Journals

A Triplet Resonance in Superconducting Fe_1.03Se_0.4Te_0.6

December 28, 2018

Author(s)

Juanjuan Liu, A. T. Savici, G. E. Granroth, K. Habicht, Yiming Qiu, Jin Hu, Z. Q. Mao, Wei Bao

Boehmite and Gibbsite Nanoplates for the Synthesis of Advanced Alumina Products

December 28, 2018

Author(s)

Xin Zhang, Patricia L. Huestis, Carolyn I. Pearce, Jian Zhi Hu, Katharine Page, Lawrence M Anovitz, Alexandr B. Aleksandrov, Micah P. Prange, Sebastien Kerisit, Mark E. Bowden, Wenwen Cui, Zheming Wang, Nicholas R. Jaegers, Trent R. Graham, Mateusz Dembowski, Hsiu-Wen Wang, Jue Liu, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Markus Bleuel, David F. Mildner, Thomas M. Orlando, Greg A. Kimmel, Jay A. La Verne, Sue B. Clark, Kevin M. Rosso

Boehmite (γ-AlOOH) and gibbsite (α-A;(OH) 3) are important archetype (oxy)hydroxides of aluminum in nature that also play diverse roles across a plethora of...

Transition from Antiferromagnetic Ground State to Robust Ferrimagnetic order with Curie Temperatures above 420 K in Manganese-Based Antiperovskite-Type Structures

December 28, 2018

Author(s)

Xinghong Zhang, Quan Yuan, Tangling Gao, Yang Ren, Hui Wu, Qingzhen Huang, Jinggeng Zhao, Xianjie Wang, Ye Yuan, Chi Xu, Yongfeng Hu, James J. Dynes, Jigang Zhou, Shengqiang Zhou, Yu Liu, Bo Song

MIL-100Cr with Open Cr Sites for a Record N₂O Capture

December 28, 2018

Author(s)

Jiangfeng Yang, Bingjie Du, Jiaqi Liu, Rajamani Krishna, Feifei Zhang, Wei Zhou, Yong Wang, Jinping Li, Banglin Chen

Calculations of electron inelastic mean free paths. XII. Data for 42 inorganic compounds over the 50 eV to 200 keV range with the full Penn algorithm

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, H Shinotsuka, Shigeo Tanuma, David R. Penn

We have calculated inelastic mean free paths (IMFPs) for 42 inorganic compounds (AgBr, AgCl, AgI, Al2O3, AlAs, AlN, AlSb, cubic BN, hexagonal BN, CdS, CdSe...

Valence-to-core XES of Ti, TiO and TiO2 by means of a double crystal von Hamos spectrometer

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

Malte Wansleben, John Vinson, Ina Holfelder, Yves Kayser, Burkhard Beckhoff

We present valence-to-core x-ray emission spectra (vtc-XES) of Ti, TiO and TiO2 by means of a double crystal von Hamos spectrometer based on full-cylinder...

Evidence for multiple mechanisms underlying surface-electric field noise in ion traps

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

J. A. Sedlacek, J. Stuart, Daniel Slichter, C. D. Bruzewicz, R. McConnell, J. M. Sage, J. Chiaverini

Energetic ion bombardment, or ion milling, of ion-trap electrode surfaces has previously been shown to reduce electric-field noise, a limit to quantum-logic...

In-situ near-field probe microscopy of plasma processing

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

Alexander Tselev, Jeffrey Fagan, Andrei Kolmakov

There exists a great necessity for in situ nanoscale characterization of surfaces and thin films during plasma treatments. To address this need, the current...

Carbon-Coated Cobalt Molybdenum Oxide as a High-Performance Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

Ning Xu, Guoxuan Cao, Liyong Gan, Zhengjun Chen, Mingjie Zang, Hui Wu, Ping Wang

Compressed-liquid densities of Dimethyl Carbonate + Heptane at Three Compositions

December 27, 2018

Author(s)

Stephanie L. Outcalt, Arno Laesecke

Compressed-liquid densities of the binary system dimethyl carbonate + heptane have been measured with a vibrating-tube densimeter over the temperature and...

Communication: Gibbs phenomenon and the emergence of the steady-state in quantum transport

December 26, 2018

Author(s)

Michael P. Zwolak

Simulations are increasingly employing explicit reservoirs internal, finite regions to drive electronic or particle transport. This naturally occurs in...

Unitary Entanglement Construction in Hierarchical Networks

December 26, 2018

Author(s)

Aniruddha Bapat, Zachary Eldredge, James R. Garrison, A Deshpande, Frederic Chong, Alexey Gorshkov

Effects of Ionic Strength, Salt, and pH on Aggregation of Boehmite Nanocrystals: Tumbler Small-Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering and Imaging Analysis

December 26, 2018

Author(s)

L. M. Anovitz, X. Zhang, J. Soltis, E. Nakouzi, A. J. Krzysko, J. Chun, G. K. Schenter, T. R. Graham, K. M. Rosso, J. J. De Yoreo, A. G. Stack, Markus Bleuel, Cedric V. Gagnon, David F. Mildner, J. Ilavsky, I. Kuzmenko

The U.S. government currently spends significant resources annually managing the legacies of the Cold War, including 300 million liters of highly radioactive...

