Journals

Grafting polysiloxane onto ultrafiltration membranes to optimize surface energy and mitigate fouling

May 18, 2020

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Thien Tran, Xiaoyi Chen, Sarthak Doshi, Christopher Stafford, Haiqing Lin

Conventional approaches to mitigate fouling of membrane surfaces impart hydrophilicity to the membrane surface, which increases the water of hydration and...

High-Q dark hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride nanostructures

May 18, 2020

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Georg Ramer, Mohit Tuteja, Joseph R. Matson, Marcelo I. Davanco, Thomas G. Folland, Andrey Kretinin, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Kostya Novoselov, Joshua D. Caldwell, Andrea Centrone

The anisotropy of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) crystals gives rise to hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs), notable for their volumetric frequency-dependent...

Scalable Data Pipeline Architecture to Support the Industrial Internet of Things

May 17, 2020

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Moneer M. Helu, Timothy A. Sprock, Daniel Hartenstine, Rishabh Venketesh, William Sobel

Managing manufacturing data remains challenging despite the growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). While various standards and technologies enable...

In-situ calibration of laser/galvo scanning system using dimensional reference artefacts

May 17, 2020

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Ho Yeung, Brandon M. Lane, M A. Donmez, Shawn P. Moylan

Laser powder bed fusion systems use a high-power laser, steered by two galvanometer (galvo) mirrors to scan a pattern on metal powder layers. Part geometric...

Photocurrent detection of the orbital angular momentum of light

May 15, 2020

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Zhurun Ji, Wenjing Liu, Sergiy Krylyuk, Xiaopeng Fan, Zhifeng Zhang, Anlian Pan, Liang Feng, Albert Davydov, Ritesh Agarwal

Utilizing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is promising for increasing the bandwidth of optical communication networks. However, direct photocurrent...

Contact resistance in organic field‐effect transistors: conquering the barrier

May 15, 2020

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Matthew Waldrip, Oana Jurchescu, David J. Gundlach, Emily Bittle

Organic semiconductors have sparked significant interest due to their inherent properties as flexible, solution processible, and chemically tunable electronic...

Magnetic Properties and Electronic Origin of the Interface between Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors with Orthogonal Magnetic Anisotropy

May 15, 2020

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Ryan F. Need, Seul-Ki Bac, Xinyu Liu, Sanghoon Lee, Brian Kirby, Margaret Dobrowolska, Jacek Kossut, Jacek K. Furdyna

Controlling changes in magnetic anisotropy across epitaxial film interfaces is an important prerequisite for many spintronic devices. For the canonical dilute...

Correlating Magnetic Structure and Magnetotransport in Semimetal Thin Films of Eu_1-xSm_xTiO₃

May 15, 2020

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Zach Porter, Ryan F. Need, Kaveh Ahadi, Yang Zhao, Zhijun Xu, Brian Kirby, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Susanne Stemmer, Stephen D. Wilson

We report on the evolution of the average and depth-dependent magnetic order in thin film samples of biaxially stressed and electron-doped EuTiO 3 for samples...

Thermal Properties of the Very Low Thermal Conductivity Ternary Chalcogenides Cu4Bi4M9 (M = S, Se)

May 14, 2020

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Dean Hobbis, Hsin Wang, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas

Temperature-dependent thermal properties of phase-pure polycrystalline ternary chalcogenides Cu4Bi4S9 and Cu4Bi4Se9 are reported. The large unit cell and...

Non-fuel Antineutrino Contributions in the High Flux Isotope Reactor

May 14, 2020

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

Reactor neutrino experiments have seen major improvements in precision in recent years. With the experimental uncertainties starting to surpass those from...

Approaches to Training Multi-Class Semantic Image Segmentation of Damage in Concrete

May 14, 2020

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Peter Bajcsy, Steven B. Feldman, Michael P. Majurski, Kenneth A. Snyder, Mary C. Brady

This paper addresses the problem of creating a large quantity of high-quality training image segmentation masks from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images...

