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Halide-induced Step Faceting and Dissolution Energetics from Atomistic Machine Learned Potentials on Cu(100)

May 6, 2020

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Mitchell C. Groenenboom, Thomas P. Moffat, Kathleen Schwarz

On the Development and Characterization of a Transparent Enclosure for 360° View Video Cameras to Observe Fire Dynamics in Situ

May 5, 2020

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Matthew S. Hoehler

360-degree video recorded in fires provides a unique perspective that allows the viewer to change the field of view as regions of interest vary in space and...

Dielectric loss extraction for superconducting microwave resonators

May 5, 2020

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Corey Rae H. McRae, Russell Lake, Junling Long, Mustafa Bal, Xian Wu, Battogtokh Jugdersuren, Thomas Metcalf, Xiao Liu, David P. Pappas

The investigation of two-level-state (TLS) loss in dielectric materials and interfaces remains at the forefront of materials research in superconducting quantum...

Readily Accessible Benzo[d]thiazole Polymers for Nonfullerene Solar Cells with >16% Efficiency and Potential Pitfalls

May 4, 2020

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Liang-Wen Feng, Jianhua Chen, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Yao Chen, Ding Zheng, Joseph Strzalka, Gang Wang, Dean DeLongchamp, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Marks

Here we report facile, high-yield synthetic access to the difluoro BTA building block, 4,7-bis(5-bromo-4-(2-hexyl-decyl)-thiophen-2-yl)-5,6-difluoro-2-...

Tuning interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in thin amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys

May 4, 2020

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Yassine Quessab, Jun-Wen Xu, Chung Ting Ma, W. Zhou, Grant A. Riley, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, S. J. Poon, Andrew D. Kent

Skyrmions can be stabilized in magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry and chiral interactions, such as Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI)...

Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes

May 4, 2020

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Justin M. Zook, Kishwar Shafin, Trevor Pesout, Ryan Lorig-Roach, Marina Haukness, Hugh E. Olsen, Miten Jain, Benedict Paten

De novo assembly of a human genome using nanopore long-read sequences has been reported, but it used more than 150,000 CPU hours and weeks of wall-clock time...

Determining Flow Resistance through Vegetation Canopy

May 2, 2020

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Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Kevin B. McGrattan

This study documents the measurement of the wind resistance of different types of vegetation. The measurements are made in a wind tunnel with a 2.0 m test...

Reporting requirements to increase the reproducibility and comparability of research on microplastics

May 2, 2020

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Jennifer Lynch

The ubiquitous pollution of the environment with microplastics (a diverse suite of contaminants) is of growing concern for modern environmental science and...

Low-loss, high-bandwidth fiber-to-chip coupling using capped adiabatic tapered fibers

May 1, 2020

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Saeed Khan, Jeff Shainline, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Sonia Buckley, Jeff Chiles

We demonstrate adiabatically tapered fibers terminating in sub-micron tips that are clad with a higher-index material for coupling to an on-chip waveguide. This...

All-fiber frequency comb at 2 µm providing 1.4-cycle pulses

May 1, 2020

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Sida Xing, Abijith S. Kowligy, Daniel Lesko, Alexander Lind, Scott Diddams

We report an all-fiber approach to generating sub-2-cycle pulses at 2 µm and a corresponding octave-spanning optical frequency comb. Our configuration...

Accurate Integral Counting Using Multi-channel Analyzers

May 1, 2020

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Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Lynne E. King

Many techniques in radionuclide metrology rely on accurate measurement of the total count rate, that is integral counting, from a detector. In modern...

ERRATUM: UPDATE OF NIST HALF-LIFE RESULTS CORRECTED FOR IONIZATION CHAMBER SOURCE-HOLDER INSTABILITY

May 1, 2020

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Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Michael P. Unterweger

Reinforcement Learning-Based Control and Networking Co-design for Industrial Internet of Things

May 1, 2020

Author(s)

Hansong Xu, Xing Liu, Wei Yu, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie

Industrial Internet-of-Things (I-IoT), also known as Industry 4.0, is the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technology into the industrial manufacturing...

Three-Dimensional Magnetism and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in S=3/2 Kagome Staircase Co₃V₂O₈

May 1, 2020

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Joel Helton, Nicholas P. Butch, Daniel M. Pajerowski, Sergei N. Barilo, Jeffrey W. Lynn

Time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy reveals spin waves in the ferromagnetic ground state of the kagome staircase material Co 32V 2O 8. While previous work has...

Field Research to Application: A study of human response to the May 22, 2011, Joplin tornado and its impact on alerts and warnings in the U.S.

April 30, 2020

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Erica D. Kuligowski

A tornado occurred on May 22, 2011in the populated area of Joplin, Missouri that caused 161 fatalities, the most caused by a single tornado since the NWS...

