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Journals

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...

Semiconductor Nanocrystal Probes for Human Metaphase Chromosomes

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Yan Xiao, Peter E. Barker

Novel inorganic fluorophores called semiconductor nanocrystals have recently been incorporated into protein, antibody and microbead oligonucleotide detection...

Continuous-Wave Terahertz Spectroscopy of Biotin: Vibrational Anharmonicity in the Far-Infrared

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Timothy M. Korter, David F. Plusquellic

Continuous-wave linear-absorption spectroscopy based on terahertz radiation generated by solid-state photomixers has been applied to the investigation of the...

Bias conditions of dc-SQUIDs for a time-domain SQUID multiplexer

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

Joern Beyer, Dietmar Drunge, Kent D. Irwin

SQUID multiplexers can be used to read out arrays of cryogenic microcalorimeters and bolometers. Time-domain dc-SQUID multiplexer configurations use an...

Binding of Lithium and Boron to Human Plasma Proteins II: Results for a Bipolar Not on Lithium Therapy

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

W B. Clarke, R Guscott, Richard M. Lindstrom

We report further measurements of lithium and boron bound to human plasma proteins using the techniques of gel chromatography, thermal-neutron activation, and...

Heterogeneous Molecular Distribution in Supported Multicomponent Lipid Bilayers

February 1, 2004

Author(s)

F Tokumasu, Jeeseong C. Hwang, J A. Dvorak

Membrane domains

Production of Macromolecular Chloramines by Chlorine-Transfer Reactions

January 31, 2004

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, William A. MacCrehan, G. R. Helz

Applications of Sinkhorn Balancing: The Monomer-Dimer Problem

January 30, 2004

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl, Francis Sullivan

We describe a general Monte Carlo technique based on work of Knuth for estimating the size of trees in backtrack algorithms. This method, based on importance...

High-Throughput Y-STR Typing of U.S. Populations With 27 Regions of the Y Chromosome Using Two Multiplex PCR Assays

January 28, 2004

Author(s)

R Schoske, Peter M. Vallone, Margaret C. Kline, Janette W. Redman, John M. Butler

Two Y-chromosome short tandem repeat (STR) multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays were used to generate haplotypes for 19 single copy and 3 multi-copy...

Response to Comment on Reevaluation of Air-Water Exchange Fluxes of PCBs in Green Bay and Southern Lake Michigan

January 27, 2004

Author(s)

J E. Baker, H. A. Bamford, Robert E. Huie, Dianne L. Poster

Progress in the Development of Combustion Databases for Liquid Fuels

January 21, 2004

Author(s)

Wing Tsang

This paper describes the present situation regarding chemical kinetic databases for the simulation of the combustion of liquid fuels. Past work in the area is...

Molecular Modeling of Clays and Mineral Surfaces [Book Review]

January 21, 2004

Author(s)

Eric J. Cockayne

Molecular Modeling of Clays and Mineral Surface for REVIEW

Practical electron-tunneling refrigerator

January 21, 2004

Author(s)

Anna Clark, Anthony Williams, Steve Ruggiero, Marcel L. van den Berg, Joel N. Ullom

We demonstrate a thin-film, solid-state refrigerator based on the removal of hot electrons from a metal by quantum-mechanical tunneling. We have halved the...

Parallel Evolutionary Pathways for Glutathione Transferases: Structure and Mechanism of the Mitochondrial Class Κ Enzyme rGSTK1-1

January 20, 2004

Author(s)

Jane E. Ladner, J F. Parsons, C L. Rife, G L. Gilliland, R N. Armstrong

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