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Journals

Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility SURF III

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Uwe Arp, Charles W. Clark, Alex P. Farrell, E Fein, Mitchell L. Furst, Edward W. Hagley

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has operated the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF) continuously since the early 1960s...

An Experimental Study of High Weber Number Impact of Methoxy-Nonafluorobutane C₄F₉OCH₃ (HFE-7100) and n-Heptane Droplets on a Heated Solid Surface

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Jiann C. Yang

An experimental study is presented for methoxy-nonafluorobutane (C 4F 9OCH 3, HFE-7100) droplet impingement on a heated stainless steel surface. The impaction...

From structure to function: YrbI from Haemophilus influenzae (HI1679) is a phosphatase

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

J F. Parsons, Kap Lim, A Tempczyk, W Krajewski, Edward Eisenstein, O Herzberg

Characterization of UV Detectors at SURF III (invited)

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Ping-Shine Shaw, Thomas C. Larason, R Gupta, Keith R. Lykke

The Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF III) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a unique research opportunity in...

Service Life Prediction Based on Sorptivity for Highway Concrete Exposed to Sulfate Attack and Freeze-Thaw Conditions

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, M A. Ehlen, Chiara F. Ferraris, John A. Winpigler

This user's guide describes the set of screens and an example analysis for CONCLIFE, user-friendly software for estimating the service life of concrete...

Promoting Quality in Laboratory Testing

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

J H. Pielert

The Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) provides laboratory inspection and proficiency sample programs that are used to evaluate testing laboratory...

Low-distortion Waveform Synthesis with Josephson Junction Arrays

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Samuel P. Benz, F L. Walls, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Charles J. Burroughs

On the Asymptotic Distribution of Sums of Independent Nonidentically Distributed Pareto Variates

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Robert C. Hagwood

The sum of independent Pareto random variables with varying parameters are shown to converge to a stable distribution. This extends a result of Blum for i.i.d...

Observations of Room Temperature Creep Recovery in Titanium Alloys

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

M Savage, T Neeraj, M J. Mills

Conventional α (hcp) and α (hcp)/Β (bcc) titanium alloys exhibit significant primary creep strains at room temperature and at stresses well below their...

Effective Pinhole-Collimated Ultra-Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Instrument for Measuring Anisotropic Microstructures

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

J Ilavsky, Andrew J. Allen, Gabrielle G. Long, P Jemain

Small-angle scattering is widely used for measuring materials microstructure in the 1 nm to 100 nm size range. Ultra-small-angle x-ray scattering (USAXS)...

Parallel Calculation of Electron Multiple Scattering Using Lanczos Algorithms

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Charles E. Bouldin, A L. Ankudinov, J J. Rehr, James S. Sims, Howard Hung

Real space multiple scattering calculations of the elctronic density of states and x-ray spectra in solids typically scale as the cube of the system and basis...

Determination of Closed Pore Content in Nanoporous Films by SANS Contrast Match

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

R C. Hedden, Barry J. Bauer, Hae-Jeong Lee, Wen-Li Wu

Much of the recent developmental efforts in low-k dielectrics involve production of nanoporous thin films. By using synthetic technicques that leave nanometer...

Singular Current Density in the Planar Superconductor/Normal Metal/Superconductor Junction

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

R D. Spal

Interfacial resistivity (p) is crucial in limiting the maximum current density (J n max) in certain superconductor/metal junctions: as p decreases, J n max...

Focusing Multilayer Mirror Detection System for Carbon K Edge Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Daniel A. Fischer, S Sambasivan, A Kuperman, Y Platonov, J L. Wood

Fluorescence yield carbon K edge soft x-ray absorption measurements of mixed element samples are impeded by background scattered x-rays and fluorescence from...

Creep of Lanthanum Gallate

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

William E. Luecke, T R. Armstrong

Strontium- and magnesium-doped lanthanum gallate (LSGM) was deliberately prepared to give A-site deficient non-stoichiometry with compositions (La 0.9Sr 0.1)z...

