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A system for measuring biaxial creep strains over short gage lengths
This paper presents a new system for measuring biaxial strains over gage lengths of 150 micrometers at temperatures up to 300°C under constant loading for times as long as 1300 hours. This system has been used...
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Identification of the primary metal ion-activation sites of the diphtheria tox represser by X-ray crystallography and site-directed mutational analysis
The diphtheria tox represser, DtxR, is a 226 amino acid transition metal ion-activated regulatory protein that controls the expression of diphtheria toxin in toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The previously ...
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Advanced Bulge Test System
The bulge test is an established method of measuring the residual stress and elastic stiffness of thin-film materials. We present an advanced experimental bulge-testing system that provides advantages in speed...
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Low-temperature cracking of polymer-modified asphalt
A laboratory investigation was conducted to study different types of polymer-modified asphalt with regard to low temperature behaviour. The thermal stress restrained specimen test (TSRST) was used to assess th...
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Cracking of asphalt at low temperature as related to bitumen rheology
A laboratory investigation of the influence of bitumen rheology on low temperature behaviour of asphalt mixtures is described. Five bitumens from four sources and three different mixture types were studied. Rh...
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Thermal Behavior of Urea-(D) Tartaric Acid and Urea-(DL) Tartaric Acid Crystals
The thermal behavior of two new non-linear optical (NLO) materials, urea-(D) tartaric acid (UDT) and urea-(DL) tartaric acid (UDLT) were studied by using DSC, TG and TMA. The results show that: 1) The two crys...
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Test Methods for Characterizing Piezoelectric Thin Films
Two experimental techniques for quantifying MEMS-relevant material constants of piezoelectric thin films are presented. The first is an improved version of our recently developed ‘plank method.’ This technique...
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Electrochemically self-assembled quantum dot arrays
We report some results pertaining to the magnetic, optical and topographic properties of electrochemically self-assembled quantum dots. Some of these dots self-order into two-dimensional hexagonal-close-packed...
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Size dependence of the magnetic properties of electrochemically self-assembled Fe quantum dots
A quasi-periodic array of Fe quantum dots of cylindrical shape has been synthesized by electrodeposition of Fe in porous alumina. By controlling the fabrication parameters, we have controlled the length, diame...
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CD38 expression by hematopoietic stem cells of newborn and juvenile mice
While investigators in a number of laboratories have documented that the hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) of fetal and adult mice are CD38+, no information is available about CD38 expression by HSCs of newborn and...
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Open AccessIschaemia-reperfusion injury in photodynamic therapy-treated mouse tumours
Prompted by the observation of ischaemia development during the treatment of tumours by photodynamic therapy (PDT) that is typically followed by a restoration of tumour blood flow and by the indications of sec...
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Q-switched mode-locking with Cr4+ : YAG in a diode pumped Nd : GdVO4 laser
We have demonstrated passively Q-switched mode-locking in a laser-diode-pumped Nd : GdVO4 laser with an intracavity Cr4+ : YAG saturable absorber. At a pump power of 19.4 W, the Q-switched mode-locked laser produ...
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Room-temperature ferromagnetic nanotubes controlled by electron or hole do**
Nanotubes and nanowires with both elemental1,2 (carbon or silicon) and multi-element3,4,5 compositions (such as compound semiconductors or oxides), and exhibiting electronic properties ranging from metallic to se...
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Generation of accurately synchronized pump source for optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
We demonstrate the generation of ultra-short pulses at 1064 nm by continuous-wave seeded non-collinear optical parametric amplification in a β-barium borate crystal pumped by the second harmonics of a femtosec...
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Explosive shock processing of Pr2Fe14B/α–Fe exchange-coupled nanocomposite bulk magnets
Explosive shock compaction was used to consolidate powders obtained from melt-spun Pr2Fe14B/α–Fe nanocomposite ribbons, to produce fully dense cylindrical compacts of 17–41-mm diameter and 120-mm length. Characte...
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High power single-longitudinal-mode operation in a twisted-mode-cavity laser with a c-cut Nd:GdVO4 crystal
A twisted-mode-cavity laser was established by using a piece of c-cut Nd:GdVO4 crystal as the laser’s active material. Output spectra were scanned by a scanning Fabry–Perot interferometer, which demonstrated that...
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All-optical control of the carrier-envelope phase with multi-stage optical parametric amplifiers verified with spectral interference
Intense ultrashort laser pulses with stabilized carrier-envelope phase (CEP) are generated at 800 nm by using multi-stage collinear and non-collinear optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs). The first-stage colli...
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All-optical stabilization of carrier-envelope phase by use of difference frequency generation with seeded amplification of colored conical emission
We stabilized the carrier-envelope phase of pulses emitted by a femtosecond regenerative amplifier through difference frequency generation between pump and seeded amplification of colored conical emission. See...
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Broadband optical amplification near 1300 nm in bismuth-doped germanate glass
In this paper, we present the broadband optical amplification in bismuth-doped germanate glass, at the second telecommunication window when excited with 808 nm and 980 nm laser diodes, respectively. The amplif...