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Journals

The Metallurgical Analysis of Wrought Iron from the RMS Titanic

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

J J. Hooper, Timothy J. Foecke, L Graham, Timothy P. Weihs

In this paper, traditional metallography combined with image analysis, mechanical testing, and micromechanical modeling are used to understand the variation in...

Structural Signatures of Varification in Hard Core Fluids

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

S K. Kumar, Jack F. Douglas, Francis W. Starr, S Garde

We investigate the capacities of local measures of free volume in liquids to predict basic aspects of the fluids state- the formation of a liquid from a gas...

Influence of Roughness on Wear Transition in Glass-Infiltrated Alumina

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

Sergei Kalinin, S Jahanmir

The wear behavior of glass-infiltrated alumina was evaluated in sliding against a high purity alumina in water using a pin on disk tribometer. Three disk...

Combinatorial Characterization of Cell Interactions with Polymer Surfaces

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

J C. Meredith, J L. Sormana, B G. Keselowsky, A J. Garcia, Alessandro Tona, Alamgir Karim, Eric J. Amis

The combinatorial library and high-throughput techniques presented here allow rapid, efficient, and accurate exploration of the effects of microstructure and...

Rho-Axis-Method Hamiltonian for Molecules Having One Methyl Rotor and C₁ Point-Group Symmetry at Equilibrium

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

I Kleiner, Jon T. Hougen

Two modifications of the rho-axis-method torsion-rotation Hamiltonian for fitting spectra of methyl top molecules belonging to the C-s point group at...

Simplified System for Creating a Bose-Einstein Condensate

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

H J. Lewandowski, D M. Harber, D Whitaker, Eric A. Cornell

We designed and constructed a simplified experimental system to create a Bose-Einstein condensate in 87Rb. Our system has several novel features including a...

Hard X-Ray Emission From Laser-Produced Plasmas of U and Pb Recorded by a Transmission Crystal Spectrometer

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

J Seely, R Doron, A Bar-Shalom, Lawrence T. Hudson, C Stoeckl

Hard X-ray spectra from laser-produced plasmas were recorded by a transmission crystal survey spectrometer covering the 12 keV to 60 keV energy range with a...

Radiolytic Reactions of Monochloramine in Aqueous Solutions

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

G A. Poskrebyshev, Robert E. Huie, Pedatsur Neta

Monochloramine reacts with hydrated electrons very rapidly, k(NH 2CI + e aq-) = (2.2 0.2) x 10 10 L mol -1, to produce oNH 2 radicals. It reacts with oOH...

Compact Solid-State Waveguide Lasers

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

Berton Callicoatt, John B. Schlager, Robert K. Hickernell, Richard Mirin, Norman Sanford

DBR and mode-locked Er/Yb waveguide lasers offer single-frequency and ultralow jitter performance.

Refractive Index Study of Al_xGa_1-xN Films Grown on Sapphire Substrates

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

Norman Sanford, Larry Robins, Albert Davydov, Alexander J. Shapiro, Denis V. Tsvetkov, Vladimir A. Dmitriev, Stacia Keller, Umesh Mishra, Steven P. DenBaars

A prism coupling method was used to measure the ordinary (italic}n o) and extraordinary (italic}n e) refractive indices of Al xGa 1-xN films, grown by hydride...

Expanding Definitions of Gain by Taking Harmonic Content into Account

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

Jeffrey Jargon, Kuldip Gupta, Alessandro Cidronali, Donald C. DeGroot

We expand the definitions of power gain, transducer gain, and available gain by taking harmonic content into account. Furthermore, we show that under special...

Thermal transport in stacked superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junctions

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

Yonuk Chong, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz

Nb/MoSi 2/Nb superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) stacked Josephson junctions have proven to be a good candidate for high-density series arrays for...

Interdiffusion in Polystyrene and End-Functional Polystyrene Thin Films Near a Solid Surface

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

C M. Wang, Vivek Prabhu, Christopher Soles, B D. Vogt, Wen-Li Wu, Eric K. Lin, Sushil K. Satija

Polymer interdiffusion near the polymer/solid interface is studied using neutron reflectometry. Bilayers of hydrogenated polystyrene (hPS) and deuterated...

A1-L1₀ Phase Boundaries and Anisotropy Via Multiple-Order-Parameter Theory for an FCC Alloy

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

G B. Tanoglu, Richard J. Braun, John W. Cahn, Geoffrey B. McFadden

The dependence of thermodynamic properties of planar interphase boundaries (IPBs) and antiphase boundaries (APBs) in a binary alloy on an FCC lattice is studied...

