Journals

Engineering Near-Field SEIRA Enhancements in Plasmonic Resonators

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Jungseok Chae, Basudev Lahiri, Andrea Centrone

Engineering of the optical resonances in plasmonic resonators arrays is achieved by virtue of the intrinsic properties to the constituent structures such as...

Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DOSS; CAS #577-11-7) a major component of the dispersant COREXIT is an obesogen

January 20, 2016

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Alexis M. Temkin, Robert R. Bowers, Margaret E. Magaletta, Steven Holshouser, Adriana Maggi, Paolo Ciana, Louis J. Guillette Jr., John Bowden, John E. Baatz, Demetri D. Spyropoulos, John Kucklick

Background: Product safety testing typically involves lethal toxicity assessments, which likely miss long- term health impacts. Optimizing long-term product...

The Influence of Water Activity on the Hydration Rates of Triclinic Tricalcium Silicate

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Tandre Oey, Aditya Kumar, Gabriel Falzone, Jian Huang, Sierra Kennison, Mathieu Bauchy, Narayanan Neithalath, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Gaurav Sant

Tricalcium silicate stops hydrating at relative humidities (RH) less than 80 %. But the rate at which its hydration rate decreases as a function of the RH has...

Absolute Energy Calibration of X-ray TESs with 0.04 eV Uncertainty at 6.4 keV in a Hadron-Beam Environment

January 19, 2016

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Hideyuki Tatsuno, William B. Doriese, Douglas A. Bennett, Catalina Curceanu, Joseph W. Fowler, Johnathon D. Gard, Fredrick P. Gustafsson, Tadashi Hashimoto, Ryugo S. Hayano, James P. Hays-Wehle, Gene C. Hilton, Mihail Iliescu, Shigeru Ishimoto, Kenta Itahashi, Masashiko Iwasaki, Keisuke Kuwabara, Yue Ma, Johann Marton, Hirofumi Noda, Galen C. O'Neil, Shinji Okada, Haruhiko Outa, Carl D. Reintsema, Masaharu Sato, Daniel R. Schmidt, Hexi Shi, Ken Suzuki, Takatoshi Suzuki, Jens Uhlig, Joel N. Ullom, Eberhard Widmann, Shinya Yamada, Johann Zmeskal, Daniel S. Swetz

A performance evaluation of superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) in the environment of a pion beam line at a particle accelerator is presented...

Precision Interferometric Measurement of Mirror Birefringence in High-Finesse Optical Resonators

January 19, 2016

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Adam J. Fleisher, David A. Long, Qingnan Liu, Joseph T. Hodges

High-finesse optical resonators found in ultrasensitive laser spectrometers utilize supermirrors ideally consisting of isotropic high-reflectivity coatings with...

SVClassify: a method to use multiple datasets to classify candidate structural variants into true positives and false positives

January 16, 2016

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Justin M. Zook, Hemang M. Parikh, Desu Chen, Hariharan K. Iyer, Marc L. Salit, Wolfgang Losert

The human genome contains variants ranging in size from small single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to large structural variants (SVs). While high-quality...

Imaging Nanophotonic Modes of Microresonators using a Focused Ion Beam

January 15, 2016

Author(s)

Kevin A. Twedt, Jie J. Zou, Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Jabez J. McClelland, Vladimir A. Aksyuk

Optical microresonators have proven powerful in a wide range of applications, including cavity quantum electrodynamics, biosensing, microfludics, and cavity...

Development and characterization of a High Sensitivity Segmented Fast Neutron Spectrometer (FaNS-2)

January 15, 2016

Author(s)

T.J. Langford, E J. Beise, H Breuer, Craig Heimbach, G Ji, Jeffrey S. Nico

We present the development of a segmented fast neutron spectrometer (FaNS-2) based upon plastic scintillator and He-3 proportional counters. It was designed to...

Quantitative Mapping of Stress Heterogeneity in Polycrystalline Alumina using Hyperspectral Fluorescence Microscopy

January 15, 2016

Author(s)

Grant A. Myers, Chris A. Michaels, Robert F. Cook

The microstructurally-induced heterogeneous stress fields arising in a series of Cr-doped polycrystalline alumina materials are mapped with sub-micrometer sub...

Polymer Glass-Formation in Variable Dimension

January 14, 2016

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Freed Karl, Wensheng Xu

We explore the nature of glass-formation in variable spatial dimensionality (d) based on the generalized entropy theory, a synthesis of the Adam-Gibbs model...

Effect of α-Tocopherol on the Microscopic Dynamics of Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine Membrane

January 14, 2016

Author(s)

V.K. Sharma, E. Mamontov, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, V.S. Urban

Vitamin E behaves as an antioxidant and is well known for its protective properties of the lipid membrane. The most biologically active form of vitamin E in the...

Morphological origins of polarization-induced scattering anisotropy from organic thin films

January 14, 2016

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Eliot Gann, Brian A. Collins, Maolong Tang, John R. Tumbleston, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Harald W. Ade

Anisotropic scattering patterns have been observed from organic thin films that are isotropic on the scale of the probe in polarized resonant X-ray scattering...

Nonlinearity measurements of solar cells with an LED-based combinatorial flux addition method

January 13, 2016

Author(s)

Behrang H. Hamadani, Andrew M. Shore, John F. Roller, Howard W. Yoon, Mark Campanelli

We present a light emitting diode (LED)-based system utilizing a combinatorial flux addition method to investigate the nonlinear relationship in solar cells...

