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Journals

Reaching Beyond Discovery

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Eric J. Amis

Whatever you are trying to make, the choice of materials is often bewildering. Novel combinatorial approaches allow you to reduce the time and costs necessary...

Parallel Programming with Interoperable MPI

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

William L. George, John G. Hagedorn, J E. Devaney

In this article we describe IMPI (Interoperable Message Passing Interface), a message passing protocol that allows you to easily run parallel programs across...

The New FISMA Standards and Guidelines---Changing the Dynamic of Information Security for the Federal Government

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

This manuscript describes the new Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards and guidelines being produced by the Computer Security Division...

Comparison of Experimental and Simulated Multicomponent Ni-base Superalloy Diffusion Couples

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Carelyn E. Campbell, J C. Zhao, M F. Henry

A multicomponent diffusion mobility database for the Ni-rich fcc phase [2002Cam] is evaluated by comparing diffusion simulations to two experimental...

Depth-Resolved Porosity Investigation of EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings Using High-Energy X-Rays

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

A Kulkarni, H Herman, J Almer, U Lienert, D Haeffner

Demands for designing prime reliant, energy efficient and high performance thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) in gas turbines have led to growing interest towards...

The Miami2001 Infrared Radiometer Calibration and Intercomparison. Part I: Laboratory Characterization of Blackbody Targets

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice, James J. Butler, B C. Johnson, P J. Minnett, K A. Maillet, T J. Nightingale, S J. Hook, A Abtahi, C J. Donlon, I J. Barton

The second calibration and intercomparison of infrared radiometers (Maiami2001) was held at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric...

Relativistic Many-Body Calculations of Electric-Dipole Matrix Elements, Lifetimes and Polarizabilities in Rubidium

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

M S. Safronova, Carl J. Williams, Charles W. Clark

Electric-dipole matrix elements for ns-n'p, nd-n'p, and 6d-4f transitions in Rb are calculated using a relativistic all-order method. A third-order calculation...

Intuitive Diffraction Model for Multistaged Optical Systems

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Eric L. Shirley

A simplified framework is motivated, in which many diffraction effects can be treated, especially in multi-staged optical systems. These include effects of...

Ray Model of Light Scattering by Flake Pigments or Rough Surfaces With Smooth Transparent Coatings

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Thomas A. Germer, Egon Marx

We derive expressions for the intensity and polarization of light singly scattered by flake pigments or a rough surface beneath a smooth transparent coating...

Color Measurements for Pearlescent Coatings

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Maria E. Nadal, E A. Early

This paper describes recent developments at the National Institution of Standards and Technology in the colorimetric characterization of pearlescent coatings...

Absolute Surface Coverage Measurement Using a Vibrational Overtone

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

A C. Pipino, J P. Hoefnagels, N Watanabe

Sub-monolayer absolute surface number densities are obtained by cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) for three haloethylenes with differing molecular symmetries...

Molecular Dynamics Study of the Surface Tension of a Binary Immiscible Fluid

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

V Simmons, Joseph B. Hubbard

The planar interface between two liquids having two degrees of affinity to mix has been studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The surface tension is...

Ontology of the Process Specification Language

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Michael Gruninger

Representing activities and the constraints on their occurrences is an integral aspect of commonsense reasoning, particularly in manufacturing, enterprise...

Ultra-Thin gate Oxide Breakdown: A Failure that we can live with?

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

John S. Suehle

As gate oxides are scaled down in thickness in current technologies, the breakdown event caused by TDDB becomes 'softer'. In current technologies where the...

Narrow-band measurement of differential group delay by a six-state RF phase-shift technique: 40 fs single-measurement uncertainty

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Jonathan D. Kofler

We describe in detail our implementation of a modulation phase shift (MPS) technique for narrow-bandwidth measurement of differential group delay (DGD) and the...

Investigations of Electrospray Sample Deposition for Polymer MALDI Mass Spectrometry

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

S D. Hanton, I Z. Hyder, J R. Stets, K G. Owens, William R. Blair, Charles M. Guttman, Anthony A. Giuseppetti

In the interest of more thoroughly understanding the relationship between sample preparation technique and spectra quality produced in Matrix-Assisted Laser...

