Journals

Pruning the Mechanical Impedance of Three-Dimensional Disordered Networks

February 21, 2022

Author(s)

Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Edwin Chan, Christopher Soles, Michael Riley, Endao Han, Nidhi Pashine, Kieran Murphy, Heinrich Jaeger, Sidney Nagel, Daniel Reid, Meng Shen, Juan J. de Pablo

Disordered networks, comprised of random arrangements of bonds and nodes, have emerged as materials with the unique ability for independent control over the...

Broadband, efficient extraction of quantum light by a photonic device comprised of a metallic nano-ring and a gold back reflector

February 21, 2022

Author(s)

Cori Haws, Edgar Perez, Marcelo Davanco, Jin Dong Song, Kartik Srinivasan, Luca Sapienza

To implement quantum light sources based on quantum emitters in applications, it is desirable to improve the extraction efficiency of single photons. In...

Modeling of Industrial Robot Kinematics using a Hybrid Analytical and Statistical Approach

February 21, 2022

Author(s)

Vinh Nguyen, Jeremy Marvel

Industrial robots are highly desirable in applications including manufacturing and surgery. However, errors in the modelling of the kinematics of robotic arms...

Prospects for assembling ultracold radioactive molecules from laser-cooled atoms

February 21, 2022

Author(s)

Jacek Klos, Hui Li, Eite Tiesinga, Svetlana Kotochigova

Molecules with unstable isotopes often contain heavy and deformed nuclei and thus possess a high sensitivity to parity-violating effects, such as Schiff moments...

Development of Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) Reference Materials for the Determination of Isoflavones and Toxic Elements

February 21, 2022

Author(s)

J. Andreas Lippert, Kate Rimmer, Melissa M. Phillips, Michael Nelson, Chuck Barber, Laura J. Wood, Marie Ale, Kaitlyn Chieh, Stephen Long, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Shannon Whitehead, Katherine E. Sharpless, James H. Yen, Danica Raynaud, Joesph Betz, Adam Kuszak, Stephen Wise

As part of a collaboration with the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH-ODS), the National Institute of Standards and...

An Adaptive Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for the Exclusive Recognition of p-Xylene

February 21, 2022

Author(s)

Li Ma, Rebecca S. Khoo, Hadi D. Arman, Bin Wang, Wei Zhou, Jian Zhang, Rui-Baio Lin, Banglin Chen

Full-Stokes polarimetry for visible light enabled by an all-dielectric metasurface

February 20, 2022

Author(s)

Yongze Ren, Shihao Guo, Wenqi Zhu, Pengcheng Huo, Sijia Liu, Song Zhang, Peng Chen, Lu Chen, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Yanqing Lu, Ting Xu

Decoding arbitrary polarization information from an optical field has triggered unprecedented endeavors in polarization imaging, remote sensing and information...

Fiber-welded polyionic biocomposites using 1-alkyl-3-vinylimidazolium alkylphosphonate ionic liquids

February 20, 2022

Author(s)

David Durkin, Christian Hoffman, Anders Gulbrandson, Ethan Fessler, Robert Chung, Tyler Cosby, Paul C. Trulove, Ashlee Aiello, Jeremiah Woodcock

In this study, imidazolium-based polymerizable ionic liquids (Poly-ILs) are used to prepare novel polyionic biocomposites through Natural Fiber Welding. Two new...

KEY COMPARISON - Instrumented Charpy tests on low- and high-energy specimens

February 18, 2022

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Renato Reis Machado

This report describes a CIPM Key Comparison through the SIM/MWG-7 organization, concerning instrumented impact testing of low-energy (20 J) and high-energy (100...

Thermal-light heterodyne spectroscopy with frequency comb calibration

February 18, 2022

Author(s)

Scott Diddams, Connor Fredrick, Franklyn Quinlan, Ryan Terrien, Suvrath Mahadevan, Freja Olsen

Precision laser spectroscopy is key to many developments in atomic and molecular physics and the advancement of related technologies such as atomic clocks and...

