Journals

A Reference Material for Evaluation of Cs-137 Radiochronometric Measurements

August 16, 2018

Author(s)

Kevin B. Lavelle, Richard Essex, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Kevin P. Carney, Cole R. Hexel

A new nuclear forensic reference material has been characterized as a standard for radiochronometric determination of the model purification date for 137Cs...

Spinor Bose-Einstein condensate phase-sensitive amplifier for SU(1,1) interferometry

August 16, 2018

Author(s)

Jonathan Wrubel, Arne Schwettmann, Donald P. Fahey, Glassmann Zachary, Heywon Pechkis, Paul Griffin, Ryan Barnett, Eite Tiesinga

The SU(1,1) interferometer was originally conceived as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with the beam-splitters replaced by parametric amplifiers. The parametric...

Initiation of flash boiling of multicomponent miscible mixtures with application to transportation fuels and their surrogates

August 16, 2018

Author(s)

Charles T. Avedisian, Kyle Skyllingstad1, Richard E. Cavicchi, Corinne Lippe, Michael J. Carrier

This paper presents methodologies to predict thermodynamic conditions that initiate flash boiling by spontaneous nucleation of liquids consisting of hundreds of...

Disentangling factors governing Dzyaloshinskii domain wall creep in Co/Ni thin films using Pt(x)Ir(1-x) seedlayers

August 16, 2018

Author(s)

Derek Lau, J.P. Pellegren, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Vincent Sokalski

We characterize asymmetric growth of magnetic bubble domains in perpendicularly magnetized Co/Ni multi-layers grown on PtxIr1-x seedlayers by application of...

A theoretically based departure function for multi-fluid mixture models

August 15, 2018

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell, Andreas Jaeger, Cornelia Breitkopf

Multi-fluid models for highly accurate multiparameter equations of state have been applied very successfully in the past years in order to accurately model...

Nanoparticle Manufacturing - Heterogeneity through Processes to Products

August 15, 2018

Author(s)

Samuel M. Stavis, Jeffrey Fagan, Michael Stopa, James Alexander Liddle

Commercial products are now making use of the unique properties of nanoscale particles. However, common challenges of making nanoparticles into products still...

Spatial Dimensions in Atomic Force Microscopy: Instruments, Effects, and Measurements

August 15, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ichiko Misumi, Gaoliang Dai

Atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are commonly and broadly regarded as being capable of three dimensional imaging. However, conventional AFMs suffer from both...

Magnetic domain texture and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in systems with perpendicular exchange bias

August 15, 2018

Author(s)

Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw

Antiferromagnetic materials present us with rich and exciting physics, which we can exploit to open up new avenues in spintronic device applications. We explore...

Proteomic Analysis of Urine from California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus): a Tool for Urinary Biomarker Discovery

August 15, 2018

Author(s)

Ben Neely, Katherine Prager, Alison Bland, Christine Fontaine, Frances Gulland, Michael G. Janech

Urinary markers for the assessment of kidney diseases in wild animals are limited, in part, due to the lack of urinary proteome data, especially for marine...

Chip Scale Atomic Devices

August 14, 2018

Author(s)

John E. Kitching

Chip-scale atomic devices combine elements of precision atomic spectroscopy, silicon micromachining and advanced diode laser technology to create compact, low...

Assessing Radiation Hardness of Silicon Photonic Sensors.

August 13, 2018

Author(s)

Zeeshan Ahmed, Lonnie T. Cumberland, Ronald E. Tosh, Nikolai N. Klimov, Ileana M. Pazos, Ryan P. Fitzgerald

In recent years silicon photonic platforms have undergone rapid maturation enabling not only optical communication but complex scientific experiments ranging...

Optical Knife-Edge Displacement Measurement with Sub-Picometer Resolution for RF-MEMS

August 13, 2018

Author(s)

Vikrant J. Gokhale, Jason J. Gorman

Optical knife-edge measurements can be used to quantify in-plane displacements of microstructures vibrating at high frequencies. This work presents an...

Single Cell Viability Measured by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy and Live/Dead Staining*

August 12, 2018

Author(s)

Kavita M. Jeerage, Tammy L. Oreskovic, Nikki S. Rentz, Damian S. Lauria

Based on its standard reduction potential, ferriciniummethanol can act as an alternate electron acceptor to oxygen during cellular metabolism. By locally...

Changes in Crater Shape Caused by Low Angular Sputtered Flux during SIMS Argon Cluster Depth Profiling of Ultrathick Films

August 10, 2018

Author(s)

Shinichiro N. Muramoto, Cayla Collett

Argon cluster ions produce a low angular ejection of the sputtered flux, causing the crater bottom to shrink in size due to redeposition of the sputtered flux...

A Charge Integrator Amplifier and Trap Detector for pico-Joule Laser Pulse Energy Measurement

August 10, 2018

Author(s)

Malcolm G. White, David J. Livigni, Rodney W. Leonhardt, Geiland Porrovecchio, Marek Smid

We report the characterisation and calibration of a charge integrator amplifier, developed for pico-joule laser pulse energy measurement at repetition rates up...

Ba8Cu16As30: A cationic-framework clathrate-I arsenide

August 10, 2018

Author(s)

Kaya Wei, Artem R. Khabibullin, Dean Hobbis, Winnie Wong-Ng, Tieyan Chang, SuYin G. Wang, Igor Levin, Yu-Sheng Chen, Lilia M. Woods, George S. Nolas

Single crystals of clathrate-I Ba8Cu16As30 have been synthesized, and their structure and electronic properties deter-mined using synchrotron-based X-ray...

