Journals

Impact of grain orientation and phase on Volta potential differences in an additively-manufactured titanium alloy

February 8, 2021

Author(s)

Jake Benzing, Olivia Maryon, Nikolas Hrabe, Paul Davis, Michael Hurley, Frank W. DelRio

This work introduces a method for multi-modal imaging of sub-m features in an additively- manufactured (AM) titanium alloy. Ti-6Al- 4V parts manufactured with...

Near-infrared cavity ring-down spectroscopy measurements of nitrous oxide in the (4200)←(0000) and (5000)←(0000) bands

February 7, 2021

Author(s)

Erin Adkins, David Long, Adam Fleisher, Joseph T. Hodges

Frequency-agile rapid scanning, cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FARS-CRDS) was used to measure line intensities and line shape parameters of 14N216O in air in...

Entropy Scaling of Viscosity -- III: Application to Refrigerants and their Mixtures

February 5, 2021

Author(s)

Ian Bell, Xiaoxian Yang, Xiong Xiao, Eric F. May

The residual entropy scaling of viscosity was applied to pure refrigerants, including natural refrigerants, hydrofluoroolefins, hydrochlorofluoroolefins...

Atomic Spectra in a Six-Level Scheme for Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Autler-Townes Splitting in Rydberg Atoms

February 5, 2021

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Amy K. Robinson, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Matthew T. Simons

We investigate electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Autler-Townes (AT) splitting in Rydberg rubidium atoms for a six-level excitation scheme. In...

Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures

February 4, 2021

Author(s)

William Sparks, M. N. Parenteau, Robert E. Blankenship, Thomas Germer, C.H. L. Patty, Kimberly M. Bott, Charles M. Telesco, Victoria S. Meadows

Photosynthesis is an ancient metabolic process that began on the early Earth, offering plentiful energy to organisms that utilize it, to the extent that they...

Interfacial tension in polyelectrolyte systems exhibiting associative liquid-liquid phase separation

February 3, 2021

Author(s)

Vivek Prabhu

A continued interest in polyelectrolyte phase diagrams guides the study of interfacial phenomena driven by polyelectrolyte complexation. The liquid-liquid...

Buffer layer engineering of L10 FePd films with large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

February 3, 2021

Author(s)

Daniel Gopman, Daniel Josell, Sergiy Krylyuk, Xinjun Wang, Jian-Ping Wang, Delin Zhang

Single-Flux-Quantum Multiplier Circuits for Synthesizing Gigahertz Waveforms With Quantum-Based Accuracy

February 3, 2021

Author(s)

Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, David I. Olaya, Adam J. Sirois, Christine A. Donnelly, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz, Peter F. Hopkins

We designed, simulated, and experimentally demonstrated components for a microwave frequency digital-to-analog converter (DAC) based on rapid single flux...

Improved Short-Baseline 235U Antineutrino Oscillation and Energy Spectrum Measurement Using PROSPECT

February 3, 2021

Author(s)

Hans Pieter Mumm, Denis E. Bergeron, Mark Tyra, Svetlana Nour, Jerome LaRosa, The PROSPECT collaboration

We present a detailed report updating sterile neutrino oscillation and 235U antineutrino spectrum measurement results from the PROSPECT experiment at the highly...

optbayesexpt: Sequential Bayesian Experiment Design for Adaptive Measurements

February 3, 2021

Author(s)

Robert McMichael, Sean M. Blakley, Sergey Dushenko

Optbayesexpt is a free, open-source python package that provides adaptive algorithms for efficient estimation/measurement of parameters in a model function...

Hybrid InP and SiN integration of an octave-spanning frequency comb

February 2, 2021

Author(s)

Travis Briles, Su P. Yu, Lin Chang, Chao Xiang, Joel Guo, David Kinghorn, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan, John E. Bowers, Scott Papp

Implementing optical-frequency combs with integrated photonics will enable wider use of precision timing signals. Here, we explore the generation of an octave...

Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities

February 2, 2021

Author(s)

Kimberly Mueller, Kevin R. Gurney, Thomas Lauvaux, Geoffrey Roest, Jianming Liang, Yang Song

Cities dominate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are emerging as climate mitigation leaders. Many have generated self-reported GHG emission inventories (SRIs)...

A Combinatory Ferroelectric Compound Bridging Simple ABO₃ and A-Site-Ordered Quadruple Perovskite

February 2, 2021

Author(s)

Jianfa Zhao, Jiacheng Gao, Wenmin Li, Yuting Qian, Xiao Wang, Xi Shen, Zhiwei Hu, Cheng Dong, Qingzhen Huang, Lipeng Cao, Zhi Li, Jun Zhang, Chongwen Ren, Lei Duan, Qingqing Liu, Richeng Yu, Yang Ren, Shih-Chang Weng, Hong-Ji Lin, Chien-Te Chen, Liu-Hao Tjeng, Youwen Long, Zheng Deng, Jinlong Zhu, Xiancheng Wang, Hongming Weng, Runze Yu, Martha Greenblatt, Changqing Jin

Graphene Quantum Hall Effect Parallel Resistance Arrays

February 2, 2021

Author(s)

Alireza Panna, I Fan Hu, Mattias Kruskopf, Dinesh K. Patel, Dean G. Jarrett, Chieh-I Liu, Shamith Payagala, Dipanjan Saha, Albert Rigosi, David B. Newell, Chi-Te Liang, Randolph Elmquist

As first recognized in 2010, epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) provides a platform for quantized Hall resistance (QHR) metrology unmatched by other 2D structures...

