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Polarized neutron beam properties for measuring parity-violating spin rotation in liquid He4

December 14, 2010
Author(s)
A M. Micherdzinska, C. D. Bass, T. D. Bass, K. F. Gan, D Lou, D M. Markoff, Hans Pieter Mumm, Jeffrey S. Nico, A. K. Opper, E I. Sharapov, M Snow, H E. Swanson, V Zhumabekova
Measurements of parity-violating neutron spin rotation can provide insight into the poorly nderstood nucleon-nucleon weak interaction. Because the expected rotation angle per unit length is small (10−7 rad/m), several properties of the polarized cold

Zone-Refinement Effect in Small Molecule-Polymer Blend Semiconductors for Organic Thin Film Transistors

December 14, 2010
Author(s)
Yeon Sook Chung, Nayool Shin, Jihoon Kang, Youngeun Jo, Vivek Prabhu, Regis J. Kline, John E. Anthony, Do Y. Yoon
The blend films of small molecule semiconductors with insulating polymers exhibit not only an excellent solution processability, but also superior performance characteristics (field-effect mobility, on/off ratio, threshold voltage and stability) over those

Lateral Uniformity in Chemical Composition along a Buried Reaction Front in Polymers

November 15, 2010
Author(s)
Kristopher Lavery, Vivek Prabhu, Sushil K. Satija, Wen-Li Wu
Off-specular neutron reflectometry was applied to characterize the form and amplitude of lateral compositional variations at a buried reaction-diffusion front. In this work, off-specular neutron measurements were first calibrated using off-specular X-ray

A Wide Angle Neutron Spin Filter System Using Polarized 3He

October 16, 2010
Author(s)
Changbo Fu, Thomas R. Gentile, Wangchun Chen, Ross Erwin, Shannon M. Watson, Collin L. Broholm, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Julia Scherschligt, G L. Jones
Polarized 3He neutron spin filters can operate over a wide neutron energy range and provide a large angular acceptance. A compact 3He neutron spin filter system has been developed for the Multi Axis Crystal Spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron

A liquid helium target system for a measurement of parity violation in neutron spin rotation

October 15, 2010
Author(s)
Christopher D. Bass, Tiffany D. Bass, B R. Heckel, C. R. Huffer, Paul R. Huffman, D Luo, D M. Markoff, A M. Micherdzinska, William M. Snow, H E. Swanson, S. C. Walbridge
A liquid helium target system was designed and built to perform a precision measurement of the parity-violating neutron spin rotation in helium due to nucleon-nucleon weak interaction. The measurement employed an orthogonally-crossed neutron polarizer

Photoresist latent and developer images as probed by neutron reflectivity methods

September 16, 2010
Author(s)
Vivek M. Prabhu, Shuhui Kang, David L. VanderHart, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu
Photoresist materials enable the fabrication of advanced integrated circuits with ever decreasing feature sizes. As next-generation light sources are developed, using extreme ultraviolet light of wavelength 13.5 nm, these highly-tuned formulations must

Cd-doping effects in Ce 2 MIn 8 (M=Rh and Ir) Heavy Fermion Compounds

June 15, 2010
Author(s)
C. Adriano, C. Giles, E. M. Bittar, L. N. Coelho, F. de Bergevin, C. Mazzoli, L. Paolasini, William Ratcliff, Richard Bindel, Jeffrey Lynn, Z. Fisk, P. G. Pagliuso
Low temperature magnetic properties of Cd-doped Ce 2MIn 8 (M = Rh and Ir) single crystals are investigated. Experiments of temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity and electrical resistivity measurements revealed that Cd-doping enhances

Origin of Electric Field Induced Magnetization in Multiferroic HoMnO 3

April 7, 2010
Author(s)
Benjamin Ueland, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Mark Laver, Y. J. Choi, S.-W. Cheong
We have performed polarized and unpolarized small angle neutron scattering experiments on single crystals of HoMnO 3 and have found that an increase in magnetic scattering at low momentum transfers begins upon cooling through temperatures close to the spin

