Journals

Off-stoichiometric semiconductors Cu1.33+xZn1.33-xIn1.33Se4 (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3): Synthesis, structure, and thermal and electrical properties

January 12, 2021

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Alzahrani Noha, Hagen Poddig, Hsin Wang, Joshua Martin, Wencong Shi, Lilia M. Woods, George S. Nolas

The synthesis, structure, and temperature dependent thermal and electrical properties of off-stoichiometric polycrystalline modified zinc blende quaternary

Selective Filling of n-Hexane in a Tight Nanopore

January 12, 2021

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Jeffrey Fagan, Haoran Qu, Archith Rayabharam, Narayana Aluru, Xiaojian Wu, Peng Wang, Yunfeng Li, YuHuang Wang

Molecular sieving may occur when two similarly sized molecules compete for a nanopore. This size-selectivity generally favors the adsorption of molecules with

Recent advances in superconducting nanowire single-photon detector technology for exoplanet transit spectroscopy in the mid-infrared

January 12, 2021

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Varun Verma, Jeff Chiles, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Yao Zhai, Adam McCaughan, Emma Wollman, Alexander Walter, Boris Korzh, Jason Allmaras, Ekkehart Schmidt, S. Frasca, Matthew Shaw

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, or SNSPDs, have become the highest-performing class of single-photon detectors in the near-IR. At telecom

An Interlaboratory Study Evaluating the Interpretation of Forensic Glass Evidence Using Refractive Index Measurements and Elemental Composition

January 12, 2021

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Ruthmara Corzo, Tricia Hoffman, Troy Ernst, Tatiana Trejos, Ted Berman, Sally Coulson, Peter Weis, Aleksandra Stryjnik, Hendrick Dorn, Edward Chip Pollock, Michael Scott Workman, Patrick Jones, Brendan Nytes, Thomas Scholz, Huifang Xie, Katherine Igowsky, Randall Nelson, Kris Gates, Jhanis Gonzalez, Lisa-Mareen Voss, Jose Almirall

Seventeen laboratories participated in three interlaboratory exercises to assess the performance of refractive index, micro X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Broadband high-energy resolution hard x-ray spectroscopy using transition edge sensors at SPring-8

January 12, 2021

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Shinya Yamada, Yuto Ichinohe, Hideyuki Tatsuno, Ryota Hayakawa, Hirotaka Suda, Takaya Ohashi, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Tomoya Uruga, Oki Sekizawa, Kiyofumi Nitta, Yoshio Takahashi, Takaaki Itai, Hiroki Suga, Makoto Nagasawa, Masato Tanaka, Minako Kurisu, Tadashi Hashimoto, Douglas Bennett, Edward V. Denison, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Malcolm Durkin, Joseph Fowler, Galen O'Neil, Kelsey Morgan, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Shinji Okada, Takuma Okumura, Toshiyuki Azuma, Toru Tamagawa, Tadaaki Isobe, Satoshi Kohjiro, Hirofumi Noda, Keigo Tanaka, Akimichi Taguchi, Yuki Imai, Kosuke Sato, Tasuku Hayashi, Teruhiko Kashiwabara, Kohei Sakata

We have succeeded in operating a transition-edge sensor (TES) spectrometer and evaluating its performance at the SPring-8 synchrotron x-ray light source. The

Compensation of Strong Water Absorption in Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals the Secondary Structure of Proteins in Dilute Solutions

January 12, 2021

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Bonghwan Chon, Shuyu Xu, Young Jong Lee

Infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy is a powerful tool that can quantify complex biomolecules and their structural conformations. However, conventional

Field-Induced Topological Hall Effect and Double-Fan Spin Structure with a c-Axis Component in the Metallic Kagome Antiferromagnetic Compound YMn₆Sn₆

January 12, 2021

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Qi Wang, Kelly J. Neubauer, Chunruo Duan, Qiangwei Yin, Satoru Fujitsu, Hideo Hosono, Feng Ye, Rui Zhang, Songxue Chi, Kathryn L. Krycka, Hechang Lei, Pengcheng Dai

The geometrical frustration nature of the kagome lattice makes it a great host to flat electronic band, non-trivial topological properties, and novel magnetisms

Design of a novel, native-like secreted form of the hepatitis C virus E1E2 heterodimer

