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Paul M. Haney, Heayoung Yoon, Benoit H. Gaury, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
Electron beam induced current (EBIC) is a powerful characterization technique which offers the high spatial resolution needed to study polycrystalline solar...
Securing the Internet of Things (IoT) requires strong cryptography, which depends on the availability of good entropy for generating unpredictable keys and...
Arunima Singh, Albert Davydov, Francesca M. Tavazza, Lincoln J. Lauhon, Xiaochen Ren, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Lei Fang
Impurity doping in two-dimensional (2D) materials can provide a route to tuning electronic properties, so it is important to be able to determine the...
We propose a numerical method using the discrete variable representation (DVR) for constructing real-valued approximate Wannier functions localized in a unit...
John H. Lehman, Malcolm G. White, Andreas Steiger, Ralf Mueller, Alberto R. Oliva, Yuqiang Deng, Qing Sun
Abstract: A comparison of terahertz (THz) laser power measurements was undertaken among three national metrology institutes. At two THz frequencies, 2.52 THz...
Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, A. Rolland, Frederick N. Baynes, A. J. Metcalf, Archita Hati, Andrew D. Ludlow, Nathan M. Hinkley, M. Shimizu, Joe Campbell, Scott A. Diddams
Increasing demands in the high tech industry for higher data rates and better synchronization necessitates the development of new wideband and tunable sources...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Jeffrey T. Culp, Yu-Sheng Chen, Christopher Matranga
In recent years, a number of novel compounds known as flexible pillared layer porous coordination polymer (or flexible metal organic framework (MOFs)) have been...
Felipe F. Lopez, Paul W. Witherell, Brandon M. Lane
As additive manufacturing (AM) matures, models are beginning to take a more prominent stage in design and process planning for AM. A limitation frequently...
Michael D. Coble, John S. Buckleton, John M. Butler, Barbara Guttman
The use of biostatistical software programs to assist in data interpretation and calculate likelihood ratios is essential to forensic geneticists and part of...
Advances in single photon creation, transmission, and detection suggest that sending quantum information over optical fibers may have losses low enough to be...
Wan Si NMN Tang, Mirjana NMN Dimitrievska, Jean-Noel Chotard, Wei Zhou, Raphael Janot, Alexander V. Skripov, Terrence J. Udovic
Structural, vibrational, and dynamical properties of the mono- and mixed-alkali silanides (MSiH 3, where M=K, Rb, Cs, K 0.5Rb 0.5Cs 0.5, and Rb 0.5Cs 0.5) were...
We consider the effect of volume diffusion on measurements of the bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) when a finite distance is used for the...
The last of the radium-226 standards that Marie Curie personally handled is destined for a radioactive materials waste dump. Presented here is a history of the...
Cybersecurity is a major concern. Governments, industry, and even hospitals IT infrastructure is being penetrated with increasing frequency and sophistication...
Bryant C. Nelson, Sanem Hosbas Coskun, Chuanxin Ma, Hong Li, Huiyuan Guo, Craig Musante, Jason C. White, Baoshan Xing, Om P. Dhankher
Metal-based nanoparticles (NPs) can cause toxicity to terrestrial plants, however there is little understanding of plant defense mechanisms that may counteract...
The comet assay,or single cell gel electrophoresis,is a sensitive and efficient technique for analyzing DNA damage in the form of single and double strand...
Combined detection-estimation tasks are frequently encountered in medical imaging. Hence, optimal methods for joint detection and estimation are of interest...
Sung Kim, David R. Novotny, Joshua A. Gordon, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri
A free-space measurement method is presented for the characterization of low-loss dielectric materials at millimeter-wave (MMW) frequencies that does not...
In 2018, the International System of Units (SI) is expected to undergo a complete redefinition. This redefinition presents a paradigm shift where the present SI...
Chih-Jian Lih, Robin D. Harrington, Kneshay Harper, David J. Sims, Paul McGregor, Corinne Camalier, Han Si, Biswajit Das, P. M. Williams, Hua-Jun He, Jamie L. Almeida, Steven Lund, Steven J. Choquette, Kenneth D. Cole
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Materials 2373 is a set of genomic DNA samples prepared from five breast cancer...
Giulio Preta, Marija Jankunec, Frank Heinrich, Sholeem Griffin, Iain Martin Sheldon, Gintaras Valincius
We demonstrate the use of tethered bilayers (tBLMs) as an experimental platform for functional and structural studies of membrane associated proteins by the...
David M. Fobes, Igor A. Zaliznyak, John M. Tranquada, Zhijun Xu, Genda D. Gu, Xu-Gang He, Wei Ku, Yang Zhao, Masaaki Matsuda, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Barry Winn
Investigation of the inelastic neutron scattering spectra in Fe 1+yTe 1-xSe x near a signature wave vector Q = (1,0,0) for the bond-order wave (BOW) formation...
Past research has examined the effect of urban trees on storm-water runoff using hydrological models or small-scale experiments. However, there has been no...
M. S. Bryan, Timothy R Prisk, Richard Azuah, W. G. Stirling, P.E. Sokol
We present high-resolution neutron Compton scattering measurements of liquid 3He below its renormalized Fermi temperature. Theoretical predictions are in...
Wan Si NMN Tang, Koji Yoshida, Alexei V. Soloninin, Roman V. Skoryunov, Olga A. Babanova, Alexander V. Skripov, Mirjana NMN Dimitrievska, Vitalie Stavila, Shin-Ichi Orimo, Terrence J. Udovic
Solid lithium and sodium closo-polyborate-based salts are capable of superionic conductivities surpassing even liquid electrolytes, but often only at above...
Eric P. Vetter, Liwei Geng, Priya Ghatwai, Dustin A. Gilbert, Yongmei Jin, William A. Soffa, Jerrold A. Floro
The Co-Pt nanochessboard is a quasi-periodic, nanocomposite tiling of Ll 0 and Ll 2 magnetic phases that offers a novel structure for the investigation of...
T D. Shoji, W Xie, Kevin L. Silverman, Ari Feldman, Todd E. Harvey, Richard Mirin, Thomas Schibli
Low-noise, high-repetition-rate mode-locked solid-state lasers are attractive for precision measurement and microwave generation, but the best lasers in terms...
The field of human behavior in fire (HBiF) is founded by and has deep roots within the field of fire protection (or safety) engineering. The influence of...