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NIST now offers a new remote calibration service designed to assist laboratories who maintain a accurate local time standard. The service monitors the local...
F Levi, Jon H. Shirley, Steven R. Jefferts, Davide Calonico, Thomas P. Heavner, Dai Yu
In atomic fountain style primary frequency standards the atoms are ideally subjected to microwave fields resonant with the ground-state hyperfine splitting only...
Ying-ju Wang, Matt Eardley, Svenja A. Knappe, John Moreland, Leo W. Hollberg, John E. Kitching
We demonstrate a direct resonant interaction between the mechanical motion of a mesoscopic resonator and the spin degree of freedom of a sample of neutral atoms...
A Van de Walle, Benjamin P. Burton, Ursula R. Kattner
Because of their wide direct band-gaps, and excellent mechanical properties [1], wurtzite structure AlN (6.28 eV, [2]), GaN (3.5 eV, [3]) and InN (1.89 eV [4]...
Herbert S. Bennett, Andrew Dienstfrey, Thomas Fuerst, Lawrence T. Hudson, Tammy L. Oreskovic, John Shepherd
This paper reports and discusses the results of the recent ISCD-NIST USMS Workshop on Standards and Measurements for Assessing Bone Health. The purpose of the...
Kevin Ridge, John Marino, T Ngo, Eva Ramon, D M. Brabazon, N G. Abdulaev
Heterotrimeric G-protein activation by an agonist-stimulated G-protein coupled receptor (R*) requires the propagation of structural signals from the receptor...
Ying-Ju Wang, Matthew Eardley, Svenja A. Knappe, John M. Moreland, Leo W. Hollberg, John Kitching
We demonstrate a direct resonant interaction between the mechanical motion of a mesoscopic resonator and the spin degrees of freedom of a sample of neutral...
For the first time lumped series arrays of Josephson junctions have been fabricated with a transmission line-matched 50 Ohm nresistance and having the thousands...
Paul D. Hale, C. M. Wang, Dylan Williams, Kate Remley, Joshua Wepman
In this paper, a method of correcting both random and systematic timebase errors using measurements of only two quadrature sinusoids made simultaneously with a...
William S. McGivern, Jeffrey A. Manion, Wing Tsang
The thermal decomposition of t-butyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene has been investigated in single pulse shock tube studies at shock pressures of 182 260 kPa and...
Hyun Wook Ro, Yifu Ding, Hae-Jeong Lee, Daniel R. Hines, Ronald L. Jones, Eric K. Lin, Alamgir Karim, Wen-Li Wu, Christopher L. Soles
The thermal embossing form of nanoimprint lithography is used to pattern arrays of nanostructures into several different polymer films. The shape of the...
Kristopher Lavery, B D. Vogt, Vivek Prabhu, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Kwang-Woo Choi
The effect of exposure dose on the latent image deprotection profile in a model extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist polymer, poly(hydroxystyrene-co-d9-tert...
We describe the real/imaginary and in-phase/quadrature covariance-matrix representations of the uncertainty in complex vectors supported by the StatistiCALTM...
Brenna M. McGruder, Donald H. Atha, Wendy Wang, Konrad Huppi, Wen-Qiang Wei, Christian C. Abnet, You-Lin Qiao, Sanford M. Dawsey, Philip R. Taylor, J P. Jakupciak
M. P. Paranthaman, V Selvamanickam, K Matsumoto, Luigia Gianna, Wei-xian Zhang, P Goyal, Winnie Wong-Ng
High Temperature Superconductor Wires and Tapes was one of the MS&T2006 symposia (October 15-19, 2006; Duke Energy Center, Cincinnati, Ohio) that covered recent...
An analysis of chipping fracture in brittle solids is presented. Cracks are introduced into the edges of selected materials, including soda-lime glass and fine...
Ahmad Abdul-Fattah, Vu Truong-Le, Luisa Yee, Lauren Nguyen, Devendra Kalonia, Marcus T. Cicerone, Michael Pikal
Both drying method and formulation had a significant impact on the properties of IgG1 powders, including storage stability. Among the drying methods, SSA was...
We discuss the possibility of realizing metal-insulator transitions with ultracold atoms in two-dimensional optical lattices in the presence of artificial gauge...
Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse, Michelle P. Steves
In this paper we present both a broad and deep look at the use of a collaboration tool in the intelligence community. Through an experimental program...
Lorentz microscopy was used to study the micromagnetic structure and magnetization reversal in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) fabricated with different...
Objectives: The increased usage of composite dental restorations underscores the need for continued improvements in material properties. Well-controlled sample...
D J. Ludlow, M K. Jensen, C M. Calebrese, G A. Eisman, S Yu, C Dannehy, Daniel S. Hussey
Neutron scattering experiments on a proton exchange membrane fuel cell wereperformed to assess the ability to quantify water in the membrane and electrode/gas...
Pavel Voskoboynik, Ronald D. Joos, W E. Doherty, Ronald B. Goldfarb
Positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) silicon diodes are commonly used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coils to perform active or passive blocking and detuning...