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The Structural Origin of Electron Injection Enhancements with Fulleropyrrolidine Interlayers

February 25, 2016
Author(s)
Lee J. Richter, Hyunbok Lee, Christopher McNeil, Eliot Gann, Lars Thomsen, S. Park, J. Jeong, Z. A. Page, Egle Puodziukynaite, Todd Emrick, Alejandro Briseno, John C. Stephenson, Dean M. DeLongchamp
Market demand for ubiquitous, increased functionality products at low cost (the internet of things) is spurring development in additive, solution processing of electronic devices. Performance in thin-film functional devices, be they transistors, diodes, or

Through-the-Glass Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Analysis of CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells in the Superstrate Configuration

February 25, 2016
Author(s)
Prakash Koirala, Jian Li, Heayoung Yoon, Puruswottam Aryal, Sylvain Marsillac, Angus R. Rockett, Nikolas Podraza, Robert W. Collins
Polycrystalline CdS/CdTe thin-film solar cells in the superstrate configuration have been studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) using glass side illumination. In this measurement method, the first reflection from the ambient/glass interface is

Validation and Verification of Collisional-Radiative Models

February 25, 2016
Author(s)
Yuri Ralchenko
Quality control is as relevant to scientific computing as to any other software. For complex collisional-radiative (CR) models that are used to calculate plasma population kinetic parameters and spectra, each computer code is expected to be thoroughly

Reversible Control of Magnetism in La 0.67 Sr 0.33 MnO 3 through Chemically-Induced Oxygen Migration

February 24, 2016
Author(s)
Alexander J. Grutter, Dustin A. Gilbert, U. S. Alaan, E. Arenholz, Brian B. Maranville, Julie A. Borchers, Y. Suzuki, Kai Liu, Brian J. Kirby
We demonstrate reversible control of magnetization and anisotropy in La 0.67Sr 0.33MnO 3 films through interfacial oxygen migration. Gd metal capping layers deposited onto La 0.67Sr 0.33MnO 3 leach Oxygen from the film through a solid-state redox reaction

Spintronics: Chiral damping

February 24, 2016
Author(s)
Kyoung-Whan Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee
Many objects in nature prefer to spiral in one particular direction to the other. A nanostructured magnetic system with strong spin-orbit coupling now shows that the energy loss is also chiral.

Uranium Ion Yields from Monodisperse Uranium Oxide Particles

February 24, 2016
Author(s)
Nicholas E. Sharp, John D. Fassett, David S. Simons
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) plays an important role in nuclear forensics through its ability to identify isotopic ratios of particles accurately and precisely from samples obtained by inspectors [1]. As the particle mass can be on the order of

Current Standards Landscape for Smart Manufacturing Systems

February 23, 2016
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette
The future of manufacturing lies in being able to optimize the use of resources to produce high quality product and adapt quickly to changing conditions. From smaller lot sizes, to more customization, to sudden changes in supply chain; the variability that

Interlaboratory study towards a climate-specific test: spectroscopic characterizations of EVA in glass/EVA/glass systems

February 23, 2016
Author(s)
Jae Hyun Kim, Christopher M. Stafford, Yadong Lyu, Li C. Yu, Chiao-Chi Lin, Tinh Nguyen, Xiaohong Gu
EVA as an encapsulant material is exposed to various UV irradiation, thermal cycles, and humidity conditions. Degradation of EVA can reduce not only power generation due to yellowing, but also a structural integrity of a PV module. In order to investigate

The New Frontiers in Computational Modeling of Material Structures

February 23, 2016
Author(s)
Vijay Srinivasan, Jarek Rossignac, Vadim Shapiro, William Regli
We are witnessing the emergence of a new paradigm in the modeling of material structures. It stems from the digitization of manufacturing and is fueled by advances in additive manufacturing and material science. This paper strives to provide a critical

2015 TMS William Hume-Rothery Award and Symposium

February 22, 2016
Author(s)
Ursula Kattner
The symposium was titled "Multicomponent Alloy Metallurgy: Bridge from Materials Science to Materials Engineering" with focus on the physical metallurgy of alloys with three or more components. The topics of interest for the symposium included

