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J Mallett, Erik B. Svedberg, John E. Bonevich, Alexander J. Shapiro, William F. Egelhoff Jr., Thomas P. Moffat
Electrochemical co-deposition of a series of fcc Ni(subscript x)PT(subscript 1-x) alloys is demonstrated. The alloy composition is a monotonic function of...
A P. Smith, Jack F. Douglas, Eric J. Amis, Alamgir Karim
Hole formation and size evolution on the surface of thin films of symmetric diblock copolymers is simultaneously investigated as a function of time, t...
M W. Lufaso, W A. Schulze, L Misture, Terrell A. Vanderah
Bi3Fe0.5Nb1.5O9 was synthesized using conventional solid state techniques and its crystal structure refined by the Rietveld method using neutron powder...
Joseph C. Woicik, M A. Sahiner, Timothy Kurp, Jeffrey Serfass, Marc Aranguren
The continuous downward scaling of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices has enabled the Si-based semiconductor industry to meet the...
Hae-Jeong Lee, Christopher L. Soles, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Yiping Liu
The microelectronics industry critically needs non-destructive methodologies capable of profiling the porosity characteristics as a function of depth in the...
Vijay Tirumala, R A. Pai, Sumit Agarwal, Curran Chandler, Gaurav Bhatnagar, Alvin Omang, Eric K. Lin, J J. Watkins
Well ordered mesoporous silica films were prepared by infusion and selective condensation of Si alkoxides within pre-organized block copolymer/homopolymer blend...
Philippe P. Darcis, John M. Treinen, Joseph D. McColskey
This study presents fatigue data for two different ferrite-pearlite pipeline steels. A fatigue crack growth test for full thickness curved pipeline samples was...
Ionization cross sections by electron impact of atoms are important quantities needed for modeling of low temperature plasmas and gas discharges. Although...
Taiki Tominaga, Vijay Tirumala, Eric K. Lin, Jian P. Gong, Hidemitsu Furukawa, Yoshihito Osada, Wen-Li Wu
The long-standing pursuit of a synthetic equivalent to tissue cartilage has seen significant new activity with the development of a new materials strategy...
We demonstrate the design and calibration of a novel individual carbon nanotube (CNT) based mechanical force sensor for measuring cell wall compliance. The...
An apparatus for the automated measurement of compressed liquid densities over the temperature range of 270 K to 470 K and pressures to 50 MPa is described. The...
Jeetain Mittal, Vincent K. Shen, Jeffrey R. Errington, Thomas M. Truskett
We use discontinuous molecular dynamics and grand-canonical transition-matrix Monte Carlo simulations to explore how confinement between parallel hard walls...
Philippe P. Darcis, H. Katsumoto, M C. Payares-Asprino, S. Liu, Thomas A. Siewert
Arc welding typically generates residual tensile stresses in welded joints, leading to deteriorated fatigue performance of these joints. Volume expansion of the...
Lawrence P. Cook, Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Z Yang, Peter K. Schenck, Igor Levin, Julia Frank
Interfacial reactions between the Ba2YCu3O6+x superconductor and the CeO2 buffer layer employed in coated conductors have been modeled experimentally by...
Philippe P. Darcis, Christopher N. McCowan, H. Windhoff, Joseph D. McColskey, Thomas A. Siewert
Crack tip opening angle (CTOA) is becoming one of the more widely accepted properties for characterizing fully plastic fracture. In fact, it has been recognized...
Nathan R. Newbury, Paul A. Williams, William C. Swann
We transfer of an optical frequency over 251 km of optical fiber with a residual instability of 6×10 -19 at 100 s. This instability and the associated timing...
The NIST high-pressure multi-pass White absorption cell has been modified for use in high temperature studies. The temperature range of this cell is now -90o C...
Yuri Ralchenko, Joseph Reader, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Joseph N. Tan, John D. Gillaspy
We observed spectra of highly ionized tungsten in the extreme ultraviolet with an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) and a grazing incidence spectrometer at the...
Chiara F. Ferraris, Nicos Martys, M R. Geiker, N V. Muzzatti
The flow in traditional rotational rheometers is well known and rheological parameters such as viscosity can be calculated relatively easily. On the other hand...
Allan H. Harvey, J S. Gallagher, H J. Kretzschmar, J R. Cooper, K Knobloch, Radim Mares, K Miyagawa, N Okita, Roland Span, I. Stocker, Wolfgang Wagner, I Weber
In modeling advanced steam power cycles, thermodynamic properties as functions of enthalpy and entropy are required in the critical and supercritical regions...
James J. Lee, H Chai, Isabel K. Lloyd, Brian R. Lawn
Crack propagation across interlayers separating adjoining brittle plates in flexure is studied using a model glass/epoxy/glass system. A transverse starter...
J.- M. Flaud, Walter J. Lafferty, A. Perrin, Y S. Kim, Helmut Beckers
The 10 m region of thioformaldehyde (H2CS) has been recorded at high resolution (0.005 cm-1) using a Fourier transform spectrometer. H2CS was produced by low...
Ippei Danshita, J G. Williams, Carlos Sa de Melo, Charles W. Clark
We study the superfluid to Mott insulator transition of bosons in a two-legged ladder optical lattice, of a type accessible in current experiments on double...
We have observed the ultraslow propagation of matched pulses in nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a hot atomic vapor. Probe pulses as short as 70 ns can be...
Jayna J. Shah, Siddarth Sundaresan, Jon Geist, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, James Booth, Rao Mulpuri, Michael Gaitan
Rapid, selective, and uniform heating of sub-microliter size fluid volumes is vital for micro total analysis system (?gTAS) applications. In this work, we...
Hyun Wook Ro, Ronald L. Jones, H Peng, Daniel R. Hines, Hae-Jeong Lee, Eric K. Lin, Alamgir Karim, Do Y. Yoon, D Gidley, Christopher L. Soles
Directly patterning dielectric insulator materials via nanoimprint lithography has the potential to simplify fabrication processes and significantly reduce the...