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Christina Hacker, Kelly A. Anderson, Lee J. Richter, Curt A. Richter
Aliphatic alcohols and aldehydes were reacted with the Si(111)-H surface to form Si-O-C interfacial bonds from dilute solution using ultraviolet light. The...
J A. Olivier, L Liebenberg, Mark A. Kedzierski, J P. Meyer
This paper presents a study of pressure drops during condensation inside a smooth, an 18 helical micro-fin, and a herringbone micro-fin tube. Measurements were...
J Faucheu, Li Piin Sung, K Wood, Jonathan W. Martin
Semi-gloss commercial poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) coatings typically have 60o gloss values between 20 and 50. Gloss is affected by PVDF crystallite...
Nhan Van Nguyen, James E. Maslar, Junghyeun Kim, Jin-Ping Han, Jin-Won Park, Deane Chandler-Horowitz, Eric M. Vogel
The crystalline quality of Silicon-On-Insulator fabricated by a wafer bonding technique was examined by spectroscopic ellipsometry and Raman spectroscopy. The...
Brian Washburn, R W. Fox, Nathan R. Newbury, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, K Feder, Paul S. Westbrook, C. G. Jorgensen
A phase-locked, self-references frequency comb generated by a mode-locked fiber soliton laser with a tunable repetition rate is presented. The spacing of the...
Prem Kumar, P G. Kwiat, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Jelena Vuckovic, F Wong
The last several years have seen tremendous research toward practical optical quantum information processing, including single- and entangled-photon sources and...
Lili Wang, Adolfas K. Gaigalas, J L. Blasic, Marcia J. Holden
We measured absorption and emission spectra, fluorescence quantum yield, anisotropy, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), and melting temperature to...
Recently, techniques for acquiring, analyzing, and using 3-D shape information for aggregates (sand, gravel) have been developed and demonstrated. These...
X Feng, Edward J. Garboczi, Paul E. Stutzman, T Mason
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) point-counting technique was employed to study the hydration of plain portland cement pastes and blended cement pastes...
Li Piin Sung, J Jasmin, Xiaohong Gu, Tinh Nguyen, Jonathan W. Martin
Due to its non-destructive properties, laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) has become a powerful tool for monitoring physical changes in polymeric...
The unique ability of a Josephson junction to control the flow of magnetic flux quanta leads to a perfect relationship between frequency and voltage. Over the...
We used a technical readiness level assessment to obtain intervention time and the time to acquire situation awareness for different classifications of...
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collects software from various sources and...
The DARPA Communicator program explored ways to construct better spoken-dialogue systems, with which users interact via speech alone to perform relatively...
Using improved acoustic spectroscopy, we determined the complete above coefficients (16 independent ones) by measuring the macroscopic resonance frequencies of...
The fatigue properties of fine-grain Y-TZP in cyclic flexural testing are studied. Comparative tests on a coarser-grain alumina provide a baseline control. A...
Frank W. Gayle, Stephen W. Banovic, Timothy J. Foecke, Richard J. Fields, William E. Luecke, Joseph D. McColskey, Thomas A. Siewert, Christopher N. McCowan
In September 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology became the lead agency in an investigation of the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster of...
Avanced ceramics are being considered as one of the potential materials for high temperature steam engines. Silicon nitride and silicon carbide have...
A new transmission X-ray imaging technique based upon ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering (USAXS) is described. Images are formed from angle-filtered X-rays that...
Yeon-Gil G. Jung, Brian R. Lawn, M Martyniuk, H Huang, X Z. Hu
Simple equations are proposed for determining elastic modulus and hardness properties of thin films on substrates from nanoindentation experiments. The...
Guofeng Li, C Martinez, J Janata, J A. Smith, M Josowicz, Stephen Semancik
Mixtures of methanol with increasing fractions of formic acid were used to progressively transform the morphology of polyaniline starting from nanofibers to...
Babak Nikoobakht, Chris A. Michaels, Stephan J. Stranick, Mark D. Vaudin
The positioning and directed assembly of semiconductor nanowires (NWs) is of considerable current interest for bottom-up approaches to the engineering of...
The composition model in the Unified Modeling Language, version 2, is a major upgrade to the familiar black diamond composition of earlier versions. It supports...