Survival analysis approach to account for non-exponential decay rate effects in lifetime experiments

January 13, 2016

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Kevin J. Coakley, Maynard S. Dewey, Michael G. Huber, Hans P. Mumm, Alan Keith Thompson, Andrew T. Yue, C. R. Huffer, P. R. Huffman, C. M. O'Shaughnessy, K. W. Schelhammer, D. E. Marley

In experiments that measure the lifetime of trapped particles, in addition to loss mechanisms with exponential survival probability functions, particles can be...

Apparatus for the measurement of electrical resistivity, Seebeck coefficient, and thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials between 300 K and 12 K

January 12, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas

We have developed a custom apparatus for the consecutive measurement of the electrical resistivity, the Seebeck coefficient, and the thermal conductivity of...

Yang-Baxter operators need quantum entanglement to distinguish knots

January 12, 2016

Author(s)

Stephen P. Jordan, Gorjan Alagic, Michael Jarret

Solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation yield representations of braid groups. Under certain conditions, identified by Turaev, traces of these representations...

Anisotropic Elastic Modulus of Oriented Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Films

January 12, 2016

Author(s)

Omar Awartani, Bingxiao Zhao, Tyler Curie, Regis J. Kline, Mohammed Zikry, Brendan T. O'Connor

Logic circuit prototypes for three-terminal magnetic tunnel junctions with mobile domain walls

January 12, 2016

Author(s)

Jean Anne Currivan-Incorvia, S. Siddiqui, S. Dutta, Eric R. Evarts, J. Zhang, D. Bono, C A. Ross, M. A. Baldo

Spintronic computing promises superior energy efficiency and nonvolatility compared to conventional field-effect transistor logic. But, it has proven difficult...

FIRE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION EXPERIMENT PLAN FOR FULL-SCALE COMPOSITE FLOOR SYSTEM

January 12, 2016

Author(s)

Lisa Y. Choe, John L. Gross, William L. Grosshandler, Matthew F. Bundy

The newly-constructed National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides an opportunity for the...

Network Diversity: A Security Metric for Evaluating the Resilience of Networks Against Zero Day Attacks

January 12, 2016

Author(s)

Meng Zhang, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal, M. Albanese

Diversity has long been regarded as a security mechanism for improving the resilience of software and networks against various attacks. More recently, diversity...

Evaluating Digital PCR as a primary method for the quantification of human genomic DNA: Accessible amplifiable targets

January 11, 2016

Author(s)

Margaret C. Kline, Erica L. Romsos, David L. Duewer

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays perform best when the input quantity of template DNA is controlled to within about a factor of √2. To help ensure that...

Background Radiation Measurements at High Power Research Reactors

January 11, 2016

Author(s)

Hans P. Mumm

Research reactors typically host a wide range of activities that make use of the intense neutron fluxes generated at these facilities. Recent interest in...

Fast Lithium-Ionic Conduction in a New Complex Hydride-Sulphide Crystalline Phase

January 11, 2016

Author(s)

Atsushi Unemoto, Hui Wu, Terrence J. Udovic, Motoaki Matsuo, Tamio Ikeshoji, Shin-Ichi Orimo

A new crystalline phase derived from a 90LiBH 4:10P 2S 5 mixture displays high lithium-ionic conductivity of log(ς/S cm -1) = 3.0 at 300 K. It is stable up to...

Fe-catalyzed etching of exfoliated graphite through carbon hydrogenation

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Guangjun Cheng, Christina A. Hacker, Curt A. Richter, Angela R. Hight Walker

We present an investigation on the etching of graphite catalyzed by the particles produced by dewetting Fe thin films on graphite in forming gas. Raman mapping...

Unexpected ¿-Phase Formation in Additive Manufactured Ni-based Super Alloy

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Yaakov S. Idell, Lyle E. Levine, Andrew J. Allen, Fan Zhang, Carelyn E. Campbell, Greg Olson, Jiadong Gong, David Snyder

An as-built and solutionized Ni-based super alloy built by additive manufacturing through a direct metal laser sintering technique is characterized to...

Mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composites with varied interphases modulus and thickness: A finite element analysis study

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Dilip K. Banerjee, Tinh Nguyen, Tze-Jer Chuang

The role of the interphase on mechanical performance of glassy polymer/single-walled carbon nanotube composites has been investigated by finite element (FE)...

Survey Statistics of Automated Segmentations Applied to Optical Imaging of Mammalian Cells

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy, Antonio Cardone, Joe Chalfoun, Michael W. Halter, Derek Juba, Marcin Kociolek, Michael P. Majurski, Adele P. Peskin, Carl G. Simon Jr., Mylene H. Simon, Antoine Vandecreme, Anne L. Plant, Mary C. Brady

The goal of this survey paper is to overview cellular measurements using optical microscopy imaging followed by automated image segmentation. The cellular...

Surface-directed Nanoepitaxy on a Surface with an Irregular Lattice

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Elias J. Garratt, Babak Nikoobakht

Understanding and developing metrics on how nanocrystals respond to local external surface stimuli at their interfaces during growth or operation is a key step...

DBSR_HF: A B-spline Dirac-Hartree-Fock program

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

O Zatsarinny, Charlotte F. Fischer

A B-spline version of a general Dirac-Hartree-Fock program is described. The usual differential equations are replaced by set of generalized eigenvalue problems...

Topological phases with long-range interactions

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Zhexuan Gong, Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Anzi A. Hu, Michael L. Wall, Michael S. Foss-Feig, Alexey Gorshkov