NMR

August 25, 2009

Author(s)

David L. VanderHart, Vivek M. Prabhu, Kristopher Lavery, Cindi L. Dennis

We demonstrate that a synthetic fluorophlogopite mica can be used as a proton-free, diamagnetic substrate for examining solid thin-film samples using

Thin Film Solid State Proton NMR Measurements Using A Synthetic Mica Substrate: Polymer Blends

August 25, 2009

Author(s)

David L. VanderHart, Vivek Prabhu, Kristopher Lavery, Cindi L. Dennis, Ashwin Rao, Eric K. Lin

We demonstrate that a synthetic fluorophlogopite mica can be used as a proton-free, diamagnetic substrate for examining solid thin-film samples using

Counterflow and paired superfluidity in one-dimensional Bose mixtures in optical lattices

August 24, 2009

Author(s)

Anzi A. Hu, Ludwig G. Mathey, Ippei Danshita, Eite Tiesinga, Carl J. Williams, Charles W. Clark

We study the quantum phases of mixtures of ultra-cold bosonic atoms held in an optical lattice that confines motion or hopping to one spatial dimension. The

Spin Transfer Torques by Point-Contact Spin injection

August 24, 2009

Author(s)

Tingyong Chen, Yi Ji, S X. Huang, C L. Chien, Mark D. Stiles

Spin-transfer torques (STT) provide a new mechanism to alter the magnetic configuration in magnetic heterostructures, a feat previously only achieved by an

Elastic Modulus of Amorphous Polymer Thin Films: Relationship to the Glass Transition Temperature

August 24, 2009

Author(s)

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

Understanding the mechanical properties of polymers at the nanoscale is critical in numerous emerging applications. While it has been widely shown that the Tg

Evaluation of Dental Composite Shrinkage and Leakage using X-Ray Microcomputed Tomography

August 24, 2009

Author(s)

Diana N. Zeiger, Jirun Sun, Gary E. Schumacher, Sheng Lin-Gibson

Polymerization shrinkage of dental composites results in leakage and may lead to secondary caries and restoration failure. This study tested the hypothesis that

Scaling Factors and Uncertainties for ab Initio Anharmonic Vibrational Frequencies

August 21, 2009

Author(s)

Russell D. Johnson III, Karl K. Irikura, Raghu N. Kacker, Ruediger Kessel

To predict the vibrational spectra of molecules, ab initio calculations are often used to compute harmonic frequencies, which are usually scaled by empirical

A moving window correlation method to reduce the distortion of SPM images

August 20, 2009

Author(s)

Wei Chu, Joseph Fu, Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Theodore V. Vorburger

Many scanning probe microscopes (SPMs), such as the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and atomic force microscope (AFM), use piezoelectric actuators operating

Poly(ethylene glycol)s 2000-8000 in Water May be Planar: A Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) Structure Study

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

Kenneth A. Rubinson, Susan Krueger

The low-resolution three-dimensional structure of purified beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase in asolectin unilameler liposomes has been measured by

An Other-Race Effect for Face Recognition Algorithms

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Alice J. O'Toole, Fang Jiang, Abhijit Narvekar, Julianne Ayadd

Psychological research indicates that humans recognize faces of their own race more accurately than faces of other races. This "other-race effect" occurs for

Glassy Carbon as an Absolute Intensity Calibration Standard for Small Angle Scattering

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

Andrew J. Allen, Jan Ilavsky, Fan Zhang, Gabrielle G. Long, Pete R. Jemian

Absolute calibration of small-angle scattering (SAS) intensity data (in units of differential cross-section per unit sample volume per unit solid angle) is

High-Fidelity Quantum Control Using 9Be+ Ion Crystals in a Penning Trap

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

Michael J. Biercuk, Hermann Uys, Aaron Vandevender, Nobuyasu Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger

We provide an introduction to the use of ion crystals in a Penning trap for experiments in quantum information. Macroscopic Penning traps allow for the

Use of BANG3-Pro-1 gel Dosimetry to Measure the 3D Dose Distribution of a Sr90/Y90 Intravascular Brachytherapy Seed.

