Journals

Ultrafast Optical Pulse Shaping using Dielectric Metasurfaces

May 2, 2019

Author(s)

Shawn M. Divitt, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal

Simultaneous control of individual frequency-comb lines, and their modulation at the repetition-rate of an ultrafast laser represents the ultimate limit of...

Modelling and Mapping Dynamic Vulnerability to Better Assess WUI Evacuation Performance

May 2, 2019

Author(s)

Steve Gwynne, Ronchi Enrico, Noureddine Benichou, Max Kinateder, Erica D. Kuligowski, Islam Gomaa, Masoud Adelzadeh

Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) incidents are likely to become more severe and will affect more and more people. Given their scale and complexity, WUI incidents...

Multi-Laboratory Assessment of a New Reference Material for Quality Assurance of Cell-Free Tumor DNA Measurements

May 2, 2019

Author(s)

Hua-Jun He, Erica V. Stein, Yves Konigshofer, Thomas Forbes, Farol L. Tomson, Russell Garlick, Emiko Yamada, Tony Godfrey, Toshiya Abe, Koji Tamura, Michael Borges, Michael Goggins, Sandra Elmore, Margaret L. Gulley, Jessica L. Larson, Lando Ringel, Brian C. Haynes, Corinne Camalier, Chris Karlovich, Biswajit Das, P. M. Williams, Aaron Garnett, Anders Stahlberg, Stefan Filges, Lynn Sorbara, Mathew R. Young, Sudhir Srivastava, Kenneth D. Cole

We conducted a multi-laboratory assessment to determine the suitability of a new commercially- available reference material with 40 cancer variants in a...

Grain Orientation Mapping of Graphene in a Scanning Electron Microscope

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Benjamin W. Caplins, Jason D. Holm, Robert R. Keller

A scanning transmission electron diffraction method is developed for use in the scanning electron microscope to perform orientational imaging microscopy of 2D...

Maximizing accuracy of RNA structure in refinement against residual dipolar couplings

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Christina Bergonzo, Alexander Grishaev

Structural information about Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) is lagging behind that of proteins, in part due to its high charge and conformational variability. Molecular...

Rattling Behavior in a Simple Perovskite NaWO₃

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Yuya Ikeuchi, Hiroshi Takatsu, Cedric Tassel, Craig Brown, Taito Murakami, Yuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Okamoto, Hiroshi Kageyama

A high-pressure reaction has allowed the preparation of stoichiometric tungsten bronze NaWO 3 (Im-3). Specific heat (C ;/T 3 vs T) exhibits a round peak at 30 K...

Direct Measurement of Hydrogen Diffusivity and Solubility Limits in Zircaloy 2 (Formula Unit of ZrH_0.0155) using Incoherent Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Brent J. Heuser, Timothy R Prisk, Jun-li Lin, Tanya J. Dax, Yongfeng Zhang

The diffusivity of hydrogen is an important property of light water nuclear reactor (LWR) fuel cladding. LWR cladding absorbs hydrogen during normal operation...

Fragmentation stimulates soil respiration in temperate forests

April 30, 2019

Author(s)

Ian Smith, Lucy Hutyra, Andrew Reinmann, jonathan thompson, David Allen

Forest fragmentation impacts carbon uptake and storage, however, the magnitude and direction of fragmentation impacts on soil respiration remain poorly...

Bridging communities in the field of nanomedicine

April 30, 2019

Author(s)

Blanka Halamoda-Kenzaoui, Simon Baconnier, Thierry Bastogne, Didier Bazile, Patrick Boisseau, Gerrit Borchard, Sven E. Borgos, Luigi Calzolai, Karin Cederbrant, Gabriella di Felice, Tiziana Di Francesco, Marina Dobrovolskaia, Rog?rio Gaspar, Bel?n Gracia, Vincent A. Hackley, Lada Leyens, Neill Liptrott, Margriet Park, Anil Patri, Gert Roebben, Matthias Roesslein, Ren? Th?rmer, Patricia Urb?n L?pez, Val?rie Zuang, Susanne Bremer-Hoffmann

The workshop "Bridging communities in the field of nanomedicine" was hosted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre on 27-28 September 2017. It...

