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Ruikun Sun, Jie Yang, Yun Liu, Xiaobing Zuo, Andre Lee, Wei Yang, Yangyang Wang, Shiwang Cheng
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Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) in circularly symmetric optical microresonators exhibit integer quantized angular momentum numbers due to the boundary condition
Takehiko Oe, Shamith Payagala, Alireza Panna, S. Takada, N. Kaneko, Dean G. Jarrett
A precise high resistance comparison was performed between the traveling dual source bridge developed by the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ) and
Michael Deagen, Dylan Walsh, Debra Audus, Kenneth Kroenlein, Juan de Pablo, Kaoru Aou, Kyle Chard, Klavs Jensen, Bradley Olsen
Autonomous experimental systems offer a compelling glimpse into a future where closed-loop, iterative cycles—performed by machines and guided by artificial
Mary Clare McCorry, Marcie Black, Chrysanthi Williams, Greta Babakhanova, Sumona Sarkar, Nathan Swami, Katherine A. Mirica, Sarah Boermeester, Abbie Underhill
The use of engineered cells, tissues, and organs has the opportunity to change the way injuries and diseases are treated. Commercialization of these
Emily Caldwell, Laura Sinclair, Nathan R. Newbury, Jean-Daniel Deschenes
Two decades after its invention, the frequency comb is an unparalleled ruler for frequency, time, and distance metrology due to the rigid spacing of its optical
The effect of the scan strategy on internal porosity is investigated on a custom-built laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing testbed. Two different
Lu Chen, Wenqi Zhu, Pengcheng Huo, Junyeob Song, Henri Lezec, Ting Xu, Amit Agrawal
The ability to control the instantaneous state of light – its phase, amplitude, polarization, or wavefront – of high-energy pulses down to the single-photon
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Many practical applications benefit from Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, but their security needs to be studied in more
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Atomic scale spectroscopy provides an exceptional ability to define electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties of materials at the
Lisa Kilpatrick, Roger Bouillon, Clay Davis, Clark Henderson, Andrew N. Hoofnagle, Steven Pauwels, Dirk Vanderschueren, Etienne Waelkens, Hans Wildiers, James H. Yen, Karen W. Phinney
Objectives: Vitamin D-binding protein (VDBP), a serum transport protein for 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], has three common proteoforms which have co-localized
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Stephan Schlamminger, Lorenz Keck, Frank Seifert, Leon Chao, Darine El Haddad, Shisong Li
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Yuxue Liang, Yamil Simon, Pedatsur Neta, Stephen E. Stein
A nitrogen-oxygen Smiles rearrangement was reported to occur after collisional activation of the PhN(R)CH2CH2O- (R = alkyl) anion, which undergoes a five
Fahad Milaat, Paul Witherell, Martin Hardwick, Ho Yeung, Vincenzo Ferrero, Laetitia Monnier, Matthew Brown
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In the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of metals, extreme thermal conditions create many highly dynamic physical phenomena, such as vaporization