Journals

Major improvement of ferroelectric and optical properties in Na-doped Ruddlesden-Popper layered hybrid improper ferroelectric compound, Ca3Ti2O7

August 20, 2019

Author(s)

Cong Hang, Wei Fang Liu, Winnie Wong-Ng, Ziongnan Zhang, Yao Jiang, Ping Wu, Baoyuan Tong, Hui Zhao, Shouyu Wang

Ruddlesden-Popper layered Ca3-xNaxTi2O7 (x=0 and 0.15) ceramics were successfully prepared by a conventional solid-state reaction process. The polarization and...

Magnetoelasticity of Co₂₅Fe₇₅ thin films

August 20, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel Schwienbacher, Matthias Pernpeintner, Lukas Liensberger, Eric R. Edwards, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Mathias Weiler, Rudolf Gross, Hans Huebl

We investigate the magnetoelastic properties of Co 25Fe 75 and Co 10Fe 90 thin films by measuring the mechanical properties of a doubly clamped string resonator...

Mass Spectrometry Fingerprints of Small-Molecule Metabolites in Biofluids. Building a Spectral Library of Recurrent Spectra for Urine Analysis.

August 19, 2019

Author(s)

Yamil Simon, Ramesh Marupaka, Xinjian Yan, Yuxue Liang, Kelly H. Telu, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Stephen E. Stein

A large fraction of ions observed in electrospray liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) experiments of biological samples remain unidentified. One the...

Sequential and one-pot post-polymerization modification reactions of thiolactone-containing polymer brushes

August 19, 2019

Author(s)

Cassandra M. Reese, Brittany J. Thompson, Phillip K. Logan, Christopher Stafford, Derek L. Patton, Michael Blanton

Thiolactone chemistry has garnered significant attention as a powerful post-polymerization modification (PPM) route to mutlifunctional polymeric materials. Here...

Spin Scattering and Noncollinear Spin Structure-Induced Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi₂Te₄

August 19, 2019

Author(s)

Seng Huat Lee, Yanglin Zhu, Yu Wang, Leixin Miao, Timothy Pillsbury, Hemian Yi, Susan Kempinger, Jin Hu, Colin A. Heikes, Patrick Quarterman, William D. Ratcliff, Julie Borchers, Heda Zhang, Xianglin Ke, David Graf, Nasim Alem, Cui-Zu Chang, Nitin Samarth, Zhiqiang Mao

MnBi 2Te 4 has recently been established as an intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator - an ideal platform to create quantum anomalous Hall (QAH...

Nearly Ferromagnetic Spin-Triplet Superconductivity

August 18, 2019

Author(s)

Sheng N. Ran, Christoper Eckberg, Qing-Ping Ding, Yuji Furukawa, Tristin Metz, Shanta R. Saha, I Lin NMN Liu, Mark Zic, Hyunsoo Kim, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Nicholas Butch

One of the most interesting differences between spin triplet superconductors and the conventional spin singlet variety is the two-component triplet order...

Mass Spectrometry Fingerprints of Small-Molecule Metabolites in Biofluids: Building a Spectral Library of Recurrent Spectra for Urine Analysis

August 18, 2019

Author(s)

Yamil Simon, Ramesh Marupaka, Xinjian Yan, Yuxue Liang, Kelly H. Telu, Yuri Mirokhin, Stephen E. Stein

A large fraction of ions observed in electrospray liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–ESI-MS) experiments of biological samples remain unidentified. One...

Upper Bounds on the Multiplicative Complexity of Symmetric Boolean Functions

August 17, 2019

Author(s)

Luis Brandao, Cagdas Calik, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Rene Peralta

A special metric of interest about Boolean functions is multiplicative complexity (MC): the minimum number of AND gates sufficient to implement a function with...

An atomic sensor for direct detection of weak microwave signals

August 16, 2019

Author(s)

Vladislav Gerginov, Fabio C. da Silva, Craig Nelson, Archita Hati

This paper demonstrates direct detection of weak signals at microwave frequencies based on parametric frequency conversion. The atomic medium is optically...

