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Frequency-tunable Superconducting Resonators via Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance

August 13, 2015

Author(s)

Michael Vissers, Johannes Hubmayr, Jiansong Gao, Martin Sandberg, Saptarshi Chaudhuri, Clint Bockstiegel

We have designed, fabricated and tested a frequency-tunable high-Q superconducting resonator made from niobium titanium nitride film. The frequency tunability...

Stable explicit stepwise marching scheme in ill-posed time-reversed viscous wave equations

August 12, 2015

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

The numerical computation of ill-posed, nonlinear, multidimensional initial value problems presents considerable difficulties. Conventional stepwise marching...

Post hoc Interlaboratory Comparison of Single Particle ICP-MS Size Measurements of NIST Gold Nanoparticle Reference Materials

August 12, 2015

Author(s)

Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Elijah J. Petersen, Antonio M. Possolo, Michael R. Winchester

Single particle inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (spICP-MS) is an emerging technique that enables simultaneous measurement of nanoparticle size and...

A Flexible Microporous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for Gas Sorption and Separation

August 12, 2015

Author(s)

Hailong Wang, Bin Li, Hui Wu, Tong-Liang Hu, Zizhu Yao, Wei Zhou, Shengchang Xiang, Banglin Chen

A microporous three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded organic framework (HOF-5) has been constructed from a new organic linker 4,4'r", r"'(2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazin-6...

Fourier Transform Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy for Quantitative Analysis of Gas Mixtures for Homeland Security Applications

August 11, 2015

Author(s)

Kurt D. Benkstein, Wilbur S. Hurst, Douglas C. Meier, Pamela M. Chu

Chemical detectors are crucial tools for first responders during emergency-response scenarios and for continuous monitoring of public spaces for general safety...

Stable Interface Formation between TiS₂ and LiBH₄ in Bulk-Type All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

August 11, 2015

Author(s)

Atsushi Unemoto, Tamio Ikeshoji, Syun Yasaku, Motoaki Matsuo, Vitalie Stavila, Terrence J. Udovic, Shin-Ichi Orimo

In this study, we assembled a bulk-type all-solid-state batter comprised of a TiS 2 positive electrode, LiBH 4 electrolyte, and Li negative electrode. Our...

Heterogeneity and length scale effects in PEG-based hydrogels

August 10, 2015

Author(s)

Brian G. Bush, Jenna M. Shapiro, Frank W. DelRio, Robert F. Cook, Michelle L. Oyen

Colloidal-probe spherical indentation load-relaxation experiments are conducted on poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel materials to quantify the steady-state...

Macroscopic Subkelvin Refrigerator Employing Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

August 10, 2015

Author(s)

Xiaohang NMN Zhang, Peter J. Lowell, Brandon L. Wilson, Galen C. O'Neil, Joel N. Ullom

In this paper, we demonstrate a general-purpose macroscopic refrigerator based on the transport of hot electrons through superconducting tunnel junctions. Our...

Molecular-Based Virial Coefficients of CO2-H2O Mixtures

August 7, 2015

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, Andrew J. Schultz, David A. Kofke

We report values of the second and third virial coefficients for the system CO2-H2O, calculated as a function of temperature via numerical evaluation of cluster...

Small Molecule Inhibitors of 8-Oxoguanine DNA Glycosylase-1 (OGG1)

August 7, 2015

Author(s)

Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, M Miral Dizdar, Nathan Donley, Stephen Lloyd, Amanda McCullough

ABSTRACT The DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway, which utilizes DNA glycosylases to initiate repair of specific DNA lesions, is the major pathway for the...

Representation and Validation of Liquid Densities for Pure Compounds and Mixtures

August 7, 2015

Author(s)

Vladimir Diky, John P. O'Connell, Jens Abildskov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Michael D. Frenkel

Reliable correlation and prediction of liquid densities are important for designing chemical processes at normal and elevated pressures. We have extended a...

Stabilization of Cubic Sr₂FeMoO₆ through Topochemical Reduction

August 7, 2015

Author(s)

Daniel D. Taylor, Nathaniel J. Schreiber, Craig Brown, Angel M. Arevalo-Lopez, Efrain E. Rodriguez

Sr 2FeMoO 6 has been extensively studied for application in spintronic devices. Through the topochemical deintercalation of the oxygen anions, the high...

Dew-point Measurements For Water In Compressed Carbon Dioxide

August 6, 2015

Author(s)

Christopher W. Meyer, Allan H. Harvey

When transporting CO2 for sequestration, it is important to know the water dew point in order to avoid condensation that can lead to corrosion. We have...

Parafermionic zero modes in ultracold bosonic systems

August 6, 2015

Author(s)

Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Sriram Ganeshan, David Clarke, Alexey Gorshkov, Jay Deep Sau

Quasiparticle recombination in hotspots in superconducting current-carrying nanowires

August 6, 2015

Author(s)

Alex Kozorezov, Colin Lambert, Francesco Marsili, Martin Stevens, Varun Verma, Jeffrey A. Stern, Rob Horansky, Shellee D. Dyer, Shannon Duff, David P. Pappas, Adriana Lita, Matthew D. Shaw, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

We describe a kinetic model of recombination of nonequilibrium quasiparticles generated by single photon absorption in superconducting current-carrying...