August 18, 2009

Author(s)

Guerda Massillon, Ronaldo Minniti, Michael G. Mitch, M.J. Maryanski, Christopher G. Soares

Absorbed dose distributions in 3D imparted by a single Novoste 5F 90Sr/90Y beta particle source of the type formerly used for intravascular brachytherapy were

Coupled magnetic and ferroelectric hysteresis in multiferroic Ni ^ d3 ^ V ^ d2 ^ O ^ d8 ^

August 18, 2009

Author(s)

I. Cabrera, M. Kenzelmann, Wangchun Chen, Ross Erwin, Thomas R. Gentile, Juscelino Leao, Jeffrey W. Lynn, N. Rogado, R. J. Cava, C. Broholm, G. Lawes, Ying Chen

Electric control of spin chirality in a magnetically frustrated multiferroic is demonstrated through polarized magnetic neutron diffraction. Cooling to the

Temperature analysis of low-expansion Fabry-Perot cavities

August 17, 2009

Author(s)

Richard W. Fox

A model of the temperature response of low-expansion glass Fabry-Perot cavities that includes structural distortion at the contacted mirrors compares well to

Fiber-coupled semiconductor waveguides as an efficient optical interface to a single quantum dipole

August 15, 2009

Author(s)

Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik A. Srinivasan

We theoretically investigate the interaction of a single quantum dipole with the modes of a fiber-coupled semiconductor waveguide. Through a combination of

Conversion of laser optical rotation noise in cesium vapor

August 15, 2009

Author(s)

Ricardo Jimenez Martinez, Svenja A. Knappe, William C. Griffith, John E. Kitching

We have studied the noise in the optical rotation of a linearly polarized laser beam transmitted through a spin-polarized 133Cs vapor as a function of its

Applications of artificial neural networks in optical performance monitoring

August 15, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Jargon, Xiaoxia Wu, Ronald Skoog, Loukas Paraschis, Alan Willner

Applications using artificial neural networks (ANNs) for optical performance monitoring (OPM) are proposed and demonstrated. Simultaneous identification of

Dynamics of coupled ultraslow optical solitons in a coherent four-state double-¿ system

August 15, 2009

Author(s)

Lu Deng, Guoxiang Huang

We present a systematical investigation, both analytical and numerical, on the dynamics of two nearly lossless and distortion-free weak nonlinear optical pulses

Modeling the Effects of Outdoor Gasoline Powered Generator Use on Indoor Carbon Monoxide Exposures

August 14, 2009

Author(s)

Steven J. Emmerich, Liangzhu Wang

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that up to half of non-fatal CO poisoning incidents during the hurricane seasons in 2004

Non-Hydrolytic Synthesis and Electronic Structure of Ligand-Capped CeO2- and CeOCl Nanocrystals

August 13, 2009

Author(s)

Daniel A. Fischer, S. Depner, K. Kort, Cherno Jaye, Sarbajit Banerjee

A novel and versatile non-hydrolytic approach is developed for the synthesis of ligand-passivated CeO2-δ and CeOCl nanocrystals soluble in non-polar organic

Broadband lumped-element integrated n-way power dividers for programmable Josephson voltage standards

August 12, 2009

Author(s)

Mike Elsbury, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Norman F. Bergren, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel P. Benz, Zoya Popovic

This paper presents a monolithically integrated broadband lumped-element Wilkinson power divider centered at 20 GHz, which was designed and fabricated to

Design and Experimental Verification of a 3D Magnetic EZ Antenna at 300 MHz

August 11, 2009

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Richard Ziolkowski, Chia-Ching Lin, J. A. Nielsen, M. H. Tanielian

Several variations of a 300 MHz version of the electrically small coax-fed three-dimensional (3D) magnetic EZ antenna were designed and tested. The final design

Factors that Influence Algorithm Performance

August 11, 2009

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Geof H. Givens, Bruce A. Draper

A statistical study is presented quantifying the effects of covariates such as gender, age, expression, image resolution and focus on three face recognition

Formation of Silicon-Based Molecular Electronic Structures Using Flip-chip Lamination

August 11, 2009

Author(s)

Mariona Coll Bau, Lauren H. Miller, Lee J. Richter, Daniel R. Hines, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker

The use of organic molecules to impart electrical surface properties has been a subject of intense research not only from a fundamental perspective but for many

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