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Journals

Fabrication and Characterization of Hybrid Stealth Liposomes

April 12, 2018

Author(s)

Kenneth Mineart, Vivek Prabhu, Shrinivas Venkataraman, Yi Yan Yang, James Hedrick

Heat Capacity of Saturated and Compressed Liquid Dimethyl Ether at Temperatures from (132 to 345) K and at Pressures to 35 MPa

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Joe W. Magee, Jiangtao Wu

Molar heat capacities at constant volume (C_v) of dimethyl ether have been measured with an adiabatic calorimeter. Temperatures range from the triple point to

Instrumented impact testing of miniaturized Charpy specimens of AM Ti-6Al-4V

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Nikolas W. Hrabe

An investigation on the impact toughness properties of wrought and additively-manufactured (AM) Ti 6Al 4V was conducted at NIST Boulder, by means of

Heat Transfer in a Falling Laminar Liquid Film with in-depth Radiation Absorption

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang, Walter W. Yuen

A heat transfer problem involving a steady-state falling liquid film along a vertical wall with an imposed constant heat flux on the liquid film surface and an

Experimentally Generated Random Numbers Certified by the Impossibility of Superluminal Signaling

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Peter L. Bierhorst, Emanuel H. Knill, Scott C. Glancy, Yanbao Zhang, Alan Mink, Stephen P. Jordan, Andrea Rommal, Yi-Kai Liu, Bradley Christensen, Sae Woo Nam, Martin J. Stevens, Lynden K. Shalm

From dice to modern complex circuits, there have been many attempts to build increasingly better devices to generate random numbers. Today, randomness is

Photonic chip for laser stabilization to an atomic vapor at a precision of $10^{-11}$

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Matthew T. Hummon, Songbai Kang, Douglas G. Bopp, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Sangsik Kim, Connor D. Fredrick, Scott A. Diddams, Kartik A. Srinivasan, John E. Kitching

We perform precision spectroscopy of rubidium confined in a micro-machined, 27~mm$^3$ volume, vapor cell using a collimated free space 120~$\bm{\mu}$m diameter

Improving accuracy of electrochemical capacitance and solvation energetics in first-principles calculations

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Ravishankar Sundararaman, Kendra Letchworth-Weaver, Kathleen Schwarz

Reliable first-principles calculations of electrochemical processes require accurate prediction of the interfacial capacitance, a challenge for current

The Evolution of Polystyrene as a Cell Culture Material: A Brief History

April 10, 2018

Author(s)

Max J. Lerman, Josephine Lembong, Shinichiro Muramoto, John G. Gillen, John P. Fisher

Polystyrene (PS) has brought in vitro cell culture from its humble beginnings to the modern era, propelling dozens of research fields along the way. This review

Comparing modeling predictions of aluminum edge dislocations: semidiscrete variational Peierls- Nabarro versus atomistics

April 10, 2018

Author(s)

Lucas M. Hale

Multiple computational methods for modeling dislocations are implemented into a high-throughput calculation framework allowing for rigorous investigations

Cholesterol Functionalized Aliphatic N-Substituted 8 Membered Cyclic Carbonate

April 10, 2018

Author(s)

Vivek M. Prabhu, Shrinivas Venkataraman, Kenneth Mineart, James Hedrick, Yi Yan Yang

Straightforward synthesis of cholesterol functionalized aliphatic N-substituted 8 membered cyclic carbonate monomer is reported. Well-defined PEGylated diblock

Wideband infrared trap detector based upon doped silicon photocurrent devices

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Solomon I. Woods, James E. Proctor, Timothy M. Jung, Adriaan C. Carter, Dana R. Defibaugh, Jorge Neira

We have designed, fabricated and measured infrared trapping detectors made from arsenic-doped silicon (Si:As) blocked impurity band (BIB) photodetectors. These

Selection of Silicon Photomultipliers for a ⁶LiF:ZnS(Ag) Scintillator Based Cold Neutron Detector

April 8, 2018

Author(s)

A. Osovizky, Kevin N. Pritchard, Y. Yehuda-Zada, Jeffrey B. Ziegler, Peter NMN Tsai, M. Ghelman, Alan Keith Thompson, R. M. Ibberson, George M. Baltic, Charles Majkrzak, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj

We describe the process of selecting a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) as the light sensor for an ultrathin (2 nm) highly efficient cold neutron proportional

Magnetic properties in ultra-thin 3d transition metal alloys II: experimental verification of quantitative theories of damping and spin-

April 7, 2018

Author(s)

Martin A. Schoen, Juriaan Lucassen, Hans T. Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Bert Koopmans, Christian Back, Justin M. Shaw

A systematic study of the Gilbert damping is performed via ferromagnetic resonance for the disordered crystalline binary 3d transition metal alloys NiCo, NiFe

Magnetic properties of ultra-thin 3d transition metal alloys I: spin and orbital moments and confirmation of Slater-Pauling theory

April 7, 2018

Author(s)

Martin A. Schoen, Juriaan Lucassen, Hans T. Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Bert Koopmans, Christian Back, Justin M. Shaw

