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Ivan A. Burenkov, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Tim O. Thomay, Glenn S. Solomon, Alan L. Migdall, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Lynden K. Shalm, Sergey V. Polyakov
We characterize an efficient and nearly-noiseless parametric frequency upconverter. The ultra- low noise regime is reached by the wide spectral separation
Daniel B. Gopman, Vimal Sampath, Hasnain Ahmad, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Jayasimha Atulasimha
We present measurements of the static and dynamic properties of iron-gallium films, ranging from 20~nm to 80~nm and sputtered from an $\mathrm{Fe_{0.8}Ga_{0.2}}
We study controllable friction in a system consisting of a dark soliton in a one-dimensional Bose- Einstein condensate coupled to a non-interacting Fermi gas
Ivan A. Burenkov, Sergey V. Polyakov, Thomas Gerrits, Timothy J. Bartley, Georg Harder, Christine Silberhorn, Ankita Sharma, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt
We present a method to reconstruct the mode structure and optical losses of multimode conjugated optical fields using an experimentally measured joint photon
Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Steven A. Legowik, Mili Shah
Optical tracking systems are used in a wide range of fields. The market for optical tracking systems has dramatically increased over the past several years to
Numerical simulation of bubble growth during pool boiling under the influence of low frequency vibration was done to understand the influence of common
Adam V. Steele, Andrew Schwarzkopf, Jabez J. McClelland, Brenton Knuffman
We present measurements of focal spot size and brightness in a focused ion beam system utilizing a laser-cooled atomic beam source of Cs ions. Spot sizes as
The incorporation of limestone powder in cementitious binders for concrete in the U.S. has become a subject of renewed interest, in part due to the ongoing
Residential structure fires pose a significant risk to life and property. A major source of these fire incidents is the ignition of upholstered furniture by
AbstractIn this paper a new approach which is based on a collaborative system of MicroGrids (MGs), is proposed to enable household appliance scheduling. To
The deployment of a large number of small cells poses new challenges to energy efficiency, which has often been ignored in fifth generation (5G) cellular
Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Katharine M. Shilling, Geraldine S. Cheok, Vincent D. Lee, Christopher J. Blackburn, Dennis S. Everett, Daniel S. Sawyer
The Dimensional Metrology Group (DMG) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is performing research to support the development of
Ala Bazyleva, Andrey V. Blokhin, Dzmitry H. Zaitsau, Gennady J. Kabo, Yauheni Paulechka, Andrei F. Kazakov, John M. Shaw
Heat capacities of antiviral and antiparkinsonian drug amantadine hydrochloride in the crystalline state were measured by adiabatic and differential scanning
Viscosity control for concentrated protein solutions is very important for the manufacturability and and drug delivery routes of many protein therapeutics of
Mixtures of light and heavy water are used in NMR, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), growth media for producing deuterated biological molecules, and
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Sonia M. Buckley, Nima Nader, Cale M. Gentry, Kevin C. Cossel, Milos A. Popovic, Nathan R. Newbury, Richard P. Mirin
We present an approach to fabrication and packaging of integrated photonic devices that utilizes waveguide and detector layers deposited at near-ambient
Kaichao Sun, Lin-wen Hu, Thomas H. Newton, Erik Wilson, Arne Olson
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR-II) is a research reactor in Cambridge, Massachusetts designed primarily for experiments using neutron
Benjamin A. Neely, Elizabeth Yeh, Joelle S. Zambrano
Hormonally Up-regulated Neu-associated Kinase (Hunk) is a kinase that was originally identified in the murine mammary gland and has been shown to be highly
Pin Ann Lin, Jose Gomez-Ballesteros, Juan Burgos, Perla Balbuena, Bharath N. Natarajan, Renu Sharma
A heterogeneous catalyst usually works by letting the reactant adsorb onto its surface where the energies for specific bonds to dissociate and/or combine with
Christoph Mahrenholtz, Rolf Eligehausen, Tara C. Hutchinson, Matthew Hoehler
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) standards for qualification of post-installed concrete anchors (ACI 355.2 and ACI 355.4) include a nonseismic crack
Stacy Lee Pesek, Qiqi Xiang, Boualem Hammouda, Rafael Verduzco
Bottlebrush polymers have densely tethered side-chains that are grafted to a linear polymer backbone, resulting in stretching of both the side-chains and
A. E. Danks, M. J. Hollamby, Boualem Hammouda, D. C. Fletcher, F. Johnston-Banks, S. E. Rogers, Z. Schnepp
Porous carbons are important for many applications. The biopolymer gelatin provides a simple route to functional carbon foams with77 multimodal porosity. In
Rebecca Eells, Marilia Barros, Kerry M. Scott, Ioannis Karageorgos, Frank Heinrich, Mathias Loesche
The structural characterization of peripheral membrane proteins represents a tremendous challenge in structural biology due to their transient interaction with
Amber M. Larson, Brandon Wilfong, Pouya Moetakef, Craig Brown, Peter Zavalij, Efrain E. Rodriguez
We describe a metal-insulator transition for a quasi-one dimensional system containing a mix of S = 1 and S=1/2 vanadium cations. Unlike all other known
John M. Yarbrough, Ashutosh Mittal, Elisabeth Mansfield, Larry Taylor, Stephen R. Decker, Michael E. Himmel, Todd B. Vinzant
Commercial fungal cellulases used in biomass-to-biofuels processes can be grouped into three general classes: native, augmented, and engineered. Colorimetric
A Hueltes, Eduard Rocas, Carlos Collado, Jordi Mateu, D Garcia-Pastor, James Booth, Rafael P. Robles
This paper proposes a novel 3-port absorptive limiter for frequency selective circuits based on a similar configuration than a conventional 90º hybrid coupler
Ingesting plastic marine debris is a threat to sea turtles. We quantified the amounts, types, colors and locations of ingested plastics in the gastrointestinal
In this paper we examine the two-dimensional tunneling formalism used previously to fit the hydrogen-transfer and internal-rotation splittings in the microwave
Rian You, James Radney, Christopher D. Zangmeister, Michael R. Zachariah
Particles from smoldering biomass burning (BB) represent a major source of carbonaceous aerosol in the terrestrial atmosphere. In this study, mass specific