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Sub-micron gap capacitor for measurement of breakdown voltage in air

March 24, 2006
Author(s)
Emmanouel S. Hourdakis, Brian Simonds, Neil M. Zimmerman
We have developed a new method for measuring the value of breakdown voltage in air for electrode separations from 400 nm to 45 'm. The electrodes used were thin film Au lines evaporated on sapphire. The resulting capacitors had an area of 80 'm by 80 'm

Hyperspectral Image Projectors for Radiometric Applications

March 23, 2006
Author(s)
Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, Bettye C. Johnson, Jorge E. Neira
We describe a new type of Calibrated Hyperspectral Image Projector (CHIP) intended for radiometric testing of instruments ranging from complex hyperspectral or multispectral imagers to simple filter radiometers. The CHIP, based on the same digital mirror

Inside Diameter Measurements for the Cylinder of a 20 L Piston Prover

March 23, 2006
Author(s)
Jesus J. Aguilera, Tsyh Tyan Yeh, John D. Wright
We made inside diameter measurements of a stainless steel cylinder used in a piston prover for hydrocarbon liquid flow measurements. We used a 3-point micrometer and two traceable setting rings to measure diameter at 12 radial positions at each of 21

Low Background Temperature Calibration of Infrared Blackbodies

March 23, 2006
Author(s)
Adriaan C. Carter, Raju V. Datla, Timothy M. Jung, Allan W. Smith, James A. Fedchak
The Low Background Infrared (LBIR) facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has performed 10 calibrations of low-background blackbodies since 2001 when the calibration facility and calibration method for low-background

Measurement of Small Apertures

March 23, 2006
Author(s)
James A. Fedchak, Adriaan C. Carter, Raju V. Datla
The Low Background Infrared calibration (LBIR) facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a relative aperture area instrument to measure the areas of apertures with diameters ranging from 5 mm to 0.05 mm. NIST

Status of High-Voltage, High-Frequency Silicon-Carbide Power Devices

March 22, 2006
Author(s)
Allen R. Hefner Jr.
The emergence of High-Voltage, High-Frequency (HV-HF) Silicon-Carbide (SiC) power devices is expected to revolutionize commercial and military power distribution and conversion systems. The DARPA Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Technology (WBST) High Power

Remotely Accessed Photovoltaic Power Experiment

March 21, 2006
Author(s)
W J. Hutzel, William M. Healy
A solar energy experiment that estimates the number of photovoltaic panels needed to provide supplemental power for a typical residence is described. The project is unique because it uses freely available on-line resources for collecting and analyzing

Characterizing Gaseous Air Cleaner Performance in the Field

March 20, 2006
Author(s)
Cynthia H. Reed, Steven J. Emmerich, Steven J. Nabinger
As part of an ongoing effort to better understand the performance of indoor air cleaners in buildings, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has completed a series of gaseous air cleaner field tests and model simulations. This paper

Analysis of DNA Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms by Mass Spectrometry

March 17, 2006
Author(s)
Peter Vallone, John Butler
Single nucleotide polymorphisms(SNP) are the most frequent form of DNA sequence variation in the human genome and are becoming increasingly useful as genetic markers for genome mapping studies, medical diagnostics, and human identity testing. The primer

Conformational Changes Associated With Receptor-Stimulated Guanine Nucleotide Exchange in a Heterotrimeric G-Protein a-Subunit: NMR Analysis of the GTPgS-Bound States

March 17, 2006
Author(s)
K D. Ridge, N G. Abdulaev, Xi-Cheng Zhang, T Ngo, D M. Brabazon, John P. Marino
Solution NMR studies of a 15N-labeled G-protein ?-subunit (G?) chimera (15N-ChiT) reconstituted heterotrimer have previously shown that binding of ??-subunits induces a pre-activated conformation in G? that may facilitate interaction with R* and guanine

Phonon Broadening of Spectral Lines in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

March 17, 2006
Author(s)
John William Gadzuk
The observation and interpretation of spectral lines associated with quasi-localized states in condensed matter systems has provided a rich source of information pertaining to the transient coupling of these states to their dynamic environment.1 While

Poisson transition rates from time-domain measurements with finite bandwidth

March 17, 2006
Author(s)
Ofer Naaman, Joe Aumentado
We show that in realistic time-domain measurements of a Poisson two-level system, the observed transition rates are renormalized downwards due to the finite bandwidth of the experiment. This effect introduces systematic errors in estimating the system''s

Fast Setting CPC-Chitosan Composite: Mechanical Properties and Dissolution Rates

March 16, 2006
Author(s)
Limin Sun, Hockin D. Xu, Shozo Takagi, Laurence C. Chow
Calcium phosphate cement (CPC) can self-harden in vivo to form hydroxyapatite with excellent osteoconductivity. In recent studies, CPC-chitosan composites were developed with high mechanical strength and washout resistance. The objectives of the present

Frequency-Resolved Coherent LIDAR using a Femtosecond Fiber Laser

March 15, 2006
Author(s)
William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
We demonstrate a coherent lidar that uses a broadband femtosecond fiber laser as a source and resolves the returning heterodyne signal into N spectral channels by using an arrayed-waveguide grating. The data are processed incoherently to yield an N-times

Alkanethiols on Platinum: Multicomponent Self-Assembled Monolayers

March 14, 2006
Author(s)
D Y. Petrovykh, H Y. Kimura-Suda, A Opdahl, Lee J. Richter, Michael J. Tarlov, L J. Whitman
We have studied the formation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of n-alkanethiols on platinum thin films using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS), spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), and contact angle

Effects of Humidity on Unencapsulated Poly(thiophene) Thin Film Transistors

March 13, 2006
Author(s)
Michael L. Chabinyc, Fred Endicott, B D. Vogt, Dean DeLongchamp, Eric K. Lin, Yiliang Wu, Ping Liu, Beng S. Ong
The effects of humidity on unencapsulated polymeric thin-film transistors (TFTs) were investigated. TFTs were fabricated on glass substrates with inorganic gate dielectric and a semiconducting layer of poly[5,5 -bis(3-dodecyl-2-thienyl)-2,2 -bithiophene]
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