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Richard E. Cavicchi, R M. Walton, M I. Aquino-Class, J D. Allen, B. Panchapakesan
A colloidal suspension of tin oxide nanoparticles is used to prepare a highly sensitive gas sensing film on a microhotplate. Fabrication consists of spin-coating the solution over an array of micromachined hotplates and annealing. A thermolithographic
F Louis, Thomas C. Allison, Carlos A. Gonzalez, J P. Sawerysyn
Theoretical calculations were carried out on the H-atom abstraction reaction from methane by XO (X = F, Cl or Br) radicals attack. Geometry optimizations and vibrational frequency calculations were performed using three methods: Moller-Plesset second-order
Residual dipolar couplings can provide powerful restraints for determination and refinement of the solution structure of macromolecules. The application of these couplings in nucleic acid structure elucidation can have an especially dramatic impact since
In November 2000, NIST hosted a workshop on Measurement Traceability for Clinical Laboratory Testing and In Vitro Diagnostic Devices. One of the driving forces was the new European Community (EC) In Vitro Diagnostic Devices (IVDD) directive that requires
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 photostimulated luminescence (PSL). A PSL system with 25υ pixel digitization has been applied to
We used a novel toroidal cross capacitor to measure accurately the dielectric polarizability e(p) (i.e., the dielectric constant) of helium, argon, nitrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide at T = 50 degrees C. The data extend up to 7 MPa (5 MPa for CO 2) and
The presence of non-ideal flow profiles is known to cause significant metering inaccuracies in conventional pipelines. The characteristics of secondary flows are also important for mixer design where flow non-ideality is highly desired. Advances in
E Fuoco, J Greg Gillen, M Wijesundara, William E. Wallace, L Hanley
In this paper examine the mechanism of secondary ion yield enhancements previously observed for polyatomic projectiles by measuring the weight loss, volume loss, and surface composition of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) films sputtered by keV SF 5 + and
A Mathematica package BioEqCalc.m has been developed for treating complex equilibria in aqueous solutions. The package is geared towards the treatment of biochemical systems and as such yields information on the molalities and mole fractions of the species
Among the most important, conservative geochemical tracers are the long-lived isotopes of krypton, 81Kr and 85Kr. Following a very brief review of the metrology and applications of these two radionuclides, we focus on the low-level measurement the 10.8
To eliminate measurement-base trade barriers to international commerce, Key Comparisons (KCS) are now being planned in the newly formed Working Group for Fluid Flow (WGFF) in the CIPM to quantify the equivalency of the flow standards maintained in the
John G. Gillen, R L. King, B Freibaum, R Lareau, J Bennett, F Chmara
The use of a cluster (or polyatomic) primary ion projectile for organic SIMS has been demonstrated to increase the yield of characteristic molecular secondary ions, more efficiently desorb higher molecular weight species and reduce the accumulation of
It is now customary for the effects of elastic-electron scattering to be ignored in measurements of the thicknesses of overlayer films by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). It is known, however, that elastic scattering can cause the effective
The history and technical highlights leading up to and following the publication of a classic NIST publication on the theory and experiments involving optical-laser induced desorption of adsorbed NO from metal surfaces is presented.
Cedric J. Powell, Aleksander Jablonski, A Naumkin, A Kraut-Vass, Joseph M. Conny, J R. Rumble
A description is given of data resources that are available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Auger-electron spectroscopy. NIST currently has three databases available: an XPS