Three-Magnon Bound States in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet α-NaMnO₂

May 14, 2020

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Rebecca L Dally, Alvin J. R. Heng, Anna Keselman, Mitchell M. Bordelon, Matthew B. Stone, Leon Balents, Stephen D. Wilson

Here we report on the formation of two and three magnon bound states in the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet α-NaMnO 2, where the single-ion, uniaxial...

Assessment of the Higher Order Structure of Formulated Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics by 2D Methyl Correlated NMR and Principal Component Analysis.

May 14, 2020

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Luke Arbogast, Frank Delaglio, Robert G. Brinson, John Marino

Characterization of the higher order structure (HOS) of protein therapeutics and in particular, monoclonal antibodies, by 2D 1H-13C methyl correlated NMR has...

Linear Polarization of Anisotropically Excited X-ray Lines from the n=2 Complex in He-like Ar16+

May 13, 2020

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Dipti Goyal, Sean W. Buechele, Amy C. Gall, Samuel C. Sanders, Csilla I. Szabo-Foster, Roshani Silwal, Endre A. Takacs, Yuri Ralchenko

High-resolution x-ray spectra were recorded at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) electron beam ion trap (EBIT) using two Johann-type...

Magnetic Order and Instability in Newly Synthesized CoSeAs Marcasite

May 13, 2020

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Yiyao Chen, G. Yumnam, A. Dahal, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Guangyong Xu, T. Heitmann, D. K. Singh

Marcasite class of compounds provide facile platform to explore novel phenomena of fundamental and technological importance, such as unconventional...

Optimization of photoluminescence from W centers in silicon-on-insulator for waveguide-coupled sources

May 13, 2020

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Sonia M. Buckley, Alexander N. Tait, Galan Moody, Kevin L. Silverman, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Jeffrey M. Shainline, Stephen Olson, Joshua Hermann, Satyvalu Papa Rao

W centers are trigonal defects generated by self-ion implantation in silicon that exhibit photoluminescence at 1.218\textmu m. We have shown previously that...

Workshop on the Characterization of Fiber-Based Scaffolds: Where We Are and What We Need to Move Forward

May 12, 2020

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Carl Simon, Becky Robinson-Zeigler, Michael Yaszemski, Jayesh Doshi, Michael Francis, Sherif Soliman, Lexi Garcia

As the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM) industry transitions from small-scale development of prototypes for research and design purposes to...

Entropy Scaling of Viscosity I: A Case Study of Propane

May 12, 2020

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Ian H. Bell

In this work a broadly-applicable and simple approach for developing high accuracy viscosity correlations yielding uncertainties approximately equal to the...

Open-system tensor networks and Kramers' crossover for quantum transport

May 12, 2020

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Gabriela Wojtowicz, Justin E. Elenewski, Marek Rams, Michael P. Zwolak

Tensor networks are a powerful tool for many-body ground-states with limited entanglement. These methods can nonetheless fail for certain time-dependent...

Bio-inspired gas sensing: boosting performance with sensor optimization guided by "machine learning"

May 12, 2020

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Radislav A. Potyrailo, J. Brewer, B. Cheng, M. A. Carpenter, N. Houlihan, Andrei Kolmakov

Existing sensors for gaseous species often degrade their performance because of the loss of the measurement accuracy in the presence of interferences. Thus, new...

Equilibration of the planar modes of ultracold two-dimensional ion crystals in a Penning trap

May 11, 2020

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Chen Tang, Athreya Shankar, Daniel Dubin, Dominic Meiser, Scott Parker, John J. Bollinger

Planar thermal equilibration is studied using direct numerical simulations of ultracold two-dimensional ion crystals in a Penning trap with a rotating wall. The...

