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Journals

Direct Measurement of Plowing Friction and Wear of a Polymer Thin Film Using the Atomic Force Microscope

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

B -. Du, Mark R. VanLandingham, Q Zhang, T -. He

Nanometer-scale plowing friction and wear of a polycarbonate thin film were directly measured using an atomic force microscope (AFM) with nanoscratching...

Measurements and Predictions of Light Scattering by Clear Coatings

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

M E. McKnight, Theodore V. Vorburger, Egon Marx, Maria E. Nadal, P Y. Barnes, Michael A. Galler

Comparisons are made between calculations and measured angle-resolved light scattering distributions from clear dielectric isotropic epoxy coatings over a range...

Reference Values of the Dielectric Constant of Natural Gas Components Determined with a Cross Capacitor

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Michael R. Moldover, T J. Buckley

We used a novel toroidal cross capacitor to measure accurately the dielectric polarizability e(p) (i.e., the dielectric constant) of helium, argon, nitrogen...

The certification of SRM 1546 Meat Homogenate, a new reference material for nutrients in a high protein, high fat matrix

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Michael J. Welch, Jennifer C. Colbert, L. M. Gill, C. S. Phinney, Katherine E. Sharpless, Lorna T. Sniegoski, Laura J. Wood

Integrated Plastic Microfluidic Devices with ESI-MS for Drug Screening and Residue Analysis

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Y. Jiang, P-C. Wang, Laurie E. Locascio, C S. Lee

Reliability Theory for Receptor-Ligand Bond Dissociation

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

D.F. J. Tees, John T. Woodward IV, D. A. Hammer

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Celebrates its Centennial

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Robert N. Goldberg, D R. Lide

The New Ultraviolet Spectral Responsivity Scale Based on Cryogenic Radiometry at Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility III

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Ping-Shine Shaw, Thomas C. Larason, R Gupta, Steven W. Brown, Robert E. Vest, Keith R. Lykke

The recently completed upgrade of the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF III) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has...

Expanding BACnet's Horizons

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Steven T. Bushby

The International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition that accompanied the 2001 ASHRAE Winter meeting in Atlanta included the largest...

Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Carbon FRP

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Dat Duthinh, M A. Starnes

Seven concrete beams reinforced internally with steel and externally with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) laminate applied after the concrete had cracked...

Visualization of Grit Interaction During the Ductile to Brittle Polishing Transition

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Richard B. Mindek, Christopher J. Evans, Eric P. Whitenton

Dual strobe and single strobe once per revolution imaging techniques are employed on the Rapidly Renewable Lap (RRL) to study the ductile to brittle transition...

Evaluating optical materials,

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Charles S. Tarrio, Thomas B. Lucatorto

Radioactive Particle Analysis by Digital Autoradiography

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Cynthia J. Zeissler, Richard M. Lindstrom, J P. McKinley

We have been exploring ways to evaluate the activity of radioactive particles that have been detected by phosphor plate digital autoradiography based on...

Temperature Variation of Magnetic Aftereffect

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Lawrence H. Bennett

celerated testing of recording media to try to determine their life expectancy is one of the accepted tests that are currently utilized. The technique applied a...

SMPTE Declarative Data Essence: Comparison to ATSC DASE

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

John Barkley, M A. Dolan, M Koo, Andrew McCaffrey, Leonard E. Gebase, Murugiah P. Souppaya

The Declarative Data Essence (DDE) Ad-hoc Group of the D27 Technical Committee of the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers [SMPTE] is developing...

Comparison of Friction Measurements Using the Atomic Force Microscope and the Surface Forces Apparatus: The Issue of Scale

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

P M. McGuiggan, J Zhang, Stephen M. Hsu

Results are presented of lateral force measurements using the atomic force microscope (AFM) and the Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA). Two different probes are...

Analysis of Stresses in Aluminum-Silicon Alloys

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

A Saigal, Lin-Sien H. Lum

Two-phase aluminum-silicon-based alloys are widely used for premium quality castings for aerospace and automotive applications. While it is clear that silicon...

Greens Functions for Boundary Element Analysis of Anisotropic Bimaterials

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

J R. Berger, Vinod K. Tewary

We present several region-dependent Green's functions for anisotropic bimaterials in two-dimensional elasticity and steady-state heat transfer problems. The...

Effective Medium Theory of the Porosity Dependence of Bulk Moduli

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

R G. Munro

Effective medium theory is used to obtain a closed form expression for the porosity dependence of the bulk moduli of ceramics. The theory is illustrated with an...

Contact-Induced Damage in Ceramic Coatings on Compliant Substrates: Fracture Mechanics and Design

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Y W. Rhee, H W. Kim, Y N. Deng, Brian R. Lawn

Simple explicit relations are presented for the onset of competing fracture modes in ceramic coatings on compliant substrates from Hertzian-like contacts...

Surface Oxidation as a Diffusion Barrier for Al Deposited on Ferromagnetic Metals

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

William F. Egelhoff Jr., P J. Chen, Robert D. McMichael, Cedric J. Powell, R Deslattes, F G. Serpa, Romel Gomez

We have used Grazing Incidence X-ray Reflectometry (GIXR) to study surface oxidation as a diffusion barrier for Al deposited on ferromagnetic metals (Co, Fe, Ni...

Sharp Interface Limit of a Phase-Field Model of Crystal Grains

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

A E. Lobkovsky, James A. Warren

We analyze a two-dimensional phase field model designed to describe the dynamics of crystalline grains. The phenomenological free energy is a function of a...

Evaluating Optical Materials

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Charles S. Tarrio, Thomas B. Lucatorto

curately quantifying optical constants is key to fabricating successful multiplayer film components

Orientation Imaging and Reorientation Dynamics of Single Dye Molecules

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

K D. Weston, Lori S. Goldner

Polarization modulation is used with confocal microscopy to measure the absorption dipole orientation and reorientation dynamics of individual dye molecules...

Accurate Lifetimes and Absolute Transition Rates for Ultraviolet Transitions From 3d⁵ (⁴G) 4p and 3d⁵ (⁴P) 4p levels in Mn II

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

R Kling, R Schnabel, Ulf Griesmann

A novel laser-induced fluorescence technique was used to measure lifetimes of 14 3d5 (4G) 4p and 3d5(4P) 4p levels in the Mn+ ion. Branching fractions for...

The Atom Laser

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

S L. Rolston

This paper reviews the principles of atom laser action using Bose-Einstein condensed gases as sources of coherent matter waves.

Torsional Splittings in Small-Amplitude Vibrational Fundamental States of Methanol-Type Molecules

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Jon T. Hougen

Group-theoretical methods are used to show that inverted torsional splittings in fundamental levels of small-amplitude vibrations of methanol-like molecules can...

Evanescent Wave Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy: A Future Technology for Process Sensing

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

A C. Pipino, Joseph T. Hodges

Evanescent wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy (EW-CRDS) is described. The total internal reflection (TIR)-ring and monolithic folded cavity designs are briefly...

Reliable Solubility Data in the Age of Computerized Chemistry: Why, How and When?

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

J R. Rumble, Angela Y. Lee, D M. Blakeslee, S L. Young

Since 1979, International Union of Pure and Chemistry (IIUPAC) Commission V.8 on Solubility Data has published over 70 compilations of evaluated data on the...

Electromagnetic Shielding Characteristics of Optical Fiber Feedthroughs

May 1, 2001

Author(s)

Keith D. Masterson, David R. Novotny, Galen H. Koepke

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