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Edwin J. Heilweil, Shu-Zee A. Lo, Gagan Kumar, Thomas E. Murphy
Infrared spectroscopy is a valuable tool for probing and characterizing the macro-molecular motions of complex molecules, including vibrational and phonon modes
Varun B. Verma, Francesco F. Marsili, Adriana E. Lita, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Single-photon detectors are an essential tool for a wide range of applications in quantum information, quantum communications, and quantum optics. Over the past
Facing the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression, efforts to reestablish acceptable growth rates for the U.S. economy are relying almost entirely
Peng Tong, Despina Louca, Gongyao Wang, Peter K. Liaw, Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Anna Llobet, Hiroshi Kawaji, Yiming Qiu, Yunfeng Shi
Amorphous metals are solid metallic materials devoid of periodicity, with disordered atomic structures achieved by supercooling the viscous liquid to avoid
Panu J. Koppinen, Michael Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman
We present electrical data of silicon single electron devices fabricated with CMOS techniques and protocols. The easily tuned devices show clean Coulomb
Utku Kemiktarak, Mathieu Durand, Michael Metcalfe, John R. Lawall
We design, fabricate, and study a novel platform for cavity optomechanics: a silicon nitride membrane patterned as a sub-wavelength diffraction grating. Using
Adaptive measurements represent important resources in quantum information science and quan- tum technologies. They take advantage of the knowledge of partial
Harald Atmanspacher, Andrei Khrennikov, Alan L. Migdall, Sergey Polyakov
A wide spectrum of topics was presented in talks at this conference: quantum foundations (especially, Heisenberg's uncertainty relation and its generalizations)
Kun Xu, Caifu Zeng, Qin Zhang, Rusen Yan, Peide Ye, Kang Wang, Alan C. Seabaugh, Huili G. Xing, John S. Suehle, Curt A. Richter, David J. Gundlach, Nhan V. Nguyen
We report the first direct measurement of the Dirac point, the Fermi level, and the work function of graphene by performing internal photoemission measurements
A framework is presented for investigating antenna coupling in arbitrary environments by way of antenna and environment scattering parameter matrices. The
Jeffrey L. Blackburn, Chaiwat Engtrakul, Justin B. Bult, Katherine Hurst, Yufeng Zhao, Qiang Xu, Philip A. Parilla, Lin J. Simpson, John-David R. Rocha, Matthew Ross Hudson, Craig Brown, Thomas Gennett
In recent years, carbon-based sorbents have been recognized for their potential application within vehicular hydrogen storage applications. One method by which
Daniel S. Swetz, Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom
Present models of the superconducting-to-normal transition in transition-edge sensors (TESs)do not describe the current distribution within a biased TES. This
Paul D. Over, Johan Oomen, Wessel Kraaij, Alan Smeaton
Audiovisual archives are investing in large-scale digitisation efforts of their analogue holdings and in parallel ingest an ever-increasing amount of born
We theoretically explore the optical flux lattices produced for ultra-cold atoms subject to laser fields where both the atom-light coupling and the effective
Johannes Hubmayr, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Brad Dober, Mark Devlin, Anna E. Fox, Dale Li, Michael D. Niemack, David P. Pappas, Leila R. Vale, Kent D. Irwin, Gene C. Hilton
We present the design for arrays of dual-polarization sensitive, superconducting sensors for far infrared astrophysics. Each pixel is feedhorn-coupled and
The structure of PA5508 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a glutamine synthase (GS) homolog, has been solved at 2.5 Å. Surprisingly, PA5508 forms single hexameric
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Aaron M. Forster, John W. Hettenhouser, Walter E. Byrd, Dylan J. Morris, Robert F. Cook
Instrumented indentation is a widely used technique to study the mechanical behavior of materials at small length scales and thus has been exploited in
David Bishop, Flavio Pardo, Cris Bolle, Randy Giles, Vladimir Aksyuk
Over the last decade or so a group of us, while working at Bell Labs, have been able to develop a large number of silicon micromachines for a wide range of
Brian G. Burke, William Alexander Osborn, Richard S. Gates, David A. LaVan
We describe a new technique for optically and electrically detecting and heating bilayer microcantilevers (Pt−SiNx) to high temperatures at fast heating rates
Eric Lass, Kil-Won Moon, Maureen E. Williams, Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner, David C. Dunand, Peter J. Bocchini, David N. Seidman
Atom-probe tomography (APT) is utilized to investigate, in a Co-9.7Al-10.8W at.% alloy aged at 900 °C for 1000 h, the phase composition and partitioning
Hao Zhu, Qiliang Li, Hui Yuan, Helmut Baumgart, D. E. Ioannou, Curt A. Richter
Si nanowire field effect transistors (SiNW FETs) with multiple nanowire channels and different gate lengths have been fabricated by using a directed assembly
Rahul R. Mhaskar, Svenja A. Knappe, John E. Kitching
We demonstrate a fiber-optically coupled optical magnetometer based on a microfabricated 87Rb vapor cell in a micromachined silicon sensor head. The cell is
Vincent Y. Kotsubo, Douglas A. Bennett, Mark Croce, Michael W. Rabin, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom
We have observed anomalous random telegraph noise in discrete regions of voltage bias throughout the superconducting transition in larger transition-edge
Block copolymers offer an appealing alternative to current lithographic techniques with re- gard to fabrication of next generation microprocessors. However, if
Dong H. Rim, Andrew K. Persily, Lance L. Wallace, William S. Dols, Steven J. Emmerich
Airborne particle transport into buildings is important for human exposure to particles and associated health effects. The present study investigated the entry