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Room temperature Laser Power Standard Using a Microfabricated, Electrical Substitution Bolometer

February 18, 2021

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Michelle Stephens, Christopher Yung, Nathan Tomlin, Anna Vaskuri, Ivan Ryger, Matthew Spidell, Malcolm G. White, Thomas Jenkins, Jennifer Landry, Tesfatsion Sereke, John Lehman

The design and performance of a room temperature electrical substitution radiometer for use as an absolute standard for measuring continuous-wave laser power...

Conformational Changes of Immobilized Polythymine due to External Stressors Studied with Temperature-Controlled Electrochemical Microdevices

February 17, 2021

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Ramya Vishnubhotla, Sarah Robinson, Jon R. Askim, Christopher B. Montgomery, Kristen L. Steffens, Herman O. Sintim, Stephen Semancik

Conformational changes of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) play an important role in a DNA strand's ability to bind to target ligands. A variety of factors can...

NB-IoT Devices in Reverberation Chambers: A Comprehensive Uncertainty Analysis

February 17, 2021

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Catherine Remley, Anouk Hubrechsen, Robert Jones, Robert Horansky, Vincent Neylon, Laurens A. Bronckers

New protocols related to internet-of-things applications may introduce previously unnoticed measurement effects in reverberation chambers due to the narrowband...

Eliminating the Middleman: Ultraviolet Scale Realization using a Laser-Driven Plasma Light Source

February 17, 2021

Author(s)

Uwe Arp, Edward W. Hagley, Robert Vest

After we replaced the argon mini-arc with a laser-driven light source in the Ultraviolet Spectral Comparator Facility at NIST, we realized that the optical...

A New Approach to Data Sharing and Distributed Ledger Technology: A Clinical Trial Use Case

February 16, 2021

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David F. Ferraiolo, Joanna DeFranco, D. Richard Kuhn, Joshua D. Roberts

Distributed systems have always presented complex challenges, and technology trends are in many ways making the software designer's job more difficult. In...

Examining Experimental Raman Mode Behavior in Mono- and Bilayer 2H-TaSe2 via Density Functional Theory: Implications for Quantum Information Science

February 16, 2021

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Sugata Chowdhury, Heather M. Hill, Albert Rigosi, Andrew Briggs, Helmuth Berger, David B. Newell, Angela R. Hight Walker, Francesca Tavazza

A Data-Driven Framework for Team Formation for Maintenance Tasks

February 16, 2021

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Maya Reslan, Emily Hastings, Michael Brundage, Thurston Sexton

Even as maintenance evolves with new technologies, it is still a heavily human-driven domain; multiple steps in the maintenance workflow still require human...

Controlling Bicontinuous Structures through Solvent Segregation Driven Gel

February 16, 2021

Author(s)

Yuyin Xi, Juscelino Leao, Qiang Ye, Ronald S. Lankone, Li Piin Sung, Yun Liu

The past decade has seen increased research interests in studying bicontinuous structures formed by the colloidal self-assembly due to their many useful...

Simulating Cu Electrodeposition in High Aspect Ratio Features: Effect of Control Mode and Uncompensated Resistance in S-NDR Systems

February 15, 2021

Author(s)

Trevor Braun, Daniel Josell, Thomas Moffat

Void-free Cu electrodeposition in high aspect ratio features relies on preferential growth proceeding from the most recessed surfaces where sustained breakdown...

On Deep Reinforcement Learning Security for Industrial Internet of Things

February 15, 2021

Author(s)

Xing Liu, Wei Yu, Fan Liang, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), also known as Industry 4.0, empowers manufacturing and production processes by leveraging automation and Internet of...

Substrate-mediated hyperbolic phonon polaritons in MoO3

February 15, 2021

Author(s)

Jeffrey Schwartz, Son T. Le, Sergiy Krylyuk, Curt A. Richter, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) are hybrid excitations of light and coherent charge oscillations that exist in strongly optically anisotropic, two...

The Path to Parent-Inclusive Conferences

February 15, 2021

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Carolina Saccarelli, Katy Keenan, Efrat Shimron, Lars Kasper, Shella Keilholz, Lawrence Wald, Elizabeth Morris

Adsorption of Non-Ionic Surfactant and Monoclonal Antibody on Siliconized Surface Studied by Neutron Reflectometry

February 15, 2021

Author(s)

Zhenhuan Zhang, Ann M. Woys, Kunlun Hong, Christoph Grapentin, Tarik A. Khan, Isidro E. Zarraga, Norman J. Wagner, Yun Liu

The adsorption of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) on hydrophobic surfaces is known to cause protein aggregation and degradation. Therefore, surfactants, such as...

Micromechanical Behaviorof Multilayered Ti/Nb Composites Processed by Accumulative Roll Bonding: An in-situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Investigation

February 14, 2021

Author(s)

S. Jiang, R. L. Peng, Z. Hegedus, Thomas Gnaupel-Herold, J. J. Moverare, U. Lienert, F. Fang, X. Zhao, L. Zuo, N. Jia

Ti/Nb multilayered composites were fabricated by accumulative roll bonding (ARB). With increasing ARB cycles, shear bands become predominant in the continuously...

How Do Specific Surface Area and Particle Size Distribution Change When Granular Media Dissolve?

February 14, 2021

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Jeffrey W. Bullard, Qingxu Jin, Kenneth A. Snyder

The measured dissolution rate of a granular medium depends on its surface area and how the surface area changes during the course of the measurement. Moreover...

