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Quantum Frequency Bridge: High-Accuracy Characterization of a Nearly-Noiseless Parametric Frequency Converter

January 11, 2017

Author(s)

Ivan Burenkov, Sergey Polyakov

We demonstrate an efficient and inherently ultra-low noise frequency conversion via a parametric sum frequency generation. Due to the wide separation between...

LipidPioneer: Comprehensive User-Generated Exact Mass Templates for Lipidomics

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Candice Z. Ulmer, John Bowden, Jared M. Ragland, Timothy J. Garrett, Jeremy P. Koelmel

Lipidomics, the comprehensive measurement of lipid species in a biological system, has promising potential in biomarker discovery and elucidating disease...

Retention behavior of isomeric polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles in gas chromatography on stationary phases of different selectivity

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Leonard M. Sidisky, Milton Lee, Stephen A. Wise

Retention indices for 70 polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles (PASHs) were determined using gas chromatography with three different stationary phases: a 50%...

Retention behavior of alkyl-substituted polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycle isomers in gas chromatography on stationary phases of different selectivity

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Stephanie Mossner, Leonard M. Sidisky, Milton Lee, Stephen A. Wise

Retention indices for 10 sets of alkyl-substituted polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles (PASHs) isomers (total of 80 PASHs) were determined using gas...

Gapped Excitation in Dense Kondo Lattice CePtZn

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Leland Weldon Harriger, Steven M.T. Disseler, J. Gunasekera, Jose A. Rodriguez, J. Pixley, P. Manfrinetti, S. K. Dhar, D. K. Singh

We report on neutron υSR scattering studies of dense Kondo lattice CePtZn. The system develops long range incommensurate magnetic order as the temperature is...

Fast Formation of Low-Defect-Density Tethered Bilayers by Fusion of Multilamellar Vesicles

January 10, 2017

Author(s)

Tadas Ragaliauskas, Mindaugas Mickevicius, Bozena Rakovska, Tadas Penkauskas, Frank Heinrich, Gintaras Valincius

Multilamelar vesicles fuse to molecular-anchor-grafted surfaces yielding low defect density, tethered bilayer membranes. Continuous bilayers are formed within...

Analysis of Thickness and Quality Factor of a Double Paddle Oscillator at Room Temperature

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Hamza Shakeel, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Thomas Metcalf

In this paper, we evaluate the quality (Q) factor and the resonance frequency of a double paddle oscillator (DPO) with different thickness using analytical...

Origins and Demonstrations of Electrons with Orbital Angular Momentum

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Benjamin McMorran, Amit Agrawal, Peter Ercius, Vincenzo Grillo, Andrew Herzing, Tyler R. Harvey, Martin Linck

The surprising message of the 1992 paper of Allen, Beijersbergen, Spreeuw, and Woerdman (ABSW) was that photons could exhibit orbital motion in free space...

Preflight Radiometric Calibration of Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen Maxwell, B. Carol Johnson, Robert Rosenberg, Lars Chapsky, Richard A. Lee, Randy Pollock

This paper describes the prelaunch radiometric calibration of the imaging spectrometers used on the second Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2). The gain and...

Determination of Vertical Borehole and Geological Formation Properties using the Crossed Contour Method

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Brian P. Leyde, S. A. Klein, G. F. Nellis, Harrison Skye

This paper presents a new method called the Crossed Contour Method for determining the effective properties (borehole radius and ground thermal conductivity) of...

Coherent UV-to-Visible Light Arrays

January 9, 2017

Author(s)

Dong Yoon Oh, Scott Diddams, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry J. Vahala, Connor Fredrick, Gabriel Ycas

Short duration, intense pulses of light can experience dramatic spectral broadening when propagating through lengths of optical fiber. This continuum generation...

Applying 3D measurements and computer matching algorithms to two firearm examination proficiency tests

January 8, 2017

Author(s)

Daniel B. Ott, Robert M. Thompson, Jun-Feng Song

In order for a crime laboratory to assess a firearms examiner's training, skills, experience, and aptitude, it is necessary for the examiner to participate in...

Data Resources for Thermophysical Properties of Metals and Alloys, Part 1: Structured Data Capture from the Archival Literature

January 7, 2017

Author(s)

Boris Wilthan, Erik A. Pfeif, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Ursula R. Kattner, Kenneth G. Kroenlein

In support of the continuous scientific and industrial need for accessible and high-quality thermophysical property data for metals and alloy systems, NIST/TRC...

Exposure of Few Layer Graphene to Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri: Uptake, Proteins Secretion and Their Effects on the Graphene

January 6, 2017

Author(s)

Liang Mao, Chuanlin Liu, Kun Lu, Cheng Gu, Elijah Petersen

While graphene has substantial commercial potential, numerous aspects regarding its potential ecological effects such as its potential for bioaccumulation are...

Breaking of Galilean invariance in the hydrodynamic formulation of ferromagnetic thin films

January 6, 2017

Author(s)

Ezio Iacocca, Thomas J. Silva, Mark Hoefer

Microwave magnetodynamics in ferromagnets are often studied in the limit of small-amplitude modes that modulate a well-defined magnetic state. However, strongly...

