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M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga, Guldal Kirkali, Bryant C. Nelson, Gamze Tuna, Prasad T. Reddy
Accumulated evidence points to DNA repair capacity as an important factor in cancer and other diseases. DNA repair proteins are promising drug targets and are...
H. D. Zhou, Cenke Xu, A. M. Hallas, H. J. Silverstein, C. R. Wiebe, I. Umegaki, J. Q. Yan, T. P. Murphy, J.-H. Park, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, Jason S. Gardner, Y. Takano
Using magnetic, thermal and neutron measurements on single-crystal samples, we show that Ba 3CoSb 2O 9 is a spin-1/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet with...
Constantine Y. Khripin, Xiaomin X. Tu, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Ming Zheng
Length fractionation of colloidal carbon nanotube dispersions is required for many studies. Size- exclusion chromatography (SEC) has been reported as a reliable...
Thomas J. Silva, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Stefan Mathias, Roman Adam, Patrik Grychtol, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus M. Schneider, Emrah Turgut, Dennis Rudolf
We review recent progress in femtosecond magnetization dynamics probed by extreme ultraviolet pulses from high-harmonic generation. In a transverse magneto...
Justin M. Shaw, Stefan Mathias, Chan La-O=Vorakiat, Emrah Turgut, Patrik Grychtol, Roman Adam, Dennis Rudolf, Hans T. Nembach, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus Schneider, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane
We review recent progress in femtosecond magnetization dynamics probed by extreme ultraviolet pulses from high-harmonic generation. In a transversal magneto...
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology a new watt balance, NIST-4, is currently being designed. This apparatus will be used to realize the unit...
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)...
A framework is presented for investigating antenna coupling in arbitrary environments by way of antenna and environment scattering parameter matrices. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...