Journals

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...

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...

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...

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...

Microelectrode Studies of S-NDR Copper Electrodeposition: Potentiodynamic and Galvanodynamic Measurements and Simulations

May 8, 2020

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Trevor Braun, Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat

Copper electrodeposition from a CuSO4 – H2SO4 electrolyte containing a polyether suppressor and Cl- concentrations (0 – 100) μmol/L is examined using a 25 μm...

Substitutional Point Defect Mechanisms and Structural Relaxations for Manganese in SrTiO3: Bridging the Metrology Concentration Gap

May 7, 2020

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Russell Maier, Igor Levin, Eric Cockayne, Matthew P. Donohue, Giannantonio Cibin

The methodology for experimentally verifying the point-defect chemistry (site of substitution, valence, and chargecompensation mechanisms) in manganese-doped...

Microfabricated carbon nanotube bolometers

May 7, 2020

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Nathan Tomlin, Christopher Yung, Michelle Stephens, Igor Vayshenker, Zach Castleman, Matthiew Denoual, Ginger Drake, Nat Farber, David Harber, Karl Heuerman, Greg Kopp, Heather Passe, Erik Richard, Joel Rutkowski, Jacob Sprunck, Samuel Van Dreser, Wengang Zheng

Multi-wall vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) are nearly ideal absorbers due to their exceptionally low reflectance over a broad wavelength range...

Modeling the Electromagnetic Scattering Characteristics of Carbon Nanotube Composites Characterized by 3D Tomographic Transmission Electron Microscopy

May 7, 2020

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Ahmed M. Hassan, Md Khadimul Islam, Spencer On, Bharath Natarajan, Itai Stein, Noa Lachman, Estelle Cohen, Brian L. Wardle, Renu Sharma, James Liddle, Edward Garboczi

In nearly all prior modeling studies of the electromagnetic properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, the three-dimensional (3D) shape and spatial...

T1 Mapping Performance and Measurement Stability: Results from the Multi-National T1MES (T1 Mapping and ECV Standardization) Phantom Program

May 7, 2020

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Gabriella Captur, Abhiyan Bandari, Ye Yang, Richard James, Giulia Benedetti, Camilla Torlasco, Lewis Ricketts, Redha Boubertakh, Katy Keenan, Rüediger Brüehl, Bernd Itterman, Nasri Fatih, John Greenwood, Leonie Paulis, Chris Lawton, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Hildo Lamb, Richard Steeds, Steve Leung, Colin Berry, Sinitsyn Valentin, Andrew Flett, Charlotte de Lange, Francesco DeCobelli, Magalie Viallon, Pierre Croisille, David Higgins, Andreas Greiser, Wenjie Peng, Christian Hamilton-Craig, Wendy Strugnell, Tom Dresselaers, Andrea Barison, Dana Dawson, Andrew Taylor, François-Pierre Mongeon, Sven Plein, Daniel Messroghli, Mouaz Al-Mallah, Stuart Grieve, Massimo Lombardi, Jihye Jang, Michael Salerno, Nish Chaturvedi, Peter Kellman, David Bluemke, Reza Nezafat, Peter Gatehouse, James C. Moon

Competition between Factors Determining Bright versus Dark Atomic States within aLaser Mode

May 7, 2020

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Brian Hemingway, T. G. Atkin, Steven Peil, James(Trey) Porto

We observe bimodal uorescence patterns from atoms in a fast atomic beam when the laser excitation occurs in the presence of a magnetic eld and the atoms sample...

Computational Search for Magnetic and Non-magnetic 2D Topological Materials using Unified Spin-orbit Spillage Screening

May 7, 2020

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Kamal Choudhary, Kevin F. Garrity, Jie Jiang, Ruth Pachter, Francesca M. Tavazza

Two-dimensional topological materials (TMs) have a variety of properties that make them attractive for applications including spintronics and quantum...

Photo-tunable hydrogel mechanical heterogeneity informed by predictive transport kinetics model

May 6, 2020

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Callie I. Higgins, Jason P. Killgore, Frank W. DelRio, Stephanie J. Bryant, Robert R. McLeod

Mimicking the three-dimensional (3D) mechanical and chemical properties of distinctly different, adjacent biological tissues is crucial to study and to...

Green Composite of Instant Coffee and Poly(Vinyl Alcohol): an Excellent Transport UV-Shielding Material with Superior Thermal-Oxidative Stability

May 6, 2020

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Yadong Lyu, Xiaohong Gu, Yimin NMN Mao

Producing ultraviolet-light-shielding (UV-shielding) materials via green chemistry has been attracting researchers' attention. Herein, a polymer composite...