Efficient electrically-powered CO2-to-ethanol via suppression of deoxygenation

May 11, 2020

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Xue Wang, Wang Ziyun, F. P. Garcia de Arquer, Cao-Thang Dinh, Adnan Ozden, Yuguang C. Li, Dae-Hyun Nam, Jun Li, Yi-Sheng Liu, Joshua Wicks, Zitao Chen, Miaofang Chi, Bin Chen, Ying Wang, Jason Tam, Jane Y. Howe, Andrew Proppe, Peter Todrovic, Fengwang Li, Tao-Tao Zhuang, Christine M. Garbardo, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Christopher McCallum, Yanwei Lum, Mingchuan Luo, Yimeng Min, Aoni Xu, Colin P. O'Brien, Bello Stephen, Bin Sun, Alexander H. Ip, Lee Richter, Shana O. Kelley, David Sinton, Edward H. Sargent

The carbon dioxide electroreduction reaction (CO2RR) provides avenues to the production renewable ethanol, a high-energy-density fuel. Unfortunately, until now...

Heterogeneous photodiodes on silicon nitride waveguides

May 11, 2020

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Qianhuan Yu, Junyi Gao, Nan Ye, Baiheng Chen, Keye Sun, Linli Xie, Kartik Srinivasan, Michael Zervas, Gabriele Navickaite, Michael Geiselmann, Andreas Beling

Heterogeneous integration through low-temperature die bonding is a promising technique to enable high-performance III-V photodetectors on the silicon nitride...

Assessing the Robustness of Powder Rheology and Permeability Measurements

May 11, 2020

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Louis-Philippe Lefebvre, Justin Whiting, Boris Nijikovski, Sallah Eddine Brika, Haniyeh Fayazfar, Ola Lyckfeldt

Powder metallurgy processes rely on powder flowability. However, flowability is not an intrinsic property and depends on the measurement conditions. Standards...

Atomic-scale control of tunneling in donor-based devices

May 11, 2020

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Xiqiao Wang, Jonathan E. Wyrick, Ranjit V. Kashid, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Scott W. Schmucker, Andrew Murphy, Michael D. Stewart, Richard M. Silver

Atomically precise donor-based quantum devices are a promising candidate for scalable solid- state quantum computing. Atomically precise design and...

Processing-Structure-Property Relationships of Polycarbonate Samples Prepared by Fused Filament Fabrication

May 11, 2020

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Lichen Fang, Yishu Yan, Ojaswi Agarwal, Jonathan Seppala, Kevin Hemker, Sung Hoon Kang

Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is one of the most popular additive manufacturing processes. However, advanced applications of FFF are still limited by the...

Fast surrogate modeling using dimensionality reduction in model inputs and field output: Application to additive manufacturing

May 11, 2020

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Manav Vohra, Paromita Nath, Sankaran Mahadevan, Yung-Tsun Lee

A novel approach to surrogate modeling motivated by recent advancements in parameter dimension reduction isproposed. Specifically, the approach aims to speed-up...

Extraordinary performance of semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors using dielectric excitation

May 11, 2020

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Andrei A. Kolmakov, Radislav A. Potyrailo, Steven Go, Daniel Sexton, Xiaxi Li, Nasr Alkadi, Bruce Amm, Richard St-Pierre, Brian Scherer, Majid Nayeri, Guang Wu, Christopher Collazo-Davila, Doug Forman, Chris Calvert, Craig Mack, Philip Mcconnell

Electrical response of metal oxide semiconducting (MOS) materials to gases was discovered 70 years ago [1] and miniature low-cost MOS chemiresistors became the...

Modeling motional energy spectra and lattice light shifts in optical lattice clocks

May 8, 2020

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Kyle Beloy, Will McGrew, Xiaogang Zhang, Daniele Nicolodi, Robert J. Fasano, Youssef Hassan, Roger Brown, Andrew Ludlow

We develop a model to describe the motional (i.e., external degree of freedom) energy spectra of atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice, taking into...

Prevention of Cooktop Ignition Using Detection and Multi-Step Machine Learning Algorithms

May 8, 2020

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Wai Cheong Tam, Eugene Yujun Fu, Amy E. Mensch, Anthony P. Hamins, Christina Yu, Grace Ngai, Hong va Leong

This paper presents a study to examine the potential use of machine learning models to build a real-time detection algorithm for prevention of kitchen cooktop...