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The piston dispersive shock wave problem

February 28, 2008
Author(s)
Mark Hoefer, Mark J. Ablowitz, Peter Engels
The one-dimensional piston shock problem is a classical result of shock wave theory. In this work, the analogous dispersive shock wave (DSW) problem for a dispersive fluid described by the nonlinear Schr?odinger equation is analyzed. Asymptotic solutions

Broadband Permittivity Measurements of Thin-Film Ferroelectrics to 40 GHz

February 25, 2008
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth, Makoto Murakami, Ichiro Takeuchi
We demonstrate a novel experimental technique to measure the complex permittivity function of dielectric thin films over the frequency range from 100 Hz to 40 GHz. We apply this technique to determine the broadband permittivity function for ferroelectric

Modeling the Effect of Finite Size Gratings on Scatterometry Measurements

February 25, 2008
Author(s)
Elizabeth Kenyon, Michael W. Cresswell, Heather Patrick, Thomas Germer
The interpretation of scatterometry measurements generally assumes that the grating extends over an area large enough to intercept all the illumination provided by an incident beam. However, in practice, the grat-ings used in scatterometry are relatively

Overview of the TREC 2006 Enterprise Track

February 25, 2008
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Arjen de Vries, Nick Craswell
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data --- intranet pages, email archives, document repositories --- that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations, such that for example, an email ranking technique

Circuit Simulation Model for a 100 A, 10 kV Half-bridge SiC MOSFET/JBS Power Module

February 24, 2008
Author(s)
Tam H. Duong, Angel Rivera-Lopez, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Jose M. Ortiz
This paper presents the simulation of a 100 A, 10 kV Silicon Carbide (SiC) half-bridge power module operating at 20 kHz in a behavioral boost converter circuit. In the half-bridge module, 10 kV SiC power MOSFETs are used as the upper and lower switches

Fiber lasers for frequency standards in optical communications

February 24, 2008
Author(s)
Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Paul A. Williams
Optical light with millihertz relative frequency stabilities and subfemtosecond timing jitter can be produced from stabilized cw or mode-locked fiber lasers. We will discuss the generation, fiber-optic distribution and some applications of these coherent

Characterization of the Latent Image to Developed Image in Model EUV Photoresists

February 22, 2008
Author(s)
John T. Woodward IV, Kwang-Woo Choi, Vivek Prabhu, Shuhui Kang, Kristopher Lavery, Wen-Li Wu, Michael Leeson, Anuja De Silva, Nelson Felix, Christopher K. Ober
Current extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist materials do not yet meet exposure-dose sensitivity, line-width roughness, and resolution requirements. In order to quantify how trade-offs are related to the materials properties of the resist and processing

Counting near-infrared single-photons with 95% efficiency

February 20, 2008
Author(s)
Adriana E. Lita, Aaron J. Miller, Sae Woo Nam
Single-photon detectors operating at visible and near-infrared wavelengths with high detection efficiency and low noise are a requirement for many quantum-information applications. Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) are capable of detecting

Non-Brownian Microrheology of a Fluid Gel Interface

February 20, 2008
Author(s)
Erik K. Hobbie, Sheng Lin-Gibson, S K. Kumar
We use stroboscopic video microscopy to study the motion of a sheared fluid-gel interface. External mechanical noise plays a role analogous to temperature, but with a low-frequency breakdown of linear response consistent with an underlying instability. We

The Role of Phase Noise Research and Metrology

February 19, 2008
Author(s)
David A. Howe
The oscillating, or repeating, signal that is the basis for constructing all signals is a voltage that exactly follows simple periodic sine and cosine functions of time. The synthesis of such signals, using an oscillator coupled with a ¿frequency

Zero-field remote detection of NMR with a microfabricated atomic magnetometer

February 19, 2008
Author(s)
M Ledbetter, I Savukov, D Budker, V Shah, Svenja A. Knappe, John E. Kitching, D Michalak, S Xu, A Pines
We demonstrate remote detection of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with a microfabricated atomic magnetometer and microfluidic channel integrated on a single device. Detection occurs at zero magnetic field, which allows operation of the magnetometer in

Defining Units in the Quantum SI

February 18, 2008
Author(s)
Peter J. Mohr
Possible changes to the International System of Units (SI) are being discussed, including a proposal to define the units by specifying the values of a set of fundamental constants. This note is meant to be an elementary guide to the algebra associated with
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