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Ying Yu, Changmin Lee, Peter Michler, Stephan Reitzenstein, Kartik Srinivasan, Edo Waks, Shunfa Liu, Jin Liu
A future quantum internet is expected to generate, distribute, store and process quantum bits (qubits) over the world by linking different quantum nodes via...
The continued prevalence of xylazine in the illicit drug market has necessitated development of quick and simple methods for identification, including lateral...
We discuss a remote sensing system that is used to simultaneously detect range-resolved differential absorption LIDAR (light detection and ranging; DIAL)...
Additively manufactured Inconel 625 is particularly susceptible to the formation of niobium-rich δ-phase precipitates in the interdendritic regions during high...
Diffraction elastic constants (DECs) describe the elastic response of a subset of orientation-correlated grains which share a common lattice vector. DECs...
Anirudha Sahoo, Weichao Gao, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie
An upsurge of low latency and bandwidth hungry applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality and availability of unlicensed spectrum in the mmWave...
Dianqiang Su, Yuan Jiang, Pablo Solano, Luis Orozco, John R. Lawall, Yanting Zhao
We report three orders of magnitude optical cooling of the fundamental torsional mode of a 5 mm-long, 550 nm diameter optical nanofiber. The rotation of the...
Richard J. Wheatley, Giovanni Garberoglio, Allan H. Harvey
The four-body nonadditive contribution to the energy of four helium atoms is calculated and fitted for all geometries for which the internuclear distances...
Katherine Shaw, Jonathan Whitney, Eileen Nalley, Madeline Schmidbauer, Megan Donahue, Jesse Black, Raquel Corniuk, Kellie Teague, Catherine Pirkle, Rachel Dacks, Max Sudnovsky, Jennifer Lynch
Island communities, like the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), depend on marine resources for food and economics, so plastic ingestion by those resources...
Kevin Cossel, Eleanor Waxman, Eli Hoenig, Dan Hesselius, Chris Chaote, Ian Coddington, Nathan Newbury
Determination of trace gas emissions from sources is critical for understanding and regulating air quality and climate change. Here, we demonstrate a method for...
Jacob Ward, Jacqueline Li, Jared Schwartz, Gillian Nave, Ton Raassen, Peter H. M. Uylings
We present transition probabilities for 268 spectral lines of singly-ionized chromium (Cr II) in the wavelength region 208 nm to 414 nm. Branching fractions...
Stefaan Pomme, Michael P. Unterweger, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Denis E. Bergeron, Leticia Pibida, International Collaboration
When verifying the validity of the exponential-decay law through 128 precise decay rate measurement series at various nuclear laboratories, minor violations...
Zheng Zhang, William E. Wallace, Guanghui Wang, Meghan Burke Harris, Yi Liu, Sergey Sheetlin, Stephen E. Stein
A fast and sensitive Direct Extraction (DE) method developed in our group can efficiently extract proteins in 30 min from a 5 cm-long hair strand. Previously we...
Dana Rampini, Chris Yung, Bakhrom Oripov, Solomon I. Woods, John H. Lehman, Sae Woo Nam, Adam McCaughan
We report on initial fabrication efforts in the integration of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) with vertically aligned carbon...
Laetitia Monnier, William Z. Bernstein, Sebti Foufou
Developing a more automated industrial digital thread is vital to realize the smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 vision. The digital thread allows for...
An n(p, T90) measurement suite is reported for the gases helium, argon, and nitrogen. The methodology is optical refractive-index gas metrology, operating at...
Manufacturing industries are increasingly adopting additive manufacturing (AM) technologies to produce functional parts in critical systems. However, the...
The combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and excellent weldability makes IN625 an attractive alloy for additive manufacturing (AM) applications, but...
Tracey Schock, Daniel Bearden, Fabio Casu, Michael Edwards, Annie Jacob, Edward Johnson, Amanda Bayless, Elena Legrand
Bivalves stand out as an ideal ecological indicator and have been the basis of NOAA's Mussel Watch Program to monitor environmental health. In this study, we...
During the COVID-19 pandemic and concurrent natural disasters, small businesses were hard hit by decreased consumer demand, supply chain interruptions, and...
Mitra Taheri, Elaf Anber, Annie Barnett, Nick Birbilis, Brian DeCost, Daniel Foley, Emily Holcombe, Jonathan Hollenbach, Howie Joress, Yevgeny Rakita, James Rondinelli, Nathan Smith, Michael Waters, Chris Wolverton
In this article, we review the opportunities and challenges associated with complex concentrated materials that exhibit short-range order. Although the presence...
Pooja Sekhar, Connor Fredrick, David Carlson, Scott Diddams
Frequency combs with mode spacing of 10–20 GHz are critical for increasingly important applications such as astronomical spectrograph calibration, high-speed...
Oliver Burrow, Robert Fasano, Michael Wright, Wesley Brand, Wenbo Li, Andrew Ludlow, Erling Riis, Paul Griffin, Aidan Arnold
Grating magneto-optical traps are an enabling quantum technology for portable metrological devices with ultracold atoms. However, beam diffraction efficiency...
Chad Ropp, Dhriti Maurya, Alexander Yulaev, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Vladimir Aksyuk
Efficient power coupling between guided and free-space optical modes requires precision spatial mode matching with apodized Bragg gratings. Yet, grating...
Benjamin Harding, Ziling Hu, Ashley Hiett, Frank Delaglio, Katherine Henzler- Wildman, Chad Rienstra
Solid-state NMR spectroscopy (SSNMR) is a powerful technique to probe structural and dynamic properties of molecules at an atomic level. Modern SSNMR methods...
Karina Torres Castro, Katherine Acuña-Umaña, Leonardo Lesser-Rojas, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez
Blood is a complex sample comprised mostly of plasma, red blood cells (RBCs), and other cells whose concentrations correlate to physiological or pathological...