Silica- and Zirconia-Hybridized Amorphous Calcium Phosphate: Effect on Transformation to Hydroxyapatite

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Drago Skrtic, Joseph M. Antonucci, E D. Eanes, R T. Brunworth

The goal of this study was to determine the effect that silica- and zirconia have on the stability of bioactive amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) mineral, I.e...

Quantum Encounters of the Cold Kind

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

K Burnett, Paul S. Julienne, Paul D. Lett, Eite Tiesinga, Carl J. Williams

Ultra cold atomic collisions have a broad impact in experimental and theoretical atomic physics. These encounters occur in a domain where the quantum mechanical...

Spontaneous Emission in Microcavity Electrodynamics

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

A Rahmani, Garnett W. Bryant

We present a general, semimicroscopic, self-consistent treatment of spontaneous emission for a two-level atom in a dielectric microcavity with arbitrary shape...

The Spectroscopy of Molecular Reaction Intermediates Trapped in the Solid Rare Gases

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Marilyn E. Jacox

The trapping of neutral and electrically charged molecular reaction intermediates in the solid rare gases and the characterization of these intermediates by...

Local-Field Correction for an Interstitial Impurity in Crystal

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

A Rahmani, P C. Chaumet, G C. Bryant

The local-field correction experienced by an interstitial impurity in a crystal with cubic symmetry is derived by use of a rigorous, self-sonsistent, semi...

Nonlinear and Quantum Atom Optics

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips

Coherent matter waves in the form of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have led to the development of non-linear and quantum atom optics, the deBroglie-wave...

In Situ Raman Spectroscopic Investigation of Nickel Hydrothermal Corrosion

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

James E. Maslar, Wilbur S. Hurst, Walter J. Bowers Jr., Jay H. Hendricks, M I. Aquino

A nickel coupon was exposed to air-saturated water at a pressure of 25.4 MPa and temperatures ranging from 21 C to 460 C in an optically accessible flow cell...

The Enthalpy of Fusion of Gallium

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Donald G. Archer

Electron Effective Attenuation Lengths for Applications in Auger-Electron Spectroscopy and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, Aleksander Jablonski

The electron effective attenuation length (EAL) can be defined for the measurement of overlayer film thicknesses (the most common application) and for the...

NIST Response to the NCSL International's 2000 U.S. National Measurement Requirements Committee (NMRC) Report

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris, Richard F. Kayser

NIST needs and appreciates the kind of effort that has gone into the U.S. National Measurement Requirements Committee (NMRC) Report. We need input regarding U.S...

A Wavelet-Based Watermarking Algorithm for Ownership Verification of Digital Images

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

R E. Van Dyck, J F. Doherty, Y Wang

In recent years, access to multimedia data has become much easier due to the rapid growth of the Internet. While this is usually considered an improvement of...

Knowledge-Based Automation of a Design Method for Concurrent Systems

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Kevin L. Mills, H Gomaa

This paper describes a knowledge-based approach to automate a software design method for concurrent and real-time systems. The approach uses multiple paradigms...

Stability of Bisphenol A, Triethylene-Glycol Dimethacrylate, and Bisphenol A Dimethacryate in Whole Saliva

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

J C. Atkinson, F Diamond, F Eichmiller, R Selwitz, Gordon L. Jones

Objectives: This study investigated the stability of compounds of dental sealant materials in a salivary matrix.Methods: Various amounts of bisphenol A (BPA)...

Improved Interfaces and Magnetic Properties in Spin Valves Using Ni80Fe20 Seed Layers

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

E J. Repetski, D X. Yang, H D. Chopra, P J. Chen, William F. Egelhoff Jr.

The giant magnetoresistance (GMR) NiFeO-Co-Cu based top spin valves were studied with and without NiFe as a seed layer. Microstructure examination shows that...

Surface Structure and Orientation of PTFE Films Determined by Experimental and FEFF8-Calculated NEXAFS Spectra

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

L Gamble, Bruce Ravel, Daniel A. Fischer, David G. Castner

Near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) experiments have provided information about the orientation of adsorbed small molecules, self-assembled...

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