Journals

Impact of conventional wastewater treatment and reuse site practices on the bacterial community structure of reclaimed water

October 15, 2018

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Prachi Kulkarni, Nathanael Olson, Joseph N. Paulson, Mihai Pop, Cynthia Maddox, Emma Claye, Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein, Manan Sharma, Amy R. Sapkota

Reclaimed water use continues to expand across the United States, from areas that have access to advanced, potable-level treated reclaimed water, to areas that...

Parasitic engineering for RRAM control

October 15, 2018

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Pragya R. Shrestha, David M. Nminibapiel, Dmitry Veksler, Jason P. Campbell, Jason T. Ryan, helmut Baumgart, Kin P. Cheung

The inevitable current overshoot which follows forming or switching of filamentary resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices is often perceived as a source...

Using Radiation Pressure to Develop a Radio-Frequency Power Measurement Technique Traceable to the Redefined SI

October 15, 2018

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Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, David R. Novotny, John H. Lehman, Paul A. Williams, Gordon A. Shaw

We discuss a power measurement technique traceable to the International System of Units based on radiation pressure (or radiation force) carried by an...

Guest Editorial Open Discussion of Robot Grasping Benchmarks, Protocols and Metrics

October 15, 2018

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Jeffrey Mahler, Rob Platt, Alberto Rodriguez, Matei Ciocarlie, Aaron Dollar, Renaud Detry, Maximo Roa, Holly A. Yanco, Adam Norton, Joseph Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Elena R. Messina, Jurgen Leitner, Oliver Brock, Odhner Lael, Andrey Kurenkov, Matthew Matl, Ken Goldberg

Automated grasping has a long history of research that is increasing due to interest from industry. One Grand Challenge for robotics is Universal Picking: the...

Electronic Characteristics of MoSe2 and MoTe2 for Nanoelectronic Applications

October 15, 2018

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Asha Rani, Shiqi Guo, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov

Single-crystalline MoSe2 and MoTe2 platelets were grown by Chemical Vapor Transport (CVT), followed by exfoliation, device fabrication, optical and electrical...

Metrology for the next generation of semiconductor devices

October 12, 2018

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Ndubuisi G. Orji, Mustafa Badaroglu, Bryan M. Barnes, Carlos Beitia, Benjamin D. Bunday, Umberto Celano, Regis J. Kline, Mark Neisser, Yaw S. Obeng, Andras Vladar

The semiconductor industry continues to produce ever smaller devices that are ever more complex in shape and contain ever more types of materials. The ultimate...

Joint Quantum State and Measurement Tomography with Incomplete Measurements

October 12, 2018

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Adam C. Keith, Charles H. Baldwin, Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill

Estimation of quantum states and measurements is crucial for the implementation of quantum information protocols. The standard method for each is quantum...

Co-Operation in Publicly Funded Reference Material Production Meeting Report

October 12, 2018

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Steven J. Choquette, Hakan Emteborg, Doris florian, Stephen Ellison, Lindsay Mackay, Pearse McCarron

The meeting was organized by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, and held at the JRC-Geel site on 22-23 February, 2018. It was a follow-up of a...

Circuit designs for superconducting optoelectronic loop neurons

October 12, 2018

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Jeffrey M. Shainline, Adam N. McCaughan, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Sonia M. Buckley

We present designs of superconducting optoelectronic neurons based on superconducting single- photon detectors, Josephson junctions, semiconductor light sources...

Multivariate Statistical Approach to Image Quality Tasks

October 12, 2018

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Praful Gupta, Christos G. Bampis, Jack L. Glover, Nicholas Paulter, Alan C. Bovik

Long spin-flip time and large Zeeman splitting of holes in type-II ZnTe/ZnSe submonolayer quantum dots

October 11, 2018

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H Ji, S Dhomkar, R. Wu, J Ludwig, Z Lu, D Smirnov, M C. Tamargo, Garnett W. Bryant, I L. Kuskovsky

The Zeeman splitting and degree of circular polarization (DCP) of photoluminescence (PL) from type-II submonolayer ZnTe/ZnSe quantum dots (QDs) have been...

Boosting Ethane/Ethylene Separation within Isoreticular Ultramicroporous Metal-Organic Frameworks

October 11, 2018

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Rui-Biao Lin, Hui Wu, Libo Li, Xiao-Liang Tang, Zhiqiang Li, Junkuo Gao, Hui Cui, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen

The separation of ethane from its analogous ethylene is of great importance in the petrochemical industry, but very challenging and energy-intensive. Adsorptive...

Poisson errors and adaptive rebinning in X-ray Powder Diffraction Data

October 10, 2018

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Marcus H. Mendenhall

Abstract This work provides a short summary of techniques for formally-correct handling of statistical uncertainties in Poisson- statistics dominated data...

Optimality Conditions for Constrained Least Squares Fitting of Circles, Cylinders, and Spheres to Establish Datums

October 10, 2018

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Craig M. Shakarji, Vijay Srinivasan

This paper addresses the combinatorial characterizations of the optimality conditions for constrained least squares fitting of circles, cylinders, and spheres...

Methods for preparation and detection of neutron spin-orbit states

October 10, 2018

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Michael G. Huber, D. Sarenac, J. Nsofini, I. Hincks, David Cory, Muhammad D. Arif, Charles W. Clark, D. A. Pushin

The generation and control of neutron orbital angular momentum (OAM) states and spin correlated OAM (spin-orbit) states provides a powerful probe of materials...

