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STEP File Analyzer User's Guide

December 13, 2012
Author(s)
Robert R. Lipman
This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP file. The spreadsheet simplifies inspecting information in the STEP file at an entity and attributes level. Geometric, PMI, assembly, annotation, attribute, and

Antenna-Environment Multiple Scattering in Reverberation Chamber Measurements

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Ryan J. Pirkl, Catherine A. Remley
High-resolution synthetic aperture measurements in a reverberation chamber revealed the presence of multiple scattering between the scan antenna and the measurement environment. Casting the scan antenna-environment multiple scattering as an error term with

Atom-Probe Tomographic Study of ?/?' Interfaces and Compositions in an Aged Co-Al-W Superalloy

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Eric Lass, Kil-Won Moon, Maureen E. Williams, Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner, David C. Dunand, Peter J. Bocchini, David N. Seidman
Atom-probe tomography (APT) is utilized to investigate, in a Co-9.7Al-10.8W at.% alloy aged at 900 °C for 1000 h, the phase composition and partitioning behavior of the two-phase ɣ(f.c.c.)/ɣ'(L12) microstructure. The APT composition of the ɣ-matrix (Co-8

Dual-polarization sensitive MKIDs for far infrared astrophysics

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Johannes Hubmayr, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Brad Dober, Mark Devlin, Anna E. Fox, Dale Li, Michael D. Niemack, David P. Pappas, Leila R. Vale, Kent D. Irwin, Gene C. Hilton
We present the design for arrays of dual-polarization sensitive, superconducting sensors for far infrared astrophysics. Each pixel is feedhorn-coupled and consists of orthogonal, lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) both fabricated in the

Exposing Wood Decking Assemblies to Continuous Wind-Driven Firebrand Showers

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki
A series of experiments were conducted to determine vulnerabilities of wood decks to continuous, wind-driven firebrand showers. Sections of wood decks (1.2 m by 1.2 m) were constructed and attached to a re-entrant corner assembly. The deck/re-entrant

Flux Lattices Reformulated

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Gediminas Juzeliunas
We theoretically explore the optical flux lattices produced for ultra-cold atoms subject to laser fields where both the atom-light coupling and the effective detuning are spatially periodic. We analyze the geometric vector potential and the magnetic flux

Indentation device for in situ Raman spectroscopic and optical studies

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Aaron M. Forster, John W. Hettenhouser, Walter E. Byrd, Dylan J. Morris, Robert F. Cook
Instrumented indentation is a widely used technique to study the mechanical behavior of materials at small length scales and thus has been exploited in particular for metals, ceramics, glasses, and polymers. Mechanical tests of bulk materials, microscopic

Self-aligned multi-channel silicon nanowire field-effect transistors

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Hao Zhu, Qiliang Li, Hui Yuan, Helmut Baumgart, D. E. Ioannou, Curt A. Richter
Si nanowire field effect transistors (SiNW FETs) with multiple nanowire channels and different gate lengths have been fabricated by using a directed assembly approach combined with standard photolithographic process. The electrical characteristics of SiNW

Silicon Micromachines for Fun and Profit

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
David Bishop, Flavio Pardo, Cris Bolle, Randy Giles, Vladimir Aksyuk
Over the last decade or so a group of us, while working at Bell Labs, have been able to develop a large number of silicon micromachines for a wide range of applications. In this article, which is part of a special volume to celebrate the career of

Structure and Activity of PA5508, a Novel Hexameric Glutamine Synthase Homolog

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Jane E. Ladner, James F. Parsons
The structure of PA5508 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a glutamine synthase (GS) homolog, has been solved at 2.5 Å. Surprisingly, PA5508 forms single hexameric rings rather than the stacked double rings that are characteristic of GS. The C-terminal helical

A Low-Power, High-Sensitivity Micromachined Optical Magnetometer

December 11, 2012
Author(s)
Rahul R. Mhaskar, Svenja A. Knappe, John E. Kitching
We demonstrate a fiber-optically coupled optical magnetometer based on a microfabricated 87Rb vapor cell in a micromachined silicon sensor head. The cell is optically heated with light at 1.5 mm brought to the cell through an optical fiber and absorbed by

Modeling Line Edge Roughness in Templated, Lamellar Block Copolymer Systems

December 11, 2012
Author(s)
Paul N. Patrone, Gregg M. Gallatin
Block copolymers offer an appealing alternative to current lithographic techniques with re- gard to fabrication of next generation microprocessors. However, if copolymers are to be useful on an industrial manufacturing scale, they must meet or exceed

Multi-zone Modeling of Size- Resolved Outdoor Ultrafine Particle Entry into a Test House

December 11, 2012
Author(s)
Dong H. Rim, Andrew K. Persily, Lance L. Wallace, William S. Dols, Steven J. Emmerich
Airborne particle transport into buildings is important for human exposure to particles and associated health effects. The present study investigated the entry of size-resolved outdoor ultrafine particles into a test building under three different

Observation of bias-specific telegraph noise in large transition-edge sensors

December 11, 2012
Author(s)
Vincent Y. Kotsubo, Douglas A. Bennett, Mark Croce, Michael W. Rabin, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom
We have observed anomalous random telegraph noise in discrete regions of voltage bias throughout the superconducting transition in larger transition-edge sensors (TESs). The bimodal nature of these noise features is consistent with thermally activated

Standard Operating Procedures for Smolder Ignition Testing of Upholstery Fabrics

December 11, 2012
Author(s)
Rick D. Davis, Mauro Zammarano, Szabolcs Matko, Roland H. Kraemer
This manuscript describes a methodology to measure the influence of an upholstery cover fabric to promote smoldering mass loss of a small-scale mock-up. The primary test metric is total mock-up mass loss after 45 min exposure to the smoldering ignition

Dictionary-based Face Recognition from Video

December 10, 2012
Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Yi-Chen Chen, Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chellappa
The main challenge in recognizing faces in video is effec- tively exploiting the multiple frames of a face and the accompanying dynamic signature. One prominent method is based on extracting joint appearance and behavioral features. A second method models

Differentiation and characterization of isotopically modified silver nanoparticles in aqueous media using asymmetric-flow field flow fractionation coupled to optical detection and mass spectrometry

December 10, 2012
Author(s)
Julien C. Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley
The principal objective of this work was to develop and demonstrate a new methodology for silver nanoparticle (AgNP) detection and characterization based on asymmetric-flow field flow fractionation (A4F) coupled to multiple detectors and using stable

Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets

December 10, 2012
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Dean P. McCullough, Jimmy Lin, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Richard McCreadie
Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) to support the academic study of Twitter as a real-time information source
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