Infrared Astronomical Spectroscopy and Radial Velocity Measurements with Precision Below 10 cm/s

August 9, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew J. Metcalf, Tyler Anderson, Chad F. Bender, Wesley Brand, David Carlson, Scott Diddams, Connor Fredrick, S. Halverson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Fred Hearty, Jeffrey M. Jennings, Shubham Kanodia, Kyle Kaplan, Emily Lubar, Suvrath Mahadevan, Andrew Monson, Joe P. Ninan, Colin Nitroy, Scott Papp, L. Ramsey, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Kartik Srinivasan, Gudmundur Stefansson, Ryan C. Terrien

We detail the first infrared precision astronomical spectroscopy results from the combination of an electro-optic laser frequency comb and the Habitable Zone...

The effect of edge compliance on the contact between a spherical indenter and a high-aspect-ratio rectangular fin

August 9, 2018

Author(s)

Gheorghe NMN Stan, Ebony Mays, Hui-Jae Yoo, Sean King

In the last two decades, significant progress has been made on developing new nanoscale mechanical properties measurement techniques including instrumented...

Global metabolomic responses in urine from Atm deficient mice in response to LD50/30 gamma irradiation doses

August 9, 2018

Author(s)

Evagelia C. Laiakis, Tytus Mak, Steven J. Strawn, Yi-Wen Wang, Bo-Hyun Moon, Pelagie Ake, Albert J. Fornace

Exposures to ionizing radiation (IR) may either be accidental or intentional, for medical purposes or even through terrorist actions. As certain populations...

Coherent laser ranging for precision imaging through flames

August 9, 2018

Author(s)

Eric W. Mitchell, Matthew Hoehler, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Torrey Hayden, Gregory B. Rieker, Nathan R. Newbury, Esther Baumann

An electro-optic ultrafast light source with sub-cycle stability

August 8, 2018

Author(s)

David R. Carlson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Wei Zhang, Andrew J. Metcalf, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp

Optical frequency combs can produce femtosecond light pulses with sub-cycle precision, and are typically made by relying on the intrinsic stability of mode...

Thermal and Nonlinear Dissipative-Soliton Dynamics in Kerr Microresonator Frequency Combs

August 8, 2018

Author(s)

Jordan R. Stone, Travis Briles, Tara E. Drake, Daryl T. Spencer, David R. Carlson, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp

We report on radiofrequency techniques to reliably generate and control dissipative-Kerr- soliton microresonator frequency combs. Since the pump-laser frequency...

Spin Waves in Detwinned BaFe₂As₂

August 8, 2018

Author(s)

Xingye Lu, Daniel D. Scherer, David W. Tam, Wenliang Zhang, Rui Zhang, Huiqian Luo, Leland Harriger, H. C. Walker, D.T. Adroja, Brian M. Andersen, Pengcheng Dai

Role of Antiferromagnetic Spin Axis on Magnetic Reconstructions at the (111)-Oriented La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃/LaFeO₃ Interface

August 7, 2018

Author(s)

I. Hallsteinsen, Alexander Grutter, M. Moreau, S. D. Sloejes, K. Kjaernes, E. Arenholz, T. Tybell

Engineering of emergent properties at oxide interfaces is an exciting route towards realizing oxide electronics. Such properties are often the result of a...

Local Orthorhombic Lattice Distortions in the Paramagnetic Tetragonal Phase of Superconducting NaFe_1-xNi_xAs

August 7, 2018

Author(s)

Weiyi Wang, Yu Song, Chongde Cao, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Thomas Keller, Yu Li, Leland Harriger, Wei Tian, Songxue Chi, Rong Yu, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Pengcheng Dai

Relaxation Dynamics of Saturated and Unsaturated Oriented Lipid Bilayers

August 7, 2018

Author(s)

Hirsh Nanda, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Sheila Khodadadi, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Edwin J. Schwalbach, Joseph E. Curtis

Micromachined force balance for optical power measurement by radiation pressure sensing

August 6, 2018

Author(s)

Ivan Ryger, Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Paul A. Williams, Nathan A. Tomlin, Michelle S. Stephens, Matthew T. Spidell, Kyle A. Rogers, John H. Lehman

We introduce a micromachined force scale for laser power measurement by means of radiation pressure sensing. With this technique, the measured laser light is...

Application of the Complex Kohn Variational Method to Attosecond Spectroscopy

August 6, 2018

Author(s)

Barry I. Schneider, Nicholas Douguet, Luca Argenti

The complex Kohn (CK) variational method is extended to compute light-driven electronic transitions between continuum wavefunctions in atomic and molecular...

Unsupervised phase mapping of X-ray diffraction data by nonnegative matrix factorization integrated with custom clustering

August 6, 2018

Author(s)

Valentin Stanev, Velimir Vesselinov, Aaron Gilad Kusne, Graham Antoszewski, Ichiro Takeuchi, Boian Alexandrov

Analyzing large X-ray diffraction (XRD) datasets is a key step in high-throughput mapping of the compositional phase diagrams of combinatorial materials...

Nanoscale partitioning of Paclitaxel in Hybrid Lipid-Polymer Membranes

August 6, 2018

Author(s)

Mohit Tuteja, Minjee Kang, Cecilia Leal, Andrea Centrone

Paclitaxel is a powerful drug against restenosis and many forms of cancer. However, its clinical application hinges on the ability to achieve suitable...