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Journals

Determination of Cyanide in Blood by Isotope Dilution Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

March 31, 2006

Author(s)

Karen E. Murphy, Michele M. Schantz, Therese A. Butler, Bruce A. Benner Jr, Laura J. Wood, Gregory C. Turk

A procedure based on isotope dilution gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (ID GC/MS) has been developed for the accurate and rapid determination of cyanide (CN...

High-Throughput Evaluation of Restorative Dental Polymers

March 31, 2006

Author(s)

Sheng Lin-Gibson, Forrest A. Landis, Nancy J. Lin

The effects of co-monomer composition and irradiation time on material properties and cell response were determined using high-throughput and combinatorial...

Parallelism for Quantum Computation with Qudits

March 31, 2006

Author(s)

Dianne M. O'Leary

Robust quantum computation with d-level quantum systems (qudits) poses two requirements: fast, parallel quantum gates and high fidelity two-qudit gates. We...

Optical Critical Points of Thin-Film Ge1-7Sny Alloys: A Comparative Ge1-ySny/Ge1-xSix Study

March 31, 2006

Author(s)

Vijay R. D'Costa, Candi S. Cook, Anthony G. Birdwell, Chris L. Littler, Michael Canonico, Stefan Zollner, John Kouvetakis, Jose Menendez

Component-Resolved Determination of the Magnetization by Magnetization-Induced Optical Second Harmonic Generation

March 31, 2006

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Thomas J. Silva, Hugo A. van den Berg, Theo Rasing

We present a method for simultaneous measuring the two normalized in-plane magnetization components in magnetic thin films that allows for the reconstruction of...

One-Laser Interferometric Broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering

March 30, 2006

Author(s)

T W. Kee, Hongxia (Jessica) Zhao, Marcus T. Cicerone

We introduce an interferometric technique for eliminating the nonresonant background of broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy. CARS...

Large-angle magnetization dynamics measured by time-resolved ferromagnetic resonance

March 30, 2006

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Michael Schneider, Anthony B. Kos, Thomas J. Silva

A time-resolved ferromagnetic resonance technique was used to investigate the nonlinear magnetization dynamics of a 10 nm thin Permalloy TM film in response to...

Ag/AgCl Microelectrodes with Improved Stability for Microfluidics

March 30, 2006

Author(s)

Brian J. Polk, Anna Stelzenmuller, Geraldine I. Mijares, William A. MacCrehan, Michael Gaitan

A method for fabricating Ag/AgCl planar microelectrodes for microfluidic applications is presented. Microreference electrodes enable accurate measurements with...

Effects of multi-photon interferences from internally generated fields in strongly resonant systems

March 29, 2006

Author(s)

Lu Deng, M. G. Payne, W R. Garrett

In studies of various nonlinear optical phenomena, strong resonant features in the atomic or molecular response to multi-photon driven processes have been used...

Practical Implementation of Dynamic Methods for Measuring Atomic Force Microscope Cantilever Spring Constants

March 28, 2006

Author(s)

S. M. Cook, T. E. Schaffer, K. M. Chynoweth, M. Wigton, Raymond Simmonds, Kristine Lang

Measurement of atomic force microscope cantilever spring constants (k) is essential for many of the applications of this versatile instrument. Numerous...

Ionizing Radiation-Induced Destruction of Benzene and Dienes in Aqueous Media

March 28, 2006

Author(s)

M I. Al-Sheikhly, Dianne L. Poster, Jung-Chul An, Pedatsur Neta, Joseph Silverman, Robert E. Huie

Pulse radiolysis with spectrophotometric and conductometric detection was utilized to study the formation and reactions of radicals from benzene and dienes in...

Dietary Supplement Standard Reference Materials

March 27, 2006

Author(s)

Lane C. Sander, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise

A new category of Standard Reference Materials based on dietary supplements are under development by NIST, with certified values for organic constituents and...

Real Time Imaging of Liquid Water in an Operating Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

March 27, 2006

Author(s)

M A. Hickner, N P. Siegel, K S. Chen, D N. McBrayer, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Muhammad D. Arif

No abstract included.

Failure of Glass Layers on Polymeric Substrates From Vickers Indentation

March 25, 2006

Author(s)

Herzl Chai, Brian R. Lawn

A study is made of median crack evolution in brittle coatings subjected to sharp contacts. A model bilayer system consisting of a glass plate bonded to a...

Sub-micron gap capacitor for measurement of breakdown voltage in air

March 24, 2006

Author(s)

Emmanouel S. Hourdakis, Brian Simonds, Neil M. Zimmerman

We have developed a new method for measuring the value of breakdown voltage in air for electrode separations from 400 nm to 45 'm. The electrodes used were thin...

