Journals

Robust inertial sensing with point-source atom interferometry for interferograms spanning a partial period

November 9, 2020

Author(s)

Yun Jhih Chen, Azure L. Hansen, Moshe Shuker, Rodolphe Boudot, John Kitching, Elizabeth Donley

Point source atom interferometry measures a rotation vector projected onto a plane by extracting the phase gradient arising from the mapping of velocity

Phase-coherent sensing of the center-of-mass motion of trapped-ion crystals

November 9, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew Affolter, Kevin Gilmore, Elena Jordan, John Bollinger

Measurements of the center-of-mass motion of a trapped-ion crystal that are phase- coherent with an external force are reported. These experiments are conducted

Shoulder fillet effects in strength distributions of MEMS components

November 6, 2020

Author(s)

Frank W. DelRio, Brad L. Boyce, Jake T. Benzing, Lawrence H. Friedman, Robert F. Cook

The failure forces and fracture strengths of polysilicon MEMS components in the form of stepped tensile bars with shoulder fillets were measured using a

Existence conditions for phononic frequency combs

November 5, 2020

Author(s)

Zhen Qi, Curtis R. Menyuk, Jason Gorman, Adarsh V. Ganesan

Recently, the mechanical analog of optical frequency combs, phononic frequency combs, have been demonstrated in mechanical resonators and have gained interest

Broadening of the drumhead mode spectrum due to in-plane thermal fluctuations of two-dimensional trapped-ion crystals in a Penning trap

November 5, 2020

Author(s)

Athreya Shankar, Chen Tang, Matthew Affolter, Kevin Gilmore, Daniel H. Dubin, Scott E. Parker, Murray Holland, John Bollinger

Two-dimensional crystals of ions stored in Penning traps are a leading platform for quantum simulation and sensing experiments. For small amplitudes, the out-of

Influence of Kosmotrope and Chaotrope Salts on Water Structural Relaxation

November 5, 2020

Author(s)

Peng Luo

The structural relaxation in water solutions of kosmotrope - structure maker and chaotrope - structure breaker salts, namely sodium chloride, potassium chloride

Noise Influence on Scattering-Parameter Measurements

November 4, 2020

Author(s)

Dazhen Gu, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Matthew J. Ryan, Anouk Hubrechsen

We present a general model of noise-influenced scattering (S) parameter measurements performed by a vector network analyzer (VNA). The residual error of the S

Facilitating spin squeezing generated by collective dynamics with single-particle decoherence

November 3, 2020

Author(s)

K Tucker, Diego Barberena, R. J. Lewis-Swan, James Thompson, Jose G. Restrepo, Ana Rey Ayala

Multiphase Magnetism in Yb₂Ti₂O₇

November 3, 2020

Author(s)

Allen Scheie, Jonas Kindervater, Shu Zhang, Hitesh Changlani, G. Sala, Georg Ehlers, Andre Heinemann, Gregory Tucker, Seyed Koohpayeh, Collin L. Broholm

Zero-valent iron sand filtration can reduce human and plant pathogenic bacteria while increasing plant growth promoting bacteria in reclaimed water

November 2, 2020

Author(s)

Prachi Kulkarni, Nathanael David Olson, Joseph N. Paulson, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Mihai Pop, Amy R. Sapkota

The increasing use of reclaimed water for irrigation in areas that lack access to advanced wastewater treatment and reclaimed water distribution systems calls

Efficient photoinduced second-harmonic generation in silicon nitride photonics

November 2, 2020

Author(s)

Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Ashutosh Rao, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan

Silicon photonics lacks a second-order nonlinear optical (chi(2)) response in general because the typical constituent materials are centro-symmetric and lack

Endothermic reaction at room temperature enabled by deep-ultraviolet plasmons

November 2, 2020

Author(s)

Canhui Wang, Wei-Chang Yang, David Raciti, Alina Bruma, Ronald Marx, Amit Agrawal, Renu Sharma

Sequestration and conversion of CO2 is a promising method for remedying climate change. However, current technologies remain limited due to infeasible system

Computational Characterization of Antibody-Excipient Interactions for Rational Excipient Selection Using the Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation-Biologics Approach

November 2, 2020

Author(s)

Sunhwan Jo

Protein therapeutics typically require a concentrated protein formulation, which can lead to self-association and/or high viscosity due to protein-protein

In Situ Investigation of Phosphonate Retarder Interaction in Oil Well Cements at Elevated Temperature and Pressure Conditions

November 1, 2020

Author(s)

Kunal Kupwade-Patil, Peter Boul, Diana Rasner, Saul Lapidus, Juscelino Leao, Kenneth Johnson, Carl Thaemlitz, Oral Buyukozturk

Materials Research & Measurement Needs for Ceramics Additive Manufacturing

November 1, 2020

Author(s)

Andrew J. Allen, Igor Levin, Suzanne E. Witt

We report on a recent workshop dedicated to additive manufacturing (AM) of ceramics that was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Universal frequency engineering tool for microcavity nonlinear optics: multiple selective mode splitting of whispering-gallery resonances

November 1, 2020

Author(s)

Xiyuan Lu, Ashutosh Rao, Gregory Moille, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan

Whispering-gallery microcavities have been used to realize a variety of efficient parametric nonlinear optical processes through the enhanced light-matter

DETERMINATION OF ALUMINUM IN BOVINE LIVER SRM 1577C BY INSTRUMENTAL COLD NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Rolf L. Zeisler, Danyal J. Turkoglu, Nicholas Sharp, Huaiyu Chen-Mayer

