Journals

Si3N4 optomechanical crystals in the resolved-sideband regime

January 27, 2014

Author(s)

Marcelo I. Davanco, Serkan Ates, Yuxiang Liu, Kartik A. Srinivasan

We demonstrate sideband-resolved Si3N4 optomechanical crystals supporting 105 quality factor optical modes at 980 nm, coupled to approximately 4 GHz frequency

Environmental Specimen Banks as a Resource for Mercury and Mercury Isotope Research in Marine Ecosystems

January 26, 2014

Author(s)

Russell D. Day, Paul R. Becker, O.F.X Donard, Rebecca S. Pugh, Stephen A. Wise

Environmental specimen banks (ESBs) have been a fundamental tool for many nations to monitor contaminant temporal and spatial trends, study fate and transport

Stabilized Phospholipid Membranes in Chromatography: Towards Membrane Protein-Functionalized Stationary Phases

January 25, 2014

Author(s)

Elyssia S. Gallagher, Elisabeth Mansfield, Craig A. Aspinwall

Transmembrane protein (TMP)-functionalized analytical platforms represent a powerful new paradigm in chemical analysis. Of particular interest is the

Optical phase-noise dynamics of Titanium:sapphire optical frequency combs

January 24, 2014

Author(s)

Qudsia Quraishi, Scott A. Diddams, Leo W. Hollberg

Stabilized optical frequency combs (OFC) can have remarkable levels of coherence across their broad spectral bandwidth. We study the scaling of the optical

Nanoscale mechanics by tomographic contact resonance atomic force microscopy

January 23, 2014

Author(s)

Gheorghe NMN Stan, Santiago Solares, Bede Pittenger, Natalia Erina, Chanmin Su

We report on a quantifiable depth-dependent contact resonance AFM (CR-AFM) measurements over polystyrene-polypropylene (PS-PP) polymer blends to detail surface

Optimally Focused Cold Atom Systems Obtained Using Density-Density Correlations

January 23, 2014

Author(s)

Ian B. Spielman, Andika Putra, Daniel Campbell, Ryan Price, Subhadeep De

Resonant absorption imaging is a common technique for detecting the two-dimensional column density of ultracold atom systems. In many cases, the systems

Emissivity of Silver and Stainless Steel From 80 K to 300 K: Application to ITER Thermal Shields Temperatures

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Solomon I. Woods, Timothy M. Jung, Dale R. Sears, Jie Yu

The emissivities of thermal shield mock-up samples for ITER have been measured at sample temperatures between 80 K and 300 K using an optical method employing a

Exact solution of the thermodynamics and size parameters of a polymer confined to a lattice of finite size: Large chain limit

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Chad R. Snyder, Charles M. Guttman, Edmund A. DiMarzio

We extend the exact solutions of the Di Marzio-Rubin matrix method for the thermodynamic properties, including chain density, of a linear polymer molecule

Isolation of Specific Small Diameter Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Species via Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Fagan, Constantine Y. Khripin, Carlos A. Silvera Batista, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Angela R. Hight Walker, Ming Zheng

Aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) is demonstrated to enable isolation of multiple semiconducting and metallic single-wall carbon nanotube species from a small

Saponins: A sustainable surfactant. From its microwave-assisted extraction to the synthesis of monodisperse latices

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Charlene Schnitt, Bruno Grassl, Julien C. Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley, Gaetane Lespes, Jacques Desbrieres, Virginie Pellerin, Stephanie Reynaud

Synthetic surfactants are widely used in emulsion polymerization, but it is increasingly desirable to replace them with naturally derived molecules with a

Ghost Modes and Continuum Scattering in the Dimerized Distorted Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet Rb₂Cu₃SnF₁₂

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

K. Matan, Y. Nambu, Yang Zhao, T.J. Sato, Y. Fukumoto, T. Ono, H. Tanaka, Collin L. Broholm, A. Podlesnyak, G. Ehlers

Magnetic excitations of the pinwheel valence bond solid state in the distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet Rb 2Cu 3SnF 12 were studied using high-resolution

Facile Smiles-type rearrangement in radical cations of N-acyl arylsulfonamides and analogs

January 21, 2014

Author(s)

Karl Irikura, Nino G. Todua

RATIONALE: N-Alkylation of sulfonylbenzamides was reported recently to cause a dramatic and surprising change in electron ionization mass spectrometry (EIMS)

SPRITE: A modernized approach to scanning probe contact resonance imaging

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Anthony B. Kos, Jason P. Killgore, Donna C. Hurley

We describe a system for contact resonance tracking called Scanning Probe Resonance Image Tracking Electronics (SPRITE). SPRITE can image two contact resonance

Quantification of total serum transferrin and transferrin sialoforms in human serum; an alternative method for the determination of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin in clinical samples

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Yoana Y. Nuevo Ordonez, William C. Davis, Raymond F. Anton

Carbohydrate deficient transferrin (CDT) measurements in human serum constitute the most specific marker for chronic heavy alcohol use and congenital disorders

Measurement Techniques for RF Nanoelectronics

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Thomas M. Wallis, Luca Pierantoni

In 1882, in a lecture at the University of Leiden, Nobel prize-winner Heike Kammerlingh Onnes coined the motto: Through Measurement to Knowledge [1]. In that

Hybrid-Phospholipid Bilayer Coatings for Separations of Cationic Proteins in Capillary Zone Electrophoresis

January 20, 2014

Author(s)