An Optomechanical Accelerometer with a High-Finesse Hemispherical Optical Cavity

February 22, 2016
Author(s)
Yiliang Bao, Felipe Guzman, Arvind Balijepalli, John Lawall, Jacob Taylor, Thomas W. LeBrun, Jason J. Gorman
A new design for an optomechanical accelerometer is presented. The design includes a hemispherical optical cavity that can achieve high finesse and a proof mass that is well-constrained by silicon nitride beams. Based on previous work and analysis, the

Pulsed KrF excimer laser dopant activation in nanocrystal silicon in a silicon dioxide matrix

February 22, 2016
Author(s)
Tian Zhang, Brian Simonds, Keita Nomoto, Binesh Puthen Veettil, Ziyun Lin, Ivan Perez Wurfl, Gavin Conibeer
We demonstrate that a pulsed KrF excimer laser (λ=248 nm, τ=22 ns) can be used as a post-furnace annealing method to greatly increase the electrically active doping concentration in nanocrystal silicon (ncSi) embedded in SiO2. The application of a single

INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL MODELS ON PREDICTING THE FIRE BEHAVIOR OF STEEL COLUMNS

February 19, 2016
Author(s)
Lisa Y. Choe, Chao Zhang, William E. Luecke, John L. Gross, Amit Varma
Finite-element (FE) analysis was used to compare the high-temperature responses of steel columns with two different stress–strain models: the Eurocode 3 model and the model proposed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The comparisons

Two Volt Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer Using Wilkinson Dividers

February 19, 2016
Author(s)
Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Robert E. Schwall, Samuel P. Benz
The root-mean-square (rms) output voltage of the NIST Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer (JAWS) has been doubled from 1 V to a record 2 V by combining two new 1 V chips on a cryocooler. This higher voltage will improve calibrations of ac thermal

Vertical 2D/3D Semiconductor Heterostructures based on Epitaxial Molybdenum Disulfide and Gallium Nitride

February 19, 2016
Author(s)
Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Kehao Zhang, Gheorghe Stan, Berc Kalanyan, Ganesh R. Bhimanapati, Sarah M. Eichfeld, R A. Burke, Pankaj B. Shah, Terrance P. O'Regan, Frank J. Crowne, A. Glen Birdwell, Joshua A. Robinson, Albert Davydov, Tony G. Ivanov
When designing semiconductor heterostructures, it is expected that epitaxial alignment will facilitate low-defect interfaces and efficient vertical transport. Here, we report lattice-matched epitaxial growth of molybdenum disulfide (MoSub2) directly on

Development of a Northern Continental Air Standard Reference Material

February 18, 2016
Author(s)
George C. Rhoderick, Duane Kitzis, Michael E. Kelley, Walter R. Miller Jr., Bradley Hall, Edward Dlugokencky, Pieter Tans, Antonio M. Possolo, Jennifer Carney
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently began to develop standard mixtures of greenhouse gases as part of a broad program mandated by the 2009 United States Congress to support research in climate change. To this end, NIST made

Mitigating Ingredient Variability Risks with Smart Manufacturing

February 18, 2016
Author(s)
Frank H. Riddick, Evan K. Wallace, Jim Davis
Managing the design of products and the efficient execution of the manufacturing processes needed to produce them is an endeavor fraught with all manner of risks for manufacturing enterprises large and small. In certain industries, such as the food

Assessing Electron Backscattered Diffraction and Confocal Raman Microscopy Strain Mapping Using Wedge-indented Si

February 17, 2016
Author(s)
Lawrence Henry Friedman, Mark D. Vaudin, Stephan J. Stranick, Gheorghe Stan, Yvonne B. Gerbig, William Alexander Osborn, Robert F. Cook
The accuracy of electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) and confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) for small-scale strain mapping are assessed using the multi-axial strain field surrounding a wedge indentation in Si as a test vehicle. The strain field is
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