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Pierre Glynn, Charles Rhodes, Scott Chiavacci, Jennifer Helgeson, Carl Shapiro, Crista Straub
Information plays a key role in the policy decision-making process – but the collection and dissemination of information carries costs. Understanding how these...
Tammy Lucas, John Biesecker, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Shannon Duff, Gene C. Hilton, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Dan Schmidt
We describe our indium bump process for low-temperature detectors and associated readout. A titanium nitride under bump metallization layer (UBM) is reactively...
Tom Parker, Victor Zhang, Jian Yao, Gerard Petit, Roger Brown, James Hanssen
A three-cornered hat analysis has been performed on three independent time transfer systems between the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) and the National...
Benjamin Reschovsky, David Long, Feng Zhou, Yiliang Bao, Richard A. Allen, Jason J. Gorman, Thomas W. LeBrun
We demonstrate a microfabricated optomechanical accelerometer that is capable of percent-level accuracy without external calibration. To achieve this capability...
Bruce D. Ravel, Tatiana Konstantinova, Phillip Michael Maffettone, Stuart Campbell, Andi Barbour, Daniel Olds
Imaging, scattering, and spectroscopy are fundamental in understanding and discovering new functional materials. Contemporary innovations in automation and...
The \sc ocean} code for calculating near-edge x-ray spectra using the Bethe-Salpeter equation is briefly reviewed. The code is capable of calculating UV/Vis...
Elijah Petersen, Richard Uhl, Blaza Toman, John Elliott, John Gordon
Background: The Electrophilic Allergen Screening Assay (EASA) has emerged as a promising method for risk and hazard assessment for skin sensitization...
The development of new characterization methods has resulted in innovative studies of the properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Observations of...
Mingkang Wang, Georg Ramer, Diego Perez, Georges Pavlidis, Jeffrey Schwartz, Liya Yu, Robert Ilic, Vladimir Aksyuk, Andrea Centrone
Thermal properties of materials are often determined by measuring thermalization processes. Measuring such properties at the nanoscale, however, requires high...
Speed of sound data measured using a dual-path pulse-echo instrument are reported for binary mixtures of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a), 2,3,3,3...
Single-photon detection via absorption in current-biased nanoscale superconducting structures has become a preferred technology in quantum optics and related...
Emanuel Knill, Scott Glancy, Daniel Cole, Shawn Geller
For many quantum systems intended for information processing, one detects the logical state of a qubit by integrating a continuously observed quantity over time...
In this article, we consider the quadratic twists of the Mordell curve $E:y^2=x^3-1$. For a square-free integer $k$, the quadratic twist of $E$ is given by $E_k...
Swapnil Mhatre, Ngoc Thanh Mai Tran, Heather Hill, Dipanjan Saha, Angela R. Hight Walker, Chi-Te Liang, Randolph Elmquist, David B. Newell, Albert Rigosi
Kristen Genter, Matthew Brubaker, Samuel Berweger, Jonas Gertsch, Kris A. Bertness, Pavel Kabos, Victor Bright
Gallium nitride nanowires (NWs) grown on silicon-on-insulator wafers by means of selective area epitaxy are directly integrated into scanning probe cantilever...
One function that tissue phantoms for fluorescence guided imaging (FGI) systems are fabricated for, is to track an imaging system's repeatability and...
Justin Wagner, Nathanael Olson, Lindsay Harris, Marc L. Salit, Fritz Sedlazeck, Chunlin Xiao, Justin Zook
Genome in a Bottle benchmarks are widely used to help validate clinical sequencing pipelines and develop variant calling and sequencing methods. Here we use...
Parastoo Delgoshaei, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Mark Austin
Artificial intelligence is set to transform the next generation of intelligent buildings through the application of information and semantic data models and...
We present a new wide-ranging correlation for the viscosity of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) based on critically evaluated experimental data. The...
A standard method to detect thermal neutrons is the nuclear interaction 3He(n,p)3H. The spin- dependence of this interaction is also the basis of a neutron spin...
The number and types of measurement devices used for monitoring Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion of Metals (PBF-LB/M) processes and inspecting the resulting...
Natrium super ionic conductor (NASICON) compounds form a rich and highly chemically-tunable family of crystalline materials that are of widespread interest...
The traditional concept of mean beam length (MBL) and its recommended empirical expression is demonstrated to be inaccurate for general application for the...
Rolf Sjöblom, Eva Hjärthner-Holdar, Carolyn Pearce, Jamie Weaver, Erik Ogenhall, John McCloy, Jose Marcial, Edward Vicenzi, Michael Schweiger, Albert Kruger
It was discovered around 250 years ago that some of the rock material in the walls of some hillforts had been subjected to such high temperature that it had...
Yafei Wang, Bonita Goh, Phalgun Nelaturu, Thien Duong, Najlaa Hassan, Raphaelle David, Michael Moorehead, Santanu Chaudhuri, Adam Abel Creuziger, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Dan Thoma, Kumar Sridharan, Adrien Couet
Insufficient availability of molten salt corrosion-resistant alloys severely limits the fruition of a variety of promising molten salt technologies that could...
Atomistic simulation of the electrochemical double layer is an ambitious undertaking, requiring quantum mechanical description of electrons, phase space...
Matthew Roberts, Arun Moorthy, Edward Sisco, Anthony J. Kearsley
Mass spectra are an important signature by which compounds can be identifi ed. We recently formulated a mathematical approach for incorporating measurement...
John T. Woodward IV, Kevin Turpie, Thomas Stone, S. Andrew Gadsden, Andrew Newton, Stephen Maxwell, Steven Grantham, Thomas Larason, Steven W. Brown
The Airborne LUnar Spectral Irradiance (Air-LUSI) instrument is designed to make low uncertainty, hyperspectral measurements of the lunar spectral irradiance...
An interlaboratory study (ILS), involving 15 laboratories from North America, Europe, and Japan, was conducted to validate crack size measurements on various...