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A review of the state of the art of electrochemical methods at the highest metrological level in National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) in given, with emphasis on...
Polynomially-large ground-state energy gaps are rare in many-body quantum systems, but required for adiabatic quantum computing. We show analytically that the...
Christopher L. Holloway, Edward E. Kuester, David R. Novotny
In this paper we illustrate how metafilms (the two-dimensional equivalent of metamaterials) can be used to design novel waveguiding structures. The metafilm...
Kirt A. Page, Jong K. Park, R B. Moore, Victoria Garcia Sakai
This work demonstrates the ability of quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to measure the dynamics associated with counterions in perfluorosulfonate ionomers...
Yingmei Liu, Sebastian Jung, Stephen E. Maxwell, Lincoln Turner, Eite Tiesinga, Paul D. Lett
Spinor Bose-Einstein condensates of F=1 sodium atoms display interesting spin population dynamics due to the antiferromagnetic nature of the interactions in...
Yifu Ding, Sebastian Pawlus, Alexei Sokolov, Jack F. Douglas, Alamgir Karim, Christopher Soles
We investigate the influence of adding C60 nanoparticles on the dielectric relaxation spectra of both unentangled and entangled polyisoprene (PIP). Relaxation...
Karl K. Irikura, Russell D. Johnson III, Raghu N. Kacker, Ruediger Kessel
Vibrational zero-point energies (ZPEs) determined from ab initio calculations are often scaled by empirical factors. An empirical scaling factor partially...
The amount of time to protect enterprise systems against potential vulnerability continues to shrink. Enterprises need an effective patch management mechanism...
Robert D. Chirico, Vladimir Diky, Joe W. Magee, Michael D. Frenkel, Kenneth N. Marsh
This article is a product of IUPAC Project 2002-005-1-100 (Thermodynamics of ionic liquids, ionic liquid mixtures, and the development of standardiized systems)...
Christopher G. Soares, G. Douyssey, Michael G. Mitch
Current primary standards for the calibration of both photon and beta particle emitting brachythrapy sources are reviewed. Methods for quality control being...
David J. Evans, Adriana Hornikova, Stefan D. Leigh, Andrew L. Rukhin, William E. Strawderman
The first regional key comparison in vibration conducted under the auspices of the Inter-American System of Metrology (SIM) was begun in 1996. The comparison...
Kenneth N. Marsh, Joan F. Brennecke, Robert D. Chirico, Michael D. Frenkel, Andreas Heintz, Joe W. Magee, Cor J. Peters, Luis P. Rebelo, Kenneth R. Seddon
This article summarized the results of IUPAC Project 2002-005-1-100 (Thermodynamics of ionic liquids, ionic liquid mixtures, and the development of standardized...
N Guisinger, Gregory M. Rutter, Jason Crain, Phillip N. First, Joseph A. Stroscio
The realization of graphene-based electronics involves numerous challenges that include large-scale device fabrication and the ability to control the electronic...
Analysis of the structural and optical properties of gold- and copper-catalyzed zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires (NWs), grown in a high temperature tube furnace on a...
Jun Y. Chung, Thomas Q. Chastek, Michael J. Fasolka, Hyun W. Ro, Christopher Stafford
Residual stress, a pervasive consequence of solid materials processing, is stress that remains in a material after external forces have been removed. In...
Transversal gates play an important role in the theory of fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their simplicity and robustness to noise. By definition...
Indubala I. Satija, Radha Balakrishnan, P. Naudus, Jeffrey Heward, M Edwards, Charles W. Clark
We study the coherent nonlinear tunneling dynamics of a binary mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential. We demonstrate the existence of...
It is shown that the Debye-Waller factor for graphene has a singularity. However, the singularity does not affect the zero-temperature value of the Debye-Waller...
Ion Garate, Keith Gilmore, Mark D. Stiles, Allan H. MacDonald
The motion of simple domain walls and of more complex magnetic textures in the presence of a transport current is described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Slonczewski...
Chengqing C. Wang, Wei-En Fu, Bin Li, Huai Huang, Christopher Soles, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Paul S. Ho, Michael W. Cresswell
Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) was used to characterize the line cross section of nanoline gratings fabricated using electron beam lithography (EBL)...
We have developed a fiber-optic interferometer optimized for best performance in the frequency range from DC to 1 kHz, with displacement linearity of 1 % over a...
Igor Levin, Victor L. Krayzman, Joseph C. Woicik, J. Karapetrova, T. Proffen, M. G. Tucker, I. M. Reaney
Structural changes among the so-called M-polymorphs of AgNbO3 were analyzed using combined high-resolution X-ray diffraction, neutron total scattering, electron...
Joseph M. Antonucci, Anthony A. Giuseppetti, Justin N. O'Donnell, Gary E. Schumacher, Drago Skrtic
Objective: To assess the effect of the cavity design factor (C-factor) on polymerization stress development (PSD) in resin composites. Methods: An experimental...
We present catalogs of QSO candidates selected using photometry from GALEX combined with SDSS in the Stripe 82 region and Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) near...
Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan
The effects of applied strain on sealants exposed to outdoor weathering were examined for two sealant formulations, sealants A and C. Both static and dynamic...
Jack R. Smith, Marcus T. Cicerone, Curtis W. Meuse
A non-destructive infrared (IR) spectroscopy assay is used to measure changes the tertiary structure of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) adsorbed to three surfaces...
Interest in the domestic production of bio-derived fuels, sparked by the high cost of petroleum crude oil, has lead to consideration of fluids to replace or...
While classical studies of dislocation behavior have focused on the motion and multiplication of dislocations, recent advances in experimental methods allow...
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Dylan Morris, Stephan J. Stranick, Mark D. Vaudin, Robert F. Cook
In a statistical nanoindentation study using a spherical probe, the effect of crystallographic orientation on the phase transformation of silicon (Si) was...
Michael W. Halter, John T. Elliott, Joseph B. Hubbard, Alessandro Tona, Anne L. Plant
A population of cells in culture displays a range of phenotypic responses, even when those cells are derived from a single cell and are exposed to a homogeneous...