The Crane Operator's Tricks and other Shenanigans with a Pendulum

February 18, 2022

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Leon Chao, David B. Newell, Vincent Lee

The dynamics of a swinging payload suspended from a stationary crane can be described as a simple pendulum, typically an unwelcome phenomenon on a construction...

International comparison CCQM-K10.2018: BTEX in nitrogen at 5 nmol mol−1

February 18, 2022

Author(s)

Christina Cecelski, George C. Rhoderick, Antonio Possolo, Jennifer Carney, Miroslav Vokoun, Jitka Privoznikova, Sangil Lee, Ji Hwan Kang, Yong Doo Kim, Dal Ho Kim, Tatiana Mace, Christophe Sutour, Celine Pascale, Napo Ntsasa, James Tshilongo, Mudalo Jozela, Nompumelelo Leshabane, Goitsemang Lekoto, David Worton, Paul Brewer, Fred Farrow-Dunn, Sergi Moreno, Klaus Wirtz, Volker Stummer, L.A. Konopelko, A.V. Kolobova, Y.A. Kustikov, A.Y. Klimov, O.V. Efremova, Janneke van Wijk, Adriaan van der Veen

The CCQM-K10.2018 comparison aimed to evaluate the capabilities of national metrology institutes (NMIs) to prepare and/or value assign primary reference...

Absorption Spectra of Martian Dust Simulants

February 18, 2022

Author(s)

James Radney, Christopher D. Zangmeister

Understanding the climate of Mars requires a detailed understanding of the optical properties of Martian dust as it is a ubiquitous component of the atmosphere...

Visualization of Polymer Dynamics in a Cellulose Nanocrystal Matrices Using Fluorescence Lifetime

February 18, 2022

Author(s)

Huyen Vu, Jeremiah Woodcock, Ajay Krishnamurthy, Jan Obrzut, Jeffrey Gilman, Bryan Couglin

Polymer nanocomposites containing self-assembled cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are ideal for advanced applications requiring both strength and toughness, as...

Data-driven matching of experimental crystal structures and gas adsorption isotherms of metal-organic frameworks

February 17, 2022

Author(s)

Daniele Ongari, Leopold Talirz, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Daniel Siderius, Berend Smit

Porous metal-organic frameworks are a class of materials with great promise in gas separation and gas storage applications. Due to the large material space...

Temporal tends of persistent organic pollutants in Sarasota Bay common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

February 17, 2022

Author(s)

John Kucklick, Ashley Boggs-Russell, Kevin Huncik, Amanda Moors, Elizabeth Davis, Gina Ylitalo, Mary McConnell, Christina Makris, Randall Wells

Legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were measured in blubber samples collected from 196 common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) during 2000 to...

Elucidating Cathode Degradation Mechanisms in NMC811/Graphite Cells Under Fast Charge Rates Using Operando Synchrotron Characterization

February 17, 2022

Author(s)

Cherno Jaye, Daniel A. Fischer, Calvin Quilty, Patrick West, Garrett Wheeler, Lisa Housel, Christoph Kern, Killian Tallman, Lu Ma, Steven Ehrlich, Kenneth Takeuchi, David Bock, Amy Marschilok, Esther Takeuchi

Li-ion batteries capable of extreme fast charging (XFC) are in demand to facilitate widespread EV adoption. While the impact of fast charge on the negative...

Heterosubstrate Illumination Effects in III–V Solar Cells

February 16, 2022

Author(s)

Brianna Conrad, Behrang Hamadani

Reference cell-based current versus voltage ( I–V ) measurements assume that the effect of an illumination spectrum on a solar cell's performance can be fully...

Silicone tube humidity generator

February 16, 2022

Author(s)

Robert F. Berg, Nicola Chiodo, Eric Georgin

We describe the model and construction of a two-flow (or divided-flow) humidity generator, developed at LNE-CNAM, that uses mass flow controllers to mix a...

