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Journals

Methods to evaluate 3D lidars used for automated driving

Author(s)
Prem Rachakonda, Abhilash Mane, Craig I. Schlenoff, Kamel S. Saidi
Evaluating perception sensor systems for on-road autonomous vehicles is still fraught with ambiguity due to the varying and dynamic environmental factors that

The Application of Digital PCR as a Reference Measurement Procedure to Support the Accuracy of Quality Assurance for Infectious Disease Molecular Diagnostic Testing

Author(s)
Samreen Falak, Denise O'Sullivan, Megan Cleveland, Simon Cowen, Eloise Busby, Alison Devonshire, Esmeralda Valiente, Gerwyn Jones, Martin Kammel, Mojca Milavec, Laura Vierbaum, Ingo Schellenberg, Heinz Zeichhardt, Andreas Kummrow, Peter Vallone, Rainer Macdonald, Jim Huggett
Background Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs) are used to diagnose many infectious diseases. They are typically sensitive and specific and can be quickly

Interlaboratory Measurement of Adeno-Associated Virus: Comparative Quantification of Full and Empty Capsids

Author(s)
Sean Lehman, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Jerome Jacques, Sharee Adams-Hall, Shreya Ahuja, Adnan Arnaout, Hunter Balduf, Ivan Budyak, Thomas Cleveland, Dennis Delgado, James Deng, Brandon Doyle, David L. Duewer, Carsten Elger, Jeffrey Fagan, Tim Guo, Jorge Haller, Luisa Hilgenfeld, Van Hoang, Allison Huldin, Matthew Hyatt, Sambit Kar, Sandeep Kedia, Bashkim Kokona, Amy Liu, Li Ma, Diane McCarthy, He Meng, Easton Noble, Veronika Oettle, Andrew Pla, Thomas Powers, Dean Ripple, Herbert Runnels, Raphael Ruppert, Florian Semmelmann, Christopher Sims, Saurabh Singh, Ronald Toth, Austin Vogt, Sabine Wenzel, Neal Whitaker, Zhiwen Yang, Brandon Zhuang
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) is one of the main viral vector-based gene therapy platforms. AAV is a virus consisting of a ≈25 nm diameter capsid

Nagaoka ferromagnetism in 3 × 3 arrays and beyond

Author(s)
Yan Li, Keyi Liu, Garnett Bryant
Nagaoka ferromagnetism (NF) is a long-predicted example of itinerant ferromagnetism (IF) in the Hubbard model that has been studied theoretically for many years

Disseminable single-photon source for quantum radiometry

Author(s)
Hristina Georgieva, Thomas Gerrits, Lijun Ma, Riley Dawkins, Marco Lopez, Oliver Slattery, Sven Rodt, Stephan Reitzenstein, Alan Migdall, Stefan Kueck
We present a disseminable single-photon source based on an InGaAs quantum dot in a micro-mesa. This source achieves a maximum photon flux of 2.8 million photons

Three-dimensional nucleation and growth of deformation twins in magnesium

Author(s)
Sangwon Lee, Michael Pilipchuk, Can Yildirim, Duncan Greeley, Qianying Shi, Tracy Berman, Adam Creuziger, Evan Rust, Carsten Detlefs, Veera Sundararaghavan, John Allison, Ashley Bucsek
At two-thirds the weight of aluminum, magnesium alloys have the potential to significantly reduce the fuel consumption of transportation vehicles. These

Recommendations for assessing commutability of a replacement batch of a secondary calibrator certified reference material

Author(s)
Liesbet Deprez, Jesper Johansen, Thomas Keller, Jeffrey Budd, Neil Greenberg, Cas Weykamp, Sverre Sandberg, MAURO PANTEGHINI, Ferruccio Ceriotti, Elizabeth Barczak, Robert Rej, Pernille Kjeilen Fauskanger, Finlay MacKenzie, Johanna Camara, Alicia Lyle, W. Greg Miller, VINCENT DELATOUR
Commutable secondary certified reference materials (CRMs) play an essential role in the calibration hierarchy of many in-vitro diagnostic measurement procedures

PVDF-based Backsheet Cracking: Mapping In Situ Phase Evolution by X-ray Scattering

Author(s)
Stephanie Moffitt, Sona Ulicna, Song-Syun Jhang, Po-Chang Pan, Michael Owen-Bellini, Peter Hacke, Michael Kempe, Jared Tracy, Kaushik Choudhury, Laura Schelhas, Xiaohong Gu
One of the most common polymers in commercial photovoltaic (PV) backsheets is polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). However, recent reports have shown the potential

DAmodel: Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of DA White Dwarfs for Spectrophotometric Calibration

Author(s)
Benjamin M. Boyd, Gautham Narayan, Kaisey Mandel, Matthew Grayling, Aidan Berres, Mai Li, Aaron Do, ABHIJIT SAHA, Tim Axelrod, Thomas Matheson, Edward W Olszewski, ralph bohlin, Annalisa Calamida, Jenna Claver, Susana Deustua, Jay Holberg, Ivan Hubeny, John MacKenty, Konstantin Malanchev, Sean Points, Armin Rest, Elena Sabbi, Christopher Stubbs
standards (16.5 V 19.5) alongside the three CALSPEC standards, from 900 Å to 32 μm. The framework is the first of its kind to jointly infer photometric

A 4-mW 2.2-6.9 GHz LNA in 16nm FinFET Technology for Cryogenic Applications

Author(s)
Runzhou Chen, Hamdi Mani, Phil Marsh, Richard Al Hadi, Pragya Shrestha, Jason Campbell, Christopher Chen, Hao-Yu Chen, Kosmas Galatsis, Mau-Chung Frank Chang
This work presents the design and measurement of a low-power wide-band cryogenic low-noise amplifier (LNA) that operates in a wide temperature range using 16nm

Magneto-Ionic Physical Reservoir Computing

Author(s)
Md Mahadi Rajib, Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Christopher Jensen, Gong Chen, Fahim F. Chowdhury, Shouvik Sarkar, Kai Liu, Jayasimha Atulashimha
Recent progresses in magneto-ionics offer exciting potentials to leverage its non-linearity, short-term memory, and energy-efficiency to uniquely advance the

Variable Gain DNA Nanostructure Charge Amplifiers for Biosensing

Author(s)
Jacob Majikes, Seulki Cho, Thomas Cleveland, James Liddle, Arvind Balijepalli
Electronic measurements of engineered nanostructures comprised solely of DNA (DNA nanostructures) enable new signal conditioning modalities in biosensing. Here