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Preliminary study on the vibration sensitivity performance of microwave components

May 29, 2007
Author(s)
Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, David A. Howe, Neil Ashby, Jennifer A. Taylor, Kai Hudek, C. Hay, David Seidel, D. Eliyahu
Vibration sensitivity is an important specification for oscillators on mobile systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) etc. These systems must provide superior performance when subject to severe environmental conditions. Electronic oscillators often can

Stable Laser System for Probing the Clock Transition at 578 nm in Neutral Ytterbium

May 29, 2007
Author(s)
Christopher W. Oates, Zeb Barber, Jason Stalnaker, C Hoyt, Tara M. Fortier, Scott A. Diddams, Leo W. Hollberg
In this paper we describe a new laser system we have developed to probe the ultra-narrow 1S 0 -> 3P 0 clock transition at 578 nm in neutral ytterbium. The yellow light is produced by sum frequency generation in a periodically-poled waveguide. With

Fiber laser-based frequency combs with high relative frequency stability

May 28, 2007
Author(s)
Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, J. C. Bergquist, Scott Diddams, Luca Lorini
We describe our current low-noise fiber-laser frequency comb and present measurements of its residual instability. Through a comparison with a Ti:Sapphire frequency comb, we measure residual fractional frequency instabilities (Allan deviation) of 6x10 -17

Testing Local Position Invariance with Four H Masers AND Four Cs Fountains

May 28, 2007
Author(s)
Neil Ashby, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts, A Radnaev, Y Dudin
We report the most sensitive tests to date of the assumption of local position invariance (LPI) underlying general relativity, based on a seven year comparison of cesium and hydrogen atomic clocks (frequency standards). The latest results place an upper

Numerical Optimization of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of- Flight Mass Spectrometry: Application to Synthetic Polymer Molecular Mass Distribution Measurement

May 26, 2007
Author(s)
William E. Wallace, Charles M. Guttman, Kathleen M. Flynn, Anthony J. Kearsley
A novel approach is described for the selection of optimal instrument parameters that yield a mass spectrum which best replicates the molecular mass distribution of a synthetic polymer. The application of implicit filtering algorithms is shown to be a

AC-Mode SW-IR Radiation Thermometers for Measurement of Ambient Temperatures

May 25, 2007
Author(s)
George P. Eppeldauer, Howard W. Yoon
Recent improvements in the fabrication technology of short-wave infrared (SWIR) quantum detectors opened a new era in radiation thermometry. Ambient and higher temperatures can be measured with low uncertainties using thermoelectrically (TE) cooled

Cholesterol/Phospholipid Interactions in Hybrid Bilayer Membranes

May 25, 2007
Author(s)
Dustin Levy, Kimberly Briggman
The interactions between cholesterol and saturated phospholipids in hybrid bilayer membranes (HBMs) were investigated using the interface-sensitive technique of vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy (VSFS). The unique sensitivity of VSFS to order/disorder

Dielectric polarization evolution equations and relaxation times

May 25, 2007
Author(s)
James R. Baker-Jarvis, Billy F. Riddle, Michael D. Janezic
In this paper we develop a model that can describe broadband dielectric response, and includes frequency-dependent loss and the effects of the local electric field. The model is based on a correlation-function approach that we previously developed using

Polymer Viscoelasticity and Residual Stress Effects on Nanoimprint Lithography

May 24, 2007
Author(s)
Yifu Ding, Hyun Wook Ro, Jack F. Douglas, Ronald L. Jones, Daniel R. Hines, Alamgir Karim, Christopher L. Soles
We examine the influence of viscoelastic effects on the stability of nanoimprinted polymer films. The decay of features for polymers below the critical entanglement molecular mass at elevated temperatures is determined by simple surface tension and the

Metrology and robustness of bright-room contrast measurements

May 23, 2007
Author(s)
Edward F. Kelley
Bright-room contrast measurements methods are being proposed in standards committees to characterize flat panel displays for living-room ambient environments. Some proposals involve creating a room with an overhead light. By modeling the room as a sphere

ThermoData Engine (TDE): Software Implementation of the Dynamic Data Evaluation Concept. 2: Equations of State On-Demand and Dynamic Updates over the Web

May 23, 2007
Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Chris D. Muzny, Eric W. Lemmon, Robert D. Chirico, Michael D. Frenkel
ThermoData Engine (TDE) is the first full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept, as reported recently in this journal. The present paper describes two major software enhancements to TDE: (1) generation of equation of state

Thermodynamic-Temperature Determinations of the Ag and Au Freezing Temperatures Using a Detector-Based Radiation Thermometer

May 20, 2007
Author(s)
Howard W. Yoon, David W. Allen, Charles E. Gibson, Maritoni A. Litorja, Robert D. Saunders, Steven W. Brown, George P. Eppeldauer, Keith R. Lykke
We describe the development of a radiation thermometer calibrated for spectral radiance responsivity using cryogenic, electrical-substitution radiometry to determine the thermodynamic temperatures of the Ag- and Au-freezing temperatures. The absolute

Ligand Dissociation and Core Fission from Diphosphine Protected Gold Clusters

May 19, 2007
Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey W. Hudgens
Highly monodisperse samples of diphosphine ligand (1,3-Bis(diphenylphosphino)propane or 1,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)pentane) protected gold nanoparticles form rapidly in a mixed methanol/chloroform solvent environment. Methanol soluble octagold, decagold
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