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Journals

Biometrics Standards ? Rising to the Challenge of Technology Innovation

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

Fernando L. Podio

For decades, biometric technologies were primarily used in law enforcement applications. Currently, they are increasingly being required in multiple public and...

Mirofluidic Appproach for Rapid Interfacial Tensiometry

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

J Cabral, Steven Hudson

We report a microfluidic instrument to rapidly measure the interfacial tension of multi-component immiscible liquids. The measurement principle rests upon the...

R-22 Replacement Status (in Italian)

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

J M. Calm, Piotr A. Domanski

Since its initial recognition in 1928 and commercialization in 1936, R-22 has been applied in systems ranging from the smallest window air conditioners to the...

Examining Ty3 Polypurine Tract Structure and Function by Nucleoside Analog Interference

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

Chandravanu Dash, John Marino, Stuart F. Le Grice

Although retroviral and LTR-retrotransposon PPTs differ significantly in both their length and sequence, they are accurately removed from (+) RNA and (+) DNA by...

Correlating Interfacial Moisture Content and Adhesive Fracture Energy of Polymer Coatings on Different Surfaces

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

E P. O'Brien, Christopher C. White, B D. Vogt

Environmental influences, such as ambient moisture, are well known to be detrimental to the adhesion of polymeric materials to metal surfaces. The adhesion loss...

Requirements for an Effective Reverberation Chamber: Unloaded or Loaded

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, David A. Hill, Galen H. Koepke, John M. Ladbury

In this paper we present two versions of a threshold metric for the purpose of accessing the effectiveness of a reverberation chamber. One metric is based on...

Micromagnetic Calculations of Eddy Currents with Time-Varying Fields

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

L Yanik, E D. Torre, Michael J. Donahue

Efficient Path-Segment Protection Utilizing Logical-ring Approach in WDM Mesh Network

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

I-S Hwang, I-Feng Huang, C-D Chien, David H. Su

This work proposes a distributed fault protection mechanism called the Dynamic-Shared Segment Protection (DSSP) algorithm for WDM (Wavelength Division...

Generating Thickness Gradients of Thin Polymer Films via Flow Coating

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

Christopher Stafford, Kristen Roskov, Thomas Epps, Michael J. Fasolka

Thickness is a governing factor in the behavior of films and coatings. To enable the high-throughputanalysis of this parameter in polymer systems, we detail the...

Consistency of Δ ¹³ C Measurements Improved

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

Blaza Toman, T Coplen, W Brand, R. Michael Verkouteren, M Gehre, M Groening, HAJ Meijer

Consistency of Δ ¹³ C Measurements Improved

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

T B. Copelen, W Brand, M Gehre, M Groening, HAJ Meijer, Blaza Toman, R. Michael Verkouteren

We present state-of-the-art measurements and data evaluation methods to show that the consistency of carbon isotope ratio measurements can be improved 39 % to...

Uncertainty in Finite Element Modeling and Failure Analysis: A Metrology-based Approach

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

Jeffrey Fong, James J. Filliben, Roland deWit, Richard J. Fields, Barry Bernstein, Pedro V. Marcal

In this paper, we first review the impact of the powerful finite element method (FEM) in structural engineering, and then address the shortcomings of FEM as a...

Energy Levels of 4f3 in the Free Nd3+ Ion From Emission Spectra

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

J-F Wyart, Ali Meftah, Annik Bachelier, Jocelyne Sinzelle, Wan-U Lydia Tchang-Brillet, Norbert Champion, Nissan Spector, J Sugar

The emission spectrum of neodymium produced by vacuum spark sources was observed in the vacuum ultraviolet on two normal-incidence spectrographs. In an initial...

CH Stretch/Internal Rotor Dynamics in Ethyl Radical: High-Resolution Spectroscopy in the CD^d3-Stretch Manifold

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

Thomas Haber, Andrew C. Blair, David Nesbitt

High resolution IR absorption spectra of supersonically cooled ethyl radicals (T rot19 K) have ben obtained in a slit supersonic jet discharge expansion...

Many-Body Interactions in Semiconductors Probed by Optical Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

February 1, 2006

Author(s)

X Li, T Zhang, C N. Borca, Steven T. Cundiff

Understanding many body interactions is a universal challenge in physics that is best approached by studying carefully chosen model systems. One ideal system...

First Principles Phase Diagram Calculations for the System NaCl-KCL: the role of excess vibrational entropy

January 31, 2006

Author(s)

Benjamin P. Burton, A Walle

Cost-Effectiveness Tool Primer: Software Overview

January 31, 2006

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman, Amy S. Rushing

Economic tools are needed to help the owners and managers of buildings, industrial facilities, and other critical infrastructure to select cost-effective...