Strength of Silicon Containing Nanoscale Flaws

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Antonia Pajares, Michael Chumakov, Brian R. Lawn

A study was made of the strength of highly polished silicon surfaces after nanoindentation with a Berkovich diamond. Strengths of the indented surfaces were...

Managing Polymer Surface Structure Using Surface Active Block Copolymers in Block Copolymer Mixtures

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

A Hexemer, E Sivaniah, E K. Kramer, M Xiang, X Li, Daniel A. Fischer, Christopher K. Ober

This report describes studies of surface coatings prepared from a semifluorinated monodendron surface-active block copolymer (SABC) used in combination with a...

Combinatorial Investigation of Ferromagnetic Shape-Memory Alloys in the Ni-Mn-Al Ternary System Using a Composition Spread Technique

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

O Famodu, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, M A. Aronova, K S. Chang, Makoto Murakami, M. Wuttig, T Okazaki, Yasubumi Furuya, L Knauss, Leonid A. Bendersky, Frank S. Biancaniello, Ichiro Takeuchi

Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Study of a LiNi_0.5Mn_0.5O₂ Cathode During Charge

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

W S. Yoon, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Xiao-Qing Yang, Ziwen Fu, Daniel A. Fischer, James McBreen

Soft X-ray (200 eV to 1000 eV) absorption spectroscopy (XAS) at the O K-edge and the metal L II, III-edges, in both the fluorescence yield (FY) and the partial...

Influence of Particle Oxide Coating on Light Scattering by Submicron Metal Particles on Silicon Wafers

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Jae H. Kim, S H. Ehrman, Thomas Germer

We report the effect that room temperature oxidation has on the scattering of 633 nm light by copper particles deposited on a silicon wafer. The results provide...

Near-Threshold Photoassociation of ⁸⁷Rb₂

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

M Kemmann, R Mistrik, S Nussmann, H Helm, Carl J. Williams, Paul S. Julienne

Photoassociation of cold 87Rb (5s, fb+2) atom pairs is studied within 15 GHz of the dissociation limits 87Rb(5p3/2, fa) + 87Rb(5s, fb =2). Vibrational levels in...

The Rotational Spectrum, Nuclear Field Shift Effects, ¹⁹⁵Pt Nuclear Spin-Rotation Constant, and Electric Dipole Moment of PtSi

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

S A. Cooke, M C. Gerry, D J. Brugh, R D. Suenram

The pure rotational spectrum of the X 1Σ + ground electronic state for 9 isotopomers of platimum monosilicide has been measured. For the most abundant...

A Proton-Coupled Dynamic Switch in the HIV-1 Dimerization Initiation Site Kissing Complex

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

M Mihailescu, John Marino

In human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the dimerization initiation site (DIS) is the sequence primarily responsible for initiating the non-covalent...

Information Depth for Elastic-Peak Electron Spectroscopy

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Aleksander Jablonski, Cedric J. Powell

We present a formalism for calculating the information depth (ID) for elastic-peak electron spectroscopy (EPES) in which a measurement is made of the intensity...

Ray Model of Light Scattering by Flake Pigments or Rough Surfaces With Smooth Transparent Coatings

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Egon Marx, Thomas Germer

We derive expressions for the intensity and polarization of light singly scattered by flake pigments or a rough surface beneath a smooth transparent coating...

Phase-locked, erbium-fiber-laser-based frequency comb in the near infrared

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Brian Washburn, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, C. G. Jorgensen, M. Yan, Scott Diddams, Nathan R. Newbury

A phase-locked frequency comb in the near-infrared is demonstrated with a mode-locked, Erbium-doped, fiber laser, whose output is amplified and spectrally...

PSPICE Analysis of a Scanning Capacitance Microscope Sensor

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Gyoung H. Buh, Chi Tran, Joseph Kopanski

On calculating scanning capacitance microscopy data for a dopant profile in semiconductors

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Jay F. Marchiando, Joseph Kopanski

While the calculating the dopant profile from SCM data (the inverse problem) can be formulated as a regularized nonlinear least-squares optimization problem...

Towards reproducible SCM Image Interpretation

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Joseph Kopanski, Jay F. Marchiando, Brian G. Rennex, David S. Simons, R P. Chaudhury

SCM images, and the two-dimensional (2-D) dopant profiles extracted from them, show poor reproducibility from laboratory to laboratory. Major factors...

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