Charge Carrier Transport with Low-Temperature Anomalies in Engineered 4d5 Oxide Superlattices of (Sr₂IrO₄)₄/(Sr₃Ru₂O₂₇)_N

April 30, 2020

Author(s)

Hui Xu, Alexander Grutter, Zhangzhang Cui, Zhicheng Wang, Xiaofang Zhai, Yalin Lu

We report tunable conduction behavior of a series of (Sr 2IrO 4) 4/(Sr 3Ru 2O 27) N (N=1, 2, 4) atomic layer superlattices, in which itinerant electron...

Single-Photon Sources: Approaching the Ideal through Multiplexing

April 30, 2020

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Alan L. Migdall, Evan Meyer-Scott, Christine Silberhorn

We review the rapid recent progress in single-photon sources based on multiplexing multiple probabilistic photon-creation events. Such multiplexing allows...

Sparse estimation of mutual information landscapes quantifies information transmission through cellular biochemical reaction networks

April 30, 2020

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Swarnavo Sarkar, Drew S. Tack, David Ross

Measuring information transmission from stimulus to response is useful for evaluating the signaling fidelity of biochemical reaction networks (BRNs) in cells...

Basic Metrology for 2020

April 30, 2020

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Stephan Schlamminger, Richard Davis

2019 was a big year for Metrology. The international system of units was revised on World Metrology Day, May 20th, that year [1]. What will 2020 bring? In this...

Laser-free trapped-ion entangling gates with simultaneous insensitivity to qubit and motional decoherence

April 29, 2020

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R. T. Sutherland, Raghavendra Srinivas, Shaun C. Burd, Hannah Knaack, Andrew C. Wilson, David J. Wineland, Dietrich Leibfried, David T. Allcock, Daniel Slichter, S. B. Libby

The dominant error sources for state-of-the-art implementations of laser-free trapped-ion entangling gates are decoherence of the qubit state and motion. The...

Wavelength transduction from a 3D microwave cavity to telecom using piezoelectric optomechanical crystals

April 29, 2020

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Hugh Ramp, T.J. Clark, Brett Hauer, Caleb Doolin, Krishna Coimbatore Balram, Kartik Srinivasan, John Davis

Ion transport across solid-state ion channels perturbed by directed strain

April 28, 2020

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Alexander Smolyanitsky, Alta Y. Fang, Andrei Kazakov, Eugene Paulechka

We combine quantum-chemical calculations and molecular dynamics simulations to consider aqueous ion flow across non-axisymmetric nanopores in monolayer graphene...

Enhanced magnetization in proton irradiated Mn3Si2Te6 van der Waals crystals

April 28, 2020

Author(s)

L. M. Martinez, H. Iturriaga, R. Olmos, L. Shao, Y. Liu, Thuc Mai, C. Petrovic, Angela R. Hight Walker, S. R. Singamaneni

van der Waals (vdW) engineering of magnetism is a topic of increasing research interest in the community at present. We study the magnetic properties of quasi...

Optimization of the Pore Structures of MOFs for Record High Hydrogen Volumetric Working Capacity

April 28, 2020

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Xin Zhang, Rui-Biao Lin, Jing Wang, Bin Wang, Bin Liang, Taner N. Yildirim, Jian Zhang, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen

Metal-organic frameworks are promising materials for onboard hydrogen storage thanks to the tunable pore size, pore volume, and pore geometry. In consideration...

Frequency stability of the mode spectrum of broad bandwidth Fabry-Pérot interferometers

April 27, 2020

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Jeffrey M. Jennings, Ryan C. Terrien, Connor Fredrick, Michael Grisham, Mark Notcutt, Samuel Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Scott Diddams

When illuminated by a white light source, the discrete resonances of a Fabry- Perot interferometer (FP) provide a broad bandwidth, comb-like spectrum useful for...

Index of refraction of germanium

April 27, 2020

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John H. Burnett, Eric C. Benck, Simon G. Kaplan, Erik Stover, Adam Phenis

Measurements of the index of refraction of a sample of high-quality, single-crystal germanium using the minimum deviation refractometry method are presented for...

Crystallography and properties of metal organic framework (MOF) compounds (Special sections)

April 27, 2020

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Craig M. Brown

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are known for their wide range of potential applications, including gas sorption, gas storage, gas separation, catalysis...

Quantum computation toolbox for decoherence-free qubits using multi-band alkali atoms

April 27, 2020

Author(s)

Mikhail Mamaev, Joseph H. Thywissen, Ana Maria Rey

Effect of a Post-Translational Modification Mimic on Protein Translocation through a Nanopore

April 27, 2020

Author(s)

David P. Hoogerheide, Philip A. Gurnev, Tatiana K. Rostovtseva, Sergey M. Bezrukov

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins are recognized as crucial components of cell signaling pathways through modulating folding, altering...

Uncertainty analysis of adsorption measurements using commercial gravimetric sorption analyzers with simultaneous density measurement based on a magnetic-suspension balance

April 27, 2020

Author(s)

Xiaoxian Yang, Reiner Kleinrahm, Mark O. McLinden, Markus Richter

A commercial gravimetric sorption analyzer, which is based on a magnetic-suspension balance, was significantly improved to reduce the uncertainty in adsorption...

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