January 11, 2021

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Johnathan D. Guest, Ruixue Wang, Khadija Elkholy, Andrezza Chagas, Kinlin L. Chao, Thomas Cleveland, Young C. Kim, Zhen-Yong Keck, Alexander Marin, Roy Mariuzza, Alexander K. Andrianov, Eric A. Toth, Steven Foung, Brian Pierce, Thomas R. Fuerst

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major worldwide health burden, and a preventive vaccine is needed for global control or eradication of this virus. A substantial

Controlling the Spatial and Momentum Distributions of Plasmonic Carriers: Volume vs Surface Effects

January 11, 2021

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Jacob Pettine, Sean M. Meyer, Fabio Medeghini, Catherine Murphy, David Nesbitt

Sensitive immunoassay detection of Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenaseby Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

January 11, 2021

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Jiangbing Mu, Thomas Wellems, Lee L. Yu

Rapid, reliable, and sensitive detection of Plasmodium infection is central to malaria control and elimination. Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests developed for

Entropic-based separation of diastereomers. Size-exclusion chromatography with on-line viscometry and refractometry detection for analysis of blends of mannose and galactose methyl-alpha-pyranosides at "ideal" size-exclusion conditions

January 11, 2021

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Andre M. Striegel, Steven Trainoff

TThe separation of carbohydrate diastereomers by an ideal size-exclusion mechanism, i.e., in the absence of enthalpic contributions to the separation, can be

Influence of bearing ball recirculation on error motions of linear axes

January 10, 2021

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Gregory W. Vogl, Kyle F. Shreve, Alkan Donmez

For positioning systems utilizing linear guides and trucks with recirculating balls, a method is presented that uses the measured total error motions and the

Characteristics and Mechanisms of Hydrogen-Induced Quasi-Cleavage Fracture of Lath Martensitic Steel

January 10, 2021

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Lawrence Cho, Peter E. Bradley, Damian S. Lauria, May L. Martin, Matthew J. Connolly, Jake Benzing, Eun Jung Seo, Kip O. Findley, John G. Speer, Andrew J. Slifka

This study presents an in-depth characterization of the microstructures, crystallographic orientations, and dislocation characteristics beneath the hydrogen

Conduction Band Control of Oxyhalides with a Triple-Fluorite Layer for Visible Light Photocatalysis

January 8, 2021

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Akinobu Nakada, Daichi Kato, Hikaru Takahira, Masayoshi Yabuuchi, Masanobu Higashi, Hajime Suzuki, Maria Kirsanova, Naoji Kakudou, Cedric Tassel, Takafumi Yamamoto, Craig Brown, Akinori Saeki, Artem M. Abakumov, Hiroshi Kageyama, Ryu Abe

Compounds with fluorite-type Bi 2O 2 layers display various properties due to stereoactive Bi-ions. Bi 2O 2-based oxyhalides are promising visible-light

Tandem Heterogeneous Catalysis for Polyethylene Depolymerization via an Olefin-Intermediate Process

January 8, 2021

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Kathryn Beers, Sara Orski, Lucas Ellis, Andrew Norman, Yuriy Rom?n-Leshkov, Gregg T. Beckham

The accumulation of plastic waste in the environment has prompted the development of new chemical recycling technologies. A recently reported approach employed

Van Hove Singularity in the Magnon Spectrum of the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Honeycomb Lattice

January 8, 2021

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G. Sala, M. B. Stone, Binod Rai, A. May, Pontus Laurell, V. Garlea, Nicholas Butch, M. Lumsden, Georg Ehlers, G. Pokharel, Andrey Podlesnyak, D. Mandrus, D. Parker, S. Okamoto, Gabor Halasz, A. Christianson

Creation and Annotation of Recurrent Spectral Libraries of CHO Cell Metabolites and Media Components

January 6, 2021

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Kelly H. Telu, Ramesh Marupaka, Nirina Rabe Andriamaharavo, Yamil Simon, Yuxue Liang, Yuri Mirokhin, Xinjian Yan, Tallat Bukhari, Stephen Stein

Comparison of measured and simulated spin-wave mode spectra of magnetic nanostructures

January 6, 2021

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Hans Nembach, Robert McMichael, Michael Schneider, Justin Shaw, Thomas J. Silva

Motivated by the importance of magnetization dynamics in nanomagnets for the development and optimization of magnetic devices and sensors, we measured and

