Journals

Structural stability of Co-V intermetallic phases and thermodynamic description of the Co-V system

January 9, 2020

Author(s)

Peisheng Wang, Thomas Hammerschmidt, Ursula R. Kattner, Olson B. Gregory

The Co-V system has been reviewed. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations using the generalized gradient approximation were used to obtain the energies...

Modelling photovoltaic soiling losses through optical characterization

January 9, 2020

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Greg P. Smestad, Thomas Germer, Hameed Alrashidi, Eduardo F. Fern?ndez, Sumon Dey, Paidisetty S. Kumar, Honey Brahma, Aritra Ghosh, Nazmi Sellami, Ibrahim A. Hassan, Amal Kasry, Bala Pesala, S. Senthilarasu, Florencia Almonacid, K. S. Reddy, Tapas K. Mallick, Leonardo Micheli

The accumulation of soiling on photovoltaic (PV) modules affects PV systems worldwide. Soiling consists of mineral dust, soot particles, aerosols, pollen, fungi...

Materials Characterization With Multiple Offset Reflects at Frequencies to 110 GHz

January 8, 2020

Author(s)

Nina P. Basta, Aaron Hagerstrom, Jasper A. Drisko, James Booth, Edward Garboczi, Christian Long, Nathan Orloff

Understanding the electrical properties of materials is a necessary part of any microwave circuit design. In this article, we explore the possibility of...

Organoarsenicals in Seafood: Occurrence, Dietary Exposure, Toxicity, and Risk Assessment Considerations − A Review

January 8, 2020

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Caleb Luvonga, Catherine A. Rimmer, Lee L. Yu, Sang B. Lee

Diet, especially seafood, is the main source of arsenic exposure for humans. Total arsenic content provides limited information for evaluation of the...

Selective Ethane/Ethylene Separation in a Robust Microporous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework

January 8, 2020

Author(s)

Xu Zhang, Libo Li, Jia-Xin Wang, Hui-Min Wen, Rajamani Krishna, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Zhong-Ning Chen, Bin Li, Guodong Qian, Banglin Chen

The separation of ethane (C 2H 6) from ethylene (C 2H 4) is of prime importance in the production of polymergrade C 2H 4 for industrial manufacturing. It is...

Ultranarrow linewidth photonic-atomic laser

January 8, 2020

Author(s)

Wei Zhang, Liron Stern, David R. Carlson, Douglas G. Bopp, Zachary L. Newman, Songbai Kang, John Kitching, Scott Papp

Lasers with high spectral purity can enable a diverse application space, including precision spectroscopy, coherent high-speed communications, physical sensing...

Database-Assisted Design of Purlins and Girts for Wind Accounting for Directionality

January 8, 2020

Author(s)

Dat Duthinh, Emil Simiu

For the database-assisted design (DAD) of low-rise building purlins and girts, a method is proposed that explicitly accounts for wind directionality by using...

Detection Orthogonality in Macromolecular Separations. 2. Exploring Wavelength Orthogonality and Spectroscopic Invisibility Using SEC/DRI/UV/FL

January 7, 2020

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Andre M. Striegel, Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander

We continue herein the exploration of detector orthogonality in size-based macromolecular separations. Previously [5], the sensitivity of viscometric detection...

Efficient Randomness Certification by Quantum Probability Estimation

January 7, 2020

Author(s)

Emanuel H. Knill, Yanbao Zhang, Honghao Fu

For practical applications of quantum randomness generation, it is important to produce a fixed block of fresh random bits with as few trials as possible...

A Precision Measurement of the Neutron Scattering Length of4He Using Neutron Interferometry

January 7, 2020

Author(s)

Robert W. Haun, Fred Wietfeldt, Muhammad D. Arif, Michael G. Huber, T C. Black, Ben Heacock, Dmitry Pushin, Chandra B. Shahi

We report a 0.08% measurement of the bound neutron scattering length of 4He using neutron interferometry. The result is b=(3.0982 ± 0.0021[stat] ± 0.0014[syst])...

Microsecond-timescale simulations suggest 5-HT-mediated preactivation of the 5-HT3A serotonin receptor

January 7, 2020

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Nicholas B. Guros, Arvind Balijepalli, Jeffery B. Klauda

Aided by efforts to improve their speed and efficiency, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide an increasingly powerful tool to study the structure...

Structural and Reorientational Dynamics of Tetrahydroborate (BH₄-) and Tetrahydrofuran (THF) in a Mg(BH₄)₂𔅗THF Adduct: Neutron-Scattering Characterization

January 7, 2020

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Mirjana NMN Dimitrievska, Marina Chong, Mark E. Bowden, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Iffat Nayyar, Bojana Ginovska, Thomas Gennett, Tom Autrey, Craig M. Jensen, Terrence J. Udovic

Metal borohydrides are considered as promising materials for hydrogen storage applications due to their high volumetric and gravimetric hydrogen densities...

Perspectives of electrically generated spin currents in ferromagnetic materials

January 7, 2020

Author(s)

Angie Davidson, Vivek P. Amin, Wafa Aljuaid, Paul M. Haney, Xin Fan

Bottom-up Cu Filling of Annular Through Silicon Vias: Microstructure and Texture

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Thomas P. Moffat, Daniel Josell

Microstructural and morphological evolution during bottom-up Cu filling of TSV in a CuSO4-H2SO4-Cl- poloxamine electrolyte is examined. Deposition proceeds in...

