Journals

Quantification of a PbCl_x Shell on the Surface of PbS Nanocrystals

August 5, 2019

Author(s)

Samuel W. Winslow, Yun Liu, James W. Swan, William A. Tisdale

Differences between the properties of PbS nanocrystals prepared using a large excess of PbCl 2 and those prepared using other Pb sources have led to speculation

X-Ray Nanodiffraction Studies of Ionically Controlled Nanoscale Phase Separation in Cobaltites

August 5, 2019

Author(s)

Geoffery Rippy, Lacey Trinh, Alexander M. Kane, Aleksey L. Ionin, Michael S. Lee, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Joyce M. Christiansen-Salameh, Dustin A. Gilbert, Alexander Grutter, Peyton D. Murray, Martin V. Holt, Zhonghou Cai, Kai Liu, Yayoi Takamura, Roopali Kukreja

Complex oxide heterostructures provide access to emergent functional and structural phases which are not present in the bulk constituent materials. In this

Three-state structural heterogeneity in a model two dimensional liquid

August 3, 2019

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Tamoghna Das

Three structural populations with distinct average mobility are identi ed within an equilibrium two-dimensional Lennard-Jones uid simulated via molecular

Revisiting the Photon-Drag Effect in Metal Films

August 2, 2019

Author(s)

Jared H. Strait, Glenn E. Holland, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Bojan R. Ilic, Amit K. Agrawal, Domenico Pacifici, Henri J. Lezec

The photon-drag effect, the rectified current in a medium induced by conservation of momentum of absorbed or redirected light, is a unique probe of the detailed

Controlling the thermal conductance of silicon nitride membranes at 100 mK temperatures with patterned metal features

August 2, 2019

Author(s)

Xiaohang Zhang, Shannon M. Duff, Gene C. Hilton, Peter J. Lowell, Kelsey M. Morgan, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom

Freestanding micromachined membranes are often used for thermal isolation in electronic devices such as photon sensors. The degree of thermal isolation plays an

High separation efficiency of gold nanomaterials of different aspect ratio and size using capillary transient isotachophoresis

August 2, 2019

Author(s)

Kathryn R. Riley, Hind El Hadri, Jiaojie Tan, Vincent A. Hackley, William A. MacCrehan

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) has shown considerable promise for the analysis of sub-micron and nanoscale materials. However, many proposed methods utilize

Monte Carlo studies of bootstrap variability in ROC analysis with data dependency

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker

ROC analysis involving two large datasets is an important method for analyzing statistics of interest for decision making of a classifier in many disciplines

PHOTONIC THERMOMETRY: UPENDING 100 YEAR-OLD PARADIGM IN TEMPERATURE METROLOGY

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Zeeshan Ahmed, Nikolai N. Klimov, Thomas P. Purdy, Tobias K. Herman, Kevin O. Douglass, Ryan P. Fitzgerald

For the past century, industrial temperature measurements have relied on resistance measurement of a thin metal wire or thin metal film whose resistance varies

Determining what really counts: Modeling and measuring nanoparticle number concentrations

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Blaza Toman, Monique E. Johnson, Mark Ellefson, George C. Caceres, Anna Lena Neuer, Qilin Chan, Jonathan Kemling, Brian Mader, Karen E. Murphy, Matthias Roesslein

Elijah J. Petersen, Antonio Montoro Bustos, Blaza Toman, Monique Johnson, Mark Ellefson, George C. Caceres, Anna Lena Neuer, Qilin Chan, Jonathan Kemling, Brian

Reconciling LED and Monochromator-based Measurements of Spectral Responsivity

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

John F. Roller, Behrang H. Hamadani

The irradiance spectral responsivity is an important measurement characteristic for a reference solar cell and has served as a primary reference cell

The hunt for refrigerant blends to replace R-134a

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell, Piotr A. Domanski, Gregory T. Linteris, Mark O. McLinden

We investigated refrigerant blends as possible low GWP (global warming potential) alternatives for R-134a in an air-conditioning application. We carried out an

Electron-excited X-ray Microanalysis by Energy Dispersive Spectrometry at 50: Analytical Accuracy, Precision, Trace Sensitivity, and Quantitative Compositional Mapping

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Dale E. Newbury, Nicholas Ritchie

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) with semiconductor detectors to electron-excited X-ray

The Quantum Hall Effect in the Era of the New SI

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Albert Rigosi, Randolph Elmquist

Discussion of: Fragility Curves for Wide-Flange Steel Columns and Implications for Building-Specific Earthquake-Induced Loss Assessment

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Bruce F. Maison, Matthew Speicher

Poiseuille and Extensional Flow Small-Angle Scattering for Developing Structure-Rheology Relationships in Soft Matter Systems

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Avanish NMN Bharati, Steven Hudson, Kathleen Weigandt

As the rheoscattering community has grown, so have the breadth of experiments both in terms of materials systems, and also in terms of flow types and analysis

Fluctuation-induced torque on a topological insulator out of thermal equilibrium

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Alexey Gorshkov, Jay Sau

Tunable Multiferroic Order Parameters in Sr_1-xBa_xMn_1-yTi_yO₃

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Kamal Chapagain, Dennis E. Brown, Stanislaw Kolesnik, Saul Lapidus, Bianca Haberl, Jamie Molaison, Chuanlong Lin, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Changyong Park, Jaroslaw Pietosa, Ewa Markiewicz, Bartlomiej Andrzejewski, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Stephan Rosenkranz, Bogdan Dabrowski, Omar Chmaissem

Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for efficient energy usage and increased speed and functionality of electronic and spintronic devices, multiferroic

Nanoscale Magnetization Inhomogeneity within Single Phase Nanopillars

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas O. Farmer, Er-Jia Guo, Ryan D. Desautels, Lisa Debeer-Schmitt, Aiping Chen, Zhongchang Wang, Quanxi Jia, Julie Borchers, Dustin A. Gilbert, Ben Holladay, Sunil K. Sinha, Michael R. Fitzsimmons

We report observation of a radial dependence in the magnetic anisotropy of epitaxially strained CoFe 2O 4 nanostructures in a BaTiO 3 matrix. This archetypal

Short-Time Dynamics of Proteins in Solutions Studied by Neutron Spin Echo

August 1, 2019

Author(s)

Yun Liu

Dynamics of proteins in solutions include translational, rotational, and internal motions that are linked to different properties of protein solutions. Because

False Discovery Rate Estimation for Hybrid Mass Spectral Library Search Identifications in Bottom-up Proteomics

July 31, 2019

Author(s)

Meghan C. Burke, Zheng Zhang, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Yuxue Liang, Stephen E. Stein

We present a method for FDR estimation of mass spectral library search identifications made by a recently developed method for peptide identification, the

1 GHz Waveform Synthesis with Josephson Arrays

July 31, 2019

Author(s)

Christine A. Donnelly, Justus A. Brevik, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Peter F. Hopkins, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

For the first time, we synthesize single- and multiple-tone waveforms at gigahertz frequencies from arrays of Josephson junctions and demonstrate quantum-locked

1 GHz Waveform Synthesis With Josephson Junction Arrays

July 31, 2019

Author(s)

Christine A. Donnelly, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Justus A. Brevik, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Peter F. Hopkins, Samuel P. Benz

We synthesize single- and multiple-tone waveforms at gigahertz frequencies from arrays of Josephson junctions and demonstrate their quantum-locked operation

Conventional vs. model-based measurement of patterned line widths from scanning electron microscopy profiles

July 31, 2019

Author(s)

Francesc Salvat-Pujol, John S. Villarrubia

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a practical tool to determine the dimensions of nanometer-scale features. Conventional width measurements use arbitrary

ToF-SIMS Depth Profiling of Oral Drug Delivery Films for 3D Visualization and Potential Quantification of Active Pharmaceutical Particles

July 30, 2019

Author(s)

Shinichiro N. Muramoto, J Greg Gillen, Cynthia J. Zeissler, Edward Garboczi

The size, shape, and spatial distribution of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) particles are important physical characteristics of drug delivery systems

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution coexisting with classical communication

July 30, 2019

Author(s)

Varun Verma

The prospect of building a quantum internet, which promises information-theoretic secure communication [1] as well as blind or networked quantum computing [2]

Towards Sustainable Environmental Quality: Priority Research Questions for North America

July 30, 2019

Author(s)

Anne Fairbrother, Derek Muir, Keith Solomon, Gerald Ankley, Murray Rudd, Alistair Boxall, William Adams, Jennifer Apell, Bonnie Blalock, Sarah Bowman, Linda Campbell, George Cobb, Kristin Connors, David Dreier, Marlene Evans, Carol Henry, Robert Hoke, Magali Houde, Stephen Klaine, Rebecca Klaper, Sigrun Kullik, Roman Lanno, Charles Meyer, Elias Oziolor, Mary Ann Ottinger, Elijah Petersen, Helen Poynton, Pamela Rice, Gabriela Rodriguez-Fuentes, Alan Samel, Joseph Shaw, Jeffrey Steevens, Tim Verslycke, Scott Weir, Peter Wilson, Bryan Brooks

Anticipating, identifying and prioritizing strategic needs represent essential activities by research organizations. When these pursuits engage globally

Electric Field Effect on Short-Range Polar Order in a Relaxor Ferroelectric System

July 30, 2019

Author(s)

Zhijun Xu, Fei Li, Shujun Zhang, Christopher Stock, Jun Luo, Peter M. Gehring, Guangyong Xu

Short-range polar orders in the relaxor ferroelectric material PbMg 1/2Nb 2/3O 3-28%PbTiO 3 (PMN-28PT) have been studied using neutron diffuse scattering. An

Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry for the quantitation of steroid hormone profiles in blubber from stranded humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

July 30, 2019

Author(s)

Greta Dalle Luche, Susan Bengston Nash, John Kucklick, Fletcher M. Mingramm, Ashley Russell

Marine mammal blubber is known to have quantifiable concentrations of steroid hormones and is increasingly chosen as a matrix for the detection of these

Characteristic Aspects of Additive Manufacturing Security from Security Awareness Perspectives

July 29, 2019

Author(s)

Lynne Graves, Joshua Lubell, Mark Yampolskiy, Wayne King

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is expected to become an established manufacturing technology in the near future. The growing penetration of AM at manufacturers

Stability of gaseous volatile organic compounds contained in gas cylinders with different internal wall treatments

July 29, 2019

Author(s)

George C. Rhoderick, Christina Cecelski, Walter R. Miller Jr., David Worton, Sergi Moreno, Paul Brewer, Joele Viallon, Faraz Idrees, Philippe Moussay, Yong D. Kim, Dal H. Kim, Sangil Lee, Annarita Baldan, Jianrong Li

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a group of gas-phase compounds present in the atmosphere that affect air quality and Earth's climate. Halocarbons, a