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Hao Zhu, Curt A. Richter, Erhai Zhao, John E. Bonevich, William A. Kimes, Hyuk-Jae Jang, Hui Yuan, Abbas Arab, Oleg A. Kirillov, James E. Maslar, D. E. Ioannou, Qiliang Li
Topological insulators are unique electronic materials with insulating interiors but robust metallic surfaces. Device applications exploiting their remarkable...
M. Trassin, J. D. Clarkson, Samuel R. Bowden, j. Liu, J. T. Heron, R. J. Paull, Elke Arenholz, Daniel T. Pierce, John Unguris
We report local probe investigations of the magnetic interaction between BiFeO3 films and a ferromagnetic Co0.9Fe0.1 layer. Within the constraints of intralayer...
Qiang NMN Ye, Thomas R. Gentile, Jeffrey R. Anderson, Collin L. Broholm, WangChun Chen, Z DeLand, Ross W. Erwin, C. B. Fu, John E. Fuller III, Aaron V. Kirchhoff, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, V. Thampy, T G. Walker, Shannon Watson
We report substantial improvements in a compact wide angle neutron spin filter system that was recently employed on the Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer at the...
Gar W. Truong, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen E. Maxwell, Roger D. van Zee, David F. Plusquellic, Joseph T. Hodges, David A. Long
Challenging applications in trace gas analyses require high precision and acquisition rates.1-4 Many continuous-wave laser spectroscopy techniques exhibit...
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Esther Baumann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
The transfer of high-quality time-frequency signals between remote locations underpins many applications, including precision navigation and timing, clock-based...
Ulrich J. Warring, C. Ospelkaus, Yves Colombe, Robert Jordens, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Individual-qubit addressing is a prerequisite for many instances of quantum information processing. We present this capability on trapped ions with microwave...
We use the path-integral Monte Carlo technique and a recent high-accuracy six-dimensional potential to compute the cross second virial coefficients for all...
Michele M. Schantz, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise, Rebecca Heltsley, Jennifer Keller, John Kucklick, Stacy VanderPol, Stefan D. Leigh, Donald G. Patterson, Jr., Andreas Sjodon, Wayman E. Turner
Four new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) have been developed to assist in the quality assurance required for human biomonitoring studies. These materials...
Superconformal Au deposition is demonstrated in a Na_(3)Au(SO_(3))_(2 -) Na_(2)SO-(3) based electrolyte using underpotential deposited (upd) Pb to catalyze the...
We present an overview of the recent advances in collisional-radiative modeling of highly-charged ions of tungsten that are relevant to fusion research. The...
Reactor antineutrinos are used to study neutrino oscillation, search for signatures of non-standard neutrino interactions, and to monitor reactor operation for...
Dale P. Bentz, Edward J. Garboczi, Yang Lu, Nicos Martys, Aaron R. Sakulich, William J. Weiss
Concrete service life models have proliferated in recent years due to increased interest in designing infrastructure elements with at least a 75-year service...
Inductance is one of the fundamental defined parameters in electromagnetics and it takes on a variety of formulations and definitions in the electromagnetic...
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, Sarah E. Beavan, Matthew J. Sellars
We demonstrate coherent generation, storage, and retrieval of excitations on a long-lived spin transition via spontaneous Raman scattering in a rare-earth ion...
Chiara F. Ferraris, Paul E. Stutzman, Zhuguo Li, Min-Hong Zhang
Rheometers are usually calibrated using a standard reference oil. On the other hand the calibration of rheometer for paste or concrete cannot be calibrated...
Mark B. Campanelli, Raghu N. Kacker, RUEDIGER KESSEL
A novel variance-based measure for global sensitivity analysis, termed a total sensitivity gradient~(TSG), is presented for constructing uncertainty budgets...
Shaw C. Feng, Hanmin Lee, Thomas R. Kramer, Che B. Joung, Parisa Ghodous, Ram D. Sriram
The disassembly process is an essential activity performed on out-of-service products for remanufacturing. A disassembly process includes many subprocesses...
Antony K. Chen, Frank W. DelRio, Alexander W. Peterson, Koo-Hyun Chung, Kiran Bhadriraju, Anne L. Plant
The extracellular matrix (ECM) consists of a complex mixture of biochemical and physical stimuli that together regulate cell behavior. Previously we showed that...
Chunxing She, Garnett W. Bryant, Arnaud Demorti?, Elena V. Shevchenko, Matthew Pelton
It is commonly assumed that, after an electron-hole pair is created in a semiconductor by absorption of a photon, the electron and hole rapidly relax to their...
Daniel S. Hussey, D. Liu, M. V. Gubarev, D Ramsey, David L. Jacobson, Muhammad D. Arif, D. E. Moncton, B. Khaykovich
An achromatic cold-neutron microscope with magnification 4 is demonstrated. The image-forming optics is made of nested coaxial mirrors of full figures of...
Nanoparticles have emerged as promising therapeutic and diagnostic tools, due to their unique physicochemical properties. The specific core and surface...
John E. Schiel, Karen W. Phinney, Nicholas J. Smith
The continually growing list of critical glycosylation-related processes has made analytical methodology for detailed glycan characterization an area of...
Michael A. Lombardi, J. Mauricio Lopez-Romero, Nelida Diaz-Munoz, E. de Carlos-Lopez
Time measurement is of great importance for science, technology and commerce. Among the seven base units of the International System (SI), the second can be...
Carl T. Boone, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Thomas J. Silva
We measured spin-transport in nonferromagnetic (NM) metallic multilayers from the contribution to damping due to spin pumping from a ferromagnetic Co 90Fe 10...
Jesse E. Hensley, Tara Lovestead, Earl Christensen, Abhijit Dutta, Thomas J. Bruno, Robert McCormick
The distillation behavior of mixed alcohols was studied using the Advanced Distillation Curve (ADC) methodology. Crude mixed oxygenates were generated from...
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Vincent D. Lee, Christopher J. Blackburn, Daniel S. Sawyer, Steven D. Phillips, Wei Ren, Ben Hughes
Tilt and radial error motion of a laser tracker head as it spins about the two axes results in small but measurable ranging and angle errors. The laser tracer...
Lawrence T. Hudson, John F. Seely, Bruce V. Weber, D. G. Phipps, Nino R. Pereira, D Mosher, K. Slabkowska, M. Polasik, J Rzadkiewicz, S Hansen, Uri Feldman, Joseph W. Schumer
High resolution spectra of the W L transitions in the energy range 8 keV to 12 keV from warm dense plasmas generated by the Naval Research Laboratorys Gamble...
Runbing Li, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Joshua Bienfang, Zachary H. Levine, Marvin G. Payne
We demonstrate an optically controlled Kerr phase shifter using a room-temperature Rb85 vapor operating in a Raman gain scheme. Phase shifts from zero to 𝜋...