Traditional instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) subjects a sample to in- or near- reactor irradiation to determine concentrations of trace and major

AMB2018-03: Benchmark Physical Property Measurements for Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing of Polycarbonate

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Daniel P. Cole, Frank Gardea, Todd C. Henry, Jonathan Seppala, Edward Garboczi, Kalman D. Migler, Christopher M. Shumeyko, Jeffery R. Westrich, Sara Orski, Jeffery L. Gair

Material extrusion (MatEx) is finding increasing applications in additive manufacturing of thermoplastics due to the ease of use and the ability to process

A micromirror array with annular partitioning for high-speed random-access axial focusing

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Nathan T. Ersumo, Cem Yalcin, Nick Antipa, Nicolas Pegard, Laura Waller, Omar D. Lopez, Rikky Muller

Dynamic axial focusing functionality has recently seen widespread incorporation in microscopy, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), adaptive optics, and material

Intercritical annealing to achieve a positive strain rate sensitivity of mechanical properties and suppression of plastic instabilities in multi-phase medium-Mn steels

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jake Benzing, William E. Luecke, Steven Mates, Dirk Ponge, Dierk Raabe, James Wittig

The present work investigates the room temperature tensile properties of a cold-rolled Fe-12Mn- 3Al-0.05C (% by mass) steel designed to have a multi-phase

A Novel Expanded Metal-Organic Framework for Balancing Volumetric and Gravimetric Methane Storage Working Capacities

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Hui-Min Wen, Kai Shao, Wei Zhou, Bin Li, Banglin Chen

Conformational gating, dynamics and allostery in human monoacylglycerol lipase

October 28, 2020

Author(s)

Sergiy Tyukhtenko, Girija Rajarshi, Ioannis Karageorgos, Nikolai Zvonok, Kiran Vemuri, Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Xiaoyu Ma, Mahmoud L. Nasr, Alexandros Makriyannis, Kyle Anderson, Jason J. Guo, Gerhard Wagner

Inhibition of human Monoacylglycerol Lipase (hMGL) offers a novel approach for treating neurological diseases. The design of inhibitors, targeting active

Scalable microresonators for room-temperature detection of electron spin resonance from dilute, sub-nanoliter volume solids

October 28, 2020

Author(s)

Nandita S. Abhyankar, Amit K. Agrawal, Pragya R. Shrestha, Russell A. Maier, Robert D. McMichael, Jason P. Campbell, Veronika A. Szalai

Microresonators used for spin detection in volume-limited samples suffer from poor quality factors, which adversely affect sensitivity and ease of coupling to

Plasmonic Electronic Raman Scattering as Internal Standard for Spatial and Temporal Calibration in Quantitative Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

October 28, 2020

Author(s)

Wonil Nam, Yuming Zhao, Junyeob Song, Seied Ali Safiabadi Tali, Seju Kang, Wenqi Zhu, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Peter J. Vikesland, Wei Zhou

Ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) still faces difficulties in quantitative analysis because of its susceptibility to local optical field

Correlation of Nano-morphology with Structural and Spectroscopic Studies in Organic Solar Cells

October 27, 2020

Author(s)

Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Wenchao Huang, Dinesh Kabra, Urvashi Bothra, Nakul Jain, Amelia C. Liu

The nano-morphology of bulk heterojunction blends based on poly[[4,8-bis[(2- ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5- b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl][3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl

Energy-Based Plasmonicity Index to Characterize Optical Resonances in Nanostructures

October 27, 2020

Author(s)

Marvin M. Muller, Miriam Kosik, Marta Pelc, Garnett Bryant, Andres Ayuela, Carsten Rockstuhl, Karolina Slowik

Resonances sustained by plasmonic nanoparticles provide extreme electric field confinement and enhancement into the deep subwavelength domain for a plethora of

Contamination mechanisms of proton exchange membrane fuel cells - Mass transfer overpotential origin

October 27, 2020

Author(s)

Keith Bethune, Jean St-Pierre, Jacob LaManna, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson

Several experimental methods were used to identify the cause of the concurrent increase in kinetic and mass transfer overpotentials during the contamination of

Percolation implications in the rheology of crystallization

October 26, 2020

Author(s)

Anthony P. Kotula, Kalman D. Migler

The rheology of polymer crystallization is an old problem that often defies explanation due to the complex interrelationships between crystallization and flow

Reduction of charge offset drift using plasma oxidized aluminum in SETs

October 26, 2020

Author(s)

Yanxue Hong, Ryan Stein, Michael Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman, Joshua M. Pomeroy

Aluminum oxide (AlOx)-based single-electron transistors (SETs) fabricated in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) chambers using in situ plasma oxidation show excellent

Towards data-driven next-generation transmission electron microscopy

October 26, 2020

Author(s)

Steven R. Spurgeon, Colin Ophus, Lewys Jones, Amanda K. Petford-Long, Sergei Kalinin, Matthew J. Olszta, Rafal Dunin-Borkowski, Norman Salmon, Khalid Hattar, Wei-Chang Yang, Renu Sharma, Yingge Du, Ann Chiaramonti Debay, Haimei Zheng, Edgar C. Buck, Libor Kovarik, R. Lee Penn, Dongsheng Li, Xin Zhang, Mitsuhiro Murayama, Mitra D. Taheri

The rapidly evolving field of electron microscopy touches nearly every aspect of modern life, underpinning impactful materials discoveries in applications such