Synthesis of Quantum Logic Circuits

January 31, 2006

Author(s)

V V. Shende, Stephen Bullock, I L. Markov

Operators acting on a collection of two-level quantum-mechanical systems can be represented by quantum circuits. In this work we develop a decomposition of such...

Allele frequencies for 27 Y-STR loci with U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic samples

January 27, 2006

Author(s)

John M. Butler, Amy E. Decker, Peter M. Vallone, Margaret C. Kline

Ionic Solution Conductance Through Oriented Peptide Channels in Supported Hybrid Bilayers

January 25, 2006

Author(s)

M B. Smith, J Tong, Jan Genzer, Daniel A. Fischer, P K. Kilpatrick

Amphiphilic -helices were formed from designed synthetic peptides comprising alanine, phenylalanine, and lysine residues. The insertion of the - helical...

Surface oxidation of Permalloy thin films

January 24, 2006

Author(s)

M. R. Fitzsimmons, Thomas J. Silva, T. M. Crawford

The chemical and magnetic structures of oxides on the surface of Permalloy Ni 81Fe 19 films were investigated as functions of annealing time with x-ray and...

10 V Programmable Josephson voltage standard circuits using NbN/TiNx/NbN/TiNx/NbN double-junction stacks

January 24, 2006

Author(s)

Hirotake Yamamori, Mayumi Ishizaki, A. Shoji, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz

Using NbN/TiNx/NbN/TiNx/NbN double-junction stack technology we have demonstrated programmable Josephson voltage standard chips that operate up to 10.16 V...

Design of Self-Assembled Multiferroic Nanostructures in Epitaxial Films

January 23, 2006

Author(s)

Igor Levin, Jiying Li, Julia Slutsker, Alexander L. Roytburd

An approach for a rational design of self-assembled multiferroic nanostructures with controlled phase morphologies was demonstrated using the 3-D epitaxial...

Pronounced Supramolecular Order in Discotic Donor-Acceptor Mixtures

January 23, 2006

Author(s)

W Pisula, M Kastler, D Wasserfallen, Joseph W. Robertson, F Nolde, C Kohl, K Mullen

Internal Rotation and Spin Conversion of CH₃OH in Solid Para-Hydrogen

January 20, 2006

Author(s)

Y J. Wu, R M. Lees, L H. Xu, Jon T. Hougen, Yuan-Pern Lee

The quantum solid para-hydrogen (p-H2) has recently emerged as a novel host for matrix-isolation spectroscopy; species isolated in p-H2 exhibit spectral lines...

Wake Fields in the Electron Gas Including Transverse Response

January 19, 2006

Author(s)

Eric J. Cockayne, Zachary H. Levine

Relativistic electrons have transverse electric fields comparable in magnitude to the longitudinal fields. We determine the relative effects of transverse and...

Summary of IOS/TC 201 Standard: XIII. ISO 18114:2003-Surface Chemical Analysis-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry-Determination of Relative Sensitivity Factors From Ion-Implanted Reference Materials

January 19, 2006

Author(s)

David S. Simons

Surfaces of Fluorinated Pyridinium Block-Copolymers with Enhanced Antibacterial Activity

January 19, 2006

Author(s)

Sitaraman Krishnan, R J. Ward, A Hexemer, K E. Sohn, K L. Lee, E R. Angert, Daniel A. Fischer, E J. Kramer, Christopher K. Ober

Polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine) copolymers were quaternized with 1-bromohexane and 6-perfluorooctyl-1-bromohexane. Surfaces prepared from these polymers...

Comparison of the Fouling Release Properties of Hydrophobic Fluorinated and Hydrophilic PEGylated Block Copolymer Surfaces

January 19, 2006

Author(s)

S Krishman, N Wang, Christopher K. Ober, J Finlay, M E. Callow, J A. Callow, A Hexemer, K E. Sohn, E J. Kramer, Daniel A. Fischer

To understand the role of surface-wettability on adhesion of cells, the attachment of two different marine algae was studied on hydrophobic and hydrophilic...

Enhanced ferromagnetic damping in Permalloy/Cu bilayers

January 18, 2006

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Michael Schneider, Thomas J. Silva

We have investigated the enhancement of ferromagnetic damping for thin Permalloy (Ni 80Fe 20) films grown with Cu capping layers of variable thickness (5-1000nm...

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