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Dean Hobbis, Kaya Wei, Hsin Wang, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas
Materials with very low thermal conductivities continue to be of interest for a variety of applications. We synthesized CuSbS2 employing a mechanical alloying...
Thermal analysis of six improvised energetic chemicals was carried out using laser-heating calorimetry to demonstrate the feasibility of this methodology to...
Genome editing is a rapidly evolving biotechnology with the potential to transform many sectors of industry such as agriculture, biomanufacturing, and medicine...
Joel Guo, Charles McLemore, Chao Xiang, Dahyeon Lee, Lue Wu, Warren Jin, Megan Kelleher, Naijun Jin, Lin Chang, Avi Feshali, Mario Paniccia, Peter Rakich, Kerry Vahala, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan, John Bowers
Lasers with hertz-level linewidths on timescales up to seconds are critical for precision metrology, timekeeping, and the manipulation of quantum systems. Such...
Mingkang Wang, Feng Zhou, Xiyuan Lu, Andrew McClung, Vladimir Aksyuk, Kartik Srinivasan
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...
Jinshui Miao, Chloe Leblanc, Jinjin Wang, Yue Gu, Xiwen Liu, Baokun Song, Huairuo Zhang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Weida Hu, Albert Davydov, Tyson Back, Nicholas Glavin, Deep Jariwala
Low power consumption in the static and dynamic modes of operation is a key requirement in the development of modern electronics. Tunnel field-effect...
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...
For quantum applications, it is important to generate quantum states of light and detect them with extremely high efficiency. For future applications, it also...
Many practical applications benefit from Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, but their security needs to be studied in more...
Rapid identification of new or emerging psychoactive substances remains a critical challenge in drug chemistry laboratories. Current analytical protocols are...
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...
The accurate determination of polymer molar mass (M) averages and distributions via size-based separation methods employing mixed solvents remains one of the...
Stephan Schlamminger, Lorenz Keck, Frank Seifert, Leon Chao, Darine El Haddad, Shisong Li
Analytically the force and torques on a coil in a field of magnetic flux density can be calculated one of two ways. The line integral can be conducted along the...
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
Powder bed fusion (PBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses high-power beams to fuse powder material into layers of scanned patterns, thus...
Jennifer Black, Grant Brodnik, Haixin Liu, Su-Peng Yu, David Carlson, Jizhao Zang, Travis Briles, Scott Papp
By-design access to laser wavelength, especially with integrated photonics, is critical to advance quantum sensors, such as optical clocks and quantum...
Power electronics is currently a hot topic due to its important role in fighting climate change. Gate oxide breakdown is the Achilles heel of power devices and...
The rf-bias-induced decreases in plasma electron density observed by us [J. Appl. Phys. 102, 113302 (2007)] and others [Fox-Lyon et al., J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A...
Cang Zhao, Bo Shi, Shuailei Chen, Tao Sun, Brian Simonds, Anthony Rollett
In the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of metals, extreme thermal conditions create many highly dynamic physical phenomena, such as vaporization...
Non-perturbative and phase-sensitive light–matter interactions have led to the generation of attosecond pulses of light and the control of electrical currents...