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Broadband phase spectroscopy over turbulent air paths

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Greg B. Rieker, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Jonathan Kofler, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
Broadband atmospheric phase spectra are measured at sub-milliradian uncertainty corresponding to a 10-13 refractive index change, despite strong decoherence from atmospheric turbulence. A phase-sensitive dual-comb spectrometer acquires spectra over 233 cm

CONTAM User Guide and Program Documentation Version 3.2

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
William S. Dols, Brian J. Polidoro
This manual describes the computer program CONTAM version 3.2 developed by NIST. CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program designed to help you determine: airflow rates and pressures – infiltration, exfiltration, and room-to

Elasticity of Mass Artifacts in Sinusoidal Force Calibration

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
Akobuije D. Chijioke, John C. Bankert
Dynamic calibration of force transducers using sinusoidal acceleration of load mass objects requires the accurate determination of the displacement field in such masses, in order to relate accelerations measured at one or a few locations on the load mass

Primary Sinusoidal Calibration of Force Transducers up to 2 Kilohertz

September 4, 2015
Author(s)
Akobuije D. Chijioke, Nicholas A. Vlajic
We report the implementation of a swept-sine dynamic force calibration system at NIST. This system is designed to perform primary calibration of force transducers at frequencies up to 2 kHz and forces up to 2 kN. We show an example calibration of a strain

Comparing the Linewidths from Single-Pass SPDC and Singly-Resonant Cavity SPDC

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Paulina S. Kuo, Xiao Tang
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is a common method to generate entangled photon pairs for use in quantum communications. The generated single photon linewidth is a critical issue for photon-atom interactions in quantum memory applications. We

Fluorous 'Ponytails' Lead to Strong Gelators Showing Thermally Induced Structure Evolution

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Harshita Kumari, Sarah E. Armitage, Steven R. Kline, Krishna K. Damodaran, Stuart R. Kennedy, Jerry L. Atwood, Jonathan W. Steed
Appending perfluoroalkyl substituents to bis(urea) gelators results in significantly decreased interchain interactions with markedly thinner fibres and hence more cross-linked and more transparent gels with potential applications in the crystallisation of

iNEMI Project on Automotive Electronic Material Challenges

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Yaw S. Obeng
Automobiles are incorporating more and more electronics from various industry sectors that have not been optimally designed for use inside the vehicle passenger compartment. Reliability and cost are two key considerations when incorporating traditional

International Round-Robin Study on Thermoelectric Transport Properties of n-type Half-Heusler from 300 K to 773 K

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Hsin Wang, Shengqiang Bai, Lidong Chen, Alexander Cuenat, Giri Joshi, Holger Kleinke, Jan K?nig, Hee Woong Lee, Joshua Martin, Min-Wook Oh, Wallace Porter, Zhifeng Ren, James Salvador, Jeff Sharp, Patrick Taylor, Alan J. Thompson, Y. C. Tseng
International transport property measurement round-robins have been conducted by the Thermoelectric Annex under the International Energy Agency (IEA) Implementing Agreement on Advanced Materials for Transportation (AMT). The previous round-robins used

MEASURING PRESSURE AND VACUUM WITH LIGHT: A NEW PHOTONIC, QUANTUM-BASED, PRESSURE STANDARD

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Jay H. Hendricks, Jacob E. Ricker, Jack A. Stone Jr., Patrick F. Egan, Gregory E. Scace, Gregory F. Strouse, Douglas A. Olson, Donavon Gerty
The future of pressure and vacuum measurement will rely on lasers and Fabry-Perot optical cavities, and will be based on fundamental physics of light interacting with a gas. Light interacts at the quantum level with matter such that light travels at a

PROGRESS ON MAGNETIC SUSPENSION FOR THE NIST VACUUM-TO-AIR MASS DISSEMINATION SYSTEM

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Corey A. Stambaugh, Edward C. Mulhern, Eric C. Benck, Zeina J. Kubarych, Patrick J. Abbott
The redefined kilogram will be realized in vacuum and a method will be required to disseminate the standard to air. NIST has been developing a magnetic suspension system for this purpose. This paper discusses the progress to characterize and improve the

Quantitative magnetometry of ferromagnetic nanorods by microfluidic analytical magnetophoresis

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Andrew L. Balk, Lamar O. Mair, Feng Guo, Carlos M. Hangarter, Pramod Mathai, Robert D. McMichael, Samuel M. Stavis, John Unguris
We introduce an implementation of magnetophoresis to measure the absolute magnetization of ferromagnetic nanorods dispersed in fluids, by analyzing the velocity of single nanorods under an applied magnetic field gradient. A microfluidic guideway prevents

Retention projection enables accurate calculation of liquid chromatographic retention times across labs and methods

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Yamil Simon, Daniel Abate-Pella, Dana M. Freund, Yan Ma, Adrian Hegeman, Yan Ma, Tobias Kind, O Fiehn, Birgit Beck, Emma L. Schymanski, Corey D. Broeckling, David V. Huhman, Lloyd W. Summer, Oleg V. Krokhin, Dwight R. Stoll
Identification of small molecules by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) could be greatly improved if the chromatographic retention information could be used along with mass spectral information to narrow down the lists of potential identities

Viscosity Measurements of Aviation Turbine Fuels

September 3, 2015
Author(s)
Tara J. Fortin, Arno D. Laesecke
Kinematic viscosity has been measured for nine separate aviation turbine fuel samples. The nine samples span the range of fuel types available: conventional petroleum-derived fuels, synthetic fuels derived from the Fischer-Tropsch process, and renewable

Conductance Hysteresis in the Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel

September 1, 2015
Author(s)
Shay M. Rappaport, Oscar Teijido, David Hoogerheide, Tatiana K. Rostovtseva, Alexander M. Berezhkovskii, Sergey M. Bezrukov
In contrast to the voltage gating of ion-selective channels of electrophysiology, the mechanisms of voltage sensitivity of ¿large¿ beta-barrel channels remain obscure, even at the conceptual level. Here we study hysteresis in the conductance response of

Correction for stray light in optical spectroscopy of crystals

September 1, 2015
Author(s)
Richard W. Hendler, Curtis Meuse, David Travis Gallagher, Joerg Labahn, Jan Kubicek, Paul D. Smith, John W. Kakareka
It has long been known in spectroscopy that light not passing through a sample, but reaching the detector (i.e. stray light) results in a distortion of the spectrum known as absorption- flattening. In spectroscopy with crystals, one must either include

EIT Quantum Memory with Cs Atomic Vapor for Quantum Communication

September 1, 2015
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Paulina S. Kuo, Xiao Tang
Quantum memory is a key device in the implementation of quantum repeaters for quantum communications and quantum networks. We demonstrated a quantum memory based on electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) in a warm cesium atomic cell. The quantum
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