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Ultra-Precision Linear Motion Metrology

June 23, 2010
Author(s)
Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., M A. Donmez, Shawn P. Moylan
Many new emerging applications of nanotechnologies require the use of compact precision linear translation stages that have positioning resolution on the order of a nanometer and an exceptionally long range of motion on the order of tens of millimeters

Adiabatic Preparation of Many-Body States in Optical Lattices

June 22, 2010
Author(s)
James V. Porto, Anders Sorensen, Ehud Altman, Michael Gullans, Mikhail Lukin, Eugene Demler
We analyze a technique for the preparation of low entropy many-body states of atoms in optical lattices based on adiabatic passage. In particular, we show that this method allows preparation of strongly correlated states as stable highest energy states of

Mechanisms and Measurement of Nanomaterial-Induced Oxidative Damage to DNA

June 22, 2010
Author(s)
Bryant C. Nelson, Elijah J. Petersen
Many of the current investigations on the environmental health and human safety risks of engineered nanomaterials focus on their short-term acute effects. However, the long-term chronic effects of nanomaterials on living systems, and in particular, on the

Piezoelectric Shaker Development for High Frequency Calibration of Accelerometers

June 22, 2010
Author(s)
Beverly F. Payne, Gregory W. Vogl, Kari K. Harper
Calibration of vibration transducers requires sinusoidal motion over a wide frequency range with low distortion and low cross-axial motion. Piezoelectric shakers are well suited to generate such motion and are suitable for use with laser interferometric

Quantum Dot FRET Sensor for Enzymatic Activity in Microfluidic Device

June 22, 2010
Author(s)
Georgeta Crivat, Sandra M. Da Silva, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, Samuel Forry, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan, Nitsa Rosenzweig, Zeev Rosenzweig
This paper describes the development of new fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based quantum dot probes for proteolytic activity. The CdSe/ZnS quantum dots are incorporated into a thin polymeric film, which is prepared by layer-by-layer

AN ADHESION TEST METHOD FOR SPRAY-APPLIED FIRE-RESISTIVE MATERIALS

June 21, 2010
Author(s)
Kar T. Tan, Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston
Adhesion of spray-applied fire-resistive materials (SFRMs) to steel structures is critical in enabling the capacity of a building to remain functional for a specific length of time during a fire for life safety and fire department assess. Empirical tests

Bit Error Rate Measurements in Reverberation Chambers using a VSA

June 21, 2010
Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley, Sander Floris, Christopher L. Holloway
We discuss practical measurement implementation issues regarding the use of a vector signal analyzer for making bit-error-rate measurements in reverberation chambers. These issues include synchronizing the transmitted and received signals in spite of time

Reverberation-Chamber Test Environment for Outdoor Urban Wireless Propagation Studies

June 21, 2010
Author(s)
Helge Fielitz, Kate Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, Qian Zhang, Qiong Wu, David W. Matolak
We introduce a test environment to replicate the well-known clustering of reflections in power delay profiles from urban wireless propagation environments that exhibit late-time delays and reflections. The test set-up combines discrete reflections

Visual Similarity based 3D Shape Retrieval Using Bag-of-Features

June 21, 2010
Author(s)
Zhouhui Lian, Afzal A. Godil, Xianfang Sun
This paper develops a novel 3D shape retrieval method, which uses Bag-of-Features and an efficient multi-view shape matching scheme. In our approach, a properly normalized object is first described by a set of depth-buffer views captured on the surrounding

Application of Microwave Scanning Probes to Photovoltaic Materials

June 20, 2010
Author(s)
Kristine A. Bertness, John B. Schlager, Norman A. Sanford, Atif A. Imtiaz, Thomas M. Wallis, Joel C. Weber, Pavel Kabos, Lorelle M. Mansfield
We demonstrate that near field scanning microwave microscopy (NSMM) can be used to detect photoresponse in photovoltaic materials with potential for submicrometer resolution. In this approach, a radio-frequency scanning tunneling microscopy (RF-STM) tip is

Method to determine the absorbance of thin films for photovoltaic technology

June 20, 2010
Author(s)
Nathan A. Tomlin, John H. Lehman, Katherine E. Hurst, D. B. Tanner, K. Kamaras, Aron Pekker
We have demonstrated a novel method to determine optical properties of opaque or semi-transparent films for photovoltaic (PV) applications. Such films may be the basis of transparent conductors or photoconductive material. As an example, we measure the

Quartz Crystal Microbalances for Microscale Thermogravimetric Analysis

June 20, 2010
Author(s)
Elisabeth Mansfield, Aparna Kar, Stephanie A. Hooker
A new method for analyzing the chemical purity and consistency of microscale samples is described using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor platform. The QCM is used to monitor sub-picogram changes in the mass of a deposited thin film as a function

Space charge limited current effects in silicon at high injection levels

June 20, 2010
Author(s)
Ari D. Feldman, Richard K. Ahrenkiel
The space charge limited current (SCLC) effect will be analyzed in undoped crystalline silicon wafers at high injection levels. Space charge limited currents develop when the electric field from the injected carriers exceeds that of the background doping

Behavior of e (omega} and tan d of a Class of Low-Loss Materials

June 18, 2010
Author(s)
James R. Baker-Jarvis, Michael D. Janezic, Billy F. Riddle, Kim Sung
In this project we study the behavior of the permittivity and loss tangent of a class of materials that exhibit relaxation. For relaxation response we show that the permittivity is a monotonically decreasing function of frequency. Also, for many low-liss

On interchangeability of two laboratories

June 18, 2010
Author(s)
Chih-Ming Wang, Hariharan K. Iyer
This paper proposes a measure for assessing the degree of equivalence between the two laboratories in a key comparison. The measure is called asymmetric degree of interchangeability. It is asymmetric since, based on this measure, a laboratory may be
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