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N Noda, Y E. Lee, Anthony J. Bur, Vivek Prabhu, Chad R. Snyder, S C. Roth, M M. McBrearty
Nylon 6/ clay nanocomposites were studied by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) to correlate morphology and microstructure with relaxation behavior of the...
X-ray diffraction topography was used to investigate the relationship between sub-surface damage, near-surface microstructure, and fracture strength in a series...
Charles M. Guttman, S Wetzel, Kathleen M. Flynn, B M. Fanconi, David L. VanderHart, William E. Wallace
A matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) interlaboratory comparison was conducted on mixtures of synthetic...
L Granasy, T Pusztai, G -. Tegze, James A. Warren, Jack F. Douglas
Many structural materials (metal alloys, polymers, minerals, etc.) are formed by quenching liquids to form crystalline solids. This highly non-equilibrium...
Vladislav Gerginov, C E. Tanner, Scott Diddams, A Bartels, Leo W. Hollberg
The output of a mode-locked femtosecond-laser is used for high resolution single-photon spectroscopy of ^133}Cs in an atomic beam. The laser is referenced...
To determine an equilibrium state between two pressure balances accurately, the measurement method using a precise pressure transducer and two air-operated...
XuanFang Zha, Ram D. Sriram, M Fernandez, F Mistree
Engineering design is essentially a collaborative decision-making process that requires rigorous evaluation, comparison and selection of design alternatives and...
Strategy formulation for high-technology products is very difficult. The short life cycles, and rapidly changing technology make it extremely challenging to...
Herbert S. Bennett, Ralf Brederlow, Julio Costa, Peter Cottrell, Margaret Huang, Anthony A. Immorlica, Jan-Erik Mueller, Marco Racanelli, Hisashi Shichijo, Charles E. Weitzel, Bin Zhao
The relationships between device feature size and device performance figures of merit (FoMs) are more complex for RF applications than for digital applications...
Road sign detection is important to a robotic vehicle that automatically drives on roads. In this paper, road signs are detected by means of rules that restrict...
Sb-heterostructure quantum tunneling diodes, fabricated from epitaxial layers of InAs and AIGaSb, are a recently proposed device for RF direct detection and...
Sang-Mo Koo, Monica D. Edelstein, Qiliang Li, Curt A. Richter, Eric M. Vogel
Silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (SiNWFETs) have been fabricated with a highly simplified integration scheme to function as Schottky barrier...
G Holland, Craig N. Boyer, J Seely, Joseph N. Tan, Joshua M. Pomeroy, John D. Gillaspy
A metal vapor vacuum arc (MeVVA) ion source having eight different cathodes that are individually selectable via the control electronics and having low trigger...
Population studies are important in forensic science and human identity testing to help demonstrate that STR markers are polymorphic and will help distinguish...
Donald G. Archer, Jason A. Widegren, Duane R. Kirklin, Joe W. Magee
An adiabatic calorimeter was used to measure the enthalpy of solution of 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (0.0035 mol•kg-1 to 0.02 mol•kg...
A series of interaction models for ethylene oxide are developed for use in molecular simulation of the thermal properties of both the gas and liquid phases...
As a qubit is a two-level system whose state space is spanned by and , so a qudit is a -level system whose state space is spanned by , , . Quantum computation...
Danna Rosenberg, Adriana Lita, Aaron J. Miller, Sae Woo Nam
High-efficiency optical detectors that can determine the number of photons in a pulse of monochromatic light have applications in a variety of physics studies...
Brandon M. Vogel, Naomi Eidelman, Balaji Narasimhan, Surya Mallapragada
A linearly varying compositional library of 100 different polyanhydride randomcopolymers was designed, fabricated, and characterized within a few hours. A...
K Efimenko, J A. Crowe, E Manias, D W. Schwark, Daniel A. Fischer, Jan Genzer
We report on the rapid formation of hydrophilic silicone elastomer surfaces by ultraviolet/zone (UVO) irradiation of poly(vinylmethyl siloxane) (PVMS) network...
The real and imaginary parts of the refractive index, n(w) and k(w), of silicon, as a function of photon frequency w were measured by using Fourier Transform...
Igor Levin, Terrell A. Vanderah, T Amos, James E. Maslar
Structural behavior and phase transitions in the A-cation deficient perovskite-like solid solutions (1-x)LaMg0.5Ti0.5O3-xLa2/3TiO3 (0=x=0.5) were studied using...
Steve T. Ruggiero, G. B. Arnold, A Williams, Anna Clark, Nathan A. Tomlin, Joel Ullom
We present tunneling results for junctions comprising Mn doped Al films produced by sputter deposition, with Mn oncentrations in the range of 5000 ppm. Our...