High-Throughput Measurements of Polymer Adhesion and Mechanical Properties

September 1, 2003

Author(s)

Christopher Stafford, Aaron M. Forster, C Harrison, Cher H. Davis, Eric J. Amis, Alamgir Karim

Polymer adhesion is important to numerous technologies including electronic packaging, coatings and paints, biomedical implants, and pressure-sensitive...

Machining Cracks Revealed by Fractography

August 28, 2003

Author(s)

George D. Quinn, L K. Ives, S Jahanmir

Fractography detected and characterized the nature and size of strength limiting rods and bars in a sintered reaction bonder silicon nitride that was ground by...

Rare-Earth Glass Reference Materials for Near-Infrared Spectrometry: Sources of X-Axis Location Variability

August 25, 2003

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Steven J. Choquette, L O'Neal, James J. Filliben

Moving Object Prediction for Off-Road Autonomous Navigation

August 25, 2003

Author(s)

Rajmohan Madhavan, Craig I. Schlenoff

The realization of on- and o.-road autonomous navigation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) requiresreal-time motion planning in the presence of dynamic objects...

UV Graft Polymerization of Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Plugs in Microfluidic Channels

August 19, 2003

Author(s)

Rebecca A. Zangmeister, Michael J. Tarlov

It has been previously demonstrated that DNA, modified on the 5' end with an acrylamide functionality, can be incorporated into a polyacrylamide hydrogel matrix...

Factors Influencing the Capacitance-voltage Characteristics Measured by the Scanning Capacitance Microscope

August 15, 2003

Author(s)

Gyoung H. Buh, Joseph Kopanski, Jay F. Marchiando, Anthony G. Birdwell, Young Kuk

A scanning capacitance microscope (SCM) can measure the local capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics of a metal-oxide-semiconductor structure formed by the...

Analysis of Anelastic Dislocation Effects in the Presence of an Unknown Background

August 12, 2003

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson

The general problem of analyzin- acoustic measurements of dislocation anelasticity in the presence of unknown background contributions is addressed for...

Hair Combing to Collect Organic Gunshot Residues (OGSR)

August 12, 2003

Author(s)

William A. MacCrehan, M J. Layman, J D. Secl

Erratum: Modeling Detector Response for Neutron Depth Profiling

August 10, 2003

Author(s)

Kevin Coakley, R. G. Downing, George P. Lamaze, H C. Hofsass, C Ronning, J Biegel

In a previous paper, we analyzed the Neutron Depth Profiling energy spectrum collected from a diamond-like carbon (DLC) sample doped with boron. Based on a...

Seedless Superfill: Copper Electrodeposition in Trenches with Ruthenium Barriers

August 4, 2003

Author(s)

Daniel Josell, Daniel Wheeler, C Witt, Thomas P. Moffat

Superconformal filling of fine trenches during electrodeposition of copper is described. Copper electrodeposition was accomplished durectly on a ruthenium layer...

Understanding Fire and Smoke Flow Through Modeling and Visualization

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Kevin B. McGrattan, L M. Sheppard

Structural fires cost the American economy more than $100 billion annually in property damage, maintaining fire departments and insurance. A price cannot be put...

Purely-Long-Range Bound States of He (2s³S) + He(2p³P)

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

V Venturi, P J. Leo, Eite Tiesinga, Carl J. Williams, I B. Whittingham

We predict the presence and positions of purely-long-range bound states of 4He (2s3S) + 4He (2p3P) near the2s3S1 + 2p3P0, 1 atomic limits. The results of the...

Ab Initio Calculation of the KRb Dipole Moments

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Svetlana A. Kotochigova, Paul S. Julienne, Eite Tiesinga

The relativistic configuration interaction valence bond method has been used to calculate permanent and transition electric dipole moments of the KRb...

X-Ray Topography of Microgravity-Grown Ribonuclease S Crystals

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

David T. Gallagher, C Stover, D Charlton, L Arnowitz, David R. Black

Crystals of the enzyme RNase S were grown at micro and unit gravity using a dialysis-based dynamically controlled device. Crystals were grown at 24 C on space...

Thermodynamics of the oxidation-reduction reaction {2 glutathione(red)(aq)+NADP (ox)(aq)=glutathione(ox)(aq) + NADP(red)(aq)}

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Yadu D. Tewari, Robert N. Goldberg

Microcalorimetry, spectrophotometry, and high-performance liquid chromatography (h.p.l.c.) have been used to conduct a thermodynamic investigation of the...

Renewable Standard Reference Materials for the Detection of TP53 Mutations

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

C D. O'Connell, L A. Tully, J M. Devaney, M Marino, J P. Jakupciak, Donald H. Atha

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