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Matthew N. Martin, Andrew J. Allen, Robert I. MacCuspie, Vincent A. Hackley
Little is understood about the impact coating molecules have on nanoparticle dissolution kinetics and intermediate agglomerate formation in a dilute...
Solomon I. Woods, Snorri Ingvarsson, Shouheng Sun, John Kirtley
Expressions for the thermal noise from a collection of exchange-biased magnetic nanoparticles are derived and used to analyze the magnetic noise from thin films...
We demonstrate a scheme to engineer the three-body interaction in circuit-QED systems by tuning a fluxonium qubit. Connecting such qubits in a square lattice...
Michael D. Grapes, Thomas LaGrange, Lawrence Henry Friedman, Bryan W. Reed, Geoffrey H. Campbell, Timothy P. Weihs, David A. LaVan
Nanocalorimetry is a chip-based thermal analysis technique capable of analyzing endothermic and exothermic reactions at very high heating and cooling rates...
Flow-induced, on-column degradation is a major hindrance to the accurate characterization of ultra- high molar mass macromolecules and colloids. This...
We study the cavity-based parametric downconversion (PDC) process as a source of photon Fock states using Monte Carlo simulation with realistic experimental...
Vladimir P. Oleshko, Thomas F. Lam, Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Paul M. Haney, Henri J. Lezec, Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, John Cumings, Albert A. Talin
Complex interfacial phenomena and phase transformations that govern the operation of Li-ion batteries (LiBs) require detailed nanoscale 3D structural and...
Chi Hoang, Tinh Nguyen, Deborah Jacobs, Andrew K. Persily, Richard Cosi
Wood is gaining increased interest as a renewable building material. However, color changes, chemical and microbiological degradation can occur when...
Anthony J. Kearsley, William E. Wallace, Yutheeka Gadhyan
A stochastic regression method has been developed that decomposes chemical spectra into separate contributions from signal and from noise. The numerical results...
We present a new scheme for improving the phase modulated (PM) noise of an oscillator from correlation between amplitude modulated (AM) and PM noise...
Matthew T. Kapelewski, Stephen J. Geier, Matthew Ross Hudson, David Stuck, Jarad A. Mason, Jocienne N. Nelson, Zeric Z. Hulvey, Elizabeth Gilmour, Stephen A. FitzGerald, Martin Head-Gordon, Craig Brown, Jeffrey R. Long
Metal-organic frameworks are a class of microporous materials that are being heavily investigated for their hydrogen storage properties due to their high...
Nathan Pillsbury, Nathanael M. Kidwell, Benjamin Nebgen, Lyudmila V. Slipchenko, Kevin O. Douglass, John R. Cable, David F. Plusquellic
Vibrationally and rotationally resolved electronic spectra of diphenylmethane-d5 (DPM-d5) are reported in the isolated-molecule environment of a supersonic...
Michael A. Wayne, Joshua C. Bienfang, Allessandro Restelli, P. G. Kwiat
Reducing afterpulsing in single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) allows operation with shorter recovery times and higher detection rates. Afterpulsing in SPADs...
Ronald Colle, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez
A substantial 25 % error in the then known and accepted (102 5) year half-life of 209Po was reported on in 2007. This error was detected from decay data from...
We use broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy to systematically measure the Landau- Lifshitz damping parameter, perpendicular anisotropy, and the...
Some of the most critical issues facing the nanocomposite community include the need for multi-scale imaging of hierarchical structures, effective methods for...
Critical dimension atomic force microscopes (CD-AFMs) use flared tips and two-dimensional sensing and position control of the tip-sample interaction to enable...
Kun Lin, Yangchun Rong, Hui Wu, Qingzhen Huang, Li You, Yang Ren, Longlong Fan, Jun Chen, Xianran Xing
The crystal structure and thermal expansions of a new tetragonal tungsten bronze (TTB) ferroelectrics Pb 2K 0.5Li 0.5Nb 5O 15 were systematically investigated...
Deirdre Kilbane, G. O'Sullivan, Yuri A. Podpaly, John D. Gillaspy, Joseph Reader, Yuri Ralchenko
Extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted from highly-charged dysprosium ions was measured at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The ions were...
Michael W. Halter, Elianna Bier, Paul C. DeRose, Gregory A. Cooksey, Steven J. Choquette, Anne L. Plant, John T. Elliott
Widefield fluorescence microscopy is a highly used tool for visually assessing biological samples and for quantifying cell responses. Despite its widespread use...
Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Joseph W. Robertson, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker, Lee J. Richter, Julia Savchenko, Steven Cummings, Tong Ren
We report the formation of molecular monolayers containing redox-active diruthenium(II,III) compound to gold and silicon surfaces via click chemistry. The use...
Esther Baumann, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave laser detection and ranging (FMCW LADAR) measures the range to a surface through coherent detection of the backscattered...
Daniel H. Slichter, Yves Colombe, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
We report large-mode-area solid-core photonic crystal fibers made from fused silica which resist UV solarization even at relatively high optical powers. Using a...
As building envelope performance and HVAC equipment efficiencies continue to be improved to reduce building energy use, a greater percentage of the total energy...
John F. Seely, Jack L. Glover, Lawrence T. Hudson, Yuri Ralchenko, Nino R. Pereira, U. Feldman, C. D. Stefan
A high resolution crystal spectrometer (HRCS) utilizing a crystal in transmission geometry has been developed and experimentally optimized to measure the line...
Andrew C. Wilson, Yves Colombe, K. R. Brown, Emanuel H. Knill, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Inspired by the ideas of Richard Feynman, 1 David Deutsch, 2 Seth Lloyd 3 and others, researchers in the field of quantum information processing and simulation...
Heba Degheidy, Steven R. Bauer, Gerald Marti, Lili Wang
There is an urgent need for developing a procedure for biomarker standardization and quantification in clinical laboratories. Measuring the expression levels of...
Kristina Verdal, Terrence J. Udovic, Vitalie Stavila, Wan Si NMN Tang, John J. Rush, Alexander V. Skripov
Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) methods were used to characterize the reorientational dynamics of the dodecahydro-closo-dodecaborate (B 12H 126u2-^0...
With dispersion engineering and optimization of pump wavelength, four-wave mixing within a microstructured fiber can be used to produce high-purity entangled...