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National Institute of Standards and Technology
Government•Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States•
About: National Institute of Standards and Technology is a government organization based out in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Laser & Scattering. The organization has 26667 authors who have published 60661 publications receiving 2215547 citations. The organization is also known as: National Bureau of Standards & NIST.
Topics: Laser, Scattering, Neutron scattering, NIST, Spectroscopy
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and characterize soliton crystals through analysis of their fingerprint optical spectra, which arise from spectral interference between the solitons, and perform time-domain measurements to directly confirm their inference of their crystal structure.
Abstract: Self-organized solitons confined to an optical resonator would offer unique capabilities for experiments in communication, computation and sensing with light. Here, we report the observation of soliton crystals in monolithic Kerr microresonators—spontaneously and collectively ordered ensembles of co-propagating solitons whose interactions discretize their allowed temporal separations. We unambiguously identify and characterize soliton crystals through analysis of their ‘fingerprint’ optical spectra, which arise from spectral interference between the solitons. We identify a rich space of soliton crystals exhibiting crystallographic defects and we perform time-domain measurements to directly confirm our inference of their crystal structure. Soliton crystallization is explained by long-range soliton interactions mediated by resonator mode degeneracies, and we probe the qualitative difference between soliton crystals and the disorganized soliton liquid that would form in the absence of these interactions. Our work explores the physics of monolithic Kerr resonators in a regime of dense soliton occupation and offers a way to increase the efficiency of Kerr combs. Furthermore, the extreme degeneracy of the configuration space of soliton crystals suggests an implementation for an on-chip optical buffer. The observation of soliton crystals in monolithic Kerr microresonators is reported. The physics of such resonators is explored in a regime of dense soliton occupation, offering a way to increase the efficiency of Kerr combs.
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16 Apr 2007
TL;DR: The development of surrogate mixtures that represent gasoline combustion behavior is reviewed in this article, where the authors make recommendations for the initial components to be included in gasoline surrogates for near term development.
Abstract: The development of surrogate mixtures that represent gasoline combustion behavior is reviewed. Combustion chemistry behavioral targets that a surrogate should accurately reproduce, particularly for emulating homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) operation, are carefully identified. Both short and long term research needs to support development of more robust surrogate fuel compositions are described. Candidate component species are identified and the status of present chemical kinetic models for these components and their interactions are discussed. Recommendations are made for the initial components to be included in gasoline surrogates for near term development. Components that can be added to refine predictions and to include additional behavioral targets are identified as well. Thermodynamic, thermochemical and transport properties that require further investigation are discussed.
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TL;DR: Rate constants for the reactions of several organic peroxyl radicals with nitric oxide in aqueous solution are measured and it is found that they are all fast, with k = 1-3 x 10(9) L mol-1 s-1.
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TL;DR: The 2D Bose-Hubbard model is realized by loading a Bose/Einstein condensate into an optical lattice, and the resulting Mott insulator is studied to show a marked dependence on the lattice depth.
Abstract: Cold atoms in periodic potentials are versatile quantum systems for implementing simple models prevalent in condensed matter theory. Here we realize the 2D Bose-Hubbard model by loading a Bose-Einstein condensate into an optical lattice, and study the resulting Mott insulator. The measured momentum distributions agree quantitatively with theory (no adjustable parameters). In these systems, the Mott insulator forms in a spatially discrete shell structure which we probe by focusing on correlations in atom shot noise. These correlations show a marked dependence on the lattice depth, consistent with the changing size of the insulating shell expected from simple arguments.
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TL;DR: Scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM/EDS) is a widely applied elemental microanalysis method capable of identifying and quantifying all elements in the periodic table except H, He, and Li, but measurement issues continue to diminish the impact.
Abstract: Scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM/EDS) is a widely applied elemental microanalysis method capable of identifying and quantifying all elements in the periodic table except H, He, and Li. By following the "k-ratio" (unknown/standard) measurement protocol development for electron-excited wavelength dispersive spectrometry (WDS), SEM/EDS can achieve accuracy and precision equivalent to WDS and at substantially lower electron dose, even when severe X-ray peak overlaps occur, provided sufficient counts are recorded. Achieving this level of performance is now much more practical with the advent of the high-throughput silicon drift detector energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (SDD-EDS). However, three measurement issues continue to diminish the impact of SEM/EDS: (1) In the qualitative analysis (i.e., element identification) that must precede quantitative analysis, at least some current and many legacy software systems are vulnerable to occasional misidentification of major constituent peaks, with the frequency of misidentifications rising significantly for minor and trace constituents. (2) The use of standardless analysis, which is subject to much broader systematic errors, leads to quantitative results that, while useful, do not have sufficient accuracy to solve critical problems, e.g. determining the formula of a compound. (3) EDS spectrometers have such a large volume of acceptance that apparently credible spectra can be obtained from specimens with complex topography that introduce uncontrolled geometric factors that modify X-ray generation and propagation, resulting in very large systematic errors, often a factor of ten or more.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Zhong Lin Wang | 245 | 2529 | 259003 |
John A. Rogers | 177 | 1341 | 127390 |
J. N. Butler | 172 | 2525 | 175561 |
Yury Gogotsi | 171 | 956 | 144520 |
Zhenan Bao | 169 | 865 | 106571 |
Gang Chen | 167 | 3372 | 149819 |
Michel C. Nussenzweig | 165 | 516 | 87665 |
Donald G. Truhlar | 165 | 1518 | 157965 |
Tobin J. Marks | 159 | 1621 | 111604 |
Jongmin Lee | 150 | 2257 | 134772 |
Galen D. Stucky | 144 | 958 | 101796 |
Thomas P. Russell | 141 | 1012 | 80055 |
William D. Travis | 137 | 605 | 93286 |
Peter Zoller | 134 | 734 | 76093 |
Anthony G. Evans | 130 | 576 | 65803 |