Sapphire as an ideal substrate and a dielectric layer for n-layer MoS2 thin films

August 5, 2015

Author(s)

Arunima Singh, Francesca M. Tavazza, Albert Davydov, Richard G. Hennig

Sapphire (α-Al2O3) is a common substrate for the growth of single- to few-layer MoS2 films, and as a high-κ dielectric gate oxide for 2D-MoS2 based transistors...

Photovoltaic switching mechanism in lateral structure hybrid Perovskite solar cells

August 5, 2015

Author(s)

Yongbo Yuan, Jungseok Chae, Yuchuan Shao, Qi Wang, Zhengguo Xiao, Andrea Centrone, Jinsong Huang

Organometal trihalide perovskite solar cells with lateral device architecture recently attracted interest because of their switchable photovoltaic effect, which...

Formation of Strain Induced Quantum Dots in Gated Semiconductor Nanostructures

August 5, 2015

Author(s)

Ted C. Thorbeck, Neil M. Zimmerman

Elastic strain changes the energies of the conduction and valence bands in a semiconductor, which will affect transport through a semiconductor nanostructure...

Thermochemical Characterization of Biodiesel Fuels using a Novel Laser-Heating Technique

August 4, 2015

Author(s)

Cary Presser, Ashot Nazarian, Thomas J. Bruno, Jacolin A. Murray, John L. Molloy

A state-of-the-art, rapid laser-heating technique, referred to as the laser-driven thermal reactor, was used to characterize National Institute of Standards and...

On-Chip Silicon Waveguide Bragg Grating Photonic Temperature Sensor

August 4, 2015

Author(s)

Nikolai Klimov, Sunil Mittal, Zeeshan Ahmed, Michaela Berger

Resistance thermometry is a time-tested method for temperature measurements. Fundamental limits to resistance-based approaches, spurred our interest in...

Linear relation between Heisenberg exchange and interfacial DzyaloshinskiiMoriya interaction in metal films

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, Mathias A. Weiler, Emilie M. Jue, Thomas J. Silva

Proposals for novel spin-orbitronic logic and memory devices are often dependent on assumptions as to how materials with large spin-orbit and ferromagnets...

Improving Clinical Workflow in Ambulatory Care: Implemented Recommendations in an Innovation Prototype for the Veterans Health Administration

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Svetlana Z. Lowry, Emily S. Patterson, Mala Ramaiah, Michael C. Gibbons, David Brick, Robert Calco, Greg Matton, Anne Miller, Ellen Makar, Jorge Ferrer

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presented targeted recommendations from human factors workflow methods that could be used in...

Testing and Analyses of Copolymer Fibers Based on 5-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl)-benzimidazole

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Walter G. McDonough, Joy P. Dunkers, Amanda L. Forster, Nathanael A. Heckert, Jae Hyun Kim, Scott A. Wight, Gale A. Holmes

Large effective three-body interaction in a double-well optical lattice

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Eite Tiesinga, Saurabh Paul

We study ultracold atoms in a double-well (DW) optical lattice and show that the low energy states of a multi-band Bose-Hubbard (BH) Hamiltonian with only pai r...

Hydrogen induced amorphization of LaMgNi4 phase in metal hydride alloys

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Leonid A. Bendersky, Haoting Shen, Kwo Young, Taihei Ouchi

Hydrogen induced amorphization (HIA) of the LaMgNi4 phase at 30C was found in three LaMgNi4/LaNi5 two-phase metal hydride (MH)-forming alloys. The...

Application of Data Science Tools to Quantify and Distinguish between Structures and Models in Molecular Dynamics Datasets

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Surya R. Kalidindi, Joshua Gomberg, Zachary Trautt, Chandler Becker

Structure quantification is key to successful mining and extraction of core materials knowledge from both multiscale simulations as well as multiscale...

Using Neutron Radiography to Quantify Water Transport and the Degree of Saturation in Entrained Air Cement Based Mortar

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Catherine Lucero, Dale P. Bentz, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Jason Weiss

Air entrainment is commonly added to concrete to help in reducing the potential for freeze thaw damage. It is hypothesized that the entrained air voids remain...

Experimental Characterization of the Advanced Liquid Hydrogen Cold Neutron Source Spectrum of the NBSR Reactor at the NIST Center for Neutron Research

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Jeremy C. Cook, John G. Barker, J. Michael Rowe, Robert E. Williams, Cedric V. Gagnon, Richard M. Lindstrom, Richard Michael Ibberson, Dan A. Neumann

The recent expansion of the NIST Center for Neutron Research facility has offered a rare opportunity to perform an accurate measurement of the cold neutron...

Research highlights: detecting, characterizing and quantifying the presence and impact of carbon nanomaterials in environmental systems

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

John M. Pettibone, Stacey M. Louie

Here, we highlight articles examining different aspects contributing to the fate and role of carbon nanomaterials in environmental systems by developing new...

Evaluating Texture Compression Masking Effects using Objective Image Quality Assessment Metrics

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Wesley N. Griffin, Marc Olano

Texture compression is widely used in real-time rendering to reduce storage and bandwidth requirements. Recent research in compression algorithms has explored...

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