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A simple improvement for permanent magnet systems for Kibble balances: More flat field at almost no cost

March 19, 2020

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Shisong Li

Permanent magnets together with yokes to concentrate the magnetic flux into a cylindrical air- gap are widely employed in Kibble balances. These experiments

Second harmonic generation in GaAs-on-insulator waveguides fabricated at the wafer-scale

March 18, 2020

Author(s)

Eric Stanton, Jeff Chiles, Nima Nader, Galan Moody, Nicolas Volet, Lin Chang, John E. Bowers, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is demonstrated with unprecedented efficiency for a single-pass device. Modal phase-matching in GaAs-on-insulator waveguides is

Reduced-Order Modeling of Composite Floor Slabs in Fire. I: Heat-Transfer Analysis

March 18, 2020

Author(s)

Jian Jiang, Joseph Main, Jonathan Weigand, Fahim H. Sadek

This paper presents a reduced-order numerical modeling approach for the analysis of heat transfer in composite floor slabs with profiled steel decking exposed

Dynamical Generation of Spin Squeezing in Ultracold Dipolar Molecules

March 17, 2020

Author(s)

Thomas Bilitewski, Luigi De Marco, Jun-Ru Li, Kyle Matsuda, Willima G. Tobias, Giacomo Valtolina, Jun Ye, Ana Maria Rey

Coherent spin pumping in a strongly coupled magnon-magnon hybrid system

March 17, 2020

Author(s)

Yi Li, Wei Cao, Vivek P. Amin, Zhizhi Zhang, Jonathan Gibbons, Joseph Sklenar, John Pearson, Paul M. Haney, Mark D. Stiles, William E. Bailey, Valentine Novosad, Axel Hoffmann, Wei Zhang

We have experimentally identified coherent spin pumping acting as a dampinglike coupling in the magnon-magnon hybrid modes of permalloy/yttrium iron garnet (Py

Preface: Uncertainty Evaluation by Monte Carlo Method

March 16, 2020

Author(s)

Prem Rachakonda, Vishal Ramnath, Vinay Shankar Pandey

Measurement uncertainty is a parameter that is used to characterize the dispersion of the values attributed to a measurand. There are multiple definitions of

Dispersing nanosized portlandite particulates via electrosteric exclusion at short screening lengths

March 16, 2020

Author(s)

Jason Timmons, Iman Mehdipour, Shang Gao, Hakan Atahan, Narayanan Neithalath, Mathieu Bauchy, Edward Garboczi, Samanvaya Srivastava, Gaurav Sant

In spite of their high surface charge (ζ = + 34 mV), aqueous suspensions of portlandite (calcium hydroxide: Ca(OH)2) exhibit a strong tendency to aggregate, and

Theory of Birefringence Correction for Polarization-Controlled CARS

March 16, 2020

Author(s)

Young J. Lee

Polarization-controlled coherent Raman spectroscopy is used as a high-throughput method to characterize the anisotropic nature of a molecular system, such as

Symmetry-based crystal structure enumeration in two dimensions

March 16, 2020

Author(s)

Evan Pretti, Vincent K. Shen, Jeetain Mittal, Nathan Mahynski

The accurate prediction of stable crystalline phases is a long-standing problem encountered in the study of conventional atomic and molecular solids as well as

Circuit Complexity across a Topological Phase Transition

March 16, 2020

Author(s)

Fangli Liu, Seth P. Whitsitt, Jonathan Curtis, Rex O. Lundgren, Paraj T. Bhattacharjee, Zhicheng Yang, James R. Garrison, Alexey Gorshkov

A chip-scale optical frequency reference for the telecommunication band based on acetylene

March 16, 2020

Author(s)

Roy Zektzer, Matthew T. Hummon, Liron Stern, Yefim Barash, Noa Mazurski, John Kitching, Levy Uriel

Lasers precisely stabilized to known transitions between energy levels in simple, well-isolated quantum systems such as atoms and molecules are highly desired

Characterization of triacontyl (C-30) liquid chromatographic columns

March 15, 2020

Author(s)

Lane C. Sander, Catherine A. Rimmer, Walter B. Wilson

Differences in the performance characteristics of seventeen commercial C30 liquid chromatographic columns were studied for the separation of carotenoid isomers

Evaluation of Abramowitz functions in the right half of the complex plane

March 15, 2020

Author(s)

Zydrunas Gimbutas, Shidong Jiang, Li-Shi Luo

A numerical scheme is developed for the evaluation of Abramowitz functions J n in the right half of the complex plane. For n = −1, . . . , 2, the scheme

ERRATUM TO: PRIMARY STANDARDIZATION OF THE MASSIC ACTIVITY OF A PROTACTINIUM-233 SOLUTION, DOI:10.1007/S10967-018-6113-9

March 15, 2020

Author(s)

Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Leticia S. Pibida

NIST Reference Materials: Their Purpose and Their Future

March 15, 2020

Author(s)

Steven J. Choquette, David L. Duewer, Katherine E. Sharpless

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1901 and charged

Interleaflet Coupling of n-Alkane Incorporated Bilayers

March 14, 2020

Author(s)

Hatsuho Usuda, Mafumi Hishida, Elizabeth Kelley, Yasuhisa Yamamura, Michihiro Nagao, Kazuya Saito

The relationship between the membrane bending modulus (k) and compressibility modulus (KA) depends on the extent of coupling between the two monolayers

A framework for assessing 16S rRNA marker-gene survey data analysis methods using mixtures.

