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Advancing forensic SNP typing: Insights from an interlaboratory study of the FORCE panel

April 21, 2026

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Andreas Tillmar, Kimberly Andreaggi, Adam Staadig, Christina Amory, David Ballard, Erik Francisco Bergseth, Claus Børsting, Selena Cisana, Michael Coble, Lucinda Bella Davenport, Maria de la Puente, Katherine Gettings, Erin Gorden, Kelly Grisedale, Jennifer Daniels-Higgenbotham, Rachel Houston, Sheree HUGHES, Reet Jarving, Kevin Kiesler, Jonathan King, Maria Victoria Lareu, Odile Loreille, Dennis McNevin, Melissa Muenzler, Walther Parson, Vania Pereira, Christopher Phillips, Jorge Ruiz-Ramirez, Maarja Sadam, Jennifer Snedeker, Carolyn Steffen, Monika Stoljarova-Bibb, Peter Vallone, Jodie Ward, Jessica Watson, Catarina Xavier, Daniel Kling, Charla Marshall

This study evaluated the ability to produce FORensic Capture Enrichment (FORCE) genotypes using amplicon-based and capture-based enrichment assays. Fifteen...

Quantum signatures of proper time in optical ion clocks

April 20, 2026

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Gabriel Sorci, Joshua Foo, Igor Pikovski, Christian Sanner, Dietrich Leibfried

Optical clocks based on atoms and ions probe relativistic effects with unprecedented sensitivity by resolving time dilation due to atom motion or different...

Reactive Sintering of Oxide Nanoceramic Composites via a Redox-Driven Eutectoid Synthesis Route

April 20, 2026

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Russell Maier, James Zuback, Lynnora Grant, Aaron Johnston-Peck

A novel reactive sintering method was developed to produce dense ceramics with nanoscale composite microstructures. This method exploits the variable valence...

Examining Safe Intervention Windows for 18650 and 21700 Lithium-Ion Batteries under Heat Interruption Experiments

April 20, 2026

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Wai Cheong Tam, Hongqiang Fang, Jian Chen, Qiuhong Wang, Christopher Brown, Md. Ismail Siddiqi Emon, Anthony Putorti

This study experimentally quantifies the safe intervention window (the time between the earliest thermal runaway indicator and ignition) for cylindrical lithium...

Domain-engineered, aperiodically-poled KTiOPO4 for polarization-entangled photons

April 20, 2026

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Paulina Kuo, Sesha Challa, Anouar Rahmouni, Dileep Venkatarama Reddy, Ori Levin, Noa Bloch

We demonstrate a high-quality source of polarization-entangled photons in aperiodically-poled KTiOPO_4 (KTP). The crystal is based on a phase-modulated domain...

Redetermination of the Gravitational Constant with the BIPM torsion balance at NIST

April 16, 2026

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Stephan Schlamminger, Leon Chao, Vincent Lee, Craig Shakarji, David Newell, Julian Stirling, Robert Cochrane, Clive Speake

We report the first replication of a high-precision measurement of the gravitational constant, $G$. The experiment employed the torsion balance originally...

The Integration of Focused Ultrasonication, ddPCR, and Flow Cytometry Effectively Estimates Genome Copies per Cell and Enhances DNA Extraction Efficiency in Escherichia coli Samples

April 16, 2026

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Sandra Da Silva, Nancy Lin, Kirsten Parratt, Hariharan Iyer, Guilherme Pinheiro, Holly Hack, Ian Hines, Stephanie Servetas

Microbiology researchers rely on nucleic acid measurement techniques, such as the quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and DNA sequencing, to address...

Direct Observation of muonic molecules in resonance states critical to muon catalyzed fusion

April 15, 2026

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Yuichi Toyama, Toshiyuki Azuma, Douglas Bennett, William Doriese, Malcolm Durkin, Joseph Fowler, Johnathon Gard, Tadashi Hashimoto, Ryota Hayakawa, Yuto Ichinohe, Katsuhiko Ishida, Sohtaro Kanda, Naritoshi Kawamura, Yasushi Kino, Ren Konishi, Yasuhiro Miyake, Kelsey Morgan, Ryota Nakashima, Hiroaki Natori, Hirofumi Noda, Galen O'Neil, Shinji Okada, Takuma Okumura, Kenichi Okutsu, Carl Reintsema, Kyosuke Sasaki, Toshiki Sato, Daniel Schmidt, Kouichiro Shimomura, Patrick Strasser, Daniel Swetz, Tadayuki Takahashi, Motonobu Tampo, Hideyuki Tatsuno, Joel Ullom, Izumi Umegaki, Shin Watanabe, Shinya Yamada, Takuma Yamashita

Evaluation of sample preparation methods for NMR-based metabolomics of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) ovarian fluid

April 15, 2026

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Fabio Casu, Amanda Bayless, Brian Peterson, Heather Hamlin, Ashley Russell, Tracey Johnston

Average embryo survival in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has declined sharply from about 80% to below 50% in North America over the past two decades. The...

