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We describe a closed-form approach for performing a Kramers-Kronig (KK) transform on data of finite frequency range; the method is analytically exact and...
Lingyan Song, Dan Feng, Casey G. Campbell, Aaron M. Forster, Dongyuan Zhao, Bryan D. Vogt
Mesoporous carbon-based sensors have been demonstrated to have enhanced electrochemical response as a result of their large interfacial area. To date...
Metal oxide nanoparticles are small but easily form agglomerates in suspension, depending on the strength of particle-particle and particle-media interactions...
Wind loads for use in structural design are based in part on extreme value analysis of historical wind data, and limitations on the quantity and spatial...
Joseph C. Woicik, Maitri P. Warusawithana, Cheng Cen, Charles R. Sleasman, Yulan Li, Jeffery Kluga, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Hao Li, Li-Peng Wang, Michael Bedzyk, David A. Muller, Long-Qing Chen, Jeremy Levy, Darrell G. Schlom
Silicon and silicon dioxide form what is arguably the most important technological interface. With the end of Moore s-law scaling for silicon fast approaching...
Brad R. Blakestad, Aaron Vandevender, Christian Ospelkaus, Jason Amini, Joseph W. Britton, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Trapped ions are a useful system for studying the elements of quantum information processing. Simple alogrithms have been demonstrated, but scaling to much...
G K. Campbell, M M. Boyd, J W. Thomsen, M J. Martin, S Blatt, M D. Swallows, Travis L. Nicholson, Tara Fortier, Christopher W. Oates, Scott Diddams, Nathan D. Lemke, Pascal Naidon, Paul S. Julienne, Jun Ye, Andrew Ludlow
At ultracold temperatures, the Pauli exclusion principle suppresses collisions between identical fermions. This has motivated the development of atomic clocks...
While the use of ethanol and ethanol blends as motor fuels dates back to the earliest vehicles, ethanol has recently received extraordinary attention as a...
Mika Sillanpaa, Katarina Cicak, Fabio Altomare, Jae Park, Raymond Simmonds, Jian Li, G. S. Paraoanu, Pertti Hakonen
When a three-level quantum system is irradiated by an intense coupling field resonant with two of the three possible transitions, the resonant absorption of the...
Accurate identification of spindle working conditions is one of the key features of next generation smart machining systems with built-in, self-diagnosis...
Two formulae for the central inverse moments of a Quadratic form in normal variables and of the ratio forms are established. They relate the quadratic form...
Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, Giorgio Brida, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, Fabrizio Piacentini, V Schettini, Nicolas Gisin
Recently a test of nonclassicality for a single qubit was proposed R. Alicki and N. Van Ryn, J. Phys, A: Math. Theor. 41, 062001 2008. We present an optimized...
Jan V. Sengers, Richard A. Perkins, Marcia L. Huber, Daniel G. Friend
It has been well established that thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids exhibit singular behavior near the critical point. In this paper we review...
Christopher L. Holloway, R. B. Greegor, C. G. Parazzoli, J. A. Nielsen, M. H. Tanielian, D Vier, S Schultz, Richard Ziolkowski
A mu-negative (MNG) metamaterial hemisphere was used to demonstrate impedance matching for a magnetic loop. The metamaterial was comprised of copper spirals...
Kirt A. Page, Jong K. Park, R B. Moore, Victoria Garcia Sakai
This work demonstrates the ability of quasi-elastic neutron scattering to observe the dynamics associated with counterions in perfluorosulfonate ionomers (PFSIs...
A new evaluation of the half-life of 241Pu has been made by developing earlier methods and techniques and employing further measurements of the isotopic ratio...
Classical methods for the study of complex fluid phase behavior include static and dynamic equilibrium cells that usually require vapor and liquid recirculation...
Robert E. Vest, Shannon B. Hill, Steven E. Grantham
With the advent of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) the measurement of the energy contained in pulses of short-wavelength radiation is becoming...
Zachary H. Levine, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Steven E. Grantham
The potential of a cascaded grating interferometer to perform Extreme Ultraviolet Interference Lithography (EUV-IL) depends on its beng coupled to a source that...
Ursula Kattner, Bo Sundman, Ikuo Ohnuma, Nathalie Dupin, S Fries
The Al-Fe system is important in many alloys and the new interest in iron aluminides makes it necessary to improve the modelling of the different ordered forms...
The uncertainty analysis is presented for NIST measurements of noise parameters of amplifiers and transistors, in both connectorized (coaxial) and on-wafer...
Dale P. Bentz, Christopher C. White, Kuldeep R. Prasad, Daniel R. Flynn, Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan
While ASTM E119-07a is commonly employed to establish a fire rating for a fire resistive material (FRM)/steel assembly, the test method provides little...
Vincent K. Shen, Gaurav Goel, William P. Krekelberg, Mark J. Pond, Jeetain Mittal, Jeffrey R. Errington, Thomas M. Truskett
Although classical density functional theory provides reliable predictions for the static properties of simple equilibrium fluids under confinement, a theory of...
Jun Chen, Aaron Pearlman, Alexander E. Ling, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall
We demonstrate a bright, bandwidth-tunable, quasi-phasematched single-waveguide source generating photon pairs near 900 nm and 1300 nm. Two-photon coincidence...
Bin Li, Qiu Zhao, Huai Huang, Zhiquan Luo, Jay Im, Michael W. Cresswell, Richard A. Allen, Min K. Kang, Rui Huang, Paul S. Ho
Silicon nanostructures are essential building blocks for nanoelectronic devices and nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS). Mechanical characterization at...
Mariona Coll Bau, Christina A. Hacker, Lauren H. Miller, Daniel R. Hines, E. C. Williams, Curt A. Richter
In the emerging area of molecular electronics, fabrication of reliable metallic contacts remains one of the most critical challenges. Nanotransfer printing (nTP...
Stacy S. Schuur, Paul R. Becker, Michael B. Ellisor, Amanda J. Moors, Rebecca S. Pugh, David G. Roseneau
Gull eggs have been used to monitor contaminants in many parts of the world. The Seabird Tissue Archival & Monitoring Project (STAMP) is a long-term program...
Jason G. Kralj, Audrey Player, Hope Sedrick, Matt S. Munson, David Petersen, Samuel P. Forry, Paul Meltzer, Ernest Kawasaki, Laurie E. Locascio
We show single-cell level linear amplification of gene expression libraries immobilized on a microfluidic packed bed. This is a critical step in the Eberwine...
Daniel W. Bearden, Mark Viant, Jacob Bundy, Ian Burton, Tim Collette, Drew Ekman, Tobias Karakach, Ching Y. Lin, Simone Rochfort, Jeff de Ropp, Quincy Teng, Ron Tjeerdema, John Walter, Huifeng Wu
Several fundamental requirements must be met so that NMR-based metabolomics can be formally adopted into environmental monitoring and chemical risk assessment...
Lane C. Sander, Michele M. Schantz, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise
The National Institute of Standards and Technology offers a variety of natural-matrix and solution-based Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) that are...