Next-generation Crossover-free quantum Hall arrays with superconducting interconnections

August 16, 2019

Author(s)

Mattias Kruskopf, Albert Rigosi, Alireza Panna, Martina Marzano, Dinesh K. Patel, Hanbyul Jin, David B. Newell, Randolph Elmquist

Modification of Spin-Ice Physics in Ho₂Ti₂O₇ Thin Films

August 16, 2019

Author(s)

Kevin Barry, Biwen Zhang, Naween Anand, Yan Xin, Arturas Vailionis, Jennifer Neu, Colin A. Heikes, Charis Cochran, Haidong Zhou, Yiming Qiu, William D. Ratcliff, Theo Siegrist, Christianne Beekman

We report on a study of the structural and magnetic properties of strained Ho 2Ti 2O 7 thin films. Structural characterization via synchrotron x-ray diffraction...

Liquid Viscosity and Surface Tension of n-Hexane, n-Octane, n-Decane, and n-Hexadecane up to 573 K by Surface Light Scattering (SLS)

August 16, 2019

Author(s)

Tobias Klein, Shaomin Yan, Junwei Cui, Joe W. Magee, Kenneth Kroenlein, Michael H. Rausch, Thomas M. Koller, Andreas P. Froba

In the present study, the simultaneous and accurate determination of liquid viscosity and surface tension of the n-alkanes n-hexane (n-C6H14), n-octane (n-C8H18...

Localization Model Description of Diffusion and Structural Relaxation in Superionic Crystalline UO2

August 15, 2019

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Hao Zhang, Xinyi Wang

e test the Localization Model (LM) prediction of a parameter-free relationship between the α-structural relaxation time τα and oxygen ion diffusion coefficient...

Observation and control of the anomalous Aharonov-Bohm oscillation in enhanced-mode topological insulator nanowire field-effect transistors

August 14, 2019

Author(s)

Hao Zhu, Curt Richter, Sheng Yu, Huixian Ye, Min Zeng, Qiliang Li

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillation is a quantum mechanical phenomenon which reveals the coupling of electromagnetic potentials with the electron wave function...

Improved contacts to p-type MoS2 transistors by charge-transfer doping and contact engineering

August 14, 2019

Author(s)

Siyuan Zhang, Son T. Le, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker

MoS2 is known to show stubborn n-type behavior due to its intrinsic band structure and Fermi level pinning. Here, we investigate the combined effects of...

Atom-by-Atom Fabrication of Single and Few Dopant Quantum Devices

August 14, 2019

Author(s)

Jonathan E. Wyrick, Xiqiao Wang, Ranjit V. Kashid, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Scott W. Schmucker, Joseph A. Hagmann, Keyi Liu, Michael D. Stewart, Curt A. Richter, Garnett W. Bryant, Richard M. Silver

Pool Boiling of HFO-1336mzz(Z) on a Reentrant Cavity Surface

August 14, 2019

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski, Lingnan Lin

Exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanosheets for supercapacitor and sodium ion battery applications

August 14, 2019

Author(s)

Jonathan Turley, Santanu Mukherjee, Elisabeth Mansfield, Jason Holm, Lamuel David, Gurpreet Singh

The growing concerns regarding the safety, flammability and hazards posed by Li-ion systems has led to the research of alternative rechargeable metal-ion...

Ultrafast Measurements of Polarization Switching Dynamics on Ferroelectric and Anti- Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide

August 14, 2019

Author(s)

Mengwei Si, Xiao Lyu, Pragya Shrestha, Xing Sun, Haiyan Wang, Kin P. Cheung, Peide Ye

The ultrafast measurements of polarization switching dynamics on ferroelectric (FE) and antiferroelectric (AFE) hafnium zirconium oxide (HZO) are studied. The...

A Modelling Framework for Householder Decision-Making for Wildfire Emergencies

August 14, 2019

Author(s)

Ruggiero Lovreglio, Erica D. Kuligowski, Steve Gwynne, Ken Strahan

The occurrence of wildfire threats has dramatically increased in the last few decades creating serious challenges for hundreds of thousands of communities...

