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Synchronization monitoring of I/Q data and pulse carving misalignment for a parallel-type 20-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK transmitter by measuring RF clock tone/low frequency power

December 15, 2008
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Jargon, Xiaoxia Wu, Laurie Christian, Bo Zhang, Wei-Ren Peng, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Lin Zhang, Scott Nuccio, Loukas Paraschis, Alan Willner
We experimentally demonstrate a technique for monitoring the time misalignment of in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) data streams and pulse carver/data in a 20-Gb/s return-to-zero differential quadrature phase-shift-keying (RZ-DQPSK) transmitter. By measuring the

Calibration of Hygrometers with the Hybrid Humidity Generator

December 14, 2008
Author(s)
Christopher W. Meyer, Joseph T. Hodges, Peter H. Huang, W Wyatt Miller, Dean C. Ripple, Gregory E. Scace
We describe here the calibration of customer hygrometers using a new humidity generator that has been commissioned at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST Hybrid Humidity Generator (HHG) generates frost/dew points from –70 °C to +85

Multiplexed "Detectorless" Electrophoresis

December 14, 2008
Author(s)
David Ross, Jason Kralj
A new microfluidic electrophoresis device and technique is described that is designed specifically for multiplexed, high throughput separations. The device consists of an array of short (3 mm) capillaries connecting individual sample reservoirs to a common

Design and testing of a software feedback loop for RF power leveling

December 12, 2008
Author(s)
Xiaohai Cui, Thomas P. Crowley
We have developed a software feedback loop that stabilizes the RF power input in calorimetric measurements to better than 30 ppm. In this system, a bolometric sensor with a Type IV power meter is used to detect the power. Feedback is provided to the AM

Durability of Building Joint Sealants

December 12, 2008
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Donald L. Hunston
Predicting the service life of building joint sealants exposed to service environments in less than real times has been a need of the sealant community for many decades. Despite extensive research efforts have been made to design laboratory accelerated

Mutually consistent thermodynamic potentials for fluid water, ice and seawater: a new standard for oceanography

December 12, 2008
Author(s)
Rainer Feistel, Daniel G. Wright, Kiyoshi Miyagawa, Allan H. Harvey, Jan Hruby, Trevor J. McDougall, David R. Jackett, Wolfgang Wagner
A new seawater standard for oceanographic and engineering applications has been developed that consists of three independent thermodynamic potential functions, derived from extensive distinct sets of very accurate experimental data. The results have been

Wideband measurement of extreme impedance with a multistate reflectometer

December 12, 2008
Author(s)
Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Denis X. LeGolvan, Ronald A. Ginley, Thomas M. Wallis, Atif A. Imtiaz, Pavel Kabos
Abstract: We present a technique for accurate wideband measurements of one-port devices with extreme impedances. Our technique uses a reflectometer with variable parameters (states) to obtain redundant measurements of the extreme impedance device. We

2nd Annual Tri-National Workshop on Standards for Nanotechnology - (NIST presentations)

December 10, 2008
Author(s)
Ronald G. Dixson, Jon R. Pratt, Vincent A. Hackley, James E. Potzick, Richard A. Allen, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Michael T. Postek, Herbert S. Bennett, Theodore V. Vorburger, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Robert L. Watters
A new era of cooperation between North American National Measurement Institutes (NMIs) was ushered by the National Research Council of Canada Institute for National Measurement Standards (NRC-INMS) on February 7, 2007 when the first Tri-National workshop

MATRIX RELAXATION AFTER FRACTURE IN A TOUGHENED EPOXY

December 10, 2008
Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Cyril Clerici, Donald L. Hunston
An efficient method to increase the Mode I fracture energy of a polymer adhesive is to incorporate a rubbery phase within the glassy matrix. In general, the failure surface of a toughened polymer is characterized by cavitated rubber particles and plastic

Rotationally Resolved Studies of the Exciton Coupled S1/S2 Origin Regions of Diphenylmethane and the d12 Isotopologue

December 9, 2008
Author(s)
David F. Plusquellic, Kevin O. Douglass, Jaime Stearns, Nathan Pillsbury, Timothy Zwier, Christian Muller
Rotationally resolved microwave and ultraviolet spectra of jet-cooled diphenylmethane (DPM) and DPM-d^12 have been obtained in S 0, Sd1 and S2 electronic states using Fourier-transform microwave and UV laser/molecular beam spectrometers. The S0 and S1

Scatterometry for in situ measurement of pattern reflow in nanoimprinted polymers

December 9, 2008
Author(s)
Heather J. Patrick, Thomas A. Germer, Yifu Ding, Hyun Wook Ro, Lee J. Richter, Christopher L. Soles
We use optical scatterometry to extract the time evolution of the profile of nanoimprinted lines in low and high molecular mass polymer gratings during reflow at the glass transition temperature. The data are obtained continuously during the anneal using a

Development of backlighting sources for Compton radiography diagnostic of Inertial Confinement Fusion targets.

December 8, 2008
Author(s)
Lawrence T. Hudson, A. Tommasini, A MacPhee, D. Hey, T Ma, C. Chen, N Izimi, W Unites, A. MacKinnon, P. Hatchett, B.A. Remington, H.S. Park, P. Springer, J. Koch, O.L. Landen, John F. Seely, G Holland
We present scaled demonstrations of backlighter sources, emitting Bremsstrahlung x rays with photon energies above 75 keV, that we will use to record x-ray Compton radiographic snapshots of cold dense DT fuel in inertial confinement fusion implosions at

Dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation of aluminum

December 8, 2008
Author(s)
Richard J. Wagner, Li Ma, Francesca M. Tavazza, Lyle E. Levine
Through multiscale simulations, we explore the influence of an atomically-rough indenter tip on the nucleation of dislocations during nanoindentation of single-crystal aluminum. We model the long-range strain with finite element analysis using anisotropic

HCI Reduced Barriers in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

December 7, 2008
Author(s)
Joshua M. Pomeroy, Holger Grube
In this paper, the use of tunnel junctions as sensors for determining the interaction strength between highly charged ions (HCIs) and ultra-thin insulating films is experimentally explored. HCIs are known to strongly ablate insulating materials upon
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