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Journals

BC8 Silicon (Si-III) is a narrow-gap semiconductor

Author(s)
Haidong Zhang, Hanyu Liu, Kaya Wei, Oleksandr Kurakevych, Zhenxian Liu, Yann Godec, Joshua Martin, Michael Guerrette, George S. Nolas, Timothy A. Strobel
Large-volume, phase-pure synthesis of BC8 silicon (Ia3 ̅, cI16) has enabled bulk measurements of optical, electronic and thermal properties. Unlike previous...

Qubit gates using hyperbolic secant pulses

Author(s)
Hsiang S. Ku, Junling Long, Xian Wu, Mustafa Bal, Russell Lake, Edwin Barnes, Sophia Economou, David P. Pappas
It has been known since the early days of quantum mechanics that hyperbolic secant pulses possess the unique property that they can perform cyclic evolution on...

Instance Search Retrospective with Focus on TRECVID

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George M. Awad, Wessel Kraaij, Paul Over, Shin'ichi Satoh
This paper presents an overview of the Video Instance Search benchmark which was run over a pe- riod of 6 years (2010-2015) as part of the TREC Video Retrieval...

Small Particle Driven Chain Disentanglements in Polymer Nanocomposites

Author(s)
Erkan NMN Senses, Siyam M. Ansar, Christopher L. Kitchens, Yimin NMN Mao, Suresh Narayanan, Bharath NMN Natarajan, Antonio Faraone
Using neutron spin-echo spectroscopy, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and bulk rheology, we studied the effect of particle size on the single chain...

Characterization of Chemical Properties, Unit Cell Parameters and Particle Size Distribution of Three Zeolite Reference Materials: RM 8850 - Zeolite Y, RM 8851 - Linde Type A Zeolite and RM 8852 - Ammonium ZSM-5 Zeolite

Author(s)
Shirley Turner, Robert A. Fletcher, Eric S. Windsor, Jennifer R. Verkouteren, John R. Sieber, Thomas W. Vetter, Rolf L. Zeisler, Anthony F. Marlow, M E. Davis, G J. Kennedy, W S. Borghard, S Yang, A Navrotsky, B H. Toby, James F. Kelly, Stefan D. Leigh
Zeolites have important industrial applications including use as catalysts, molecular sieves and ion exchange materials. In this study, three zeolite materials...

Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids in the Plasma of American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from Florida and South Carolina

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Jessica L. Reiner, John Bowden, Ian Christie, Matthew P. Guillette, Russell H. Lowers, Arnold Brunell, Phillip M. Wilkinson, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Thomas R. Rainwater, Louis J. Guillette Jr., Martin Jones
This study was the first to quantitate fourteen perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in 125 adult American alligators at twelve sites across the southeastern US. Of...

Development of an Improved Standard Reference Material for Vitamin D Metabolites in Human Serum

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Karen W. Phinney, Susan S. Tai, Mary Bedner, Johanna Camara, Rosalind R. Chia, Lane C. Sander, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise, James H. Yen, Rosemary L. Schleicher, Madhulika Chaudhary-Webb, Khin L. Maw, Yasamin Rahmani, Hubert W. Vesper, Joseph M. Betz, Joyce Merkel, Christopher T. Sempos, Paul M. Coates, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Kurtis Sarafin, Stephen P. Brooks

Investigation of Feshbach Resonances in ultra-cold 40K spin mixtures

Author(s)
Eite Tiesinga, J Krauser, J Heinze, S Gotze, M Lanbecker, N Flashner, L Cook, T Hanna, K Sengstock, C Becker
Magnetically-tunable Feshbach resonances are an indispensable tool for experiments with atomic quantum gases. We report on twenty thus far unpublishedi Feshbach...

Mass Spectral Library Quality Assurance by Inter-Library Comparison

Author(s)
William E. Wallace, Weihua Ji, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Karen W. Phinney, Stephen E. Stein
A method to discover and correct errors in mass spectral libraries is described. Comparing across a set of highly curated reference libraries compounds that...

Epitaxial graphene homogeneity and quantum Hall effect in millimeter-scale devices

Author(s)
Yanfei Yang, Guangjun Cheng, Chiashain Chuang, Angela R. Hight Walker, Randolph E. Elmquist, Irene G. Calizo, Randall M. Feenstra, Patrick Mende
Quantized magnetotransport is observed in 5.6 × 5.6 mm2 epitaxial graphene devices, grown using highly constrained sublimation on the Si-face of SiC(0001) at...
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