Journals

Approaching the quantum limit for plasmonics: linear atomic chains

May 18, 2016

Author(s)

Garnett W. Bryant

Optical excitations in atomic scale materials can be strongly mixed, having contributions from both single-particle transitions and collective response. This...

Ion trap mobility spectrometry nuisance alarm threshold analysis for illicit narcotics based on environmental background and a ROC-curve approach

May 18, 2016

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, Marcela N. Najarro

The discriminative potential of an ion trap mobility spectrometer (ITMS) for trace detection of illicit narcotics relative to environmental background was...

Baromagnetic Effect in Antiperovskite Mn₃Ga_0.95N_0.94 by Neutron Powder Diffraction Analysis

May 18, 2016

Author(s)

Kewen Shi, Ying Sun, Jun Yan, Sihao Deng, Lei Wang, Hui Wu, Pengwei Hu, Huiqing Lu, Muhammad Imran Malik, Qingzhen Huang, Cong Wang

Hydration-Induced Spin-Glass State in a Frustrated Na-Mn-O Triangular Lattice

May 18, 2016

Author(s)

Ioanna Bakaimi, Rosaria Brescia, Craig Brown, Alexander A. Tsirlin, Mark A. Green, Alexandros Lappas

Birnessite compounds are stable across a wide range of compositions that produces a remarkable diversity in their physical, electrochemical and functional...

Antioxidant Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles in Biology and Medicine

May 17, 2016

Author(s)

Bryant Nelson, Monique Johnson, Marlon L. Walker, Kathryn R. Riley, Christopher Sims

Previously, catalytic cerium oxide nanoparticles (CNPs, nanoceria, CeO2-x NPs) have been widely utilized for chemical mechanical planarization in the...

State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities

May 17, 2016

Author(s)

Debra A. Fischer, Guillem Anglada-Escude, Pamela Arriagada, Roman V. Baluev, Jacob L. Bean, Lars A. Buchhave, Abhijit K. Chakraborty, Scott Diddams, Gabor Furesz, B. S. Gaudi, Philip C. Gregory, Frank Grundahl, Guillaume Hebrard, David W. Hogg, Andrew W. Howard, Colby A. Jurgenson, David W. Latham, Greg Laughlin, Thomas J. Loredo, Suvrath Mahadevan, Tyler M. McCracken, Mario R. Perez, David F. Phillips, P Plavchan, Lisa Prato, Andreas Quirrenbach, Paul Robertson, David Sawyer, Jason D. Eastman, Pedro Figueira, Eric B. Ford, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Paul Fournier, John A. Johnson, Christophe Lovis, Francesco Pepe, Francesco Pepe, Ansgar Reiners, Nuno C. Santos, Damien Segransan, Alessandro Sozzetti, Thorsten Carroll, Francois Bouchy, Paul Jorden, Tilo Steinmetz, Xavier Dumusque, Artie P. Hatzes, Enrique Herrero, Michael Endl, Andrew Szentgyorgyi

The Second Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities defined circa 2015 the state of the art Doppler precision and identified the critical path challenges...

Micellar phase boundaries under the influence of ethyl alcohol

May 16, 2016

Author(s)

Denis E. Bergeron

The Compton spectrum quenching technique is used to monitor the effect of ethyl alcohol (EtOH) additions on phase boundaries in two systems. In toluenic...

Human-Robot Collaboration Dynamic Impact Testing and Calibration Instrument for Disposable Robot Safety Artifacts

May 16, 2016

Author(s)

Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Jae M. Yoo, Thomas Oeste

The Dynamic Impact Testing and Calibration Instrument (DITCI) is a simple instrument, with a significant data collection and analysis capability that is used...

Localization Model Description of Diffusion and Structural Relaxation in Glass-Forming Cu-Zr Alloys

May 16, 2016

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Beatriz Betancourt, Xuhang Tong

We test the localization model (LM) prediction of a parameter-free relationship between the structural relaxation time tau and the Debye-Waller factor , a...

Investigation of a Portable Lipid-Based Analyzer for On-Site Detection of Pansteatitis in the Whole Blood of Healthy and Diseased Mozambique Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus)

May 16, 2016

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John Bowden, Stephen E. Somerville, Theresa M. Cantu, Matthew P. Guillette, Hannes Botha, Ashley S. Boggs-Russell, Wilmien Luus-Powell

While no pansteatitis-related large-scale mortality events have occurred since 2008, the current status of pansteatitis (presence and pervasiveness) in the...

Anomalously low magnetic damping of a metallic ferromagnet

May 16, 2016

Author(s)

Justin M. Shaw, Martin Schoen, Danny Thonig, Michael L. Schneider, Thomas J. Silva, Hans T. Nembach, Olle Eriksson, Olof Karis

The phenomenology of magnetic damping is of critical importance to devices which seek to exploit the electronic spin degree of freedom since damping strongly...

Erratum: Angular dependence of spin-orbit spin transfer torques [Phys. Rev. B 91, 144401 (2015)]

May 16, 2016

Author(s)

Ki-Sueng Lee, Dongwook Go, Aurelien Manchon, Paul M. Haney, Mark D. Stiles, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung Jin Lee

Applications of Neutron Imaging and Future Possibilities

May 15, 2016

Author(s)

Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson

Neutron imaging applications exploit the power of neutrons to penetrate through metals and measure small concentrations of hydrogen and lithium with high...

Structural and optical nanoscale analysis of GaN core-shell microrod arrays fabricated by combined top-down and bottom-up process on Si (111)

May 15, 2016

Author(s)

Sergiy Krylyuk, Marcus Muller, Gordon Schmidt, Sebastian Metzner, Peter Veit, Frank Bertram, Ratan K. Debnath, Jong Yoon Ha, Baomei Wen, Paul T. Blanchard, Alexana Roshko, Abhishek Motayed, Matthew R. King, Albert Davydov, Jurgen Christen

Large arrays of GaN core-shell microrods were fabricated on Si(111) substrates applying a combined bottom-up and top-down approach which includes inductively...

The Relative Diffusive Transport Rate of Srl₂ in Water Changes over the Nanometer Length Scale as Measured by Coherent Quasielastic Neutron Scattering

May 14, 2016

Author(s)

Kenneth A. Rubinson, Antonio Faraone

X-ray and neutron scattering have been used to provide insight into the structures of ionic solutions for over a century, but the probes have covered distances...

High Methane Storage and Working Capacities in a NbO-Type Metal-Organic Framework

May 14, 2016

Author(s)

Chengling Song, Huimin Liu, Jingjing Jiao, Dongjie Bai, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Yabing He

To improve methane adsorption by pore structure optimization, we developed a new organic linker and used it to construct a NbO-type metal-organic framework ZJNU...

Use of the Bethe Equation for Inner-Shell Ionization by Electron Impact

May 13, 2016

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, Xavier Llovet, Francesc Salvat

We analyzed calculated cross sections for K-, L-, and M-shell ionization by electron impact to determine the energy ranges over which these cross sections are...

Comparison measurements of low-pressure between a laser refractometer and ultrasonic manometer

May 13, 2016

Author(s)

Patrick F. Egan, Jack A. Stone Jr., Jacob E. Ricker, Jay H. Hendricks

We have developed a new low-pressure sensor which is based on the measurement of (nitrogen) gas refractivity inside a Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity. We compare...

Highly Transparent, Mesoporous Wood Composite with High Optical Haze for Solar Cells

May 13, 2016

Author(s)

Mingwei Zhu, Tian Li, Chelsea S. Davis, Yonggang Yao, Jiaqi Dai, Yanbin Wang, Feras ALQatari, Lianngbing Hu, Jeffrey W. Gilman

Transition from Sign-Reversed to Sign-Preserved Cooper-Paring Symmetry in Sulfur-Doped Iron Selenide Superconductors

May 13, 2016

Author(s)

Qisi Wang, J. T. Park, Yu Feng, Yao Shen, Yiqing Hao, Bingying Pan, Jeffrey W. Lynn, A. Ivanov, Songxue Chi, M. Matsuda, Huibo Cao, R. J. Birgeneau, D.V. Efremov, Jun Zhao

An essential step toward elucidating the mechanism of superconductivity is to determine the sign/phase of superconducting order parameter, as it is closely...

