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Rob Horansky, Joel Ullom, James A. Beall, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Leila R. Vale, Don Dry, Stephen Lamont, Clifford R. Rudy, Michael W. Rabin
We present measurements from a cryogenic microcalorimeter designed to detect alpha particles. The enhanced resolution of microcalorimeter alpha detectors will...
Carolyn R. Steffen, Margaret C. Kline, Michael Coble, John M. Butler
An additional 20 novel mini-short tandem repeat (miniSTR) loci have been developed and characterized to aid in the analysis of degraded DNA samples. These new...
Carl D. Reintsema, James A. Beall, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, William Duncan, S. L. Ferreira, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Dan Schmidt, Joel Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Yizi Xu
We have developed a multiplexed read-out for transition edge sensors based on a hybrid time- and frequency-domain basis set, similar to that used in time...
Low temperature photon detectors are increasingly attractive tools for materials analysis. Their range of applications has broadened from early work on x-ray...
Kao-Shuo Chang, Martin L. Green, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, John S. Suehle, Ichiro Takeuchi, Ozgur Celik, S De Gendt
Combinatorial methodology enables the generation of comprehensive and uniform samples, and therefore data sets, compared to the one-composition-at-a-time...
Kao-Shuo Chang, Martin L. Green, John S. Suehle, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Ichiro Takeuchi, K Ohmori, T Chikyow, S De Gendt, Prashant Majhi
Combinatorial methodology offers an efficient platform to accelerate the exploration of new materials. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique on the...
We describe the detection and stabilization of the carrier envelope offset (CEO) frequency of a diode-pumped Yb:KYW (ytterbium- doped potassium yttrium...
Nathan A. Tomlin, James A. Beall, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Galen O'Neil, Dan Schmidt, Leila R. Vale, Joel Ullom
We demonstrate successful cooling of an X-ray transition-edge sensor (TES) using solid-state refrigerators based on normal-metal/insulator/superconductor (NIS)...
Jae Hyun Kim, Walter G. McDonough, William R. Blair, Gale A. Holmes
In an effort to develop a minimally invasive testing methodology for monitoring the in-service performance of soft body armor, the ASTM D3379-75 standard was...
The quantum metrology triangle is a test of the consistency of three quantum electrical standards: the single-electron tunneling current standard, the Josephson...
Fabio C. da Silva, Sean Halloran, Anthony B. Kos, David P. Pappas
We present the design and fabrication of a magentoresistive imaging system capable of measuring 256 channels simultaneously along linear ranges of 4 mm and 13...
John Mates, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Leila R. Vale, Konrad Lehnert
We report on the development of a microwave SQUID multiplexer for reading out arrays of low-temperature detectors. In this frequency-division multiplexer, each...
Conventional Johnson noise thermometers based on switching correlators have conflicting matching requirements for the sensing resistance. To mitigate distortion...
We report the first direct comparison of relative carrier mobilities in semiconducting organic polymer films measured using non-contact optical pump terahertz...
Andrew J. Allen, Vincent A. Hackley, P R. Jemian, Jan Ilavsky, J M. Raitano, S W. Chan
A remote-controlled isothermal circulating fluid flow cell is described and results presented for the in situ ultra-small-angle x-ray scattering (USAXS) study...
Ilmutdin Abdulagatov, Nikolai G. Polikhronidi, Thomas J. Bruno, Rabiyat G. Batyrova, Genadii V. Stepanov
Isochoric heat capacities, phase boundary properties and the critical parameters for high purity (0.9999 mole fraction) toluene have been measured using a high...
Fabio C. Da Silva, Sean Halloran, Anthony B. Kos, David P. Pappas
We present the design and fabrication of a magnetoresistive imaging system capable of scanning 256 channels simultaneously along linear ranges of either 4 or 13...
David Cotrell, Geoffrey B. McFadden, W. E. Alley, B. J. Alder
An axisymmetric linear stability analysis is carried out for flow driven by an axial pressure gradient in a pipe with axisymmetric and axially-periodic radius...
Niya Todorova, V Doseeva, Jayanthi Ramprakash, Frederick P. Schwarz
The binding constant, Kb, and the binding enthalpy (DbHo) of the inhibitor drugs, SB 203580, SKF 86002, and p38 INH.1 binding to two splice variants of p38a MAP...
Lanczos-hybrid regularization methods have been proposed as effective approaches for solving large-scale ill-posed inverse problems. Lanczos methods restrict...
Catherine Plaisant, Georges Grinstein, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting, Theresa O'Connell, Sharon J. Laskowski, T Chien, A Tat, W Wright, C Gorg, Z Liu, N Parekh, K Singhal, John Stasko
The second Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) contest?s data consisted of a heterogeneous synthetic collection of news articles with additional...
Marcia L. Huber, Beverly L. Smith, Lisa S. Ott, Thomas J. Bruno
Fluid volatility is an important property of liquid fuels that previously has not been considered in the development of surrogate models for the thermophysical...
Wenyong Wang, Adina Scott, Nadine Gergel-Hackett, Christina Hacker, David Janes, Curt A. Richter
In this research work, we fabricate integrated Si-SAMs-metal devices using the ?soft? top metal deposition technique and probe their electronic properties with...
Vadim V. Ilyushin, E A. Alekseev, Y C. Chou, Y-C Hsu, Jon T. Hougen, Francis J. Lovas, L B. Picaux
The molecule 2-methylmalonaldehyde (2-MMA) exists in the gas phase as a six-membered hydrogen-bonded ring [HO-CH=C(CH3)-CH=O] and exhibits two large-amplitude...
The carbon-fluorine antibonding (sigma*) orbitals in a fluorocarbon cage are directed toward a central, common point. If the cage is not too large or too small...
Single-photon detectors operating at visible and near-infrared wavelengths with high detection efficiency and low-noise are a requirement for many quantum...
The clustering of nanoparticles (NP) within solutions and polymer melts depends sensitively on the strength and directionality of the NP interactions involved...