Journals

Exchange Bias in Bulk α-Fe/γ-Fe₇₀Mn₃₀ Nanocomposites for Permanent Magnet Applications

April 26, 2019

Author(s)

I. J. McDonald, Michelle E. Jamer, Kathryn L. Krycka, E. Anber, D. Foley, A. C. Lang, William D. Ratcliff, D. Heiman, M. L. Taheri, Julie Borchers, L. H. Lewis

Weak Electric-Field Detection with Sub-1 Hz Resolution at Radio Frequencies Using A Rydberg Atom-Based Mixer

April 25, 2019

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, Abdulaziz H. Haddab

Rydberg atoms have been used for measuring radio-frequency (RF) electric (E)-fields due to their strong dipole moments over the frequency range of 500 MHz-1 THz

Oriented 3D Magnetic Biskyrmions in MnNiGa Bulk Crystals

April 25, 2019

Author(s)

Xiyang Li, Shilei Zhang, Hang Li, Diego A. Venero, Jonathan S. White, R. Cubitt, Qingzhen Huang, Jie Chen, Lunhua He, Gerrit van der Laan, Wenhong Wang, Thorsten Hesjedal, Fangwei Wang

Possible Mott Transition in Layered Sr₂Mn₃As₂O₂ Single Crystals

April 24, 2019

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Chih-Wei Chen, Weiyi Wang, Vaideesh Loganathan, Scott V. Carr, Leland Harriger, C. Georgen, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Pengcheng Dai, C.-L. Huang, E. Morosan

Decoupling subsurface inhomogeneities: a 3D finite element approach for contact nanomechanical measurements

April 24, 2019

Author(s)

Veruska D. Malave, Edward Garboczi, Jason Killgore

Novel material properties can be attained when embedding three-dimensional (3-D) nanoparticles in a variety of polymeric matrices. These inhomogeneities

Analysis of the systematic force-transmission error of the magnetic-suspension coupling in single-sinker densimeters and commercial gravimetric sorption analyzers

April 23, 2019

Author(s)

Reiner Kleinrahm, Xiaoxian Yang, Mark McLinden, Markus Richter

Here we present an analysis of the force-transmission error for a commercial gravimetric sorption analyzer that applies equally to single-sinker densimeters

CEGO: C++11 Evolutionary Global Optimization

April 23, 2019

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell

Global optimization is an algorithmic need that is ubiquitous throughout the natural sciences, engineering, and other technical spheres. It is a non-trivial

Far-from-equilibrium noise heating and laser cooling dynamics in radio-frequency Paul traps

April 23, 2019

Author(s)

A Maitra, Dietrich Leibfried, D. Ullmo, H. Landa

We study the stochastic dynamics of a particle subject to a periodically driven potential. For atomic ions trapped in radio-frequency Paul traps, noise heating

Unraveling the dislocation core structure in a van der Waals gap: Bismuth telluride as a prototype.

April 23, 2019

Author(s)

Doug L. Medlin, N Yang, Catalin D. Spataru, Lucas Hale, Yuri Mishin

Tetradymite-structured chalcogenides, such as the bismuth telluride Bi2Te3, present signifi cant interest as technological materials for thermoelectric energy

Approximate exchange-only entangling gates for the three-spin-1/2 decoherence-free subsystem

April 23, 2019

Author(s)

Emanuel H. Knill, James R. van Meter

The three-spin-1/2 decoherence-free subsystem defines a logical qubit protected from collective noise and supports exchange-only universal gates. Such logical

A solid-state source of strongly entangled photon pairs with high brightness and indistinguishability

April 22, 2019

Author(s)

Jin Liu, Rongbin Su, Yuming Wei, Beimeng Yao, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva, Ying Yu, Jake Iles-Smith, Kartik Srinivasan, Armando Rastelli, Juntao Li, Xuehua Wang

The generation of high-quality entangled photon pairs has been being a long-sought goal in modern quan-tum communication and computation. To date, the most

Microcontroller based scanning transfer cavity lock with environmental compensation

April 22, 2019

Author(s)

Sarthak Subhankar, Alessandro Restelli, Yang Wang, Steve Rolston, James V. Porto

We present a compact, cost-effective, and all-digital implementation of a scanning transfer cavity lock (STCL) for long term laser frequency stabilization. An

Induced quantum dot probe for materials characterization

April 19, 2019

Author(s)

Hilary M. Hurst, Yun-Pil Shim, Rusko Ruskov, Charles Tahan

We propose a non-destructive means of characterizing a semiconductor wafer via measuring parameters of an induced quantum dot on the material system of interest

Energy Renormalization for Coarse-Graining Polymers Having Different Segmental Structures

April 19, 2019

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Wenjie Xia, Nitin K. Hansoge, Wen-Sheng Xu, Sinan Keten, Frederick R. Phelan Jr.

We apply the recently developed energy renormalization (ER) method to coarse-graining representative polymer melts having a relatively low, intermediate and

REFRACTIVE-INDEX GAS THERMOMETRY

April 18, 2019

Author(s)

Patrick Rourke, Christof Gaiser, Roberto M. Gavioso, Michael R. Moldover, Laurent Pitre, Robin Underwood

The principles and techniques of primary refractive-index gas thermometry (RIGT) are reviewed. Absolute primary RIGT using microwave measurements of helium

Femtosecond Time Synchronization of Optical Clocks Off a Flying Quadcopter

April 18, 2019

Author(s)

Hugo Bergeron, Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Isaac H. Khader, Kevin C. Cossel, Michael A. Cermak, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Nathan R. Newbury

Optical clock networks promise advances in global navigation, time distribution, coherent sensing, relativity experiments, dark matter searches and other areas1