Elyssia S. Gallagher, Seid M. Adem, Leonard K. Bright, Elisabeth Mansfield, Craig A. Aspinwall

Separations of proteins and peptides in capillary zone electrophoresis suffer from non-specific adsorption of the analytes to the capillary surface. Semi

Thermodynamic properties of 1-phenylnaphthalene and 2-phenylnaphthalene

January 18, 2014

Author(s)

Robert D. Chirico, Andrei F. Kazakov, William V. Steele

Measurements leading to the calculation of thermodynamic properties in the ideal-gas state for 1- phenylnaphthalene (Chemical Abstracts registry number [605-02

Study of CeI₃ evaporation in the presence of Group 13 metal-iodides

January 17, 2014

Author(s)

John J. Curry, Albert Henins, E. G. Estupinan, S. D. Shastri, Jonathan E. Hardis, W. P. Lapatovich

The influence of GaI$_3$, InI, and TlI on the evaporation characteristics of CeI$_3$ have been studied over the temperature range 900 K to 1400 K using x-ray

Second-harmonic generation using 4-bar-quasi-phasematching in a GaAs whispering-gallery-mode microcavity

January 17, 2014

Author(s)

Paulina S. Kuo, Glenn S. Solomon

The 4-bar crystal symmetry in materials such as GaAs can enable quasi-phasematching for efficient optical frequency conversion without poling, twinning or other

Acoustic Gas Thermometry

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Michael R. Moldover, Roberto M. Gavioso, James B. Mehl, Laurent Pitre, Michael de Podesta, Jintao Zhang

Primary acoustic gas thermometry (AGT) exploits the simple relationship between the speed of sound in a dilute gas u and the thermodynamic temperature T of the

Quantitative Testing of Fire Scenario Hypotheses: A Bayesian Inference Approach

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Kristopher J. Overholt, Ofodike A. Ezekoye

Fire models are routinely used to evaluate life safety aspects of building design projects and are being used more often in fire and arson investigations as

ACOUSTIC GAS THERMOMETRY

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Michael R. Moldover, Roberto M. Gavioso, James B. Mehl, Laurent Pitre, Michael de Podesta, Jintao Zhang

We review the principles, techniques and results from primary acoustic gas thermometry (AGT). Since the establishment of ITS-90, the International Temperature

Template synthesis of gold nanoparticles with an organic molecular cage

January 16, 2014

Author(s)

Ryan McCaffrey, Hai Long, Yinghua Jin, Aric Sanders, Wounjhang Park, Wei Zhang

We report a novel strategy for the controlled synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with narrow size distribution (1.9 plus or minus} 0.4 nm) through NP

2013 NCNR Annual Report

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Steven R. Kline

A phononic bandgap shield for high-Q membrane microresonators

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Raymond W. Simmonds, P.-L. Yu, Katarina Cicak, N. S. Kampel, Y. Tsaturyan, T. P. Purdy, C. A. Regal

A phononic crystal can control the acoustic coupling between a resonator and its support structure. We micromachine a phononic bandgap shield for high Q silicon

Gallium Nitride Nanowire Probe for Near-Field Scanning Microwave Microscopy

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Joel C. Weber, Paul T. Blanchard, Aric W. Sanders, Atif A. Imtiaz, Thomas M. Wallis, Kevin J. Coakley, Kristine A. Bertness, Pavel Kabos, Norman A. Sanford, Victor M. Bright

We report on the fabrication of a GaN nanowire probe for near-field scanning microwave microscopy. A single nanowire was Pt-bonded to a commercial Si cantilever

Generalization and specializations of generating functions for Jacobi, Gegenbauer, Chebyshev and Legendre polynomials with definite integrals

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl, Connor M. MacKenzie

In this paper we generalize and specialize generating functions for classical orthogonal polynomials, namely Jacobi, Gegenbauer, Chebyshev and Legendre

Design of a Metal-Organic Framework with Enhanced Back Bonding for the Separation of N₂ and CH₄

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Kyuho Lee, III Isley, Allison L. Dzubak, Pragya Verma, Samuel J. Stoneburner, Li-Chiang Lin, Joshua D. Howe, Eric D. Bloch, Douglas A. Reed, Matthew Ross Hudson, Craig Brown, Jeffrey R. Long, Jeffrey Neaton, Berend Smit, Christopher J. Cramer, Donald G. Truhlar, Laura Gagliardi

Gas separations with porous materials are economically important and provide a unique challenge to fundamental materials design, as adsorbent properties can be

Molecular Quantum Magnetism in LiZn₂Mo₃O₈

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

M. Mourigal, W. T. Fuhrman, J. P. Sheckelton, A. Wartelle, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, D. L. Abernathy, T. M. McQueen, Collin L. Broholm

Inelastic neutron scattering at temperatures below 30 K from a powder of LiZn 2Mo 3O 8 demonstrates this triangular-lattice antiferromagnet hosts collective

Substrate Control of Anisotropic Resistivity in Heteroepitaxial Nanostructured Arrays of Cryptomelane Manganese Oxide on Strontium Titanate

January 15, 2014

Author(s)

Anais E. Espinal, Yonggao Y. Yan, Lichun Zhang, Laura Espinal, Aimee Morey, Barrett O. Wells, Mark Aindow, Steven L. Suib

Resistivity and resistance measurements have been carried out for thin films of cryptomelane-type manganese oxide (OMS-2) grown onto (001), (110) and (111)STO