Neutron radioscopy: industrial and scientific applications

March 15, 2010
Author(s)
Daniel Hussey, Michael A. Hickner
Neutron imaging has been a unique, precise, measurement tool for water transport in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), enabling the direct measurement of the water distribution in standard, commercially viable fuel cell hardware. Thus, in the

Vertically Graded Anisotropy in Co/Pd Multilayers

March 8, 2010
Author(s)
Brian J. Kirby, Joseph E. Davies, Kai Liu, Shannon Watson, G. T. Zimanyi, Robert D. Shull, Paul A. Kienzle, Julie A. Borchers
It has been theoretically predicted that depth-grading the magnetic anisotropy in perpendicular magnetic media should reduce the field required to write data, without affecting the thermal stability. To study this prediction, we have produced a series of

Coexisting Magnetic Order and Cooperative Paramagnetism in the Stuffed Pyrochlore Tb 2+x Ti 2-2x Nb x O 7

February 18, 2010
Author(s)
Benjamin Ueland, Jason S. Gardner, A. J. Williams, M. L. Dahlberg, J.G. Kim, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, P. Schiffer, R J. Cava
Neutron scattering and magnetization measurements have been performed on the stuffed pyrochlore system Tb 2+xTi 2-2xNb xO 7. We find that despite the introduction of chemical disorder and increasingly antiferromagnetic interactions, cooperative

Electrically-stimulated gradients in water and counterion concentrations within electroactive polymer actuators

February 1, 2010
Author(s)
Jong Keun Park, Paul J. Jones, Chris Sahagun, Kirt A. Page, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Sarah E. Morgan, Robert B. Moore
While ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) have been studied for more than 10 years, the specific actuation mechanism is still unclear. In this work, neutron imaging, applied potential (AP) and current sensing (CS) atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods

Solvent Retention In Thin Spin-Coated Polystyrene And Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Homopolymer Films Studied By Neutron Reflectometry

January 19, 2010
Author(s)
Xiaohua Zhang, Kevin G. Yager, Shuhui Kang, Nathaniel J. Fredin, Bulent Akgun, Sushil K. Satija, Jack F. Douglas, Alamgir Karim, Ronald L. Jones
We utilize neutron reflectometry (NR) to probe the amount of residual solvent inside thin polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) films spin-coated from deuterated toluene polymer solutions onto silicon substrates . The effect of thermal

Image-Based Feedback Control for Real-Time Sorting of Microspheres in a Microfluidic Device

January 1, 2010
Author(s)
Matt S. Munson, James Spotts, Antti Niemisto, Jyrki Selinummi, Jason G. Kralj, Marc L. Salit, Adrian Ozinsky
We have developed a fully automated control system to distribute user-defined numbers of antibody-functionalized fluorescent beads (scalable from tens to hundreds) to addressable assay chambers within a microfluidic PDMS device. We report an automated bead

Effects of High Flux Neutron Beams on He-3 cells Polarized In-situ with Spin-exchange Optical Pumping

December 30, 2009
Author(s)
E Babcock, Stephen Boag, Maria Becker, W.C. Chen, T E. Chupp, Thomas R. Gentile, G L. Jones, A K. Petukhov, Torsten Soldner, T G. Walker
Polarized 3He produced by spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) has potential as a neutron spin filter for polarization and polarization analysis in many neutron scattering and neutron particle physics applications. The advantage of the SEOP method is its

Determination of Elements in SRM Soil 2709a by Neutron Activation Analysis

December 1, 2009
Author(s)
Rick L. Paul, Elizabeth A. Mackey, Rolf L. Zeisler, Rabia Oflaz, Bryan E. Tomlin
A combination of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (PGAA) was used to value assign 35 elements in SRM soil 2709a (San Joaquin Soil). INAA with counting of short-lived radioisotopes was used for
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