Magnetic Order Effects on the Electronic Structure of KMMnSd2^ (M=Cu,Li) with the ThCr₂Si₂-Type Structure

April 30, 2019

Author(s)

Austin Virtue, Xiuquan Zhou, Brandon Wilfong, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Keith Taddei, Peter Zavalij, Limin Wang, Efrain E. Rodriguez

We propose three magnetic structures for KCuMnS^26 with the ThCr 2Si 2-type structure. Powder samples of KCuMnS 2 and KLiMnS 2 were prepared for structural...

Application of the group contribution volume translated Peng-Robinson equation of state to new commercial refrigerant mixtures

April 29, 2019

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell, Jonathan Welliquet, Maria Mondejar, Sylvain Quoilin, Ala Bazyleva, Frederik Haglind

The search of new refrigerants complying with the most recent environmental regulations must be supported by the availability of simple and reliable models for...

Elastic Rate Coefficients of Li+H2 collisions in the calibration of a Cold Atom Vacuum Sensor

April 29, 2019

Author(s)

Constantinos Makrides, Daniel Barker, Julia Scherschligt, Stephen Eckel, Eite Tiesinga

On going efforts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in creating a Cold Atom Vacuum Sensor device have prompted theoretical investigations of...

Nanomechanics of cellulose deformation reveal molecular defects that facilitate natural deconstruction

April 29, 2019

Author(s)

Peter Ciesielski, Ryan Wagner, Vivek Bharadwaj, Jason Killgore, Ashutosh Mittal, Gregg Beckham, Stephen Decker, Michael Himmel, Michael Crowley

Technologies surrounding utilization and processing of cellulosic materials have been important to human society for millennia. As with many materials...

A Synchrotron X-ray Micro-Spectroscopy Study of the Explosive Melt Glass Derived From the Trinity Nuclear Test

April 28, 2019

Author(s)

Bruce Ravel, Daniel E. Crean, Daniel J. Bailey, M. C. Stennett, Claire L. Corkhill, Ryan Tappero, N. C. Hyatt

Trinitite, the explosive melt glass derived from the Trinity nuclear test, is of interest as a model material for nuclear forensics investigation. However...

Sesame: a 2-dimensional solar cell modeling tool

April 28, 2019

Author(s)

Benoit H. Gaury, Yubo Sun, Peter Bermel, Paul M. Haney

Protocols for tensile testing flexible unidirectional composite laminates

April 27, 2019

Author(s)

Amy E. Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Ajay Krishnamurthy, Faraz A. Burni, William A. Osborn, Amanda L. Forster

Many body armor designs incorporate unidirectional (UD) laminates. UD laminates are constructed of thin layers of high performance yarns where the yarns in each...

Characterizing salt permeability in polyamide desalination membranes using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

April 27, 2019

Author(s)

Devin L. Shaffer, Kathleen E. Feldman, Edwin Chan, Gery R. Stafford, Christopher Stafford

Improving the performance of desalination membranes requires better measurements of salt permeability in the polyamide separating layer to elucidate the...

Chemistry from 3D-printed objects

April 26, 2019

Author(s)

Matthew R. Hartings, Zeeshan Ahmed

3D printing technology has started to take hold as an enabling tool for scientific advancement. Born from the marriage of computer-aided design and additive...

Trapped-ion spin-motion coupling with microwaves and a near-motional oscillating magnetic field gradient

April 26, 2019

Author(s)

Raghavendra Srinivas, Shaun C. Burd, R. T. Sutherland, Andrew C. Wilson, David J. Wineland, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David T. Allcock, Daniel H. Slichter

We present a new method of spin-motion coupling for trapped ions using microwaves and a magnetic field gradient oscillating close to the ions' motional...

Evaluation of a lateral flow immunoassay for the detection of the synthetic opioid fentanyl

April 26, 2019

Author(s)

Edward Sisco, Daniel J. Angelini, Tracey D. Briggs, Michele N. Maughan, Michael G. Feasel, Jennifer W. Sekowski

In the United States in 2016, 64,000 overdose deaths were reported to be associated with the abuse of opioids, including prescription painkillers (e.g...

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

Author(s)

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...