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Hockin D. Xu, Janet Quinn, Anthony A. Giuseppetti, F Eichmiller, Edward E. Parry, Gary E. Schumacher
Objective: Recent studies used silica-fused whiskers to increase the strength and toughness of resin composites. This study investigated the three-body wear of...
Sheldon M. Wiederhorn, A R D Lopez, William E. Luecke, Michael J. Hoffmann, B Hockey, J French, D C. Yoon
The effect of grain size on the tensile creep of silicon nitride is investigated on two materials, one containing 5 % by volume Yb2O3, the other containing 5 %...
Drago Skrtic, Joseph M. Antonucci, Walter G. McDonough, D W. Liu
The mechanical properties of recently developed bioactive, anti-demineralizaing/remineralizing, amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP)-based composites are in need...
A M. Rey, B- L. Hu, E Calzetta, A Roura, Charles W. Clark
In this work a two-particle irreducible (2PI) closed-time-path (CTP) effective action is used to describe the nonequilibrium dynamics of a Bose Einstein...
Ion-induced damage of polymers is a critical factor in the depth profiling of polymer surfaces using polyatomic primary ions. However, little work has been done...
Control of protein adsorption onto solid surfaces is a critical area of biomaterials and biosensors research. Application of high performance surface analysis...
NIST played a crucial role in the early days of the Human Genome Project in supporting and rapidly accelerating the pace of sequencing and diagnostics...
Raymond D. Mountain, F Case, Anne M. Chaka, Daniel G. Friend, David Frurip, Russell D. Johnson III, J Golab, P Kolar, J Moore, J Olson, Martin Schiller, J Storer
This poster describes the results, activities, and philosophy of the Industrial Fluids Simulation Challenge. The recently completed open competition challenged...
D Yebassa, S Balakrishnan, E Feresenbet, D T. Raghavan, P R. Start, Steven Hudson
We found during the sequencing of these five mtDNA templates that some of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) did result in amino acid changes when...
A magneto-optic trap with feedback-controlled loading and loss rates is used to realize a deterministic source of single Cr atoms with single-atom occupation...
A Kulkarni, J Gutleber, S Sampath, A N. Goland, W B. Lindquist, H Herman, Andrew J. Allen, B A. Dowdy
High-velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) spraying stands out among the various processes to improve metal and ceramic coating density and surface characteristics. This...
D J. Burnett, A M. Gabelnick, A L. Marsh, Daniel A. Fischer, J L. Gland
Propyne and propylene oxidation have been studied on a 1 0 nm Pt/A 1 20 3 thin film catalyst using a combination of synchrotron basedsoft x-ray techniques for...
Carl Simon Jr., William F. Guthrie, Francis W. Wang
We have sought to improve calcium phosphate cement by developing a method for seeding bone cells into the cement. Calcium phosphate cement (CPC) is a dry white...
V. J. Lee, Christopher Soles, D W. Liu, Barry J. Bauer, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, A Grill
Three different types of porous low-k dielectric films, with similar dielectric constants, are characterized using X-ray porosimetry (XRP). XRP is used to...
H Grull, Li Piin Sung, Alamgir Karim, Jack F. Douglas, Sushil K. Satija, Makoto Hayashi, H Jinnai, TT Hashimoto, Charles C. Han
We investigate the influence of temperature and confinement on surface segregation in thin films of deuterated polybutadiene and polyisoprene near the critical...
R Hartschuh, A Mahorowala, Y Ding, J H. Roh, A Kisliuk, Alexei Sokolov, Christopher Soles, Ronald L. Jones, T J. Hu, Wen-Li Wu
Polymers are now being patterned into nanometer-sized features via optical and/or imprint lithography for a range of applications, including semiconductors...
D M. Kremer, R W. Davis, Elizabeth F. Moore, S H. Ehrman
This paper describes a numerical investigation of aerosol formation during silane decomposition in a wall-less reactor. The wall-less reactor is amenable to...
F Case, Anne M. Chaka, Daniel G. Friend, David Frurip, J Golab, R Johnson, J Moore, Raymond D. Mountain, J Olson, Martin Schiller, J Storer
The Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge [1] was established to promote the use of molecular simulation methods to predict industrially relevant...
A summary is given of a Workshop titled XPS: From Spectra to Results Towards an Expert System that was held in St. Malo, France on April 22-26, 2002 under the...
The role of H2O vapor on the disproportionation/combination ratio (kd/kc) of C2H5 radical reactions in the gas phase has been investigated experimentally and...
Enthalpy of dilution measurements were made for NdCl 3(aq) over the molality range 0.0080 mol.kg -1 to 2.6883 mol.kg -1 at temperatures from 297.89 K to 372.08...
Anthony G. Birdwell, Thomas J. Shaffner, Deane Chandler-Horowitz, Gyoung H. Buh, W Henrion, M Rebien, P Stauss, G Behr, L Malikova, F H. Pollak, Chris L. Littler, R Glosser, S. Collins
Jin-Ping Han, Eric M. Vogel, Evgeni Gusev, C. D'Emic, Curt A. Richter, Da-Wei Heh, John S. Suehle
The variable rise/fall-time charge pumping technique has been used to determine the energy distribution of interface trap density (Dit) in MOSFETs with HfO2...
Gene C. Hilton, James A. Beall, Steven Deiker, Leila R. Vale, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Joern Beyer, Joel Ullom, Carl D. Reintsema, Yizi Xu, Kent D. Irwin
We are developing arrays of Mo/Cu TES-based detectors for use as as x-ray microcalorimeters and sub-mm bolometers. We have fabricated 8 x 8 pixel x-ray...
D Basak, Richard L. Rhorer, H W. Yoon, Timothy J. Burns, T Matsumoto
Analysis of maching processes is important in the understanding and improving of manufacturing methods. The modeling of machining processes relies on high...
A single-electron transistor (SET) is used to detect tunneling of single electrons into individual InGaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs). By using an SET...
The mechanism and modeling of superconformal film growth used in the electrochemical fabrication of 3-D Cu interconnects is briefly reviewed. The central role...
T Keller, Alexana Roshko, R.H. Geiss, Kristine A. Bertness, T.P. Quinn
We have characterized elastic strain fields associated with the wet-thermal oxidation of buried Al xGa 1-xAs (x 0.98) layers of thickness 80 nm, situated...
This report describes a novel method for the concentration and separation of neutral and/or hydrophobic analytes based on a combination of the analytes...