Ramsey-Borde Matter-Wave Interferometry for Laser Frequency Stabilization at 10^-16 Frequency Instability and Below

August 13, 2019

Author(s)

Judith B. Olson, Todd Sheerin, Holly Leopardi, Roger C. Brown, Richard W. Fox, Rick Stoner, Tara M. Fortier, Christopher W. Oates, Andrew D. Ludlow

We demonstrate Ramsey-Borde (RB) atom interferometry for high performance laser stabilization with fractional frequency instability −16 for timescales between...

AMAP Review: Biological Effects from Contaminants on Arctic Wildlife and Fish

August 13, 2019

Author(s)

Rune Dietz, Robert Letcher, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, John Kucklick, Stacy Schuur, Jean-Pierre Desforges, Igor Eulaers, Bjorn Munro Jenssen, Melissa McKinney, Christian Sonne, Niladri Basu, Simon Wilson, Sara Pedro, Jenny Bytingsvik, Garry Stenson, Anuschka Polder, Joshua T. Ackerman, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, Mark P. Herzog, Alex Hartman, Sarah Peterson, Allyson Jackson, Birgit Braune, Derek Muir, Frank Riget, Milton Levin, Anders Bignert, Maria Dam, Marlene Evans, Magali Houde, Katrin S. Hoydal

Since the last Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) effort to review biological effects of the exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs)...

Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome

August 12, 2019

Author(s)

Justin M. Zook, Nathanael D. Olson, Aaron Wenger

The DNA sequencing technologies in use today produce either highly accurate short reads or less-accurate long reads. We report the optimization of circular...

Supported Catalyst Deactivation by Decomposition into Single Atoms Is Suppressed by Increasing Metal Loading

August 12, 2019

Author(s)

Aaron C. Johnston-Peck, Emmett D. Goodman, Elisabeth M. Dietze, Cody J. Wrasman, Adam S. Hoffman, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Simon R. Bare, Philipp N. Plessow, Matteo Cargnello

Terahertz-Rate Kerr-Microresonator Optical Clockwork

August 12, 2019

Author(s)

Tara E. Drake, Travis Briles, Daryl T. Spencer II, Jordan R. Stone, David R. Carlson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp

Kerr microresonators generate interesting and useful fundamental states of electromagnetic radiation through nonlinear interactions of continuous-wave (CW)...

Roadmap on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics: II. Electron and antimatter interactions

August 9, 2019

Author(s)

Yuri Ralchenko

Standardization of I-124 by three liquid scintillation-based methods

August 9, 2019

Author(s)

Denis E. Bergeron, Leticia S. Pibida, Brian E. Zimmerman, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald

A solution of 124I was standardized for activity by 4πβ(LS)-γ(NaI) live-timed anticoincidence (LTAC) counting, with confirmatory measurements by triple-to...

Examining Resources, Initiatives, and Regulatory Pathways to Advance Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing

August 8, 2019

Author(s)

Joshua Hunsberger, Martha Lundberg, Julie Allickson, Claudia Zylberberg, Sarah Beachy, Carl Simon

This perspective article is inspired by a workshop entitled "Cell and Tissue Manufacturing Innovation" that was held at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative...

Dynamic Measurement of Nanoflows: Realization of an Optofluidic Flow Meter to the Nanoliter-per- Minute Scale

August 8, 2019

Author(s)

Gregory A. Cooksey, Paul N. Patrone, James R. Hands, Stephen E. Meek, Anthony J. Kearsley

The ultimate performance of flow-based measurements in microfluidic systems is limited by their accuracy at the nanoliter-per-minute scale. But improving such...

Unusual Regularity in GC Retention of Simple Amino Acid Derivatives

August 8, 2019

Author(s)

Anzor I. Mikaia, Nino G. Todua, Zenkevich G. Igor

Background. Application of simple regularities and the general principles along with direct use of reference retention index data is a useful approach for...