Evaluating the Effects of Hinge Flexibility on the Solution Structure of Antibodies at Concentrated Conditions

December 26, 2018

Author(s)

Marco Blanco, Harold Hatch, Joseph E. Curtis, Vincent K. Shen

Employing two different coarse-grained models, we evaluated the effect of intramolecular domain-domain distances and hinge flexibility on the general solution...

Three-dimensional shape characterization of fine sands and the influence of particle shape on the packing and workability of mortars

December 25, 2018

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Pierre Estephane, Olafur Wallevik

TThis paper studies a selection of fine sands, their particle shape and its effect on the plastic properties of mortars via the influence on the workability and...

Probing the link between residual entropy and viscosity of molecular fluids and model potentials

December 24, 2018

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell

This work investigates the link between residual entropy and viscosity based on wide-ranging, highly accurate experimental ans simulation data. This link was...

Spin Waves Across Three-Dimensional, Close-Packed Nanoparticles

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Kathryn Krycka, James Jennings Rhyne, Samuel D Oberdick, Ahmed M. Abdelgawad, Julie A. Borchers, Yumi Ijiri, Sara A. Majetich, Jeffrey W. Lynn

Inelastic neutron scattering is utilized to measure the spin waves, or magnons, which arise from inter-particle coupling between 8.4 nm ferrite nanoparticles...

Uncertainty analysis for ac-dc difference measurements with the AC Josephson Voltage Standard

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Jason M. Underwood

A detailed analysis of the uncertainties encountered in ac-dc difference measurements with an AC Josephson Voltage Standard (ACJVS) is presented. While the...

Black phosphorus tunneling field-effect transistors

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Albert Davydov, Huairuo Zhang, Leonid A. Bendersky

Band-to-band tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs)1-7 have emerged as promising candidates to replace conventional metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect...

Generating Domain Terminologies using Root- and Rule-Based Terms

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Talapady N. Bhat, John T. Elliott, Ursula R. Kattner, Carelyn E. Campbell, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ram D. Sriram, Jacob Collard, Monarch Ira

Motivated by the need for exible, intuitive, reusable, and normalized ter- minology for the semantic web, we present a general approach for generat- ing sets of...

Hidden Hyperuniformity in Bottlebrush Polymer Melts

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Alexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas

We show that the backbone chains of bottlebrush polymer melts exhibit a hidden hyperuniform packing over a wide temperature range above glass transition...

Phonon Localization in Heat Conduction

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

M. N. Luckyanova, J. Mendoza, H. Lu, B. Song, S. Huang, J. Zhou, M. Li., Y. Dong, H. Zhou, J. Garlow, L. Wu, Brian Kirby, Alexander Grutter, Alex A. Puretzky, Y. Zhu, M. S. Dresselhaus, A. Gossard, G. Chen

We report localization-like behavior in phonon heat conduction observed both in measurement of the thermal conductivities of GaAs/AlAs superlattice (SL) thin...

Innovative Lithium Storage Enhancement in Cation-Deficient Anatase via Layered Oxide Hydrothermal Transformation

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Fenqi Lu, Qiang Chen, Shipeng Geng, Mathieu Allix, Hui Wu, Qingzhen Huang, Xiaojun Kuang

Threat Modeling for Cloud Infrastructures

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Nawaf Alhebaishi, Lingyu Wang, Anoop Singhal

Today's businesses are increasingly relying on the cloud as an alternative IT solution due to its flexibility and lower cost. Compared to traditional enterprise...

Network Attack Surface: Lifting the Attack Surface Concept to Network Level for Evaluating the Resilience against Zero-Day Attacks

December 21, 2018

Author(s)

Meng Zhang, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal

The concept of attack surface has seen many applications in various domains, e.g., software security, cloud security, mobile device security, Moving Target...

Preliminary X-ray CT investigation to link Hounsfield unit measurements with the International System of Units (SI)

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine, Adele P. Peskin, Andrew Holmgren, Edward J. Garboczi

Purpose:This paper lays the groundwork for linking Hounsfield unit measurements to the International System of Units (SI), ultimately enabling traceable...

Survey and Classification of Operational Control Problems in Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS)

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock, Conrad E. Bock, Leon McGinnis

This paper reviews and classifies literature on operational control of discrete event logistics systems (DELS). Operational control manipulates the flow of...

Time Synchronization over a Free-Space Optical Communication Channel

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Isaac H. Khader, Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Hugo Bergeron, Nathan R. Newbury, Jean-Daniel Deschenes

Free space optical (FSO) communication channels are typically used to transmit high-speed data between sites over the air. Here we repurpose an FSO digital...

Fully quantum calculation of the second and third virial coefficients of water and its isotopologues from ab initio potentials

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Piotr Jankowski, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Allan H. Harvey

Path-integral Monte Carlo methods were applied to calculate the second virial coefficient B(T) and the third virial coefficient C(T) in a fully quantum way for...

Identification of dopant site and its effect on electrochemical activity in Mn-doped Lithium Titanate

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Harischchandra Singh, Mehmet Topsakal, Klaus Attenkofer, Tamar Wolf, Michal Leskes, Yandong Duan, Feng Wang, John Vinson, Deyu Lu, Anatoly Frenkel

We observed significant battery rate performance drop of nearly 20% in 1% Mn doped Lithium Titanate (LTO) compared to the pristine LTO. Using a combination of...