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Analytic expressions for the width and shift of a photoassociative resonance or an optically induced Feshbach resonance in ultra-cold collisions are derived...
In previous work, several significant improvements in the measurement of distillation curves for complex fluids were introduced. The modifications to the...
When repeated measurements are autocorrelated, it is not appropriate to use the traditional approach to calculate the uncertainty of the average of the...
Rainer Reichle, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Brad R. Blakestad, Joseph W. Britton, John D. Jost, Emanuel H. Knill, C. Langer, R Ozeri, Signe Seidelin, David J. Wineland
It was recently proposed to use small groups of trapped ions as qubit carriers in miniaturized electrode arrays that comprise a large number of individual...
The average glass transition temperatures, Tg, of thin homopolymer films exhibit a thickness dependence, Tg(h), determined by a confinement effect and by the...
Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) is demonstrated as an effective probe of the polymer thin film materials. A simple modification to a...
S J. Hoebel, K M. Balss, Barbara J. Jones, C Malliaris, Matt S. Munson, Wyatt N. Vreeland, David J. Ross
Temperature gradient focusing (TGF) is a recently developed technique for the simultaneous concentration and electrophoretic separation of ionic analytes in...
Chien-Kuo Liu, S H. Lee, Li Piin Sung, Tinh Nguyen
A model based on the Burgers viscoelastic concept has been developed to describe the nanoindentation behaviors of polymeric materials. An analytical solution of...
Microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS) have revolutionized the market for sensors by providing small, fast-responding measurement devices at low cost. They...
The use of standards in gene expression measurements with DNA microarrays is ubiquitousthey just are not yet the kind of standards that have yielded microarray...
Hockin D. Xu, Shozo Takagi, Limin Sun, L A. Hussain, Laurence C. Chow, William F. Guthrie, James H. Yen
Background. The need for biomaterials to treat periodontal osseous defects has increased as the world population ages. The objective of the present study was to...
Hockin D. Xu, Michael Weir, Elena F. Burguera, A M. Fraser
Calcium phosphate cement (CPC) can be molded and self-harden in vivo to form resorbable hydroxyapatite with excellent osteoconductivity. The objective of this...
Hockin D. Xu, Limin Sun, Michael Weir, Joseph M. Antonucci, Shozo Takagi, Laurence C. Chow, Max A. Peltz
The main challenges facing composite restorations are secondary caries and bulk fracture. The objective of this study was to investigate the Ca and PO4 release...
The presence of a low (dilute) concentration of paniculate inclusions having any shape and any property mismatch with the matrix in which they are placed...
Christopher D. Zangmeister, Steven W. Robey, Roger D. van Zee
Photoelectron spectroscopy was used to explore changes in Fermi level alignment, within the p-p* gap, arising from changes in the coupling chemistry of...
Alexander Roth, Ronny Jopp, R Schaefer, Gary W. Kramer
The scope of this project covers the storing of result data produced by generic laboratory devices during processing of analytical experiments, together with...
John R. Kucklick, M M. Krahn, Paul R. Becker, Barbara J. Porter, Michele M. Schantz, Geoffrey S. York, T M. O'Hara, Stephen A. Wise
Since 1987, the Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project (AMMTAP) has collected tissues from 18 marine mammals species. Specimens are archived in the...
The National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank (NBSB), established in 1979 at the NIST Neutron Research Facility, Gaithersburg, Maryland, was specifically designed to...
This paper presents a knowledge-intensive support paradigm for platform-based product family design and development. The fundamental issues underlying the...
The pursuit of lower cost, shorter time-to-market, and better quality has led to a shift toward global production in today?s competitive business environment...
Three-flat tests are the archetypes of measurement procedures used in interferometric surface and wavefront metrology to separate errors in the interferometer...
V Shah, Svenja A. Knappe, P Schwindt, Vladislav Gerginov, John E. Kitching, Leo W. Hollberg
We propose and demonstrate a novel technique for increasing the amplitude of coherent population trapping (CPT) resonance in open Lambda systems. The technique...
The design and performance of a vapor generator for calibration and testing of trace chemical sensors are described. The device utilizes piezoelectric nozzles...
Marlon L. Walker, Lee J. Richter, Thomas P. Moffat
The adsorption of Cu electrodeposition accelerating agents SPS and MPS on evaporated Cu thin films was examined in-situ using spectroscopic ellipsometry under...
Javier Salcedo, Juin J. Liou, Muhammad Y. Afridi, Allen R. Hefner Jr.
An on-chip Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection scheme is demonstrated for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)-based Embedded Sensor (ES) System-on-a-Chip...
Robert G. Driver, Douglas A. Olson, S Yadav, A Bandyopadhyay
We report here the results of a bilateral comparison of pressure measurement between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg...
TheO1 (short terminology for theorectical variance #1) is derived based on psi_y 2 (t,T), a variance that separates the Allan variance's sampling or observation...
V Shah, Svenja A. Knappe, P Schwindt, Vladislav Gerginov, John E. Kitching, Leo W. Hollberg
We propose and demonstrate a novel technique for increasing the amplitude of coherent population trapping (CPT) resonance in open Lambda systems. The technique...