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Alexandre Pereira, Simon Spindler, Zhitian Shi, Lucia Romano, Michal Rawlik, Federica Marone, Martin Stauber, Marco Stampanoni, Daniel Josell
The performance of an X-ray grating interferometry system depends on the geometry and quality of the gratings. Fabrication of micrometer-pitch high-aspect-ratio...
We formulate code concatenation as the action of a unitary quantum circuit on an expanding tree geometry and find that for certain classes of gates, applied...
Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Daehyun Ahn, Ivan Burenkov, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, N. Fajar R. Annafianto
Optical phase stabilization, tracking, and locking in long fiber links are pivotal for the functionality of many communication protocols and distributed sensors...
Florian Bergmann, Meagan Papac, Benjamin Jamroz, Nicholas Jungwirth, Bryan Bosworth, Anna Osella, Tomasz Karpisz, Lucas Enright, Eric Marksz, Angela Stelson, Christian Long, Nathan Orloff, Robert Jones
Modern microchips utilize multilayer stack-ups with many interstitial layers of dielectrics. Optimizing device performance and maximizing yield requires precise...
Melinda Kleczynski, Christina Bergonzo, Anthony Kearsley
Monoclonal antibodies are utilized in a wide range of biomedical applications. The NIST Monoclonal Antibody is a resource for developing analysis methods for...
Temitayo Adeyeye, Sidra Gibeault, Daniel Lathrop, Matthew Daniels, Mark Stiles, Jabez McClelland, William Borders, Jason Ryan, Philippe Talatchian, Ursula Ebels, Advait Madhavan
Though exponential distributions are ubiquitous in statistical physics and related computational models, sampling them from device behavior is rarely done. The...
Hua-Jun He, Zhiyong He, Steven Lund, Barbara Paugh, Jennifer McDaniel, Justin Zook, Sierra Miller, Samantha Maragh, Simona Patange, Mahir Mohiuddin, Alessandro Tona, John Elliott, Kenneth Cole, Sheng Lin-Gibson
Reference materials are essential for accurately measuring integrated lentiviral vector (LV) copy number (VCN) and integration sites for the safety and efficacy...
Eugene Paulechka, Andrei Kazakov, Chris Muzny, Suphat Watanasiri, Abhijit Dutta
Cycloalkanes and their alkyl derivatives represent a significant fraction of jet fuel components. An evaluation of their thermodynamic properties, enthalpies of...
Impact from a fast-moving object is a common event, but it can vary greatly in terms of scale, speed, and energy depending on the specific case. Recent research...
Claire Dessalles, Nicolas Cuny, Arthur Boutillon, Paul Salipante, Avin Babataheri, Abdul Barakat, Guillaume Salbreux
Blood vessels expand and contract actively, while continuously experiencing dynamic external stresses from the blood flow. The mechanical response of the vessel...
Bakhrom Oripov, Andrew Dienstfrey, Adam McCaughan, Sonia Buckley
In this work, we explore the capabilities of Multiplexed Gradient Descent (MGD), a scalable and efficient perturbative zeroth-order training method for...
David La Mantia, Mingxin Lei, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Noah Schlossberger, Matthew Simons, Christopher Holloway, Julia Scherschligt, Stephen Eckel, Eric Norrgard
We demonstrate a blackbody radiation thermometer based on optically excited rubidium atoms in a vapor cell. Operating as a calibrated contact thermometer from...
Hui Li, Eite Tiesinga, Ming Li, Svetlana Kotochigova
We study spin-dynamics and quantum magnetism with ultracold highly-magnetic atoms. In particular, we focus on the interactions among rare-earth atoms localized...
Leah Stevenson, Mitchio Okumura, Joseph Hodges, Erin Adkins
The oxygen (O2) A-band is used to determine the air mass in ground- and space-based remote sensing measurements because the O2 mixing ratio in Earth's...
Yang Yang, FNU Dipti, Amy Gall, Nancy Brickhouse, Hunter Staiger, Galen O'Neil, Paul Szypryt, Adam Foster, David Schultz, Aung Naing, Joseph Tan, Daniel Swetz, Michael Fogle, Randall Smith, Yuri Ralchenko, Endre Takacs
Charge-exchange recombination with neutral atoms significantly influences the ionization balance in electron beam ion traps (EBIT) because its cross section is...
Self-cleaving ribozymes are important tools in synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, and nucleic acid therapeutics. These broad applications deploy ribozymes in...
Zhifan Ke, Lucas Flagg, Dean DeLongchamp, jianguo mei
Doping levels of conjugated polymers determine their conductivity, energetics, and optical properties. The recent discovery of highly conductive n-doped Poly (3...
Bo Sundman, Fabio Miani, Axel van de Walle, Bengt Hallstedt, Ursula Kattner, Florian Tang, Taichi Abe, Reza Naraghi, Erwin Povoden-Karadeniz, Aurelie Jacob, Shuanglin Chen, Richard Otis, Kazuhisa Shobu, Malin Selleby, Alexander Pisch
The Calphad method uses models which depend on assessed parameters to describe the thermodynamic properties of materials. These model parameters are assessed by...
We present experimental results investigating the utility of pulse-modulated noise (PMN) for general-purpose, systematic interference testing. Time-domain...
Michael Altvater, Christopher Stevens, Nicholas Pike, Joshua Hendrickson, Rahul Rao, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Deep Jariwala, Ruth Patcher, Michael Snure, Nicholas Glavin
Heterostructures between 2D and 3D electron systems remain critically important in developing novel and efficient optoelectronic and electronic devices. In this...
Christopher Sims, Elisabeth Mansfield, Jason Killgore, Jeffrey Fagan, Mark Hersam, Ana Moraes, Julia Downing
Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) is applied to the characterization of as-dispersed graphene nanoplatelet dispersions and differential sedimentation...
Megan Cleveland, Ioannis Karageorgos, John Marino, Michael Tarlov, Katharina Yandrofski, Rebecca Zangmeister, Zvi Kelman
A Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line expressing the same amino acid sequences of the heavy and light chains of the NIST monoclonal antibody, NISTmAb...
Joshua Sraku Adu, Alice Sheppard, Raphael Agbenyeke, George Kwesi "Asare ", Behrang Hamadani, David Fermin, Helen Hejin Park
Power conversion losses at the electron transport layer (ETL) are key limiting factors in high-performance perovskite solar cells (PSC) and silicon-PSC tandem...
Jienan Li, Kathryn Mayer, Andrew Martin, Stephen Zimmerman, Dustin Poppendieck, Marina Vance, Delphine Farmer
Portable air cleaners (PACs) are often recommended to mitigate indoor particulate matter levels during wildfire smoke events. These devices can remove smoke...