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Journals

Reliability in Grid Computing System

Author(s)
Christopher E. Dabrowski
In recent years, grid technology has emerged as an important tool for solving compute-intensive problems within the scientific community and in industry. To

Certification of Beryllium Mass Fraction in SRM 1877 Beryllium Oxide Powder Using High-Performance Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry with Exact Matching

Author(s)
Michael R. Winchester, Gregory C. Turk, Therese A. Butler, Thomas J. Oatts, Charles Coleman, Donald Nadratowski, Ritu Sud, Mark D. Hoover, Aleksandr B. Stefaniak
High-Performance Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (HP-ICP-OES) was used to certify the Be mass fraction in National Institute of

Surface Dynamics of "Dry" Homopolymer Brushes

Author(s)
Bulent Akgun, Gokce Ugur, Jianqiang Zhang, Suresh Narayanan, Sanghoon Song, Heegu Lee, William J. Brittain, Hyunjung G. Kim, Sunil K. Sinha, Mark Foster
The dynamics of the surface height fluctuations on layers of covalently tethered, nearly monodisperse polymer chains synthesized by atom transfer radical

Design of an on-chip microscale nanoassembly system

Author(s)
Jason J. Gorman, Yong Sik Kim, Andras Vladar, Nicholas G. Dagalakis
A microscale nanoassembly system has been designed for the fabrication of nanodevices and in situ electromechanical characterisation of nanostructures. This

Face Recognition by Computers and Humans

Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Rama Chellappa, Pawan Sinha
In most situations, identifying humans using faces is an effortless task for humans. Is this true for computers? This very question defines the field of

Pulse Shape Discrimination for a Fast Neutron Detector

Author(s)
Kevin J. Coakley, Dominic F. Vecchia, Jeffrey S. Nico, B Fisher
We are developing a detector that uses liquid scintillator loaded with Li-6 for the efficient measurement of fast neutrons and their energy. Such a detector

A new connection between electricity and magnetism

Author(s)
Robert D. McMichael, Mark D. Stiles
A Viewpoint on ``Universal Electromotive Force Induced by Domain Wall Motion,'' Shengyuan A. Yang, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Carl Knutson, Di Xiao, Qian Niu, Maxim

3D Particle Trajectories Observed by Orthogonal Tracking Microscopy

Author(s)
Matthew D. McMahon, Andrew J. Berglund, Peter T. Carmichael, Jabez J. McClelland, James A. Liddle
We demonstrate high-resolution, high-speed 3D nanoparticle tracking using angled micromirrors. When angled micromirrors are introduced into the field of view of

Statistical analysis of a round-robin measurement survey of two candidate materials for a Seebeck coefficient Standard Reference Material

Author(s)
John Lu, Nathan Lowhorn, Winnie Wong-Ng, Weiping Zhang, Evan L. Thomas, Makoto Otani, Martin L. Green, Thanh N. Tran, Chris Caylor, Neil Dilley, Adams Downey, B Edwards, Norbert Elsner, S Ghamaty, Timothy Hogan, Qing Jie, Qiang Li, Joshua B. Martin, George S. Nolas, H Obara, Jeffrey Sharp, Rama Venkatasubramanian, Rhonda Willigan, Jihui Yang, Terry Tritt
In an effort to develop a Standard Reference Material (SRM ) for Seebeck coefficient, we have conducted a round-robin measurement survey of two candidate

Radiative Beta Decay of the Free Neutron

Author(s)
R L. Cooper, T E. Chupp, Maynard S. Dewey, Thomas R. Gentile, Hans Pieter Mumm, Jeffrey S. Nico, Alan Keith Thompson, B M. Fisher, I Kremsky, F E. Wietfeldt, E J. Beise, H Breuer, K G. Kiriluk, J Bryne, Kevin Coakley, Changbo Fu
The theory of quantum electrodynamics predicts that the beta decay of the neutron into a proton, electron, and antineutrino is accompanied by a continuous

Fish-Related Standard Reference Materials

Author(s)
Michele M. Schantz, Steven J. Christopher, William C. Davis, Russell D. Day, Jennifer M. Lynch, John R. Kucklick, Stephen E. Long, Elizabeth A. Mackey, Barbara J. Porter, Dianne L. Poster, Katherine E. Sharpless, Gregory C. Turk, Stephen A. Wise
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed four Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) related to the monitoring of contaminants in
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