Journals

Nanocalorimetry for plasma metrology relevant to semiconductor fabrication

February 4, 2025

Author(s)

John Diulus, Carles Corbella Roca, Feng Yi, David LaVan, Berc Kalanyan, Mark McLean, Lakshmi Ravi Narayan, William Osborn, James Maslar, Andrei Kolmakov

This letter reports on pilot tests of microfabricated nanocalorimeters as a metrology platform for the rapid (sub-100 ms response time) and sensitive detection...

Variation of radiometric throughput with simple perturbations

February 3, 2025

Author(s)

Eric Shirley

This work considers the effects of changes of distance, centering and tilting of optical elements on radiometric throughput. Analytical formulas for leading...

Resilience-Runtime Tradeoff Relations for Quantum Algorithms

February 3, 2025

Author(s)

Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos, Tom O'Leary, Tanmoy Biswas, Jacob Bringewatt, Lukasz Cincio, Lucas Brady, Yi-Kai Liu

A leading approach to algorithm design aims to minimize the number of operations in an algorithm's compilation. One intuitively expects that reducing the number...

A bilateral comparison of 227Th activity standards between NPL and NIST

February 3, 2025

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Andrew Fenwick, Denis Bergeron, Brittany Broder, Emma Bendall, Jeffrey Cessna, Sean Collins, Leticia Pibida, Natasha Ramirez, Elisa Napoli

The National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States) each determined the massic activity and...

Insights on grain refinement of Al-Mn-Fe-Si alloy via in situ reaction during laser direct energy deposition

February 2, 2025

Author(s)

Qingyu Pan, Fan Zhang, Deepak Vikraman Pillai, Zilong Zhang, Yufeng Zheng, Lang Yuan, Monica Kapoor, John Carsley, Xiaoyuan Lou

In the present work, we studied the grain refinement by adding in situ reactants, pure titanium (Ti) or a combination of Ti and boron (B), and investigated the...

Impacts of household water demands and water heater delivery temperatures on opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) in a residential setting

February 1, 2025

Author(s)

Alshae Logan, Jumana Aljafari, Visesh Uppoor, Tania Ullah, Jennifer Dootz

Efforts aimed towards water and energy conservation within residential buildings may create enhanced conditions for Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens...

Reconnaissance-informed Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery: Observations and Challenges

February 1, 2025

Author(s)

Mohammadamin Hariri Ardebili, Matthew Speicher

Data-Driven Insights into Post- Earthquake Reconnaissance Findings: 2023 Turkiye Earthquake Sequence

February 1, 2025

Author(s)

Mohammadamin Hariri Ardebili, Siamak Sattar

QM-ARC: QoS-aware Multi-tier Adaptive Cache Replacement Strategy

February 1, 2025

Author(s)

Lydia Ait Oucheggou, Abdella Battou, Jalil Boukhobza, Stéphane Rubini

Distributed data-centric systems, such as Named Data Networking, utilize in-network caching to reduce application latency by buffering relevant data in high...

Layer ensemble averaging for fault tolerance in memristive neural networks

February 1, 2025

Author(s)

Osama Yousuf, Brian Hoskins, Karthick Ramu, Mitchell Fream, William Borders, Advait Madhavan, Matthew Daniels, Andrew Dienstfrey, Jabez McClelland, Martin Lueker-Boden, Gina Adam

Advancements in continual learning with artificial neural networks have been fueled in large part by scaling network dimensionalities. As this scaling continues...

Determining the rates of α-tocopherol movement in DPPC vesicles using small-angle neutron scattering

February 1, 2025

Author(s)

Dominik Dziura, Isabelle Dib, Omotayo Gbadamosi, Stuart R. Castillo, Maksymilian Dziura, Ryan Murphy, Elizabeth Kelley, Drew Marquardt

?-Tocopherol (?toc, vitamin E) is an essential nutrient sufficiently acquired through a balanced diet. This fat-soluble vitamin is most known for its...

