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We study the circular photogalvanic effect in the organometal halide perovskite solar cell absorber CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$. The calculated photocurrent density is...
Jonathan E. Wyrick, Donat F. Natterer, Yue Y. Zhao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, William G. Cullen, Joseph A. Stroscio
One of the great advances in our ability to probe the quantum world has been the ability to manipulate the electronic structure of materials by constructing...
Nicholas P. Butch, Sheng Ran, Inho Jeon, Noravee Kanchanavatee, Kevin Huang, Alexander Breindel, M. Brian Maple, Ryan L. Stillwell, Yang Zhao, Leland Weldon Harriger, Jeffrey W. Lynn
We use neutron scattering to compare the magnetic excitations in the hidden order (HO) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) phases in URu 2-xFe xFe xSi 2 as a function...
Jacob M. Taylor, Michael Gullans, Jason Petta, J. Stehlik, Yinyiu Liu, Christopher Eichler, T Hartke, X Mi
A qubit coupled to a microwave resonator allows the study of fundamental light-matter interactions at the level of single photons1. The paradigm of circuit...
Gary S. Grest, Jack F. Douglas, Mike S. Kent, M Whitmore
We provide a unified description of polymer brushes anchored to flat, repulsive surfaces in good solvents, for systems ranging from the one limit of an isolated...
Chen Wang, Adam Abel Creuziger, Gery R. Stafford, Charles Hussey
The anodic dissolution of aluminum metal was investigated in the Lewis acidic chloroaluminate ionic liquid, aluminum chloride-1- ethyl-3-methylimidazolium...
Hadi S. Esmaeeli, Yaghoob Farnam, Dale P. Bentz, Pablo Zavattieri, Jason Weiss
This paper presents a one-dimensional finite difference model that was developed to describe the freeze-thaw behavior of mortar containing deicing salt solution...
Kyoung-Whan Kim, Kyung Jin Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, Mark D. Stiles
We compute the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy within two-dimensional Rashba models. For a free- electron Rashba model with infinite band width and...
Quentin Smets, Anne S. Verhulst, Salim El Kazzi, David J. Gundlach, Curt A. Richter, Anda Mocuta, Nadine Collaert, Aaron Thean, Marc Heyns
The effective bandgap for heterojunction band-to-band tunneling (Eg,eff) is a crucial design parameter for heterojunction TFET. However, there is significant...
Robert D. Chirico, Louis Jasperson, Rubin McDougal, Vladimir Diky, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Yauheni Paulechka, Abhijit Dutta, Kristiina Iisa
We report liquid-liquid mutual solubilities for binary aqueous mixtures involving 2-, 3-, and 4-ethylphenol, 2-, 3-, and 4-methoxyphenol, benzofuran, and 1H...
Mauro Zammarano, Shonali Nazare, John R. Shields, Kathleen M. Hoffman, Rick D. Davis
A durable and flexible silicone-based backcoating (halogen and formaldehyde free) is applied to the backside of an otherwise smoldering-prone and flammable...
We review values of the temperature jump coefficient zeta_T determined from measurements of the acoustic resonance frequencies f_acoust of helium-filled and...
Mercedes K. Taylor, Tomce Runcevski, Julia Oktawiec, Miguel I. Gonzalez, Rebecca L. Siegelman, Jarad A. Mason, Jinxing Ye, Craig Brown, Jeffrey R. Long
Cold weather concreting often requires the use of chemical accelerators to speed up the hydration reactions of the cement, so that setting and early-age...
This paper presents the results of a collapse prevention seismic performance assessment using ASCE 41-06 for six special concentrically braced frames designed...
Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Lisa V. Kalman, Mickey Williams, Vivekananda Datta, Jin-Yeong Han
Characterized reference materials (RM) are needed for test development and validation, quality control procedures and proficiency testing to assure the quality...
John Bowden, Theresa M. Cantu, Jacob Scott, Jimena B. Perez-Viscasillas, Kevin M. Huncik, Matthew P. Guillette, Louis J. Guillette Jr.
Eicosanoids are signaling lipids that regulate several physiological processes in the mammalian placenta, including the initiation of parturition. Though all...
Ashley S. Boggs-Russell, John Bowden, Abby G. Wenzel, Satomi Kohno, Heather J. Hamlin, Lori Cruze, Krista A. McCoy, Alison M. Roark, Thea M. Edwards, Theresa M. Cantu, Jessica A. Cloy-McCoy, Nicole A. McNabb, Cameron E. Williams
Dr. Louis J. Guillette Jr. thought of himself as a reproductive biologist. However, his interest in reproductive biology transcended organ systems, life history...
In the last decade, a method of notetaking incorporating hand-drawn visual elements has become an increasingly popular technique for recording information from...
Jeffrey Jargon, Chihyun Cho, Joo-Gwang Lee, Paul D. Hale, Peter J. Jeavons, John B. Schlager, Andrew Dienstfrey
A novel method is proposed for the calibration of channel mismatch in a time-interleaved real- time digital oscilloscope (RTDO). A simple simultaneous equation...
Using the multiple-scale homogenization method, we derive generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) for electromagnetic fields at the surface of a...
Dylan F. Williams, Richard A. Chamberlin, Jerome G. Cheron, Wei Zhao, Urteaga Miguel
We verify a model for state-of-the-art 250 nm heterojunction bipolar transistors with large-signal measurements. We demonstrate the propagation of correlated...
ASCE 41-13 is an industry standard for seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings. Alternative component modeling and acceptance criteria are based...
Bartosz K. Nowakowski, Douglas T. Smith, Stuart T. Smith
This paper presents an experimental study of a fiber-based Fabry-Perot interferometer comprising two reflecting surfaces (the end of a cleaved fiber and a plane...
Laura Mazzei, Max Wolff, Daniele Pergolesi, Joseph Dura, Lars Borjesson, Philipp Gutfreund, Marco Bettinelli, Thomas Lippert, Maths Karlsson
Epitaxial thin films of the proton conducting perovskite BaZr 0.53In 0.47O 3-δH^d0.47-2δ, grown by pulsed laser deposition, were investigated in their hydrated...
Raphael Janot, Wan Si NMN Tang, Damien Clemencon, Jean-Noel Chotard
Solid-state hydrogen storage through the reversible formation of metallic hydrides is a key issue for the development of hydrogen as an energy vector. Herein...
Ke Yang, Zhikun Cai, Abhishek Jaiswal, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Jeffrey S. Moore, Yang Zhang
n-Alkanes are the textbook examples of the odd-even effect. The difference in the packing pattern of odd- and even-numbered n-alkanes results in the odd-even...
The grafting of polymer chains onto the surface of spherical nanoparticles leads to a hybrid type of fluid that exhibits properties of both particle suspensions...