Journals

Field-Free Switching State Diagram of a Perpendicular Magnetization Subjected to Conventional and Unconventional Spin-Orbit Torques.

November 8, 2022

Author(s)

Paul M. Haney, Duarte de Sousa, Jian-Ping Wang, Tony Low

Microstructural evolution at the interface of superconducting thin films and SiC substrate

November 7, 2022

Author(s)

Michael Katz, Albert Rigosi, Chieh-I Liu, Mattias Kruskopf, Heather Hill, Angela R. Hight Walker, Randolph Elmquist, Albert Davydov

Compensation of Electrical Current Drift in Human-Robot Collision

November 5, 2022

Author(s)

Vinh Nguyen, Jennifer Case

Human-robot collaborative systems are being increasingly adopted in manufacturing environments due to their application flexibility, adaptability, and cost...

A history of adventitious agent contamination and current methods for the detection and prevention of pharmaceutical product contamination.

November 5, 2022

Author(s)

William Valiant, Kang Cai, Peter Vallone

Preventing adventitious agents from contaminating pharmaceutical products has been an important goal of regulatory agencies and industry for decades...

A quantitative characterization of spatial arrangement of air voids in mortars via X-ray CT and numerical calculations

November 4, 2022

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Edward Garboczi, Kai Lyu, Yufeng Gao, Changwen Miao, Xiaoyan Liu

Compared with overall air void content and size distribution, the spatial arrangement of air voids is probably of more importance in the durability of cement...

Quadrature Squeezing And Temperature Estimation From The Fock Distribution

November 3, 2022

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Italo Pereira Bezerra, Hilma Vasconcelos, Scott Glancy

We present a method to estimate the amount of squeezing and temperature of a single-mode Gaussian harmonic oscillator state based on the weighted least squares...

Scalable Quantum Logic Spectroscopy

November 2, 2022

Author(s)

Kaifeng Cui, Jose Valencia, Kevin Boyce, Ethan Clements, David Leibrandt, David Hume

In quantum logic spectroscopy (QLS), one species of trapped ion is used as a sensor to detect the state of an otherwise inaccessible ion species. This extends...

Aluminum Formate, Al(HCOO)3: An Earth-Abundant, Scalable, and Highly Selective Material for CO2 Capture

November 2, 2022

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Hayden Evans, Dinesh Mullangi, Zeyu Deng, Yuxiang Wang, Shing B. Peh, Fengxia Wei, John Wang, Craig Brown, Dan Zhao, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anthony K. Cheetham

A combination of gas adsorption and gas breakthrough measurements show that the metal-organic framework, Al(HCOO) 3 (ALF), which can be made inexpensively from...

Visible to Mid-IR Spectromicroscopy with Top-Down Illumination and Nanoscale (≈ 10 nm) Resolution

November 2, 2022

Author(s)

Devon Jakob, Andrea Centrone

Photothermal induced resonance (PTIR), an atomic force microscopy (AFM) analogue of IR spectroscopy capable of nanoscale lateral resolution, finds broad...

Cryptographic Standards in a Post-Quantum Era

November 2, 2022

Author(s)

Dustin Moody, Angela Robinson

If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, they will compromise the security of many commonly used cryptographic algorithms. In response, the National...

Prestress in Composite Polymer Gels as a Model for Articular Cartilage

November 2, 2022

Author(s)

Alexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas, Peter Basser, Ferenc Horkay

Articular cartilage is a composite gel-like material found in animal and human joints and exhibits a unique load-bearing performance that has been challenging...

Proposed NIST Neutron Source User Facility

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Jeremy Cook, Hubert King, Charles F. Majkrzak, Dagistan Sahin, Joy Shen, Osman Celikten, David Diamond, Robert E. Williams, Thomas Newton

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A Round-Robin Approach Provides a Detailed Assessment of Biomolecular Small-Angle Scattering Data Reproducibility and Yields Consensus Curves for Benchmarking.

November 1, 2022

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Jill Trewhella, Patrice Vachette, Jan Bierma, Clement Blanchet, Emre Brookes, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Leonie Chatzimagas, Thomas Cleveland, Nathan Cowieson, Ben Crossett, Anthony P. Duff, Daniel Franke, Frank Gabel, Richard E. Gillilan, Melissa Graewert, Alexander Grishaev, Jules M. Guss, Michal Hammel, Jesse Hopkins, Qingqui Huang, Jochen S. Hub, Gregory L. Hura, Thomas C. Irving, Cy M. Jeffries, Cheol Jeong, Nigel Kirby, Susan N. Krueger, Anne Martel, Tsutomu Matsui, Na Li, Javier Perez, Lionel Porcar, Thierry Prange, Ivan Rajkovic, Mattia Rocco, Daniel J. Rosenberg, Timothy M. Ryan, Soenke Seifert, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Dmitri Svergun, Susana C. Marujo Teixeira, Aurelien Thureau, Thomas M. Weiss, Andrew Whitten, Kathleen Wood, Xiaobing Zuo

Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) data from 5 candidate proteins (RNaseA, lysozyme, xylanase, urate oxidase and xylose isomerase) were measured on 12 Small-Angle X...

