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We present an implementation of the Poisson-Influenced K-Means Algorithm (PIKA), first developed to characterize the output of a superconducting transition edge...
Organic-inorganic halide CH 3NH 3PbI 3 solar cells have attracted enormous attention in recent years due to their remarkable power conversion efficiency. These...
J. Gunasekera, Leland Harriger, A. Dahal, A. Maurya, T.W. Heitmann, Steven M.T. Disseler, A. Thamizhavel, S. Dhar, D. J. Singh, D. K. Singh
We have investigated the underlying magnetism in newly discovered single crystal Kondo lattices CeXAl 4Si 2, where X = Rh, Ir. We show that the compound...
Houxun Miao, Alireza Panna, Andrew A. Gomella, Eric E. Bennett, sami Znati, Lei Chen, Han Wen
A moiré pattern is created by superimposing two black-and-white or gray-scale patterns of regular geometry, such as two sets of evenly spaced lines. We observed...
Barry Farmer, Vinayak Bhat, Andrew L. Balk, Eric Teipel, Nathan Smith, John Unguris, D.J. Keavney, Todd Hastings, L .E. De Long
Quasicrystals are rarely found in nature and are difficult to grow in the laboratory, but exhibit unique physical properties resulting from their signature long...
Thien Q. Phan, Lyle E. Levine, I-Fang Lee, Jonathan Z. Tischler, Ruqing Xu, Yi Huang, Terrance G. Langdon, Michael E. Kassner
Synchrotron X-ray microbeam diffraction was used to measure the full elastic long range internal strain and stress tensors of low dislocation density regions...
Evgheni Strelcov, Sang Mo Yang, Stephen Jesse, Nina Balke, Rama Vasudevan, Sergei Kalinin
Energy technologies of the XXI century require understanding and precise control over ion transport and electrochemistry at all length scales from single...
Catherine A. Remley, Jos N. Dortmans, Catherine Weldon, Thomas B. Meurs, Chih-Ming Wang, Christopher L. Holloway, Perry F. Wilson
Reverberation chambers provide a repeatable test environment for laboratory over-the-air testing and represent a viable solution for testing large-form-factor...
Dustin G. Poppendieck, Adam P. Blickley, Matthew Schlegel, Angelica Connor
The desire to build more energy efficient homes in the United States has led to the expansion of the residential spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation...
Daniel S. Gruss, Kirill Velizhanin, Michael P. Zwolak
Landauer's formula relates the conductance of a region of interest to its transmission probability. It is the standard theoretical tool to examine ballistic...
A test methodology for evaluating the safety of mobile manipulators (robot arms mounted on mobile bases) is presented. This methodology addresses the safety...
Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Russ B. Altman, Arend Sidow, Rachel Goldfeder, Euan Ashley, Elizabeth Mansfield
The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is a national effort in the United States to enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies...
Damir Senic, Catherine A. Remley, Chih-Ming Wang, Dylan F. Williams, Christopher L. Holloway, Diogo Ribeiro, Ansgar T. Kirk
This contribution provides techniques for accurately characterizing the measurement uncertainty due to chamber setup for total radiated power measurements at...
In the well-studied (2,2,2) Bell experiment consisting of two parties, two measurement settings per party, and two possible outcomes per setting, it is known...
We outline the details of acquiring quantitative 13C cross-polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR spectra on the most ubiquitous polymer for organic...
Comparison of firing pin impressions of cartridge cases is an important part of firearms evidence identification. However, compared with breach face impressions...
Cedric J. Powell, Giorgia Olivieri, Krista Parry, Douglas Tobias, Matthew Brown
Over the past decade, energy-dependent X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has emerged as a powerful analytical probe of the ion spatial distributions at the...
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Robert F. Cook
The pressure induced phase transitions of crystalline Si films was studied in situ under a Berkovich probe using the Raman spectroscopy-enhanced instrumented...
Since the discovery of semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, a variety of experimental and theoretical studies have been carried out...
Yasmine C. Daniels, William A. MacCrehan, Shinichiro Muramoto, Gheorghe NMN Stan, Vitaly Vodyanoy, Oleg Pustovyy
Zinc and copper metal nanoparticles were produced from bulk metal rods by an underwater high-voltage discharge method. The metal nanoparticles, with estimated...
Youngung Jeong, Mark A. Iadicola, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Adam A. Creuziger
Constitutive behaviors of an interstitial-free steel sample were measured using an augmented Marciniak experiment. In these tests, multiaxial strain field data...
Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have been used for decades to characterize building ventilation and indoor air quality. Many of these applications...
Optical frequency conversion has applications ranging from tunable light sources to telecommunications band interfaces for quantum information science. Here, we...
Simone N. Gittelson, Carolyn R. Steffen, Michael D. Coble
This study investigates the following two questions: (i) Should the DNA analyst concentrate the DNA extract into a single amplification or should he/she split...
Jonathan Rivnay, Sahika Inal, Brian Collins, Michelle Sessolo, Eleni Stavrindou, Christopher Tassone, Dean DeLongchamp, George Malliaras
Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(styrenesulfonate), PEDOT:PSS, has been utilized for over two decades as a stable, solution-processable...
Steven M. Disseler, Jeffrey W. Lynn, R. F. Jardim, M. S. Torikachvili, E. Granado
The face-centered cubic lattice lattice of Ru 5+ spins in the double perovskite Sr 2YRuO 6 shows a delicate three dimensional antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground...
Yu-Ju Lin, Karina K. Jimenez Garcia, Ian B. Spielman
Spin-orbit (SO) coupling -- the interaction between a quantum particle's spin and its momentum -- is ubiquitous in nature, from atoms to solids. In condensed...
Estimating the economic burden of disasters requires appropriate models that account for key characteristics and decision making needs. Natural disasters in...
Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Chris A. Marianetti, Corwin H. Booth, Jason R. Jeffries
Resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy (RXES) was used to determine the pressure dependence of the f-electron occupancy in the Kondo insulator SmB 6. Applied...
Thomas W. Rosch, Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Paul Patrone
Generating and calibrating forces that are transferable across a range of state-points remains a challenging problem in coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics...