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Rapid evaporation at the superheat limit of methanol, ethanol, butanol and n-heptane on platinum films supported by low-stress SiN membranes

June 7, 2016

Author(s)

Eric J. Ching, C. T. Avedisian, Richard E. Cavicchi, Do H. Chung, Jeff Rah, Michael J. Carrier

The bubble nucleation temperatures of several organic liquids (methanol, ethanol, butanol,n-heptane) on stress-minimized platinum (Pt) films supported by SiN...

Pressure balance cross-calibration method using a pressure transducer as transfer standard

June 6, 2016

Author(s)

Julia K. Scherschligt, Yuanchao Yang, Robert G. Driver, Douglas A. Olson

Piston gauges or pressure balances are widely used to realize the SI unit of pressure, the Pascal, and to calibrate pressure sensing devices. However, their...

Phase-coherent microwave-to-optical link with a self-referenced microcomb

June 6, 2016

Author(s)

Pascal P. Del'Haye, Aurelien C. Coillet, Tara M. Fortier, Katja M. Beha, Daniel C. Cole, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams

The counting and control of optical cycles of light has become common with modelocked laser frequency combs. But even with advances in laser technology...

Hole spins in an InAs/GaAs quantum dot molecule subject to lateral electric fields

June 4, 2016

Author(s)

Xiangyu Ma, Garnett W. Bryant, Matthew Doty

There has been tremendous progress in manipulating electron and hole spin states in quantum dots or quantum dot molecules (QDMs) with growth-direction (vertical...

Quantitative Characterization of Configurational Space Sampled by HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Using Solution NMR, X-ray Scattering and Protein Engineering

June 3, 2016

Author(s)

Alexander V. Grishaev, Lalit Deshmukh, Charles Schwieters, G. Marius Clore

Nucleic-acid-related events in the HIV-1 replication cycle are mediated by nucleocapsid, a small protein comprising two zinc knuckles connected by a short...

Quantum mechanical effects in plasmonic structures with subnanometre gaps

June 3, 2016

Author(s)

Wenqi Zhu, Ruben Esteban, Andrei G. Borisov, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Peter Nordlander, Henri J. Lezec, Javier Aizpurua, Kenneth B. Crozier

Metal nanostructures with nanogap features have proven highly effective as building blocks for plasmonic systems as they can provide a wide tuning range of...

A Tunable Coupler for Superconducting Microwave Resonators Using A Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Transmission Line

June 3, 2016

Author(s)

Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Johannes Hubmayr, Bockstiegel Clint, Saptarshi Chaudhuri

We present a tunable coupler scheme that allows us to tune the coupling strength between a feedline and a superconducting resonator in situ over a wide range...

Orbital-Exchange and Fractional Quantum Number Excitations in an f-electron Metal Yb₂Pt₂Pb

June 3, 2016

Author(s)

L. S. Wu, W. J. Gannon, I. A. Zaliznyak, A. M. Tsvelik, M. Brockmann, J.-S. Caux, M. S. Kim, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, G. Ehlers, A. Podlesnyak, M. C. Aronson

Exotic quantum states and fractionalized magnetic excitations, such as spinons in one-dimensional chains, are generally viewed as belonging to the domain of 3d...

Precise methane absorption measurements in the 1.64 micron spectral region for the MERLIN mission

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Joseph T. Hodges, Stephen E. Maxwell, Zachary D. Reed, Hong Lin, Keeyon Sung, Malathy Devi, Thomas Warneke, Peter Spietz, Ha Tran, Thibault Delahaye

In this article we describe a high-precision laboratory targeting the R(6) manifold of the 2ν3 band of 12CH4. Accurate physical models of this absorption...

Distance Measurements between Paramagnetic Ligands Bound to Parallel Stranded Guanine Quadruplexes

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Matthew P. Donohue, Veronika A. Szalai

Aside from a double helix, DNA folds into non-canonical structures, one of which is the guanine quadruplex. Cationic porphyrins bind guanine quadruplexes, but...

A Quantum Model of Thermodynamic Mechanical Oscillators

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Jacob M. Taylor, Chiao-Hsuan Wang

We present a quantum mechanical model of a bath of spins coupled to the elasticity of a material. Motivated by understanding the emergence of thermodynamic...

Magnetic Transitions in the Topological Magnon Insulator Cu(1,3-bdc)

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Robin Michael Daub Chisnell, Joel Helton, D. E. Freedman, D. K. Singh, F. Demmel, Chris Stock, D. G. Nocera, Y. S. Lee

Topological magnon insulators are a new class of magnetic materials that posses topologically nontrivial magnon bands. As a result, magnons in these materials...

Test Methods for Robot Agility in Manufacturing

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Anthony J. Downs, William S. Harrison, Craig I. Schlenoff

In today's world of fast-paced change and ever evolving technologies, there is constant pressure on manufactures for agile production. The need for...

From candle to candela

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Yuqin Zong

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Risk-based decision making for sustainable and resilient infrastructure

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister, Zoubir Lounis

The development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems is a challenging task that involves a broad range of economic, social and environmental...

Reliability-based structural performance indicators for structural members

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister, Michel Ghosn, Dan Frangopol, Mahendra Shah, Sophia Diniz, Bruce Ellingwood, Lance Manuel, Fabio Biondini, N. Catbas, A. Strauss, Z. Zhao

The implementation of reliability methods for designing new structures and assessing the safety and evaluating the performance of existing structures and...

Reliability-based performance indicators for structural systems and networks

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister

While member-level performance and reliability assessment procedures are well-established, it is widely recognized that the generally conservative member...

Solute-derived Thermal Stabilization of Nano-sized Grains in Melt-Spun Aluminum

June 2, 2016

Author(s)

Andrew H. Baker, Paul G. Sanders, Eric Lass, Deepak Kapoor, Steve L. Kampe

Thermal stability of nanograined metals can be difficult due to the large driving force for growth that arises from the significant boundary area constituted by...

Indifferentiability Security of the Fast Widepipe Hash: Breaking the Birthday Barrier

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Dustin Moody, Souradyuti Paul, Daniel C. Smith-Tone

A hash function secure in the indi fferentiability framework is able to resist all generic attacks. Such hash functions also play a crucial role in the security...

Strategies for Achieving Measurement Assurance for Cell Therapy Products

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Carl G. Simon Jr., Anne L. Plant, Sumona Sarkar, John T. Elliott, Sheng Lin-Gibson

Cell therapy products (CTPs) need quantitative, validated, and robust assays to support informed decision making during their development, manufacturing, and...

Neutronic Characterization of the PSBR Irradiation Positions using a Burnup Coupled MCNP Simulation with MURE

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Dagistan NMN Sahin, Kenan Unlu, Kostadin Ivanov

Penn State Breazeale Reactor (PSBR) is a Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics (TRIGA) Mark III type, 1 MW nuclear research reactor. PSBR has been...

Librarians and Scientists Partner to Address Data Management: Taking Collaboration to the Next Level

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Andrea M. Medina-Smith, Barbara P. Silcox, Kimberly A. Tryka, Robert J. Hanisch

Purpose: This study looks at the changing way the Information Services Office (ISO) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides...

Energetic Electrons Driven in the Polarization Direction of an Intense Laser Beam Incident Normal to a Solid Target

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Lawrence T. Hudson, John F. Seely, Nino R. Pereira, H. Chen, G.J. Williams, R.P. Drake, C.C. Kuranz, C.A. Di Stefano, J. Park

Experiments were performed at the LLNL Titan laser to measure the propagation direction of the energetic electrons that were generated during the interaction of...

Premixed flame inhibition by CF3Br and C3H2F3Br (2-BTP)

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

John Pagliaro, Gregory T. Linteris, Nicolas Bouvet

The un-stretched burning velocities and Markstein lengths of premixed CH4- and C3H8-air flames with added C3H2F3Br (2-BTP) or CF3Br (Halon 1301), have been...

In Situ Structural Characterization of Ageing Kinetics in Aluminum Alloy 2024 across Angstrom-to-Micrometer Length Scales

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Lyle E. Levine, Andrew J. Allen, Carelyn E. Campbell, Adam Abel Creuziger, Nataliya Kazantseva, Jan Ilavsky

The precipitate structure and precipitation kinetics in an Al-Cu-Mg alloy (AA2024) aged at 190 °C, 208 °C, and 226 °C have been studied using ex situ TEM and in...

Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering with Azimuthal Asymmetry

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

X. Gu, David F. Mildner

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements from thin rock samples such as shales demand as great a scattering vector range as possible because the pores...

Capacitive Displacement Sensor for Detecting Planar Submicrometer Motion

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic1, Jae M. Yoo, Nicholas Dagalakis

This paper describes the design of a very simple displacement sensor that measures the displacement of an object by measuring the change in capacitance due to...

Removing divergence of JCGM documents from the GUM (1993)

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

The stated mission of the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology (JCGM) is to maintain and promote the use of the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in...

Particle size-dependent environmental release of semiconductor nanocrystals from free-standing polymer nanocomposite films

May 31, 2016

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Karthik V. Pillai, Patrick Gray, Reiner Bleher, Timothy V. Duncan

Concomitant with the development of polymer nanocomposite (PNC) technologies across numerous industries is an expanding awareness of the uncertainty with which...

MPInterfaces: A Materials Project based Python Tool for a High Throughput Computational Screening of Interfacial Systems

May 31, 2016

Author(s)

Arunima Singh, Kiran Mathew, Joshua Grabriel, Kamal Choudhary, Susan B. Sinnott, Albert Davydov, Francesca M. Tavazza, Richard G. Hennig

A Materials Project based open-source python tool, MPInterfaces, has been developed to automate the high throughput computational screening and study of...

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