March 13, 2020

Author(s)

Nathanael Olson, Senthil Kumar, Stephanie Hao, Winston Timp, Marc L. Salit, O Colin Stine, Hector Corrada Bravo

Background: There are a variety of bioinformatic pipelines and downstream analysis methods for analyzing 16S rRNA marker-gene surveys. However, appropriate

Plasmonic nanostar photocathodes for optically-controlled directional currents

March 13, 2020

Author(s)

Jacob Pettine, Priscilla Choo, Fabio Medeghini, Teri Odom, David Nesbitt

Twist Angle-Dependent Atomic Reconstruction and Moiré Patterns in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures

March 13, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew R. Rosenberger, Hsun-Jen Chuang, Vladimir Oleshko, Madeleine Phillips, Kathleen M. McCreary, Saujan V. Sivaram, C. Stephen Hellberg, Berend T. Jonker

Van der Waals layered materials, such as the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), are an exciting class of materials with weak interlayer bonding which

Field Ion Emission in an Atom Probe Microscope Triggered by Femtosecond-Pulsed Coherent Extreme Ultraviolet Light

March 12, 2020

Author(s)

Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Luis Miaja Avila, Benjamin W. Caplins, Paul T. Blanchard, Norman A. Sanford, Brian Gorman, David R. Diercks

This paper reports construction of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation-triggered atom probe tomograph and describes the results from initial experiments on

Certified Quantum Measurement of Majorana Fermions

March 12, 2020

Author(s)

Emanuel H. Knill, Abu Ashik Md. Irfan, Karl H. Mayer, Gerardo Ortiz

We present a quantum self-testing protocol to certify measurements of fermion parity involving Majorana fermion modes. We show that observing a set of ideal

Nanoscale Pattern Decay Monitored via in-situ Heated Atomic Force Microscopy

March 12, 2020

Author(s)

Sonal Bhadauriya, Jianan Zhang, Jaejun Lee, Michael R. Bockstaller, Alamgir Karim, Richard J. Sheridan, Christopher Stafford

We combine in-situ heated atomic force microscopy (AFM) with automated line-by-line spectral analysis to quantify the relaxation or decay of nanopatterned

Quantifying Fluorogenic Dye Hydration in an Epoxy Resin by Non-Contact Microwave Dielectric Spectroscopy

March 12, 2020

Author(s)

Sindhu Seethamraju, Jan Obrzut, Jack F. Douglas, Jeremiah Woodcock, Jeffrey W. Gilman

We investigated a chemically modified Rhodamine B dye as a sensor of local water content in dye-modified epoxy resins, where these measurements were combined

Introduction to STEM-in-SEM Part 1: Imaging and Diffraction with Common Commercially Available Transmission Detectors

March 12, 2020

Author(s)

Jason D. Holm, Benjamin W. Caplins

Introduction to STEM-in-SEM Part 2: Imaging and Diffraction with a Programmable Pixelated Detector

March 12, 2020

Author(s)

Jason D. Holm, Benjamin W. Caplins

An Approach for the Visualization of Particle Spread During the Handling and Analysis of a Drug Evidence

March 11, 2020

Author(s)

Edward R. Sisco, Matthew E. Staymates, Amber Burns

Recent work has shown that detectable levels of drugs exists on nearly all surfaces within the forensic laboratory especially within the drug chemistry unit

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL LANDSCAPE MODEL FOR DETERMINING CELLULAR NETWORK THERMODYNAMICS

March 11, 2020

Author(s)

Joseph B. Hubbard, Michael W. Halter, Anne L. Plant

The distribution of phenotypic responses within an isogenic population of cells reflects the thermodynamics of a stationary state that results from coordinated

Direct Electrical Measurements of Energy Bands in Organic Semiconductors by Device-Based Ballistic Carrier Emission Spectroscopy

March 11, 2020

Author(s)

Hyuk-Jae Jang, Oleg A. Kirillov, John S. Suehle, Curt A. Richter

Understanding the electronic structure of organic/molecular semiconductors and the energetics at their interfaces with metals is critical for organic-based

Long-Range Magnetic Order in Hydroxide-Layer-Doped (Li_1-x-yFe_xMn_yOD)FeSe

March 11, 2020

Author(s)

Brandon Wilfong, Xiuquan Zhou, Huafei Zheng, Navneeth Babra, Craig Brown, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Keith M. Taddei, Johnpierre Paglione, Efrain E. Rodriguez

The (Li 1-xFe xOH)FeSe superconductor has been suspected to exhibit long-range magnetic ordering due to Fe substitution in the LiOH layer. However, no direct

Passwords Protect My Stuff a Study of Childrens Password Practices

March 10, 2020

Author(s)

Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Karen Renaud, Suzanne Prior

Children use technology from a very young age, and often have to authenticate. The goal of this study is to explore childrens practices, perceptions, and

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