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Sensor-centric navigation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) operating in rugged and expansive terrains requires the competency to evaluate the utility of...
Using the Common Industry Format ( CIF) to specify usability measures can positively influence the development process. The CIF remains inherently flexible and...
Peter M. Mell, Karen Kent Scarfone, Sasha Romanosky
Organizations struggle to assess the relative importance of software vulnerabilities across disparate hardware and software platforms. They must prioritize...
James S. Albus, Roger V. Bostelman, Tommy Chang, Tsai H. Hong, William P. Shackleford, Michael O. Shneier
The Defense Applied Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Learning Applied to Ground Vehicles (LAGR) program aims to develop algorithms for autonomous vehicle...
Emmanouel S. Hourdakis, Garnett W. Bryant, Neil M. Zimmerman
We present breakdown voltage measurement data in air taken with a technique we recently developed. The data suggests that below 10 ?m of electrode separation...
Quantum chemistry calculations reveal that it is both thermodynamically and kinetically reasonable to produce NO3 (nitrate radical) during the thermal...
James L. Hanssen, Jabez J. McClelland, E Dakin, M Jacka
The evolving field of nanofabrication demands that more precise fabrication and evaluation tools be developed. We describe a method for creating a high quality...
A zig-zag line geometry is introduced for control of grain boundary density within fine wires for interconnect applications; the geometry is selected because...
Yuegui Zheng, Robert E. Geer, Malgorzata Kopycinska-Mueller, Donna C. Hurley
A comparative study of the elastic uniformity and modulus of single-crystal SnO2 nanobelts is presented employing two nondestructive techniques based on atomic...
Elizabeth Mirowksi, John M. Moreland, Stephen E. Russek, Michael J. Donahue
A novel magnetic for microfluidic manipulation of magnetic particles is discussed. The particles are confined by an array of magnetic spin valves with bistable...
Moira K. Ridley, Vincent A. Hackley, Michael L. Machesky
The chemical and electrostatic interactions at mineral- water interfaces are of fundamental importance in many geochemical, materials science, and technological...
Mary A. Rowe, Eric Gansen, Marion Greene, Danna Rosenberg, Robert Hadfield, Todd E. Harvey, Sae Woo Nam, Mark Su, Richard Mirin
We investigate the operation of a quantum dot, optically gated, field-effect transistor as a photon detector. The detector exhibits time-gated, single-shot...
Robert Hadfield, Jonathan L. Habif, John Schlafer, Robert E. Schwall, Sae Woo Nam
The authors report on the full implementation of a superconducting detector technology in a fiber-based quantum key distribution (QKD) link. Nanowire-based...
Ingrid E. Chesnick, Emiliano Fratini, Richard D. Leapman, William Landis, Naomi Eidelman, Kimberlee Potter
We present a three-dimensional mineralizing model based on a hollow fiber bioreactor (HFBR) inoculated with primary osteoblasts isolated from embryonic chick...
Jason Benkoski, Ronald L. Jones, Jack F. Douglas, Alamgir Karim
We present a novel platform for the creation of 2-D assemblies from nanoscale building blocks. The system consists of an oil/water interface in which the oil...
M J. Tubergen, R L. Lavrich, David F. Plusquellic, R D. Suenram
Microwave spectra have been recorded for 1-phenyl-2-propanol, methamphetamine, and 1-phenyl-2-propanone in the range 11 GHz to 24 GHz using a Fourier-transform...
William Rippard, Matthew Pufall, Stephen E. Russek
We have measured the detailed dependence of the oscillation frequencies, linewidths, and output powers of spin-transfer nanocontact oscillators as functions of...
We consider a two-state system driven by an on-resonance, continuous wave pump laser and a much weaker pulsed probe laser that is slightly detuned from the pump...
In previous work, several significant improvements in the measurement of distillation curves for complex fluids were introduced. The modifications to the...
Kristine A. Bertness, Alexana Roshko, Lorelle Mansfield, Todd E. Harvey, Norman Sanford
We have examined the initial steps for catalyst-free growth of GaN using molecular beam epitaxy on Si (111) substrates using AlN buffer layers. These wires form...
Dean M. DeLongchamp, Mang-Mang Ling, Youngsuk Jung, Daniel A. Fischer, Mark Roberts, Eric K. Lin, Zhenan Bao
The measurement and optimization of microstructure development in organic semiconductor films is valuable because microstructure in many cases critically...
By executing different fingerprint-image matching algorithms on large data sets, it reveals that the match and non-match similarity scores have no specific...
W S. Yoon, Kyung Y. Chung, James McBreen, Daniel A. Fischer, Xiao-Qing Yang
The electronic structures of Li1-xNiO2 system after electrochemically delithiated to various x values have been investigated using soft X-ray absorption...
A study of spectra emitted by the quiet solar corona indicates that the majority of line intensities originating in low-lying levels are consistent with...