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Kamal Choudhary, Kevin F. Garrity, Francesca M. Tavazza
We present a novel methodology to identify topologically non-trivial materials based on band inversion induced by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect. Specifically...
Ivan Ryger, Stefan Chamraz, Richard Balogh, Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Michelle S. Stephens, John H. Lehman, Paul A. Williams
In this article, we document a design process for a feedback controller for a nonlinear electrostatic transducer that exhibits a strong unloaded resonance. This...
Richard Leach, David Bourell, Simone Carmignato, Alkan Donmez, Nicola Senin, Wim Dewulf
Metal additive manufacturing technologies facilitate the production of highly complex geometries - this presents designers with many opportunities for high...
Ashley Russell, Jared Ragland, Eric Zolman, Tracey Johnston, Jeanine S. Morey, Thomas M. Galligan, Greta Dalle Luche, Brian C. Balmer, Randall Wells, John Kucklick, Lori Schwacke
Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry allows for the measurement of steroid hormone suites in the blubber of marine mammals. By combining this...
Daniel S. Barker, Eric B. Norrgard, Nikolai N. Klimov, James A. Fedchak, Julia K. Scherschligt, Stephen P. Eckel
We demonstrate a compact (0.25 L) system for laser cooling and trapping atoms from a heated dispenser source. Our system uses a nano-fabricated diffraction...
Katherine C. McCormick, Jonas Keller, David J. Wineland, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried
Coherently displaced harmonic oscillator number states of a harmonically bound ion can be coupled to two internal states of the ion by a laser-induced motional...
The manufacturing systems of the future will be even more heavily dependent on the data than they are today. More and more data and information are being...
Christopher Szakal, David S. Simons, John D. Fassett, Albert J. Fahey
We present the ability to conduct single micrometer-sized uranium particle age-dating measurements on particles that are younger, smaller, and less enriched in...
Joel C. Weber, Joseph W. Fowler, Malcolm S. Durkin, Kelsey M. Morgan, John A. Mates, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, Daniel R. Schmidt, Gene C. Hilton, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom
The development of a superconducting analog to the transistor with extremely low power dissipation will accelerate the proliferation of low-temperature...
Max Lees, Adam Wunderlich, Peter J. Jeavons, Paul D. Hale, Michael R. Souryal
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted rules permitting commercial wireless networks to share spectrum with federal incumbents...
Mark W. Keller, Katy Gerace, Monika Arora, Justin M. Shaw, Thomas J. Silva
We report a large spin Hall effect in the 3$d$ transition metal alloy Ni$_x$Cu$_{1-x}$ for $x \in \{ 0.3,0.75\} $, detected via the ferromagnetic resonance of a...
Adam B. Burns, Dane Christie, William D. Mulhearn, Richard A. Register
The ever‐growing catalog of monomers being incorporated into block polymers affords exceptional control over phase behavior and nanoscale structure. The...
Abijith S. Kowligy, Henry R. Timmers, Alexander Lind, Ugaitz Elu, Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Peter Schunemann, Jens Biegert, Scott Diddams
Molecular spectroscopy in the mid-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (3--25 um) has been a cornerstone interdisciplinary analytical technique...
Andrew L. Balk, Ian J. Gilbert, R. Ivkov, John Unguris, Samuel Stavis
Bubbles have a rich history as transducers in particle-physics experiments. In a solid-state analogue, we use bubble domains in nanomagnetic films to measure...
Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany, Yongkang Liu, Sebti Foufou
Smart Manufacturing, also known as Industry 4.0, provides a vision of future manufacturing systems that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and...
Songbai Kang, Kaitlin R. Moore, James P. McGilligan, R. Mott, A. Mis, C. Roper, Elizabeth A. Donley, John E. Kitching
Fast, reversible, and low-power alkali-atom sources are desirable in both tabletop and portable cold-atom sensors. Here we demonstrate a magneto-optic trap (MOT...
Yangyang Zhao, Kalisadhan Mukherjee, Kurt D. Benkstein, Libin Sun, Kristen L. Steffens, Christopher B. Montgomery, Stephen Semancik, Mona Zaghloul
The present work demonstrates development of a miniaturized plasmonic platform comprised of a Au nanohole array (NHA) on a Si/Si3N4 substrate. Plasmonic...
Kimberly L. Mueller, Vineet Yadav, Israel Lopez Coto, Anna Karion, Sharon M. Gourdji, Cory R. Martin, James R. Whetstone
There is increased interest in understanding urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, to accurately estimate city emissions, the influence of exurban...
Ajay Krishnamurthy, Ran Tao, Erkan Senses, Sagar Doshi, Erik Thostenson, Faraz Burni, Bharath Natarajan, Donald L. Hunston, Amanda L. Forster, Aaron M. Forster
Carbon-nanotube (CNT) grafted glass fiber reinforced epoxy nanocomposites (GFRP) present a hierarchy of stiffness (GPa to MPa) and lengths (µm to nm) scales at...
William Sean McGivern, Iftikhar A. Awan, Jeffrey A. Manion
Single pulse shock tubes are effective tools for measuring chemical kinetics at high temperatures, typically (900–1400) K. However, the use of a diaphragm for...
A procedure is outlined for determining the population of flaws in manufactured ceramics from strength measurements of sampled components. The broad...
Thomas D. Hedberg, Sylvere I. Krima, Jaime A. Camelio
Trust in product-data quality (PDQ) is critical to successful implementation of model-based enterprise (MBE). Such trust does not now extend to the exchange and...
Daniel D. Hickstein, David R. Carlson, Haridas Mundoor, Jacob B. Khurgin, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Daron A. Westly, Abijith S. Kowligy, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp
We present the first demonstration of automatically quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation using femtosecond pulses. The high-confinement geometry of...
J. W. Rao, S. Kaur, B M. Yao, Eric R. Edwards, Y. T. Zhao, Xiaolong Fan, Desheng Xue, Thomas J. Silva, Y. S. Gui, C. Hu
Cavity magnon polaritons are mixed quasiparticles that arise from the strong coupling between cavity photons and quantized magnons. Combining high-speed photons...
Danyal J Turkoglu, Zeyun Wu, Robert E. Williams, Thomas Henderson Newton
As a potential replacement for the National Bureau Standards Reactor (NBSR) at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a conceptual...
Electronic systems are ubiquitous today, playing an irreplaceable role in our personal lives as well as in critical infrastructures such as power grid...
Jacob Tosado, Wangchun Chen, S. Gnewuch, T. Hasaan, Tanya J. Dax, E. E. Rodriguez
Spherical Neutron Polarimetry directly measures the rotation of the neutron polarization after scattering from materials with magnetic structure. It is an under...