Comprehensive optical characterization of atomically thin NbSe2

October 10, 2018

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Heather M. Hill, Albert Rigosi, Sergiy Krylyuk, Jifa Tian, Nhan Van Nguyen, Albert Davydov, David B. Newell, Angela R. Hight Walker

Photonic waveguide to free-space Gaussian beam extreme mode converter

October 10, 2018

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Sangsik Kim, Daron Westly, Brian J. Roxworthy, Qing Li, Alexander Yulaev, Kartik Srinivasan, Vladimir Aksyuk

Integration of photonic chips with atomic, micromechanical, chemical and biological systems can advance science and open many possibilities in chip-scale...

Towards epitaxial graphene p-n junctions as electrically programmable quantum resistance standards

October 9, 2018

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Jiuning Hu, Albert Rigosi, Mattias Kruskopf, Yanfei Yang, Bi Y. Wu, Jifa Tian, Alireza Panna, Hsin Y. Lee, Shamith Payagala, George R. Jones Jr., Marlin E. Kraft, Dean G. Jarrett, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Randolph Elmquist, David B. Newell

Effect of device design on charge offset drift in Si/SiO2 single electron devices

October 9, 2018

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Binhui Hu, Erick Ochoa, Daniel Sanchez, Justin K. Perron, Neil M. Zimmerman, Michael Stewart

We have measured the low-frequency time instability known as charge offset drift of Si/SiO2 single electron devices (SEDs) with and without an overall poly-Si...

Randomness Extraction from Bell Violation with Continuous Parametric Down-Conversion

October 9, 2018

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Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Adriana Lita, Lijiong Shen, Jianwei Lee, Le Phuc Thinh, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Alessandro Cere

We present a violation of the CHSH inequality without the fair sampling assumption with a continuously pumped photon pairs source combined with two high...

Light-induced atomic desorption of lithium

October 8, 2018

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Daniel S. Barker, Eric B. Norrgard, Julia K. Scherschligt, James A. Fedchak, Stephen P. Eckel

We demonstrate loading of a Li magneto-optical trap using light-induced atomic desorption. The magneto-optical trap confines up to approximately 10000 lithium...

Flat-histogram Monte Carlo as an Efficient Tool to Evaluate Adsorption Processes Involving Rigid and Deformable Molecules

October 8, 2018

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Matthew Witman, Nathan Mahynski, Berend Smit

Monte Carlo simulations are the foundational technique for predicting thermodynamic properties of open systems where the process of interest involves the...

Mie 16-6 force field predicts viscosity with faster-than-exponential pressure dependence for 2,2,4-trimethylhexane

Author(s)

Richard A. Messerly, Michelle C. Anderson, S. M. Razavi, J. R. Elliott

In response to the 10th Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge, we report viscosity (eta) estimates of 2,2,4-trimethylhexane at 293 K for a range of...

Innovative Approaches to Combat Healthcare-Associated Infections Using Efficacy Standards Developed Through Industry and Federal Collaboration

October 5, 2018

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Dianne L. Poster, Carl C. Miller, Yaw S. Obeng, Michael T. Postek, Troy E. Cowan, Richard A. Martinello

Nation-wide, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) infect one in every 25 hospital patients, account for more than 100,000 deaths and increase medical costs...

Two Inherent Crossovers of the Diffusion Process in Glass-Forming Liquids

October 5, 2018

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Maiko Kofu, Antonio Faraone, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Michihiro Nagao, Osamu Yamamuro

We report on incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering measurements examining a self-diffusion process in two types of glass-forming liquids, a molecular...

Combinatorial Cassettes for Higher-Throughput Screening of Osteogenesis

October 4, 2018

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Carl G. Simon Jr., Subhadip Bodhak, Hariharan K. Iyer, Luis Fernandez de Castro Diaz, Pam Robey, Azusa Maeda, Sergei Kuznetsov

Animal models are the most biologically relevant method for measuring the osteogenic capability of bone graft formulations. However, animal experiments are slow...

A 3-D Tensorial Integral Formulation of Scattering Containing Intriguing Relations

October 4, 2018

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Alexey J. Yuffa, Johannes Markkanen

We investigate the role of the electric field and its normal derivative in three-dimensional electromagnetic scattering theory. We present an alternative...

Ionic Tuning of Cobaltites at the Nanoscale

October 3, 2018

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Dustin Allen Gilbert, Alexander J Grutter, Peyton D. Murray, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Alexander M. Kane, Aleksey L. Ionin, Michael S. Lee, Steven R. Spurgeon, Brian J Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Apurva Mehta, Elke Arenholz, Kai Liu, Yayoi Takamura, Julie A. Borchers

In Vivo Reporter of Endolysosomal Lipids Reveals Enduring Effects of Diet on Hepatic Macrophages

October 3, 2018

Author(s)

Ming Zheng, Geyou Ao

The abnormal accumulation of lipids within the endolysosomal lumen occurs in many conditions, including lysosomal storage disorders and non-alcoholic fatty...

Advancing the computational methodology of rigid rod and semiflexible polymer systems: A new solution to the wormlike chain model with rod‐coil copolymer calculations

October 3, 2018

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Adam F. Hannon, Regis J. Kline, Dean DeLongchamp

A wormlike chain model for rod type blocks in a rod‐coil diblock copolymer is implemented in the self‐consistent field theory (SCFT) formalism. A pseudo...