Resolving the gravitational redshift across a millimetre-scale atomic sample

February 16, 2022

Author(s)

Tobias Bothwell, Colin Kennedy, Alexander Aeppli, Dhruv Kedar, John Robinson, Eric Oelker, Alexander Staron, Jun Ye

Physics in the Machine: Integrating Physical Knowledge in Autonomous Phase-Mapping

February 16, 2022

Author(s)

A. Gilad Kusne, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost

Application of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically machine learning, to the physical sciences has expanded significantly over the past decades...

Immobilization of Lewis Basic Sites into a Stable Ethane-Selective MOF Enabling One-Step Separation of Ethylene from a Ternary Mixture

February 16, 2022

Author(s)

Xiao-Wen Gu, Jia-Xin Wang, Enyu Wu, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Guodong Qian, Banglin Chen, Bin Li

Feasibility study of quantum computing using trapped electrons

February 15, 2022

Author(s)

Qian Yu, Alberto Alonso, Jackie Caminiti, Robert Sutherland, Dietrich Leibfried, Kayla Rodriguez, Madhav Dhital, Boerge Hemmerling, Hartmut Haeffner, Kristin Beck

We investigate the feasibility of using electrons in a linear Paul trap as qubits in a future quantum computer. We discuss the necessary experimental steps to...

Probing the non-classical dihydrogen ligand in OsClH3(PPh3)3 using X-ray and neutron diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering, and theoretical calculations

February 15, 2022

Author(s)

Carly Carter, Ryan Klein, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, Craig Brown, Ting-Bin Wen, Thomas Cundari, Muhammed Yousufuddin

: Dihydrogen ligation to metal centers results in a wide range of metal-hydrogen interactions. Compounds containing non-classical dihydrogen ligands in which...

A sparsity-constrained sampling method with applications to communications and inverse scattering

February 15, 2022

Author(s)

Jake Rezac, Isaac Harris

We introduce a technique, the sparse direct sampling method (sparse-DSM), to estimate properties of a region from signals which probe the region. We demonstrate...

Dielectric spectroscopic investigation of reversible photo-induced changes in amorphous Ge2Sb2Se5 thin films

February 15, 2022

Author(s)

Yaw S. Obeng, Nhan Van Nguyen, Papa Amoah, Jungjoon Ahn, Mikhail Shalaginov, Juejun Hu, Kathleen Richardson

Broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) was used to study thin films of Ge2Sb2Se5 exposed to low fluence UV-irradiation that resulted in thermally reversible...

Wireless Time Sensitive Networking Impact on an Industrial Collaborative Robotic Workcell

February 15, 2022

Author(s)

Susruth Sudhakaran, Karl Montgomery, Mohamed Hany, Dave Cavalcanti, Rick Candell

In this paper, we describe a collaborative robotic workcell testbed enabled by Wireless Time Sensitive Networking (WTSN) technologies and discuss deployment...

Spatially-resolved bandgap and dielectric function in two-dimensional materials from Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

February 15, 2022

Author(s)

Abel Brokkelkamp, Jaco ter Hoeve, Isabel Postmes, Sabrya van Heijst, Luigi Maduro, Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Juan Rojo, Sonia Conesa Boj

The electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials depend sensitively on the underlying atomic arrangement down to the monolayer level. Here we present...

Feasibility of Modeling Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Communication Signals with Unsupervised Generative Adversarial Networks

February 14, 2022

Author(s)

Jack Sklar, Adam Wunderlich

High-quality recordings of radio frequency (RF) emissions from commercial communication hardware in realistic environments are often needed to develop and...

Conversion efficiency in Kerr-microresonator optical parametric oscillators: From three modes to many modes

February 14, 2022

Author(s)

Jordan Stone, Gregory Moille, Xiyuan Lu, Kartik Srinivasan

We study optical parametric oscillations in Kerr-nonlinear microresonators, revealing an intricate solution space -- parameterized by the pump-to-sideband...