Accurate and Interpretable Classification of Microspectroscopy Pixels Using Artificial Neural Networks

January 6, 2017

Author(s)

Petru S. Manescu, Young Jong Lee, Charles Camp, Marcus T. Cicerone, Mary C. Brady, Peter Bajcsy

This paper addresses the problem of classifying materials from microspectroscopical images at each pixel. The challenges lie in identifying discriminatory...

Limestone and Silica Powder Replacements for Cement: Early-Age Performance

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Chiara F. Ferraris, Scott Z. Jones, Didier Lootens, Franco Zunino

Developing functional concrete mixtures with less ordinary portland cement (OPC) has been one of the key objectives of the 21st century sustainability movement...

Matter-Wave-Optical-Wave Mixing-Induced Transparency and a Nonhyperbolic Matter-Wave Quasisoliton in Quantum Gases

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Y Li, C.J. Zhu, W. R. Garrett, Edward W. Hagley, Lu Deng

The realization of atomic quantum gases has brought out surprising effects that have no correspondence in nonlinear optics with thermal gases, presenting...

Segmental Deuteration of α-Synuclein for Neutron Reflectometry on Tethered Bilayers

January 5, 2017

Author(s)

Zhiping Jiang, Frank Heinrich, Ryan P. McGlinchey, James M. Gruschus, Jennifer C. Lee

Neutron reflectometry (NR) is uniquely suited for studying protein interaction with phospholipid bilayers. While molecular details along the bilayer normal can...

MCDHF and RCI calculations of energy levels, lifetimes andtransition rates for 3l3l0, 3l4l0 and 3s5l states in Ca IX - As XXII andKr XXV

January 4, 2017

Author(s)

S. Gustafsson, P. Jonsson, Charlotte F. Fischer, Ian P. Grant

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) calculations and relativistic configuration interaction (RCI) calculations are performed for states of the 3l3l0...

Extrapolative Scaling Expression: A Fitting Equation for Extrapolating Full Ic(B,T,ε) Data Matrixes from Limited Data

January 4, 2017

Author(s)

John (Jack) W. Ekin, Najib Cheggour, Loren F. Goodrich, Jolene D. Splett, Bernardo Bordini, David Richter, Luca Bottura

Scaling analysis of several thousand Nb3Sn critical-current (Ic) measurements is used to derive the extrapolative scaling expression (ESE), a global fitting...

Diffusion of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) through an HDPE geomembrane

January 4, 2017

Author(s)

Pooneh Taghizadeh-Saheli, R. K. Rowe, Elijah Petersen, Denis O'Carroll

The new applications for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in various fields and consequently the increase in their production volume have increased their potential...

From Image Tiles to Web-Based Interactive Measurements in One Stop

January 4, 2017

Author(s)

Antoine Vandecreme, Michael P. Majurski, Joe Chalfoun, Keana Scott, John Henry Scott, Mary C. Brady, Peter Bajcsy

This article aims at introducing readers to a web-based solution useful for interactive measurements of centimeter-sized specimens at nanoscales. Modern imaging...

Ni nanoindentation at the nanoscale: atomic rearrangements at the Ni-C interface

January 3, 2017

Author(s)

Francesca Tavazza, Lyle Levine, Bryan Kuhr, Diana Farkas

As mechanical testing proceeds towards ever-decreasing length scales, the ultimate limit is the atomic scale. Here, we investigate the atomic-scale interactions...

VISCOSITY, DENSITY, AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ALUMINUM OXIDE AND ZINC OXIDE NANOLUBRICANTS

January 3, 2017

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski, Riccardo Brignoli, Kevin Quine, J S. Brown

This paper presents liquid kinematic viscosity, density, and thermal conductivity measurements of eleven different synthetic polyolester-based nanoparticle...

First analysis of the rotationally-resolved ν2 and 2ν2- ν2 bands of sulfur dioxide, 33S16O2

January 3, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas A. Blake, Jean-Marie Flaud, Walter J. Lafferty

A Fourier transform spectrum of sulfur dioxide 33S16O2 has been recorded in the 18.3 µm spectral region at a resolution of 0.002 cm-1 using a Bruker IFS 125HR...

An alternative to the geometric addition method for calculating the rise time of fast oscilloscopes and pulse generations

January 2, 2017

Author(s)

Paul D. Hale, Kai Baaske, Thomas Kleine-Ostmann, Mark Bieler, Thorsten Schrader

In this paper we propose a new method for calculating the rise time of pulse generators and oscilloscopes using a correction factor. This new method is...

Enhanced aerodynamic reach of vapor and aerosol sampling for real-time mass spectrometric detection using Venturi-assisted entrainment and ionization

January 2, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, Matthew Staymates

Venturi-assisted ENTrainment and Ionization (VENTI) was developed herein, demonstrating efficient entrainment, collection, and transport of remotely sampled...

Benchmark Problems for Phase Field Modeling

January 2, 2017

Author(s)

Andrea Jokisaari, P W. Voorhees, Jonathan E. Guyer, James A. Warren, O. G. Heinonen

We present the first set of benchmark problems for phase field models that are being devel- oped by the Center for Heirarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD) and...

Gas-phase broadband spectroscopy using active sources: progress, status, and applications

January 1, 2017

Author(s)

Kevin C. Cossel, Eleanor M. Waxman, Ian A. Finneran, Geoffery A. Blake, Jun Ye, Nathan R. Newbury

Broadband spectroscopy is an invaluable tool for measuring multiple gas-phase species simultaneously. In this work we review current applications for broad-band...

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