New Fundamental Equations of State for cis-1,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene [R-1234ze(Z)] and 3,3,3-Trifluoropropene (R-1243zf)

April 18, 2019

Author(s)

Ryo Akasaka, Eric Lemmon

New fundamental equations of state are presented for cis-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene [R- 1234ze(Z)] and 3,3,3-trifluoropropene (R-1243zf). The new equation for R

Strategies for robust and accurate measurement of nanomaterial bioaccumulation

April 17, 2019

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Elijah J. Petersen, Monika Mortimer, Robert Burgess, Richard Handy, Shannon Hanna, Kay Ho, Monique E. Johnson, Susana Louriero, Selck Henriette, Janeck Scott-Fordsmand, David Spurgeon, Jason Unrine, Nico van den Brink, Ying Wang, Jason White, Patricia Holden

One of the key components for environmental risk assessment of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is data on bioaccumulation potential. Accurately measuring

Replication of Smart-City, Internet of Things Assets in a Municipal Deployment

April 17, 2019

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee, Cuong T. Nguyen, Alexander Nelson, Greg Toth, Dennis Linders

Recent efforts to integrate Internet of Things into Smart City constructs have proven successful through proof of concept deployments in multiple cities. To

PFHub: The Phase-Field Community Hub

April 17, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel Wheeler, Trevor Keller, Jonathan E. Guyer, James A. Warren, Stephen DeWitt, Andrea Jokisaari, Daniel Schwen, Larry Aagesen, Olle Heinonen, Michael Tonks, Peter Voorhees

An online portal provides a valuable space for scientific communities to summarize a shared challenge, collect attempts at a solution, and present a

Layer-by-Layer Thinning of MoS2 via Laser Irradiation

April 17, 2019

Author(s)

Bien Cuong Tran Khac, Ryan White, Frank W. DelRio, Koo-hyun Chung

Layer-by-layer thinning of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) via laser irradiation was examined using Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy. In particular

Wireless Network Design for Emerging IIoT Applications: Reference Framework and Use Cases

April 16, 2019

Author(s)

Yongkang Liu, Mohamed T. Hany, Kang B. Lee, Lotfi Benmohamed, Richard Candell

In this paper we propose a framework that allows a designer to assess various physical and cyber factors involved in determining the performance of a wireless

Performance Characterization of Structured light 3D scanners for Industrial Metrology Applications

April 16, 2019

Author(s)

Prem K. Rachakonda

Structured light scanners have been commercially available for over a decade and some commercial scanners are evaluated using one of two German guidelines VDI

Reproducible Performance Improvements to Monolayer MoS2 Transistors through Exposed Material Forming Gas Annealing

April 16, 2019

Author(s)

Nicholas B. Guros, Son T. Le, Siyuan Zhang, Brent A. Sperling, Jeffery B. Klauda, Curt A. Richter, Arvind Balijepalli

We have developed an optimized process to realize high-performance field-effect transistor (FET) arrays from large-area 2D MoS2 films with an average yield of

Chemical and Physical Transformations of Silver Nanomaterial Containing Textiles After Modelled Human Exposure

April 16, 2019

Author(s)

Danielle E. Gorka, Nancy Lin, John M. Pettibone, Justin Gorham

The antimicrobial properties of silver nanomaterials (AgNM) have been exploited in various consumer applications, including textiles such as wound dressings

Confined Dynamics in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Spin Chains

April 16, 2019

Author(s)

Fangli Liu, Rex O. Lundgren, Paraj T. Bhattacharjee, Guido Pagano, Jiehang Zhang, Christopher Monroe, Alexey Gorshkov

Dual comb spectroscopy with tailored spectral broadening in nanophotonic Si3N4

April 15, 2019

Author(s)

Esther Baumann, Edgar Perez, Gabriel M. Colacion, Fabrizio Giorgetta, Kevin Cossel, Gabriel Ycas, David Carlson, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott Papp, Ian Coddington, Nathan Newbury

Spectral broadening of compact robust Er+: fiber combs is demonstrated with tailored Si3N4 waveguides to obtain spectrally-smooth broadened light in the 2 μm 2

Indistinguishable single-mode photons from spectrally engineered biphotons

April 15, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Changchen Chen, Jane Heyes, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Shapiro, Franco N. Wong

We use pulsed spontaneous parametric down-conversion in KTiOPO4, with a Gaussian phasematching function and a transform-limited Gaussian pump, to achieve near

Convergence and machine learning predictions of Monkhorst-Pack k-points and plane-wave cut-off in high-throughput DFT calculations

April 15, 2019

Author(s)

Kamal Choudhary, Francesca M. Tavazza

In this work, we developed an automatic convergence procedure for k-points and plane wave cut- off in density functional (DFT) calculations and applied it to

Spin-current-mediated Rapid Magnon Localisation and Coalescence After Ultrafast Optical Pumping of Ferrimagnetic Alloys

April 15, 2019

Author(s)

Ezio E. Iacocca, TianMin Liu, Alexander H. Reid, Z Fu, S Ruta, P. W. Granitzka, E Jal, S. Bonetti, A. Gray, C E. Graves, R Kukreja, Z Chen, Daniel Higley, T Chase, L L. Guyader, K Hirsch, H Ohldag, W F. Schlotter, G L. Dakovski, Giacomo Coslovich, M C. Hoffmann, S Carron, A Tsukamoto, A Kirilyuk, A V. Kimel, Th Rasing, J Stohr, R F. Evans, T Ostler, R W. Chantrell, M A. Hoefer, Thomas J. Silva, H A. Durr

Sub-picosecond magnetisation manipulation via femtosecond optical pumping has attracted wide attention ever since its original discovery in 1996. However, the