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Kaya Wei, Laura Beauchemin, Hsin Wang, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas
Gallium doped Cu2ZnSnSe4 quaternary chalcogenides with and without excess Cu have been synthesized by elemental reaction and densified using hot pressing in...
Dustin G. Poppendieck, Lisa C. Ng, Andrew K. Persily, Al Hodgson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) constructed a Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) to support the development and...
Frank Heinrich, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Hirsh Nanda, Antonella Papa, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Alonzo H. Ross, Rakesh K. Harishchandra, Arne Gericke, Peter M. Loesche
The PTEN tumor suppressor exerts phosphatase activity on PI(3,4,5)P 3 in the plasma membrane and was recently reported to dimerize in cell models. Here we show...
John D. Teufel, Florent Q. Lecocq, Raymond W. Simmonds
We measure the fundamental noise processes associated with a continuous linear position measurement of a micromechanical membrane incorporated in a microwave...
Although the scaling theory of polymer solutions has had many successes, this type of argument is deficient when applied to hydrodynamic solution properties...
Jirun Sun, Stephanie S. Watson, David Allsopp, Deborah Jacobs, Drago Skrtic
Unique photo-catalytic activities (PCAs) of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) made them attractive in many potential applications for medical devices...
In the pulse-driven ac Josephson voltage standard, the low frequency component of the drive signal increases the system complexity and induces unwanted voltages...
Michael J. A. Hore, Xingchen Ye, Jamie Ford, Yuzhi Gao, Jiayang Fei, Qiong Wu, Stuart J. Rowan, Russell J. Composto, Christopher B. Murray, Boualem Hammouda
The structure and size of ligands attached to the surfaces of gold nanorods, such as adsorbed surfactants or grafted polymers, are important considerations that...
Weston L. Tew, Samuel P. Benz, Horst Rogalla, Alessio Pollarolo, David R. White, Jifeng Qu, Kunli Zhou
The unit of thermodynamic temperature, the kelvin, will be redefined in 2018 by fixing the value of the Boltzmann constant, k. The present CODATA recommended...
Luis Fernando Vargas Lara, Jack F. Douglas, Samuel M. Stavis, Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Jon C. Geist, Brian J. Nablo
There has been much recent interest in the dimensional properties of duplex DNA under nanoscale confinement conditions as a problem of fundamental interest in...
XiaoJuan Feng, Hong Lin, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, Jintao Zhang
We report progress in determining the Boltzmann constant k B using a virtual acoustic resonator derived by combining the measured frequencies of the...
Patrick F. Egan, Jack A. Stone Jr., Jay H. Hendricks, Jacob E. Ricker, Gregory E. Scace, Gregory F. Strouse
We have built and characterized a refractometer that utilizes two Fabry-Perot cavities formed on a dimensionally stable spacer. In the typical mode of operation...
Sara V. Orski, Richard J. Sheridan, Edwin P. Chan, Kathryn L. Beers
The stimuli-responsive behavior of densely grafted polymer brushes makes them attractive for designing tunable coatings and thin film sensors, provided physical...
Laura C. Sinclair, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Lindsay I. Sonderhouse, William C. Swann, Isaac H. Khader, Esther Baumann, Nathan R. Newbury, Ian R. Coddington
We describe design and operation of a robust self-referenced, optically coherent frequency comb. The system robustness is derived from a combination of an...
Noah Spies, Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Arend Sidow
We present svviz, a sequencing read visualizer for structural variants (SVs) that sorts and displays only reads relevant to a candidate SV. This is accomplished...
Naisheng Jiang, Maya K. Endoh, Tadanori Koga, Tomomi Masui, Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Michihiro Nagao, Sushil K. Satija, Takashi Taniguchi
We report in-situ structures and dynamics of polybutadiene (PB) chains bound to carbon black (CB) fillers (the so-called "bound polymer layer (BPL)") in a good...
Chad R. Snyder, Regis J. Kline, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Ryan C. Nieuwendaal, Lee J. Richter, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch
Semiconducting polymers form a variety of phases and mesophases that respond differently to post-deposition solvent or thermal treatments. Here it is shown that...
Yi-hua D. Tang, James Wachter, Alain Rufenacht, Gerald J. FitzPatrick, Samuel P. Benz
This paper briefly describes the working principle of the 10 V programmable Josephson voltage standard (PJVS) that was developed at the National Institute of...
New constraints on exotic dipole-dipole interactions between electrons at the micrometer scale are established, based on a recent measurement of the magnetic...
BACKGROUND: A 3.4kb deletion (3.4kbΔ) in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) found in histologically normal prostate biopsy specimens has been reported to be a biomarker...
Materials and photoelectrode architectures that are highly efficient, extremely stable, and made from low cost materials are required for commercially viable...
Karl Fabian, V P. Shcherbakov, S. McEnroe, P. Robinson, Benjamin P. Burton
By rigorously deriving A spatially averaged mean-field model for fully or partially ordered members of the ilmenite-hematite solid solution series is rigorously...
Xiang Chen, Tom Hogan, D. Walkup, Wenwen Zhou, M. Pokharel, Mengliang Yao, Wei Tian, Thomas Z. Ward, Yang Zhao, Daniel E. Parshall, C. Opeil, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Vidya Madhavan, Stephen D. Wilson
The evolution of the electronic properties of electron-doped (Sr 1-xLa x) 2IrO 4 is experimentally explored as the solubility limit of La is approached. As...
Mingda Li, Cui-Zu Chang, Brian Kirby, Michelle E. Jamer, Wenping Cui, Lijun Wu, Peng Wei, Yimei Zhu, Don Heiman, Ju Li, Jagadeesh S. Moodera
Magnetic exchange driven proximity effect at a magnetic insulator/topological insulator (MI/TI) interface provides a rich playground for novel phenomena as well...
Heat transfer through thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) composed of alternating nanometer thick layers of aluminum oxide and 7% yttria stabilized zirconia (7YSZ)...
Justin M. Shaw, Desai Zhang, David Smith, Martha McCartney
Multilayers of Co 90Fe 10/Pd with different Co 90Fe 10 alloy thicknesses, which are expected to show perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, have been deposited by...
J. R. Machacek, D. P. Mahapatra, David R. Schultz, Yuri Ralchenko, A. Moradmand, O. E. Ghazaly, A. Chutjian
Relevant to modeling and understanding X-ray emission from cometary and planetary atmospheres, total cross sections for 1.17 and 2.33 keV/u O6+ colliding with...
Kirt A. Page, Jae W. Shin, Scott Eastman, Brandon W. Rowe, Sangcheol Kim, Ahmet Kusoglu, Kevin G. Yager, Gery R. Stafford
Perfluorinated ionomers, in particular Nafion, are an essential component in hydrogen fuel cells, as both the proton exchange membrane and the binder within the...
Shannon Hoogerheide, Aung Naing, Joan M. Dreiling, Samuel Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise, Joseph Tan
Highly-ionized atoms with special properties have been proposed for interesting applications, including potential candidates for a new generation of optical...
Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard, Gyorgy Csaba, Wolfgang Porod, George Bourianoff, Dmitri Nikonov
We present a combined experimental and simulation study of the physical implementation of coherently coupled oscillator networks composed of spin-torque...