Algorithms and Data Structures for New Models of Computation

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Paul Black, David W. Flater, Irena Bojanova

In the early days of computer science, the community settled on a simple standard model of computing and a basic canon of general purpose algorithms and data...

Myths and realities of endurance time analysis

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Mohammadamin Hariri Ardebili, Siamak Sattar

Electrolyte Layer Gas Triggers Cathode Potential Instability in CO2 Electrolyzers

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Kevin Krause, Jason K. Lee, ChungHyuk Lee, Hisan W. Shafaque, Pascal J. Kim, Kieran F. Fahy, Pranay Shrestha, Jacob LaManna, Elias Baltic, David Jacobson, Daniel Hussey, Aimy Bazylak

Electrolytic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction is becoming increasingly promising for managing anthropogenic CO2 emissions; however, issues related to unstable...

Process Optimization under Uncertainty for Improving the Bond Quality of Polymer Filaments in Fused Filament Fabrication

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Paul Witherell, Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Matthew Sato, Sankaran Mahadevan

This paper develops a computational framework to optimize the process parameters such that the bond quality between extruded polymer filaments is maximized in...

Improving the Energy Flexibility of Single-Family Homes Through Adjustments to Envelope and Heat Pump Parameters

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Mario Feldhofer, William M. Healy

With the increase of fluctuating renewable resources both on the grid and locally on buildings, a need arises for buildings to be flexible such that its energy...

Inorganic oxidizer detection from propellants, pyrotechnics, and homemade explosive powders using gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Shannon T. Krauss, Thomas Forbes, Dillon Jobes

Advancement in rapid targeted chemical analysis of homemade and improvised explosive devices is critical for the identification of explosives-based hazards and...

Absolute energies and emission line shapes of the x-ray lines of lanthanide metals

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Joseph Fowler, Galen O'Neil, Bradley K. Alpert, Douglas Bennett, Edward V. Denison, William Doriese, Gene Hilton, Lawrence T. Hudson, Young I. Joe, Kelsey Morgan, Daniel Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Csilla I. Szabo-Foster, Joel Ullom

We use an array of transition-edge sensors, cryogenic microcalorimeters with 4 eV energy resolution, to measure the x-ray emission-line profiles of four...

A Non-Topological Approach to Understanding Weyl Semimetals

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Antonio L. Levy, Albert Rigosi, Francois Joint, Gregory Jenkins

Dual Lattice Incommensurabilities and Enhanced Lattice Perfection by Low-Temperature Thermal Annealing in Photoelectric (CH₃NH₃)PbBr₃

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Wen-Hsien Li, Chi-Hung Lee, Tsu-Yin Ling, Ma-Hsuan Ma, Pai-Chun Wei, Jr-Hau He, Chun-Min Wu, Jen-Chih Peng, Guangyong Xu, Yang Zhao, Jeffrey W. Lynn

Implementation of a Self-Consistent Slab Model of Bilayer Structure in the SasView Suite

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Luoxi Tan, James G. Elkins, Brian H. Davison, Elizabeth Kelley, Jonathan Nickels

Slab models are simple and useful structural descriptions which have long been used to describe lyotropic lamellar phases, such as lipid bilayers. Typically...

The mediation of bond strain by vacancies and displacive disorder in A-site-deficient perovskites

January 30, 2021

Author(s)

Igor Levin, Victor Krayzman, Helen Playford, Joseph Woicik, Russell Maier, Z Lu, Alina Bruma, Maksim Eremenko, M. G. Tucker

Association between Gestational Phthalate Exposure and Newborn Head Circumference; Impacts by Race and Sex

January 29, 2021

Author(s)

Michael S. Bloom, E. Valachovic, Thoin Begum, Rebecca J. Wineland, Abby G. Wenzel, John W. Brock, Elizabeth R. Unal, Lori Cruze, Roger B. Newman, John Kucklick

Abstract Observational and experimental studies report associations between gestational phthalate exposure and fetal development, yet few data exist to...

Magneto-optical trapping using planar optics

January 29, 2021

Author(s)

William McGehee, Wenqi Zhu, Daniel Barker, Daron Westly, Alexander Yulaev, Nikolai Klimov, Amit Agrawal, Stephen Eckel, Vladimir Aksyuk, Jabez McClelland

Laser-cooled atoms are a key component of many calibration-free measurement platforms— including clocks, gyroscopes, and gravimeters—and are a promising...

Recent Industrial Roadmaps to Enable Smart Manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals

January 29, 2021

Author(s)

Sheng Lin-Gibson, Vijay Srinivasan

Biopharmaceutical manufacturing is an evolving industry with great potential to improve public health, but laden with technical and operational challenges. It...

Quantum dot lasers – history and future prospects

January 29, 2021

Author(s)

Richard Mirin, John E. Bowers, Justin Norman

We describe the initial efforts to use molecular beam epitaxy to grow InAs quantum dots on GaAs via the Stranski-Krastanow transition. We then discuss the...

Cloudy with a chance of peptides: accessibility, scalability and reproducibility with cloud-hosted environments

January 29, 2021

Author(s)

Ben Neely

Cloud hosted environments offer known benefits when computational needs outstrip affordable local workstations, enabling high-performance compute without a...