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Absolute Calibration of a Variable Attenuator Using Few-Photon Pulses

June 12, 2015

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine, Boris L. Glebov, Adam L. Pintar, Alan L. Migdall

We demonstrate the ability to calibrate a variable optical attenuator directly at the few photon level using a Superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES)...

Recent measurements of the gravitational constant as a function of time

June 11, 2015

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Jens H. Gundlach, Riley D. Newman

A recent publication (J.D. Anderson et. Al., EPL 110, 1002) found a strong correlation between the measured values of the gravitational constant G and the 5.9...

On the 209Po Half-Life Error and Its Confirmation: A Critique

June 11, 2015

Author(s)

Ronald Colle, Arthur M. Colle

Collé, et al [(2007) Appl. Radiat Isot. 65, 728; (2014) J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41, 105103], over the course of nearly a decade and with decay data from a...

IAQ and Energy Impacts of Ventilation and Source Control in a Big Box Retail Building

June 10, 2015

Author(s)

Lisa C. Ng, Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich

Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings are designed to provide thermally comfortable conditions and to maintain acceptable...

Thermoresponsive PNIPAM Coatings on Nanostructured Gratings for Cell Alignment and Release

June 10, 2015

Author(s)

Mikhail Zhernenkov, Rana N. Ashkar, Hao Feng, Olukemi O. Akintewe, Nathan D. Gallant, Ryan Toomey, John F. Ankner, Roger Pynn

Thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (NIPAAm) has been widely used as a surface coating to thermally control the detachment of adsorbed cells without...

Application of the Advanced Distillation Curve Method to Fuels for Advanced Combustion Engine Gasolines

June 9, 2015

Author(s)

Jessica L. Burger, Nico Schneider, Thomas J. Bruno

Abstract: Incremental but fundamental changes are currently being made to fuel composition and combustion strategies in order to diversify feed-stocks, decrease...

Gas Chromatographic Retention Indices

June 9, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno

The interpretation of results from chromatographic measurements can often be augmented with an appropriate mathematical treatment of the solute retention that...

Rheology and Dynamics of Colloidal Superballs

June 9, 2015

Author(s)

John R. Royer, George L. Burton, Daniel L. Blair, Steven D Hudson

Recent advances in colloidal synthesis make it possible to generate a wide array of precisely controlled, non-spherical, shaped particles. However, relatively...

Neutron Spin Resonance as a Probe of Superconducting Gap Anisotropy in Partially Detwinned Electron Underdoped NaFe_0.985Cod0.015^As

June 9, 2015

Author(s)

Chenglin Zhang, J. T. Park, Xingye Lu, Rong Yu, Yu Li, Wenliang Zhang, Yang Zhao, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Qimiao Si, Pengcheng Dai

We use inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to study spin excitations in detwinned NaFe 0.985Cod0.015^As which has coexisting static antiferromagnetic (AF) order...

Application of the Hartmann-Tran profile to analysis of H2O spectra

June 9, 2015

Author(s)

D Lisak, A. Cygan, D Bermejo, J L. Domenech, Joseph T. Hodges, Ha Tran

The Hartmann-Tran profile (HTP), which has been recently recommended as a new standard in spectroscopic databases, is used to analyze spectra of several lines...

Spectroscopic Determination of the Atomic f-Electron Symmetry Underlying Hidden Order in URu₂Si₂

June 9, 2015

Author(s)

L. Andrew Wray, Jonathan Denlinger, Shih-Wen Huang, Haowei He, Nicholas Butch, M. Brian Maple, Zahid Hussain, Yi-De Chuang

The hidden order state of URu6d2^Si 2 has been a subject of intense speculation for more than 25 years, but there is still no clear consensus on what degrees of...

Amplitude and phase-resolved nano-spectral imaging of surface phonon polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride

June 9, 2015

Author(s)

Samuel Berweger, Shi Zhiwen, Hans A. Bechtel, Sun Yinghui, Zeng Bo, Jin Chenhao, Chang Henry, Michael C. Martin, Markus B. Raschke, Feng Wang

Phonon polaritons are quasiparticles resulting from strong coupling of photons with optical phonons. Excitation and control of these quasiparticles in 2D...

Model Building: An Examination of the Pre-evacuation Period of the 2001 WTC Disaster

June 8, 2015

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski

This paper presents two models developed to describe the pre-evacuation period of the 2001 WTC Disaster. The first model is a conceptual model developed from...

Quasilocal Critical Nature of Cooperative Paramagnetic Fluctuations in CaRuO₃ Metal

June 8, 2015

Author(s)

J. Gunasekera, Leland Harriger, T. Heitmann, A. Dahal, H. Knoll, D. K. Singh

We report new observation of cooperative paramagnetic fluctuations of Ru 4+ spins that coexist with the non-Fermi liquid state in CaRuO 3 perovskite below T22 K...

Theory of competitive solvation of polymers by two solvents and enthalpy-entropy compensation

June 7, 2015

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Jacek Dudowicz, Karl Freed

A Flory-Huggins (FH) type theory is derived to describe the competitive equilibrium sol- vation of long chain polymers B by a pair of relatively low molar mass...

Suppression of Spin Pumping between Ni80Fe20 and Cu by a Graphene Interlayer

June 7, 2015

Author(s)

William J. Gannett, Mark W. Keller, Hans Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Ann Chiaramonti Debay

Abstract We compare ferromagnetic resonance measurements of Py (Ni80Fe20) films sputtered onto Cu(111) with and without a graphene (Gr) interlayer grown by...