State Readout of a Trapped Ion Qubit Using a Trap-integrated Superconducting Photon Detector

January 6, 2021

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Susanna L. Todaro, Varun Verma, Katherine C. McCormick, David T. Allcock, Richard Mirin, David J. Wineland, Sae Woo Nam, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried, Daniel Slichter

We detect fluorescence photons emitted by a single $^9$Be$^+$ ion confined in a surface- electrode rf ion trap, using a superconducting nanowire single photon

On the interplay of friction and stress relaxation to improve stretch-flangeability of dual phase (DP600) steel

January 6, 2021

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Dilip K. Banerjee, Kali Prasad, Krishnaswamy Hariharan, Uday Chakkingal

Industrial servo press has successfully demonstrated improved formability when deforming sheet metals. While the time dependent viscous behaviour of material is

Chiral-bubble-induced topological Hall effect in ferromagnetic topological insulator heterostructures

January 6, 2021

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Wenbo Wang, Yifan Zhao, Fei Wang, Matthew Daniels, Cui-Zu Chang, Jiadong Zang, Di Xiao, Weida Wu

The topological Hall effect (THE) is a transverse response of charge carriers due to emergent gauge field of non-coplanar spin textures. It has been a powerful

A three-wave mixing kinetic inductance traveling-wave amplifier with near quantum-limited noise performance

January 5, 2021

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Maxime Malnou, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler, Joe Aumentado, Johannes Hubmayr, Joel Ullom, Jiansong Gao

We present the theoretical model and experimental characterization of a microwave kinetic inductance traveling-wave amplifier (KIT), whose noise performance

Accelerating Innovation and Commercialization Through Standardization of Microfluidic-Based Medical Devices

January 5, 2021

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Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez, Henne van Heeren, Suvajyoti Guha, Luke Herbertson, Alexios P. Tzannis, Jens Ducr?e, Hugo Bissig, Holger Becker

The microfluidics industry has grown steadily over the last 5 years worldwide, with the market for microfluidic medical devices experiencing a compound growth

Quantifying Uncertainties in Solvation Procedures for Modeling Aqueous Phase Reaction Mechanisms

January 4, 2021

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Kathleen Schwarz, Alex Maldonado, Tae Hoon Choi, Frank Eckert, Satoshi Hagiwara, Minoru Otani, Ravishankar Sundararaman, John Keith

Computational quantum chemistry provides fundamental chemical and physical insights into solvated reaction mechanisms across many areas of chemistry, especially

Enhanced Proton Selectivity in Ionomer Nanocomposites Containing Hydrophobically Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

January 4, 2021

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Allison Domhoff, Tyler Martin, Liyanage M. Silva, Mansour Saberi, Stephen Creager, Eric Davis

Perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) ionomers are ubiquitous as proton-exchange membranes (PEMs) in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs), as they provide high proton

Coherent optical processes with an all-optical atomic simulator

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Ivan Burenkov, Sergey Polyakov, Olga Tikhonova, Irina Novikova

We show how novel photonic devices such as broadband quantum memory and efficient quantum frequency transduction can be implemented using three-wave mixing

Non-classical energy squeezing with of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Xizheng Ma, Jeremie Viennot, Shlomi S. Kotler, John Teufel, Konrad Lehnert

Tender X-ray scattering of conjugated polymers reveals strong resonant diffraction effects at the sulfur K-edge

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Guillaume Freychet, Lars Thomsen, Xuchem Jiao, Feng Guitao, Weiwei Li

Resonant diffraction (also known as anomalous diffraction) occurs when the X-ray energy used in an X- ray diffraction experiment matches an X-ray absorption

Evaluation of a Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer at Low Voltages for the Calibration of Lock-In Amplifiers

January 4, 2021

Author(s)

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Ilya F. Budovsky, Samuel P. Benz

We have evaluated a Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer (JAWS) in the voltage range from 1 μV to 1 mV at frequencies from 60 to 1000 Hz for the use in the

Structural Characterization and Modeling of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Fusion Glycoprotein Nanoparticle Vaccine in Solution

January 4, 2021

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Susan T. Krueger, Joseph E. Curtis, Daniel R. Scott, Alexander Grishaev, Greg Glenn, Gale Smith, Larry Ellingsworth, Oleg Borisov, Ernest Maynard

Globally, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)is a major cause of sever lower respiratory tract infection in young children, older adults, and immune compromised