Calibrating laser Doppler anemometers utilizing an optical chopper

January 31, 2025

Author(s)

Christopher Crowley, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Michael R. Moldover, Joey Boyd, James Filla, Aaron Johnson

Laser Doppler anemometers (LDAs) use scattered light to determine velocity components of a flowing fluid. The operating principal of LDAs is simple conceptually...

Aflatoxin B1-induced DNA adduct formation in murine kidney and liver

January 31, 2025

Author(s)

Pawel Jaruga, Vladimir Vartanian, Irina Minko, M Miral Dizdar, Amanda McCullough, R. Stephen Lloyd

Aflatoxicosis is a life-threatening nephrotoxic condition arising from eating foods highly contaminated with aflatoxin-producing molds. Additionally, chronic...

Using enantioselective biosensors to evolve asymmetric biocatalysts

January 30, 2025

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d’Oelsnitz Simon, Wantae Kim, Haley Hardtke, Svetlana Ikonomova, Nina Alperovich, Olga Vasilyeva, Michael James, Eric Zigon, Charlie Johnson, Andrew Ellington, Quincey Justman, Michael Springer, Jessie Zhang, Pamela Silver, David Ross

Biocatalysts are championed for their exquisite stereochemistry, but slow chromatographic separations necessary to measure enantiomeric excess can bottleneck...

Two-dimensional (P/T) studies of secondary/tertiary conformational dynamics in nucleic acids: Pressure induced melting and Maxwell Relations at the single molecule level

January 29, 2025

Author(s)

Hsuan-Lei Sung, David Nesbitt

Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials

January 29, 2025

Author(s)

Sarbajit Banerjee, Y. S. Meng, Andrew M. Minor, Minghao Zhang, Nestor J. Zaluzec, Maria K. Chan, Gerald Seidler, David W. McComb, Joshua Agar, Partha P. Mukherjee, Brent Melot, Karena Chapman, Beth S. Guiton, Robert F. Klie, Ian D. McCue, Paul M. Voyles, Ian Robertson, Ling Li, Miaofang Chi, Joel F. Destino, Arun Devaraj, Emmanuelle Marquis, Carlo U. Segre, Huinan H. Liu, Judith C. Yang, Kasra Momeni, Amit Misra, Niaz Abdolrahim, Julia E. Medvedeva, Wenjun Cai, Alp Sehirlioglu, Melike Dizbay-Onat, Apurva Mehta, Lori Graham-Brady, Benji Maryuama, Krishna Rajan, Jamie H. Warner, Mitra L. Taheri, Sergei V. Kalinin, B. Reeja-Jayan, Udo D. Schwarz, Sindee L. Simon, Craig Brown

In alignment with the Materials Genome Initiative and as the product of a workshop sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, we define a vision for...

Contour parameters, melt pool behavior, and surface roughness relationships across laser powder bed fusion platforms and metallic alloys

January 29, 2025

Author(s)

Edwin Glaubitz, Jason Fox, Orion Kafka, Joy Gockel

Components built using the laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) additive manufacturing (AM) process often have more complex surfaces than those produced by...

Real-Time 141 GHz JCAS Channel Sounder: Near-Field Switched Beamforming, Carrier Multiplexing, and Context Awareness

January 28, 2025

Author(s)

Jihoon Bang, Samuel Berweger, Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile, Nada Golmie, Sebastian Semper

We have developed a real-time 141 GHz joint communications and sensing (JCAS) channel sounder, with focus on this article on 3-D near-field imaging (less than...

Speed of Sound Measurements of Binary Mixtures of trans-1,2-difluoroethylene (R-1132(E)) with Difluoromethane (R-32) or 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene (R-1234yf)

January 28, 2025

Author(s)

Aaron Rowane

The speed of sound of two binary mixtures containing 33.6 mole % trans-1,2-difluoroethylene (R-1132(E)) with difluoromethane (R-32) and 43.5 mole % R-1132(E)...

Autonomous bootstrapping of quantum dot devices

January 28, 2025

Author(s)

Anton Zubchenko, Danielle Middlebrooks, Torbjoern Rasmussen, Lara Lausen, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Anasua Chatterjee, Justyna Zwolak

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are a promising platform for multiple different qubit implementations, all of which are voltage controlled by programmable gate...