The structure and static magnetic properties - saturation magnetization, perpendicular anisotropy, Landé g-factor, and orbital magnetization - of thin film 3d

Analyzing sustainability methods for use earlier in the product lifecycle

April 6, 2018

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, William Z. Bernstein, Timothy Kliks, Hidetaka Nishi, Steven Hoffenson, qing chang, Katherine C. Morris

Superconducting optoelectronic networks II: receiver circuits

April 6, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey M. Shainline, Sonia M. Buckley, Adam N. McCaughan, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Christine A. Donnelly, Michael L. Schneider, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

Circuits using superconducting single-photon detectors and Josephson junctions to perform signal reception, synaptic weighting, and integration are investigated

Superconducting optoelectronic networks I: general principles

April 6, 2018

Author(s)

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

The design of neural hardware is informed by the prominence of differentiated processing and information integration in cognitive systems. The central role of

A Computational Study of Extinguishment and Enhancement of Propane Cup-Burner Flames by Halon and Alternative Agents

April 6, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Valeri I. Babushok

Computations of cup-burner flames in normal gravity have been performed using propane as the fuel to reveal the combustion inhibition and enhancement by the

Elementary Again

April 6, 2018

Author(s)

Mark W. Keller

Mark Keller explains how the elementary charge will soon be reinstated in metrology - and why it got sidelined in the first place.

On the Development of a Hydrogen-Assisted Fatigue Crack Growth Model for API Pipeline Steels

April 5, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew J. Slifka, Ryan M. White, Chris P. Looney, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Robert L. Amaro

Hydrogen has been proposed as a potential partial solution to the need for a clean energy economy. In order to make this a reality, large-scale hydrogen

Mid-infrared frequency comb generation via cascaded quadratic nonlinearities in quasi-phase-matched waveguides

April 5, 2018

Author(s)

Abijith S. Kowligy, Alexander J. Lind, Daniel D. Hickstein, David R. Carlson, Henry R. Timmers, Nima Nader, Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Gabriel G. Ycas

We demonstrate mid-infrared (MIR) frequency comb generation in periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguides pumped by nanojoule pulses from a 1.5 um

pyPRISM: A Computational Tool for Liquid-State Theory Calculations of Macromolecular Materials

April 4, 2018

Author(s)

Tyler B. Martin, Thomas E. Gartner, Ronald L. Jones, Chad R. Snyder, Arthi Jayaraman

The Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model (PRISM) theory describes the equilibrium spatial-correlations of liquid-like polymer systems including melts

A new magnet design for future Kibble balances

April 4, 2018

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Shisong Li, Michael Stock

We propose a new permanent magnet system for Kibble balance experiments, which combines advantages of the magnet designs invented by the National Physical

The Multiplicative Complexity of 6-variable Boolean Functions

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Cagdas Calik, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Rene C. Peralta

The multiplicative complexity of a Boolean function is the minimum number of AND gates that are necessary and sufficient to implement the function over the

JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF COMPUTATION AND COMMUNICATION POWER IN MULTI-USER MASSIVE MIMO SYSTEMS

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

With the growing interest in the deployment of massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems and millimeter wave technology for fifth generation (5G)

High temperature performance of the HITEMP2010 and HITRAN Online databases: comparison with frequency comb measurements of water vapor absorption from 6800 cm-1 to 7200 cm-1

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Paul J. Schroeder, D Pfotenhauer, J Yang, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury, Greg B. Rieker

The HITEMP2010 and HITRAN Online databases are important tools for predicting molecular absorption under various environmental conditions. At room temperature

Femtosecond timekeeping: slip-free optical clockwork for optical timescales

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Daniel I. Herman, Stefan Droste, Esther Baumann, Jonathan Roslund, Dmitriy Churin, Arman Cingoz, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Isaac H. Khader, William C. Swann, Craig W. Nelson, Nathan R. Newbury, Ian R. Coddington

The generation of true optical time standards will require the conversion of the highly stable optical frequency output of an optical atomic clock to a high

Influence of Ion Solvation on the Properties of Electrolyte Solutions

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Marat Andreev, Juan J. DePablo, Alexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas

It is widely appreciated that the addition of salts to water leads to significant changes in the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of these aqueous solutions

Structure-Property Relationships at Nafion Thin-Film Interfaces: Thickness Effects on Hydration and Anisotropic Ion Transport

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Steven C DeCaluwe, Andrew M. Baker, Pavan Bhargava, John E. Fischer, Joseph Dura

The effect of film thickness on water uptake and structure in ultra-thin Nafion films is probed via in situ neutron reflectometry for a series of 10 samples

Submultiple Data Collection to Explore Spectroscopic Instrument Instabilities Shows that Much of the "Noise" is not Stochastic

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Curtis W. Meuse, James J. Filliben, Kenneth A. Rubinson

As has long been understood, the noise on a spectrometric signal can be reduced by averaging over time, and the averaged noise is expected to decrease as t1/2

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