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Many biochemical reactions in nature involve a stream of chemical reactants (ligand molecules) flowing over a surface to which other reactants (receptors) are confined. Scientists measure rate constants associated with these reactions in an optical
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Veruska D. Malave, Jason Killgore, Edward Garboczi, John Berger
Indentation-based studies of inhomogeneous structural materials depend on indenting a surface by loading with a small indenter. The load versus displacement results are used to infer the local mechanical properties of the surface under the indenter tip
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Sokwoo Rhee, Christine Kendrick, Abhishek Dubey, Joshua Tan
We develop a diagrammatic tool for constructing correlations between random variables, called an abstract indicator framework. Abstract indicator frameworks are modeled off operational (key performance) indicator frameworks as they are used in city
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Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou, Mark-Alexander Henn, Martin Sohn, Richard M. Silver
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Optical 3-D nanostructure metrology utilizes a model-based metrology approach to determine critical dimensions (CDs) that are well below the inspection wavelength. Our project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is evaluating how to
Ryan Denlinger, Leslie Greengard, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Vladimir Rokhlin
We present a fast summation method for lattice sums of the type which arise when solving wave scattering problems with periodic boundary conditions. While there are a variety of effective algorithms in the literature for such calculations, the approach
Despite more than 40 years of active research in computational condensed-matter physics, state-of-the-art approaches for simulating radial distribution functions (RDFs) g(r) still rely on binning pair-separations into a histogram. Such representations
Sean A. Colbert-Kelly, Geoffrey B. McFadden, Daniel Phillips, Jie Shen
In this paper, a numerical scheme for a generalized planar Ginzburg-Landau energy in a circular geometry is studied. A spectral-Galerkin method is utilized, and a stability analysis and an error estimate for the scheme are presented. It is shown that the