Hydride Formation and Decomposition on Cu(111) in HClO4

January 27, 2025

Author(s)

David Raciti, Thomas Moffat

Lean CNNs for mapping electron charge density fields to material properties

January 27, 2025

Author(s)

Pranoy Roy, Kamal Choudhary, Surya Kalidindi

This work introduces a lean convolutional neural network (CNN) framework, with a drastically reduced number of fittable parameters ($

International Comparison CCQM-P229: Pilot Study to Measure Absolute Line Intensities of Selected 12C16O Transitions

January 24, 2025

Author(s)

Joseph Hodges, Zachary Reed, Katarzyna Bielska, Manfred Birk, Ruimin Guo, Gang Li, Jeong Sik Lim, Daniel Lisak, Georg Wagner

We present primary spectroscopic measurements of line intensities in the 3-0 vibrational band of 12C16O. This international measurement campaign was organized...

Sensitivity of Electronic Structure to Crystal Distortions in Infinite-Layered LaNiO2

January 23, 2025

Author(s)

S. Rathnayaka, S. Yano, J. B. Moree, K. Kawashima, J. Akimitsu, Craig Brown, J. Neuefeind, D. Louca

Recent observations of unconventional superconductivity (SC) in thin films of LaNiO2 (critical temperature Tc 10 K) and in bulk single crystals of La3Ni2O7...

Primary quantum thermometry of mm-wave blackbody radiation via induced state transfer in Rydberg states of cold atoms

January 23, 2025

Author(s)

Noah Schlossberger, Andrew Rotunno, Stephen Eckel, Eric Norrgard, Dixith Manchaiah, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Samuel Berweger, Matthew Simons, Dangka Shylla, William Watterson, Charles Patrick, Adil Meraki, Rajavardhan Talashila, Amanda Younes, David La Mantia, Christopher Holloway

Rydberg states of alkali-metal atoms are highly sensitive to electromagnetic radiation in the GHz-to-THz regime because their transitions have large electric...

Parametrized Maximal Admissible Sets with Application to Constraint Management of Systems with Slowly-Varying Parameters

January 23, 2025

Author(s)

DJ Anand, Hamid Ossareh, Yasaman Pedari, Collin Freiheit

Real-time constraint management schemes for timevarying or parameter-varying systems often result in conservative (slow) responses or carry a heavy...

Texture Analysis of Inconel 718 with Different Modes During Single-Track Laser Surface Re-Melting

January 23, 2025

Author(s)

Liuqing Yang, Tongjun Niu, Joseph Stilgenbauer, Brandon Lane, Nan Li, Jordan Weaver, Youxing Chen

An in-depth understanding of the texture formation in melt pools allows for the modification of the surface layer microstructure and corresponding material...

Scattering Insights into Shear-Induced Scission of Rodlike Micelles

January 23, 2025

Author(s)

Guan-Rong Huang, Ryan Murphy, Lionel Porcar, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen

Studying the scission of rodlike micelles under mechanical forces is essential for understanding their stability and behavior in industrial applications...

Compressed liquid density and speed of sound measurements and correlation of the binary mixture carbon dioxide (CO2) + 1,1-difluoroethene (R1132a)} at temperatures from 220 K to 350 K

January 22, 2025

Author(s)

Davide Menegazzo, Aaron Rowane, Giulia Lombardo, Sergio Bobbo, Laura Fedele, Mark McLinden

The combination of carbon dioxide (CO2) and R1132a has been proposed as a viable substitute for R23 in low-temperature applications. This study provides new...

Fabrication and characterization of low-loss Al/Si/Al parallel plate capacitors for superconducting quantum information applications

January 22, 2025

Author(s)

Raymond Simmonds, Sudhir Sahu, Trevyn Larson, Florent Lecocq, Tongyu Zhao, Anthony McFadden

The application of parallel plate capacitors composed of aluminum-contacted, crystalline silicon fins for use in superconducting circuits is explored by...