Why Polymer Glasses with Enhanced Sub-nanosecond Relaxation are Tougher

February 12, 2021

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Christopher Soles, Adam B. Burns, Kanae N. Ito, Jack Douglas, Robert Dimeo, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Jingsheng Wu, Albert F. Yee, Yueh-Ting Shih, Liping Huang

This manuscript explores the connection between the fast relaxation processes in a polymer glass and essential trends in the mechanical toughness, a non-linear...

Note: A Bitter-type electromagnet for complex atomic trapping and manipulation

February 12, 2021

Author(s)

Jacob L. Siegel, Daniel Barker, James A. Fedchak, Julia Scherschligt, Stephen Eckel

We create a pair of symmetric Bitter-type electromagnet assemblies capable of producing multiple field configurations including uniform magnetic fields...

Power-Consumption Outage in Beyond Fifth Generation Mobile Communication Systems

February 11, 2021

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

One of the biggest problems facing future mobile systems beyond 5G (B5G) is the energy dissipation of mobile devices at high data rates. The heat generated by...

Phase Behavior of Poloxamer 188 Aqueous Solutions at Subzero Temperatures: A Neutron and X-ray Scattering Study

February 11, 2021

Author(s)

Xiaoda Yuan, Susan T. Krueger, Michael Sztucki, Ronald L. Jones, Joseph E. Curtis, Evgenyi Shalaev

Phase transitions of poloxamer P 188 aqueous solutions during cooling and heating are investigated using small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and small- and...

Photodynamics of Asymmetric Di-Iron-Cyano Hydrogenases Examined by Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

February 10, 2021

Author(s)

Edwin J. Heilweil, Amber Meyers, Christopher J. Stromberg

Two anionic asymmetric Fe-Fe Hydrogenase model compounds containing a single CN and five CO ligands: [Fe2(μ-S2C3H6)(CO)5(CN)1]1− (1) and [Fe2(μ-S2C2H4)(CO)5(CN...

A quantum enhanced search for dark matter axions

February 10, 2021

Author(s)

K M. Backes, Daniel A. Palken, S A. Kenany, Benjamin M. Brubaker, S B. Cahn, A Droster, Gene C. Hilton, Sumita Ghosh, H. Jackson, Steve K. Lamoreaux, A. F. Feder, Konrad Lehnert, S M. Lewis, Maxime Malnou, R H. Maruyama, N M. Rapidis, M Simanovskaia, Sukhman Singh, D H. Speller, I Urdinaran, Leila R. Vale, E. C. van Assendelft, K van Bibber, H. Wang

Gravity measured with record precision

February 10, 2021

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger

The gravitational constant G describes the strength of the gravitational uncertainty. Two new measurements with the world's smallest uncertainties are reported.

Dynamic Structure of Active Sites in Ceria-Supported Pt Catalysts for the Water Gas Shift Reaction

February 10, 2021

Author(s)

Yuanyuan Li, Matthew Kottwitz, Joshua L. Vincent, Zongyuan Liu, Michael J. Enright, Lihua Zhang, Jiahao Huang, Sanjaya D. Senanayake, Wei-Chang Yang, Peter A. Crozier, Ralph G. Nuzzo, Anatoly I. Frenkel

Oxide-supported noble metal catalysts have been extensively studied for decades for the water gas shift (WGS) reaction, a catalytic transformation central to a...

Tunable Thermo-Reversible Bicontinuous Nanoparticle Gel Driven by the Binary Solvent Segregation

February 10, 2021

Author(s)

Yuyin Xi, Ronald S. Lankone, Li Piin Sung, Yun Liu

Bicontinuous porous structures due to colloidal self-assembly are an important class of solid framework for various applications. 1–3 And non-equilibrium...

Group-velocity dispersion engineering of tantalum pentoxide integrated photonics

February 9, 2021

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Jennifer Black, Richelle H. Streater, Kieran F. LaMee, David Carlson, Su P. Yu, Scott Papp

Designing integrated photonics, especially to leverage Kerr-nonlinear optics, requires accurate and precise knowledge of refractive index across the visible to...

Organizing genome engineering for the gigabase scale

February 9, 2021

Author(s)

Bryan A. Bartley, Jacob Beal, Jonathan R. Karr, Elizabeth Strychalski

Engineering an organism's entire genome enables large-scale changes in organization, function, and environmental interactions, with significant implications for...

Measurements drive progress and opportunities in directed evolution for precise engineering of biological systems

February 9, 2021

Author(s)

Drew S. Tack, Eugenia Romantseva, Peter Tonner, Abe Pressman, Jayan Rammohan, Elizabeth Strychalski

Cyberbiosecurity for biopharmaceutical products

February 8, 2021

Author(s)

Elizabeth Strychalski, Jennifer Mantla, Jayan Rammohan, Eugenia Romantseva, Reid D'Amico, Joel Welch, Leah R. Kauffman, Jim McCarthy, John E. Schiel, Jeffrey Baker, Kelley Rogers, Kelvin Lee

Please Don't Blame ASHRAE Standard 62.1 for 1000 ppm CO2

February 8, 2021

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily

Grand Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research Series: Ridding the Cold Chain for Biologics

February 8, 2021

Author(s)

Yihua B. Yu, Katharine T. Briggs, Marc B. Taraban, Robert Brinson, John Marino

Biologics are complex pharmaceuticals that include formulated proteins, plasma products, vaccines, cell and gene therapy products, and biological tissues. These...

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