Monte Carlo simulation and unfolding of an extended Bonner sphere system for secondary neutron spectrometry in proton therapy facilities using conventional BSS experimental data

April 12, 2026

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Daniel Jardin, Adrián Díaz-Comeche, Sandra Oliver, Belén Juste, Mark Zakhary, Sina Mossahebi, Matthew Mille, Choonsik Lee, Rafael Miró, Gumersindo Verdú, Sergio Morató

The extended-range Bonner Sphere Spectrometer (BSS) is a valuable tool for characterizing neutron fields in radiotherapy, including proton therapy facilities...

Optical clock frequency ratios with uncertainty ≤ 3.2 × 10^−18

April 10, 2026

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Alexander Aeppli, Willa Arthur-Dworschack, Kyle Beloy, Caitlin Berry, Tobias Bothwell, Angela Folz, Tara Fortier, Tanner Grogan, Youssef Hassan, Zoey Zimeng Hu, David Hume, Benjamin Hunt, Kyungtae Kim, Amanda Koepke, Dahyeon Lee, David Ray Leibrandt, Ben Lewis, Andrew Ludlow, Mason Marshall, Nicholas Nardelli, Harikesh Ranganath, Daniel Rodriguez Castillo, Jeffrey Sherman, Jacob Siegel, Suzanne Thornton, William Warfield, Jun Ye

We report high-precision frequency ratio measurements between optical atomic clocks based on 27Al+, 171Yb, and 87Sr. With total fractional uncertainties at or...

Controlling Phase Transition Dynamics in Laser-Printed Perovskite Films via Additive-Driven Strain Engineering

April 10, 2026

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Hurriyet Yuce Cakir, Manikanta Makala, Ganga Neupane, Marielle Deconinck, Vladimir Shilovskikh, Xinyi Zhou, Rudolph Holley III, Quinn Burlingame, Yana Vaynzof, Yueh-Lin Loo, Behrang Hamadani, Oana Jurchescu

The structural phase transitions in hybrid perovskites are critical to their performance and stability, but controlling them remains a significant challenge...

Wavefront mapping for absolute atom interferometry

April 10, 2026

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Joseph Junca, John Kitching, William McGehee

Wavefront distortions are a leading source of systematic uncertainty in light-pulse atom interferometry, limiting absolute measurements of gravitational...

Ion-Pair Speciation in Aqueous Alkali Fluorides from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of ¹⁹F

April 9, 2026

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Malgorzata Musial, Samantha Miller, Christopher Suiter, Heidi Klem, Eugene Paulechka, Kathleen Schwarz, Jason Widegren, Demian Riccardi

We demonstrate that a combination of multiscale modeling and experimental 19F NMR can be used to examine the molecular details of how ion-pair speciation...

Charge Exchange Experiments in a mini-Electron Beam Ion Trap using Transition Edge Sensors

April 8, 2026

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Adrika Dasgupta, Jonathan Dean, Galen O'Neil, Nathan Nakamura, Joel Weber, Kelsey Morgan, Yuri Ralchenko, Daniel Swetz, Joseph Tan, Noah Zuckman, Fabian Fritz Kislat

Charge exchange is a process observed in astrophysical environments where highly charged ions interact with neutral atoms or molecules, capturing electrons and...

Impact of Deep-Level Traps on Carrier Mobility in β-Ga2O3 MOSFETs

April 7, 2026

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Ory Maimon, Neil Moser, Pragya Shrestha, Minyeong Kim, Sang-Mo Koo, Kyle Liddy, Andrew Green, Kelson Chabak, Sujitra Pookpanratana, Qiliang Li

Ultra-wide bandgap β-Ga2O3-based power devices are promising and rapidly developing, but its mobility in field-effect transistors (FET) falls short of the...

Serum proteome of the Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) reveals signatures of immunity, proteostasis, and metabolism

April 6, 2026

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Brooke Genovese, Nistara Randhawa, Benjamin Neely, Gabriela Grigorean, Amy Schuh, Brian Amman, Jessica Elbert, Simon Anthony, Jonna Mazet, Jonathan Towner, Brian Bird

Bats are increasingly studied for their ability to coexist with diverse viruses of human health importance. While this focus has yielded insights into host...

Overcoming Roadblocks for Implementing AI/ML Methods for Materials Advancement

April 6, 2026

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James Warren, Francesca Tavazza, Austin McDannald, Aaron Kusne, Howard Joress, David Hoogerheide, Brian DeCost, Kamal Choudhary, Debra Audus

The development of novel materials with tailored properties is a complex, multi-objective optimization problem that has long been a challenge in materials...

