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How to Build a Vacuum Spring-Transport Package for Spinning Rotor Gauges

April 7, 2016
Author(s)
James A. Fedchak, Julia K. Scherschligt, Makfir Sefa
The spinning rotor gauge (SRG) is a high-vacuum gauge often used to as a secondary or transfer standard for vacuum pressures in the range of 1.0 × 10-4 Pa to 1.0 Pa. In this application, the gauges are frequently transported to laboratories for calibration

Quantification of carbon nanotubes in environmental matrices: Current capabilities, case studies, and future improvements

April 6, 2016
Author(s)
Elijah J. Petersen, D. X. Flores-Cervantes, Thomas Bucheli, Lindsay C. Elliott, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Alexander Gogos, Shannon Hanna, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Desiree L. Plata, Vytautas Reipa, Paul Westerhoff, Michael R. Winchester, Elisabeth Mansfield
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have numerous exciting potential applications approaching commercialization. As such, quantitative measurements of CNTs in key environmental matrices (water, soil, sediment, and biological tissues) are needed to address concerns

Reclamation-NIST Exploratory Research Symposium Summary Report

April 6, 2016
Author(s)
Nicholas Barbosa, Jessica Torrey
The Reclamation-NIST Exploratory Research Symposium was held on August 4-5, 2015, at the Reclamation Denver Federal Center facility in Lakewood, CO, and the NIST facility in Boulder, CO. Staff from the Bureau of Reclamation and the National Institute of

Transition to Low-GWP Refrigerants: Options and Tradeoffs

April 6, 2016
Author(s)
Piotr A. Domanski
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are commonly used as refrigerants in air-conditioning equipment, are potent greenhouse gases and will need to be replaced. In search of suitable replacements, a recent study performed a comprehensive screening of a database

INTERLABORATORY TRIAL FOR MEASUREMENT OF VITAMIN D AND 25(OH)D IN FOODS AND A DIETARY SUPPLEMENT USING LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY

April 5, 2016
Author(s)
Janet M. Roseland, Kristine Y. Patterson, Karen Andrews, Katherine M. Phillips, Melissa M. Phillips, Pamela R. Pehrsson, Guy L. Dufresne, Pavel A. Gusev, Sushma Savarala, Quynhanh V. Nguyen, Andrew J. Makowski, Guillaume P. Larouche, Stephen Wise, J. Harnly, Juhi R. Williams, Joseph M. Betz, Christine Taylor
Assessment of total vitamin D intake from foods and dietary supplements (DSs) may be incomplete if 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] intake is not included. However, 25(OH)D data for such intake assessments are lacking, no food or DS reference materials (RMs)

Self-Assembly of Trimer Colloids: Effect of shape and interaction range

April 5, 2016
Author(s)
Harold W. Hatch, Seung Y. Yang, Jeetain Mittal, Vincent K. Shen
Trimers with one attractive bead and two repulsive beads, similar to recently synthesized trimer patchy colloids, were simulated with flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods to obtain the stable self-assembled structures for different shapes and interaction

A Study on Reducing the Diurnal in the Europe-to-Europe TWSTFT Links.

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker, Shengkang Zhang
Most of the Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT or TW) links exhibit a daily variation (diurnal) on the order of 1 ns in the differences. The stability of TW is degraded by the diurnal. Many studies on the sources of diurnal have been

A trade-off between the mechanical strength and microwave electrical properties of functionalized and irradiated carbon nanotube sheets

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Tiffany S. Williams, Nate Orloff, James S. Baker, Sandi G. Miller, Bharath N. Natarajan, Jan Obrzut, Linda S. McCorkle, Marisabel Lebron-Colon, James Gaier, Michael A. Meador, James Alexander Liddle
Carbon nanotube sheets are novel implementation of carbon nanotubes that enable the tailoring of electrical and mechanical properties for applications in the automotive and aerospace industries. Small molecule functionalization and/or post-processing

Cross-spectral Collapse from Anti-correlated Thermal Noise in Power Splitters

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Craig Nelson, Archita Hati, David A. Howe
We discuss the cross-spectral collapse due to anti-correlated thermal noise that originates from the common-mode power divider (splitter) in a cross-spectrum noise measurement system. We studied this effect for different power splitters and discuss its

Enabling Quantitative Optical Imaging for In-die-capable Critical Dimension Targets

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Bryan M. Barnes, Mark Alexander Henn, Martin Y. Sohn, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver
Dimensional scaling trends will eventually bring the semiconductor critical dimensions (CDs) down to only a few atoms in width. New optical techniques are required to address intra-die variability for these CDs using sufficiently small in-die metrology

Extended Source Interferometry in the Compact Regime

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Bruno M. Pelle, Gregory W. Hoth, Stefan Riedl, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley
We present an atom interferometer based on an expanding cloud of laser-cooled atoms sensitive to rotations along two axes and acceleration along one axis in an effective volume of 1 cm3. We observed spatially resolved fringes by imaging the expanding cloud

Inhibitors of DNA glycosylases as potential therapeutic drugs in cancer

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Amanda K. McCullough, R. S. Lloyd
Ionizing radiation and most chemotherapeutic agents kill tumor cells by damaging DNA. The efficacy of DNA-damaging agents may be influenced by increased DNA repair capacity in tumors that results from overexpression of DNA repair proteins. Inhibition of

Quantum and Classical Dynamics of BEC in a Large-Period Optical Lattice

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Johnny H. Huckans, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, James V. Porto, William D. Phillips
We experimentally investigate diffraction of a ^u87 Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate from a 1D optical lattice. We use a range of lattice periods and timescales, including those beyond the Raman-Nath limit. We compare the results to quantum mechanical and

The 2015 TWSTFT calibration for UTC and related time links

April 4, 2016
Author(s)
Zhiheng Jiang, Dirk Piester, Christian Schlunegger, Erik Dierks, Javier Galindo, Demetrios Matsakis, Victor S. Zhang
Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT or TW) is one of the primary time transfer techniques for UTC generation. Although it has expensive financial requirements it provides highly accurate calibration, and provides both robustness and
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