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Takeshi Nishimatsu, U Waghmare, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Benjamin P. Burton, Kazutaka Nagao, N. Saito
We report a simple safe and attractive pedagogic demonstration with magnetic compasses that facilitates an intuitive understanding of the concept that ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity do not result from dipole-dipole interactions alone. Phonon
All-ceramic crowns, including glass-infiltrated alumina and spinel composites, are coming into widespread use because of their superior aesthetics and chemical inertness. This study investigates the residual stresses that are developed in these composites
I P. Raevski, S A. Prosandeev, S A. Bogatin, M A. Malitskaya
Afe l/2B 1/20 3 (A- Ba, Sr, Ca; B-Nb, Ta, Sb) ceramics were synthesized and temperature dependencies of the dielectric permittivity were measured at different frequencies. The experimental data obtained show very high values of the dielectric permittivity
Quantitative homological metrics are proposed for characterizing the thermal-elastic response of calcite-based polycrystals. The characterization is based on topological measurements, such as the number of components and the number of handles of a complex
To investigate the possibility of cavity formation in silica glass during subcritical crack growth, the topography of fracture surfaces formed in water at a crack velocity of 8.10-11 m/s was mapped using an atomic force microscope. The objective of the
F S. Aguirre-Tostado, A Herrera-Gomez, Joseph Woicik, R Droopad, Z Yu, D G. Schlom, E Karapetrova, P Pianetta, C S. Hellberg
The driving force of the semiconductor industry to integrate thin transition-metal oxides with Si transistor technology has led to the development of SrTiO3 thin-film growth on Si(001). As SrTiO3 represents a large class of oxides with the perovskite
J A. Gupta, Joseph Woicik, S P. Watkins, D A. Harrison, E D. Crozier, B A. Karlin
Using the In-L fluorescence produced by normal-incidence X-ray standing waves, we have measured the layer perfection and positions for ML = 1 and 1/2 (where ML = # of mono layers) InAs quantum wells buried in GaAs(001). Growth temperature effects were
In recent years there has been a strong interest in the processing of nanosize ceramic powders because of the potential of sintering them at low temperatures and also because ceramic pieces made of nanosize gram structures may exhibit superior mechanical
William J. Price, C. Leighton, Stephen M. Hsu, Timothy Patten, Gang-Yu Liu
The question of whether the Young s modulus of organic thin films depends on the size of the materials at the nanometer scale is systematically investigated. Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) based imaging and lithography, nanostructures with designed
Films of -Al2O3, 4:m to 6:m thick, have been coated onto inconel using the continuous-dip coating technique. The as-deposited films on an Inconel 600 substrate are amorphous and exhibit a thermal diffusivity of (0.0033 0.0004) cm2@s-1, a value comparable
J Jacobs, Winnie Wong-Ng, Gale A. Holmes, Richard F. Kayser
NEW:Update 2005, the 20th annual workshops for science and technology educators with the theme, NANO/BIOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, was hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology/Materials Science and
Robert A. Bubeck, P Dvornic, J Hu, A Hexemer, X Li, S E. Keinath, Daniel A. Fischer
The interaction of Cu2+ with C, N and O moieties in poly(amidoamine-organosilicon) (PAMAMOS/DMOMS) dendrimer networks was characterized at room temperature using near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS). In particular, the effects on the 1s * and
K Seal, A K. Sarychev, H Noh, D A. Genov, A Yamilov, Vladimir Shalaev, Z C. Ying, H Cao
Spatial intensity correlation functions are obtained from near-field scanning optical microscope measurements of semicontinuous metal-dielectric films. The concentration of metal particles on a dielectric surface is varied over a wide range to control the