Physics and Astronomy Publications
The research in Physics and Astronomy encompasses studies from the grand scale of planetary formation the slightest shifts in atmospheric pressure. Areas of study include star formation, astronomic theory, theoretical and experimental nanotechnology and medical physics.
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Submissions from 2013
Surface Immobilized Gold Nanoparticles by Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition on Amine Terminated Glass Surfaces, Erden Ertorer, Jessica C. Avery, Laura C. Pavelka, and Silvia Mittler
Influence of Electrostatic Forces on the Particle Propulsion in the Evanescent Field of Silver Ion-Exchanged Waveguides, Dmytro Gebennikov and Silvia Mittler
A Biosensor based on Periodic Arrays of Gold Nanodisks under Normal Transmission, Hao Jiang, Tingjie Li, Erden Ertorer, Jun Yang, Jayshri Sabarinathan, and Silvia Mittler
Optimization of Gold Nanoring Arrays for Biosensing in the Fiber-optic Communication Window, Hao Jiang, Tingjie Li, Jun Yang, Silvia Mittler, and Jayshri Sabarinathan
Periodic Arrays of Gold Nano-Disks Coupled with Evanescent Spectroscopy, Hao Jiang, Touraj Manifar, Aref Bakhtazad, Hossein Hojjati, Jayshri Sabarinathan, and Silvia Mittler
Waveguide Evanescent Field Scattering Microscopy: Bacterial Biofilms and their Sterilization Response via UV Irradiation, Qamrun Nahar and Frederik Fleiβner
Orientation Distribution of Highly Oriented Type I Collagen Deposited on Flat Samples with Different Geometries, Qamrun Nahar, David Minh Luan Quach, Behafarid Darvish, Harvey A. Goldberg, Bernd Grohe, and Silvia Mittler
Submissions from 2012
The Carter constant for inclined orbits about a massive Kerr black hole: near-circular, near-polar orbits, Sree Ram Valluri, Peter Komorowski, and Martin Houde
Submissions from 2011
The Polylogarithm and the Lambert W Functions in Thermoelectrics, Muralikrishna Molli, Kamisetty Venkataramaniah, and Sree Ram Valluri
A Study of the Orbits of the Logarithmic Potential for Galaxies, Sree Ram Valluri, Paul Wiegert, John Drozd, and Matt DaSilva
Submissions from 2010
The NASA Ames Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Infrared Spectroscopic Database: The Computed Spectra, C. W. Bauschlicher, C. Boersma, A. Ricca, A. L. Mattioda, Jan Cami, E. Peeters, F. Sánchez de Armas, G. Puerta Saborido, D. M. Hudgins, and L. J. Allamandola
Detection of C60 and C70 in a Young Planetary Nebula, Jan Cami, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Els Peeters, and Sarah Elizabeth Malek
SpectraFactory.net: A Database of Molecular Model Spectra, Jan Cami, R. van Malderen, and A. J. Markwick
Migration of Periodontal Ligament Fibroblasts on Nanometric Topographical Patterns: Influence of Filopodia and Focal Adhesions on Contact Guidance, Douglas W. Hamilton, Christine J. Oates, Abdollah Hasanzadeh, and Silvia Mittler
Optical Waveguides Formed by Silver Ion Exchange in Schott SG11 Glass for Waveguide Evanescent Field Fluorescence Microscopy: Evanescent Images of HEK293 Cells, Abdollah Hassanzadeh, Michael Nitsche, Souzan Armstrong, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Noushin Nabavi, Rene Harrison, Uwe Langbein, and Silvia Mittler
The Carter Constant for Inclined Orbits about a Massive Kerr Black Hole: I. Circular Orbits, Peter G. Komorowski, Sree Ram Valluri, and Martin Houde
D-dimensional Bose Gases and the Lambert W Function, J. Tanguay, M. Gil, D. J. Jeffrey, and S. R. Valluri
Controlled Deposition of Highly Oriented Type I Collagen Mimicking In Vivo Collagen Structures, Annabell Tenboll, Behafarid Darvish, Weimin Hou, Anne-Sophie Duwez, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Harvey A. Goldberg, Bernd Grohe, and Silvia Mittler
D-dimensional Bose gases and the Lambert W function, Sree Ram Valluri, J Tanguay, M Gil, and D J. Jeffrey
Submissions from 2009
A Fully Automated Non-external Marker 4D-CT Sorting Algorithm Using a Serial Cine Scanning Protocol, Greg Carnes, Stewart Gaede, Edward Yu, Jake Van Dyk, Jerry Battista, and Ting-Yim Lee
The Use of CT Density Changes at Internal Tissue Interfaces to Correlate Internal Organ Motion with an External Surrogate, Stewart Gaede, Gregory Carnes, Edward Yu, Jake Van Dyk, Jerry Battista, and Ting-Yim Lee
Crystallization of Calcium Oxalates Is Controlled by Molecular Hydrophilicity and Specific Polyanion-Crystal Interactions, Bernd Grohe, Adam Taller, Peter L. Vincent, Long D. Tieu, Kem A. Rogers, Alexander Heiss, Esben S. Sørensen, Silvia Mittler, Harvey A. Goldberg, and Graeme K. Hunter
The Close Circumstellar Environment of Betelgeuse: Adaptive Optics Spectro-imaging in the Near-IR with VLT/NACO, P. Kervella, T. Verhoelst, S. T. Ridgway, G. Perrin, S. Lacour, Jan Cami, and X. Haubois
A Study of Elliptical Last Stable Orbits about a Massive Kerr Black Hole, P. G. Komorowski, S. R. Valluri, and M. Houde
Clinical Field-strength MRI of Amyloid Plaques Induced by Low-level Cholesterol Feeding in Rabbits, John A. Ronald, Yuanxin Chen, Lisa Bernas, Hagen H. Kitzler, Kem A. Rogers, Robert A. Hegele, and Brian K. Rutt