Characterization of Electronic Stress-Induced Changes in Multi-Layer MoS2

April 6, 2026

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R. Colby Evans, Riccardo Torsi, Pavel Kabos, Jason Holm, Jason Killgore, Paul Owiredu, Gurpreet Singh, Jerzy Sadowski, Angela Hight Walker, Elisabeth Mansfield

Transition metal dichalcogenides like molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) are compelling for next-generation electronic devices. In this work, we investigate the impact...

Ultra-High Speed Printing Regime in Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Highly Reflective Metals

April 5, 2026

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Natalya Kublik, Laura Duenas Gonzalez, David Deisenroth, zhengtao gan, Bruno Azeredo

Additive manufacturing of highly reflective metals, such as copper and aluminum, often entail excessive energy losses, especially in laser powder bed fusion...

Nanoscale mapping of composition and orientation in electrospun polymeric nanofibers loaded with carbon atomic wires

April 4, 2026

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Simone Melesi, Devon Jakob, Jeremy Schultz, Adam Biacchi, Piotr Pińkowski, Bartłomiej Pigulski, CHIARA CASTIGLIONI, Chiara Bertarelli, Sławomir Szafert, Carlo Spartaco Casari, Andrea Centrone

This study yields a comprehensive nanoscale investigation of the composition and molecular orientation of electrospun poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)...

Unification of Multi-Source and Multi-Fidelity Fragility Functions

April 4, 2026

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Mohammadamin Hariri Ardebili, Siamak Sattar

The derivation of fragility functions through nonlinear dynamic analysis is a domain that has garnered significant attention historically. The majority of prior...

Bilateral Evaluation of Certified Reference Materials for Macro and Trace Elements in Food as Control Materials for spICP-MS

April 4, 2026

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Filip Gregar, Zuzana Gajdosechova, Monique Johnson, Antonio Montoro Bustos, Katrin Loeschner

This article examines the suitability of existing certified reference materials (CRMs) for macro and trace elements in food as effective control materials for...

A study of the position-dependent response of thermal kinetic inductance detectors through the use of cryogenic beam steering

April 2, 2026

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Ian Fogarty Florang, Jonathan Dean, Joseph Fowler, Tom-Erik Haugen, Shannon Hoogerheide, Daniel Jardin, Hans Mumm, Nathan Nakamura, Matthew Natale, Galen O'Neil, Nathan Ortiz, Jeremy Paster, Thomas Rao, Avirup Roy, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Paul Szypryt

There are a number of considerations when designing a low-temperature detector for the best possible energy resolution. One that has been particularly...

Cavity enhanced UV combs generated by sum frequency mixing with near-IR chirped-pulse electro-optic combs for Rb atom sensing at 323 nm

April 1, 2026

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David Plusquellic, Jasper Stroud

A chirped-pulse electro-optic (EO) dual comb system operating near 816 nm is used to generate dual combs in the UV region near 323 nm. The dual UV combs result...

Electro-optic frequency comb Doppler Thermometry

April 1, 2026

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Sean Bresler, Erin Adkins, Stephen Eckel, Tobias Herman, David A. Long, Benjamin Reschovsky, Daniel Barker

13 Abstract: We demonstrate a Doppler thermometer based on direct comb spectroscopy of an 85Rb vapor with an electro-optic frequency comb. The direct comb...

Improved Uniformity in Glass TSV Filling by Asymmetric Dwell Pulsed Potential Deposition

April 1, 2026

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Eunsoo Shim, Youjung Kim, Ji Young Park, Mathew Weimer, Sara Harris, David Raciti, Bongyoung Yoo, Jae-Hong Lim, Yong-Ho Chao, Thomas Moffat, Daniel Josell

Filling of through vias in glass interposers is explored using an acid copper sulfate electrolyte containing dilute chloride and a polyether suppressor additive...

Impact of Measurement Setup on Cryogenic CMOS FET Characterization

March 31, 2026

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Pragya Shrestha, Jason Campbell, Jhih-Wei Chen, Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Accurate cryogenic device characterization is essential for developing compact models to support scalable quantum control electronics based on advanced CMOS...

Standardized Approach for Assessing Wireless IoT Devices in Millimeter-Wave Industrial Work-Cell Channels

March 31, 2026

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Mohamed Hany, Kate Remley, Paritosh Manurkar, Joshua Kast, Iyemeh Uchendu, Robert Horansky, Dylan Williams, Matthew Simons, Michael Frey, Lucas Koepke, Richard Candell

We present a standardized, repeatable test approach that replicates key features of measured industrial environments in a fully characterized hybrid test...

Smoke Production and Detection From Lithium Ion Battery Powered E-Scooter Fires in a Compartment

March 26, 2026

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Amy Mensch, Emma Veley, Sebastian Seda, Artur Chernovsky

Increased use of lithium-ion batteries in consumer products poses a risk for fires caused by these devices to occur in homes. To characterize the residential...