Frustrated Magnetic Interactions and Quenched Spin Fluctuations in CrAs

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Yayuan Qin, Yao Shen, Yiqing Hao, Hongliang Wo, Shoudong Shen, Russell A. Ewings, Yang Zhao, Leland Harriger, Jeffrey Lynn, Jun Zhao

The discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in helimagnets (CrAs, MnP) has attracted significant interest in understanding the relationship between...

Vitamin E does not Disturb Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Lipid Domains

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Mitchell DiPasquale, Michael H. Nguyen, Stuart R. Castillo, Isabelle J. Dib, Elizabeth Kelley, Drew Marquardt

The antioxidant function of vitamin E in biomembranes remains a prominent topic of discussion. As its limitations as an antioxidant persist and novel functions...

Understanding Early Failure Behavior In 3D-Interconnects: Empirical Modeling of Broadband Signal Losses In TSV-Enabled Interconnects

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Yaw S. Obeng, Kevin J. Coakley, Pavel Kabos, Stephane Moreau

We develop an empirical model for measured frequency-dependent insertion loss (|S21|). The model parameters are determined with a stochastic optimization...

Simplified algorithms for adaptive experiment design in parameter estimation

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Robert D. McMichael, Sean Blakley

In experiments to estimate parameters of a parametric model, Bayesian experiment design allows measurement settings to be chosen based on utility, i.e. the...

Enhanced Atomic Precision Fabrication by Adsorption of Phosphine into Engineered Dangling Bonds on H–Si Using STM and DFT

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Jonathan Wyrick, Xiqiao Wang, Pradeep Namboodiri, Ranjit Kashid, Fan Fei, Joseph Fox, Richard M. Silver

Doping of Si using the scanning probe technique of hydrogen depassivation lithography has been shown to enable placing and positioning small numbers of P atoms...

A Framework for Characterizing Uncertainty Factors in Postdisaster Structural Performance Assessment Data

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Tori Tomiczek, Jennifer Helgeson, Elaina Sutley, Donghwan Gu, Sara Hamideh, Shane Crawford

Post-disaster structural damage assessments are essential for capturing ephemeral data that contribute to modeling and recovery efforts. While epistemic...

Comparison of Heat Capacity Measurements of Alternative and Conventional Aviation Fuels

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Tara Fortin, Thomas Bruno, Tara Lovestead

Isobaric specific heat capacities were measured for nine separate aviation turbine fuel samples. The nine samples span the range of fuel types available...

An Interlaboratory Study of Potential Visible Protein-Like Particle Standards

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Srivalli Telikepalli, Michael J. Carrier, Dean C. Ripple

Visible protein-like particle standards can improve visual inspection and/or appearance testing practices used in the biotechnology industry. It will improve...

Visualization of multi-orientational ordering within a single domain of donor non-fullerene acceptor blends

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Urvashi Bothra, Pramiti Hui, Wen Liang Tanc, Hariprasad Venugopal, Chandramouli Subramaniam, Amelia C.Y. Liu, Dinesh Kabra

We have studied the tailored micron-scale phase-separated bulk heterojunction (BHJ) morphology of the well-known polymer (PTB7-Th) and a narrow bandgap acceptor...

Convergent close-coupling calculations of electron scattering on HeH+

October 31, 2022

Author(s)

Barry I. Schneider

We use the molecular convergent close-coupling (MCCC) method to perform calculations of 10–1000 eV electron scattering on the ground state of HeH+. Cross...

Recent advances in microresonators and supporting instrumentation for electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy

October 31, 2022

Author(s)

Nandita Abhyankar, Amit Agrawal, Jason Campbell, Thorsten Maly, Pragya Shrestha, Veronika Szalai

The incommensurate modulation and competing ferroelectric/antiferroelectric modes in tetragonal tungsten bronzes

October 31, 2022

Author(s)

Victor Krayzman, Alexei Bosak, Helen Playford, Igor Levin, Bruce D. Ravel

Relaxation Dynamics of Deformed Polymer Nanocomposites as Revealed by Small-Angle Scattering and Rheology

October 31, 2022

Author(s)

Ruikun Sun, Jie Yang, Yun Liu, Xiaobing Zuo, Andre Lee, Wei Yang, Yangyang Wang, Shiwang Cheng

The relaxation dynamics of deformed polystyrene (PS)/silica nanocomposites with non-attractive polymer-nanoparticle interactions are studied by a combination of...

Synthesis, Structure, Te Alloying, and Physical Properties of CuSbS2

October 30, 2022

Author(s)

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 Improvised Energetic Chemicals using Laser-Heating Calorimetry

October 29, 2022

Author(s)

Ashot Nazarian, Cary Presser

Thermal analysis of six improvised energetic chemicals was carried out using laser-heating calorimetry to demonstrate the feasibility of this methodology to...

Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble: What is in your Genome Editing Brew?

October 28, 2022

Author(s)

Simona Patange, Samantha Maragh

Genome editing is a rapidly evolving biotechnology with the potential to transform many sectors of industry such as agriculture, biomanufacturing, and medicine...

Chip-based laser with 1-hertz integrated linewidth

October 28, 2022

Author(s)

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...