Low Background Temperature Calibration of Infrared Blackbodies

March 23, 2006

Author(s)

Adriaan C. Carter, Raju V. Datla, Timothy M. Jung, Allan W. Smith, James A. Fedchak

The Low Background Infrared (LBIR) facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has performed 10 calibrations of low-background...

Hyperspectral Image Projectors for Radiometric Applications

March 23, 2006

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, Bettye C. Johnson, Jorge E. Neira

We describe a new type of Calibrated Hyperspectral Image Projector (CHIP) intended for radiometric testing of instruments ranging from complex hyperspectral or...

Measurement of Small Apertures

March 23, 2006

Author(s)

James A. Fedchak, Adriaan C. Carter, Raju V. Datla

The Low Background Infrared calibration (LBIR) facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a relative aperture area...

Optimizing Single-Photon Source Heralding Efficiency and Detection Efficiency Metrology at 1550 nm Using Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate

March 23, 2006

Author(s)

Stefania Castelletto, Ivo P. Degiovanni, V Schettini, Alan L. Migdall

We explore the feasibility of using high-efficiency periodically-poled crystals to produce photon pairs for photon-counting detector calibrations at 1550 nm...

Remotely Accessed Photovoltaic Power Experiment

March 21, 2006

Author(s)

W J. Hutzel, William M. Healy

A solar energy experiment that estimates the number of photovoltaic panels needed to provide supplemental power for a typical residence is described. The...

Probing the ordering of semiconducting fluorene-thiophene copolymer surfaces on rubbed polymide substrates by near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure

March 21, 2006

Author(s)

L R. Pattison, A Hexemer, E J. Kramer, Sitaraman Krishnan, P M. Petroff, Daniel A. Fischer

Characterizing Gaseous Air Cleaner Performance in the Field

March 20, 2006

Author(s)

Cynthia H. Reed, Steven J. Emmerich, Steven J. Nabinger

As part of an ongoing effort to better understand the performance of indoor air cleaners in buildings, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

High sensitivity bacterial detection using biotin-tagged phage quantum-dot nanocomplexes

March 20, 2006

Author(s)

R Edgar, M Mckinstry, Jeeseong C. Hwang, A B. Oppenheim, R A. Fekete, Gary Giulian, C Merril, K Nagashima, S Adhya

Conformational Changes Associated With Receptor-Stimulated Guanine Nucleotide Exchange in a Heterotrimeric G-Protein α-Subunit: NMR Analysis of the GTPγS-Bound States

March 17, 2006

Author(s)

K D. Ridge, N G. Abdulaev, Xi-Cheng Zhang, T Ngo, D M. Brabazon, John P. Marino

Solution NMR studies of a 15N-labeled G-protein ?-subunit (G?) chimera (15N-ChiT) reconstituted heterotrimer have previously shown that binding of ??-subunits...

Poisson transition rates from time-domain measurements with finite bandwidth

March 17, 2006

Author(s)

Ofer Naaman, Joe Aumentado

We show that in realistic time-domain measurements of a Poisson two-level system, the observed transition rates are renormalized downwards due to the finite...

Fast Setting CPC-Chitosan Composite: Mechanical Properties and Dissolution Rates

March 16, 2006

Author(s)

Limin Sun, Hockin D. Xu, Shozo Takagi, Laurence C. Chow

Calcium phosphate cement (CPC) can self-harden in vivo to form hydroxyapatite with excellent osteoconductivity. In recent studies, CPC-chitosan composites were...

Frequency-Resolved Coherent LIDAR using a Femtosecond Fiber Laser

March 15, 2006

Author(s)

William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

We demonstrate a coherent lidar that uses a broadband femtosecond fiber laser as a source and resolves the returning heterodyne signal into N spectral channels...

Alkanethiols on Platinum: Multicomponent Self-Assembled Monolayers

March 14, 2006

Author(s)

D Y. Petrovykh, H Y. Kimura-Suda, A Opdahl, Lee J. Richter, Michael J. Tarlov, L J. Whitman

We have studied the formation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of n-alkanethiols on platinum thin films using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)...

Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Based on Photocured Dimethacrylate Polymers for the In-Vitro Optical Imaging of Cellular Activity

March 13, 2006

Author(s)

Forrest A. Landis, J S. Stephens, James A. Cooper, Sheng Lin-Gibson

Model tissue engineering scaffolds based on photocurable resin mixtures with sodium chloride have been prepared for optical imaging studies of cell attachment...

Generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation and ultraslow optical solitons in a cold four-state atomic system

March 13, 2006

Author(s)

Lu Deng, Guoxiang Huang, C Hang

We investigate the influence of high-order dispersion and nonlinearity on the propagation of ultraslow optical solitons in a lifetime broadened four-state...

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