Absolute measurement of laser ionization yield in atmospheric pressure range gases over 14 decades

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Daniel Woodbury, Robert Schwartz, Ela Rockafellow, Jared Wahlstrand, H M. Milchberg

Multiphoton and tunneling ionization are fundamental processes in strong field laser-matter interactions, and are integral to applications such as high harmonic...

Unwinding twenty years of the archaeal minichromosome maintenance helicase

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Lori M. Kelman, William Brad O'Dell, Zvi Kelman

Collisions of room temperature helium with ultra-cold lithium and the van-der-Waals bound state of HeLi

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Constantinos Makrides, Daniel Barker, James A. Fedchak, Julia Scherschligt, Stephen Eckel, Eite Tiesinga

We have computed the thermally-averaged total, elastic rate coefficient for the collision of a room-temperature helium atom with an ultra-cold lithium atom...

Covariance-based uncertainty analysis of reference equations of state

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Howard Cheung, Jerome Frutiger, Ian Bell, Jens Abildskov, Gurkan Sin, Shengwei Wang

This work presents a detailed methodology for uncertainty analysis applied to a reference equation of state (EOS) based on Helmholtz energy. With increasing...

Quantifying protein aggregation kinetics using electrospray differential mobility analysis

January 5, 2020

Author(s)

Kaleb J. Duelge, Jeremie Parot, Vincent A. Hackley, Michael R. Zachariah

Protein aggregation is a significant concern in bioprocessing and end use applications. Here the thermal aggregation kinetics of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and...

Focused Ion Beam-Induced Displacive Phase Transformation From Austenite to Martensite during Fabrication of Quenched and Partitioned Steel Micro-Pillar

January 5, 2020

Author(s)

Eun Jung Seo, Lawrence Cho, Jin Kyung Kim, Javad Mola, Lijia Zhao, Sukjin Lee, Bruno C. De Cooman

We report evidence of displacive phase transformation from retained austenite to martensite during preparation of quenched and partitioned steel micro-pillars...

Development of an LC-APCI-MS Method for Determining Off-Flavor Compounds and its Application Towards Marine Recirculating Aquaculture System Monitoring and Evaluation of Aeration as a Depuration Approach

January 4, 2020

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Keiko Saito

The off-flavor compounds geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (2-MIB) are well-known to impact the quality of farmed freshwater fish species, but little is known...

High-resolution infrared spectroscopy of HCF in the CH stretch region

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Kirstin Doney, ANDREW KORTYNA, David Nesbitt

Plasmonic Nano-antenna Optimization Using Characteristic Mode Analysis

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Sumitra Dey, Deb Chatterjee, Ahmed M. Hassan

Plasmonic nano-antennas are typically designed using RF-inspired parametric optimization process and/or using trial and error search algorithms which lack...

Organizing Tagged Knowledge: Similarity Measures and Semantic Fluency in Structure Mining

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Thurston B. Sexton, Mark Fuge

Recovering a system's underlying structure from its historical records (also called structure mining) is essential to making valid inferences about that system...

Dynamical evolution of the 2D/3D interface: a hidden driver behind perovskite solar cell instability

January 3, 2020

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Lee J. Richter, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Albertus A. Sutano, Nikita Drigo, Ines G. Benito, Valentine I. Queloz, Kyung T. Cho, Pascal A. Schouwink, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Giulia Grancini, Sanghyun Paek

Engineering two-/three-dimensional (2D/3D) perovskite solar cells is nowadays a popular strategy for efficient and stable devices. However, the exact function...

Demonstration of 220/280 GHz Multichroic Feedhorn-Coupled TES Polarimeter

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Samantha L. Walker, Carlos E. Sierra, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, Bradley J. Dober, Shannon M. Duff, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen, Jeff McMahon, Sara M. Simon, Joel N. Ullom, Michael R. Vissers

We describe the design and measurement of feedhorn-coupled, transition-edge sensor (TES) polarimeters with two passbands centered at 220 GHz and 280 GHz...

Using a Natural Ratio to Compare DC and AC Resistances

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Kwang Min Yu, Dean G. Jarrett, Andrew D. Koffman, Albert Rigosi, Shamith Payagala, Kwon-Sang Ryu, Jeon-Hong Kang, Sang-Hwa Lee

Utica Shale Reactivity: CO2 Induced Pore Scale Changes in the Fracture Network and Matrix

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Angela Goodman, Sean Sanguinito, Sittichai Natesakhawat, Patricia Cvetic, Barbara Kutchko, Andrew J. Allen

The Utica Shale is expected to be a substantial fossil fuel resource in the future. Currently, 663.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas and oil are being...

Patterned Surface Energy in Elastomeric Molds as a Generalized Approach to Polymer Particle Fabrication

January 2, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel D. Oberdick, Gary Zabow

We present a generic fabrication scheme to produce polymer microparticles with engineerable, complex shapes. The polymer particles are made from a polyethylene...

A self-assembled graphene ribbon grown on SiC

January 2, 2020

Author(s)

Bi Y. Wu, Yanfei Yang, Albert Rigosi, Jiuning Hu, Hsin Y. Lee, Guangjun Cheng, Vishal Panchal, Mattias Kruskopf, Hanbyul Jin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David B. Newell, Randolph Elmquist, Chi-Te Liang