Ferromagnetic resonance measurement using stroboscopic magneto optical Kerr effect

June 7, 2015

Author(s)

Takahiro Moriyama, Seungha Yoon, Robert McMichael

We have developed a novel ferromagnetic resonance measurement technique using the magneto optical Kerr effect. The measurement technique uses microwave...

Empirical Gradient Threshold Technique for Automated Segmentation across Image Modalities and Cell Lines

June 5, 2015

Author(s)

Joe Chalfoun, Michael P. Majurski, Adele P. Peskin, Catherine Breen, Peter Bajcsy, Mary C. Brady

Comparison of traditional 2-AB Fluorescence LC-MS/MS and automated microscale LC-MS for the comparative glycan analysis of monoclonal antibodies

June 5, 2015

Author(s)

John E. Schiel, Michael T. Boyne, Sarah M. Rogstad

Monoclonal antibody therapeutics are a heterogeneous mixture of glycoforms. Multiple methods exist for defining the glycan composition and relative abundance of...

Topological RPdBi Half-Heusler Semimetals: a New Family of Non-Centrosymmetric Magnetic SuperconductorS

June 5, 2015

Author(s)

Yasuyuki Nakajima, Rongwei Hu, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Alex Hughes, Paul Syers, Xiangfeng Wang, Kenfeng Wang, Renxiong Wang, Shanta R. Saha, Daniel K. Pratt, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Johnpierre Paglione

We report superconductivity and magnetism in a new family of topological semimetals, the ternary half Heusler compounds RPdBi (R: rare earth). In this series...

The Effect of Al Doping on the Crystal Structure and Magnetocaloric Behavior of Mn_1.2Fe_0.8P_1-xGe_x Compounds

June 5, 2015

Author(s)

D. M. Liu, H. Zhang, S.B. Wang, W.Q. Xiao, Z. L. Zhang, N. Tian, C. X. Liu, M. Yue, Qingzhen Huang, J. X. Zhang, Jeffrey W. Lynn

Tunable Spin Qubit Coupling Mediated by a Multi-Electron Quantum Dot

June 4, 2015

Author(s)

Vanita Srinivasa, Haitan Xu, Jacob M. Taylor

We present an approach for entangling electron spin qubits localized on spatially separated impurity atoms or quantum dots via a multi-electron, two-level...

Fetal magnetocardiography measurements with a multichannel microfabricated atomic magnetometer array

June 3, 2015

Author(s)

Svenja A. Knappe, Orang Alem, Tilmann H. Sander, Rahul R. Mhaskar, John LeBlanc, Hari Eswaran, Uwe Steinhoff, Yoshio Okada, John E. Kitching, Lutz Trahms

Following the rapid progress in the development of atomic magnetometer technology for the measurement of magnetic fields in the femtotesla range, a successful...

Quasi-Two-Dimensional Spin and Phonon Excitations in La_1.965Ba_0.035CuO₄

June 3, 2015

Author(s)

J. J. Wagman, Daniel E. Parshall, M. B. Stone, A. T. Savici, Yang Zhao, H. A. Dabkowska, B. D. Gaulin

We present time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering measurements of La 1.965Ba 0.035Cu) 4 (LBCO), a lightly doped member of the high temperature...

Transition from order to configurational disorder for surface reconstructions on SrTiO 3(111)

June 2, 2015

Author(s)

Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Laurence D. Marks , Shams Rahman, Martin Castell

There is growing interest in oxide surfaces due to their role in areas ranging from the growth of oxides for low power electronics to heterogeneous catalysis...

Internal Magnetic Structure of Nanoparticles Dominates Time-Dependent Relaxation Processes in a Magnetic Field

June 2, 2015

Author(s)

Cindi L. Dennis, Kathryn L. Krycka, Julie Borchers, Ryan D. Desautels, Johan van Lierop, Natalie F. Huls, Andrew J. Jackson, Cordula Gruettner, Robert Ivkov

Time-dependent relaxation of nanomagnets, such as magnetic nanoparticles, have applications in many disciplines of science and technology because these magnets...

Designing a Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing Architecture

June 2, 2015

Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon, Sulayman Sowe, Koji Zettsu

In this era of inter-connectivity where almost everybody, everything, and anything are networked, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) also known as the Internet of...

PASSING THE BATON: Message FROM THE INCOMING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

June 1, 2015

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

This incoming Editor In Chief's (EIC) message is expected to appear in the next issue of the IEEE wireless communications. The editorial team will be under the...

Advances in Cooperative Single-Carrier FDMA Communications: Beyond LTE-Advanced

June 1, 2015

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

In this treatise, we focus our attention on the cooperative uplink transmissions of systems beyond the LTE-Advanced initiative. We commence a unified treatment...

Transportation Effect and Basic Characteristics of Ni-Cr Based Metal-Foil Standard Resistors Examined in a Trilateral Comparison Pilot Study between KRISS, NIST and NMIJ

June 1, 2015

Author(s)

Marlin E. Kraft, Randolph E. Elmquist, Nobu-hisa Kaneko, Wan-Seop Kim, Dong Hun Chae, Takehiko Oe

The transportation effect and other important characteristics of 100-Ω standard resistors of a new construction have been studied. For transportation effect...

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