Elemental Sulfur and Molybdenum Disulfide Composites for Li-S Batteries with Long Cycle Life and High-Rate Capability

May 12, 2016

Author(s)

Vladimir P. Oleshko, Christopher L. Soles, Philip T. Dirlam, Jungjin Park, Adam G. Simmonds, Kenneth Domanik, Kookheon Char, Richard Glass, Nicola Pinna, Yung-Eun Sung

The development of next-generation battery systems beyond Li-ion technology remains a crucial challenge in accommodating the evolving energy storage demands...

Traceability Considerations for the Characterization and Use of Measuring Systems

May 12, 2016

Author(s)

Charles D. Ehrlich

There are several different ways that measuring systems (which include measuring instruments) can be characterized, including calibration, adjustment, and...

Pattern-Directed Phase Separation of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles in a Homopolymer Matrix

May 12, 2016

Author(s)

Ren Zhang, Bongjoon Lee, Michael R. Bockstaller, Sanat K. Kumar, Christopher Stafford, Jack F. Douglas, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Alamgir Karim

The controlled organization of nanoparticle (NP) constituents into superstructures of well- defined shape, composition and connectivity represents a continuing...

Non-destructive evaluation of a new hydrolytically degradable and photo-clickable PEG hydrogel for cartilage tissue engineering

May 11, 2016

Author(s)

Alexander J. Neumann, Timothy Quinn, Stephanie J. Bryant

Photopolymerizable and hydrolytically labile poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels formed from photo-clickable reactions were investigated as cell delivery...

An objectively-analyzed method for measuring the useful penetration of x-ray imaging systems

May 11, 2016

Author(s)

Jack L. Glover, Lawrence T. Hudson

The ability to detect wires is an important capability of the cabinet x-ray imaging systems that are used in aviation security as well as the portable x-ray...

Uncertainty of Error: The Error Dilemma

May 11, 2016

Author(s)

Charles D. Ehrlich

Measurement error has historically been defined in the metrology community as a difference of 'values,' usually as a difference between a 'measured value' and a...

Kaleidoscope of quantum phases in a long-range interacting spin-1 chain

May 11, 2016

Author(s)

Zhe-Xuan Gong, Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Anzi A. Hu, Michael S. Foss-Feig, Phil Richerme, Christopher Monroe, Alexey Gorshkov

Synthesis, Fabrication, and Heterostructure of Charged, Substituted Polystyrene Multilayer Dielectrics and Their Effects in Pentacene Transistors

May 10, 2016

Author(s)

Olivia J. Alley, Evan Plunkett, Tejaswini S. Kale, Xin Guo, Grace McClintock, Manasa Bhupathiraju, Brian Kirby, Daniel H. Reich, Howard E. Katz

Charge trapping and storage in polymer dielectric can be harnessed for the control of semiconductor device behavior, including organic transistors. For example...

Enhancing Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Properties Through Controlled Endohedral Filling

May 10, 2016

Author(s)

Jochen I. Campo, Yanmei Piao, Stephanie Lam, Christopher Stafford, Jason K. Streit, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Angela R. Hight Walker, Jeffrey Fagan

Chemical control of the endohedral volume of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) via liquid-phase filling is demonstrated to be a facile strategy to...

Real-Time, Single Molecule Electronic DNA Sequencing by Synthesis Using Polymer Tagged Nucleotides on a Nanopore Array

May 10, 2016

Author(s)

Carl Fuller, Shiv Kumar, Mintu Porel, Michen Chien, Arek Bibillo, P. B. Stranges, Michael Dorwart, Chuanjua Tao, Zengmin Li, Wenjing Guo, Shundi Shi, Daniel Korenblum, Andrew Trans, Anne Aguirre, Edward Liu, Takeshi Harada, James Pollard, Ashwini Bhat, Cynthia Cech, Alexander Yang, Cleoma Spilman, Mirko Palla, Jennifer Hovis, Roger Chen, Irina Morozova, Sergey Kalachikov, James Russo, John J. Kasianowicz, Stefan Roever, George Church, Jingyue Ju

DNA sequencing by synthesis (SBS) offers a robust platform to decipher nucleic acid sequences. Recently, we developed a single molecule nanopore-based SBS...