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Varun B. Verma, Boris Korzh, Felix Bussieres, Robert D. Horansky, Adriana E. Lita, Francesco Marsili, Hugo Zbinden, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate that superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) fabricated from amorphous WSi may be operated with > 75 % system detection efficiency at a temperature approaching seventy percent of the superconducting transition temperature
Debra L. Kaiser, Aleksandr B. Stefaniak, Keana C. Scott, Tinh Nguyen, Jurg Schutz
Multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/polymer composites hold great promise as advanced materials for consumer and industrial applications. Throughout the life cycle of these composites, there is opportunity for release of particles that may contain MWCNT and
Tam H. Duong, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Jose M. Ortiz, Sei-Hyung Ryu , Edward VanBrunt, Lin Cheng, Scott Allen, John W. Palmour
The purpose of this paper is to present a physics-based electro-thermal Saber model and parameter extraction sequence for high-voltage SiC buffer layer n-channel insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). This model was developed by modifying and
Cellular behavior can be influenced by the chemical and physical surface characteristics of biomedical substrates. To understand the relationships between various topographical surface patterns and cellular activities, various types of pattern models have
Aric W. Sanders, Kavita M. Jeerage, Cindi Schwartz, Alexandra E. Curtin, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay
Nanoparticles are emerging as invaluable tools in disease diagnosis, disease treatment and imaging contrast enhancement agents. The interactions of nanoparticles with host organisms are complex and affect biological systems over length scales that vary
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Jeffrey W. Sowards, James R. Fekete
We investigated the mechanical properties as a function of isothermal annealing in alloy A710 (HSLA-80) using combined atom probe tomography and transmission electron microscopy.
Steffen Roland, Marcel Schubert, Brian A. Collins, Jona Kurpiers, Zhihua Chen, Antonio Facchetti, Harald Ade, Dieter Neher
Photogeneration, recombination and transport of free charge carriers in all-polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells incorporating P3HT as donor and P(NDI2OD-T2) as acceptor polymer have been investigated by the use of time delayed collection field (TDCF)
Michael D. Grapes, Thomas LaGrange, Lawrence Henry Friedman, Bryan W. Reed, Geoffrey H. Campbell, Timothy P. Weihs, David A. LaVan
Nanocalorimetry is a chip-based thermal analysis technique capable of analyzing endothermic and exothermic reactions at very high heating and cooling rates. Here we couple a nanocalorimeter with an extremely fast in situ microstructural characterization
Yanfei Yang, Lung-I Huang, David B. Newell, Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Mariano A. Real, Randolph Elmquist
Epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) is used to fabricate Hall bar structures for metrological applications with a fabrication process that has been developed to eliminate organic chemical contamination of the graphene. Before any lithographic patterning a
F. Fiorillo, C. Beatrice, D. Son, Franz Josef Ahlers, R. Groessinger, F. Albertini, Y. P. Liu, A Lin, E. Patroi, Robert D. Shull, O. Thomas
We present the results of an international comparison regarding the magnetic properties of hard magnets, measured using the Vibrating Sample Magnetometer. The comparison involved eight different international laboratories, plus two laboratories using the
Synthetic piezoelectric crystals in the P321 crystal class have been a focus of substantial research that is largely driven by applications in high-temperature resonant bulk-acoustic- wave (BAW) and surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) sensing. Fully ordered
This paper details superconformal filling of submicrometer trenches with bright, dense copper from alkaline cupric ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) electrolyte of pH 12. Enhanced deposition from the bottom corners of the trenches and overfill bumps
Robert Spragg, Scott Jones, Kenneth A. Snyder, Dale P. Bentz, Chiara Villani, Jason Weiss
Electrical measurements are becoming a common method to assess the transport properties of concrete. For a saturated homogenous system, the surface resistance and the uniaxial resistance measurements provide equivalent measures of resistivity once geometry
Nathan D. Orloff, Jan Obrzut, Christian J. Long, Thomas F. Lam, James C. Booth, David R. Novotny, James A. Liddle, Pavel Kabos
The non-uniform fields that occur due to the slot in the cavity through which the sample is inserted and those due to the sample geometry itself decrease the accuracy of dielectric characterization by cavity perturbation at microwave frequencies. To
Nanoparticles are increasingly incorporated in flooring coatings and interior paints to improve their abrasion and microbial resistance. One particular concern of this application is the release of nanoparticles from these surfaces due to repeated
Varun B. Verma, Adriana E. Lita, Michael R. Vissers, Francesco Marsili, David P. Pappas, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We present the characteristics of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) fabricated from amorphous Mo0.75Ge0.25 thin -films. Fabricated devices show a saturation of the internal detection efficiency at temperatures below 1 K, with system
Yonggao Y. Yan, Winnie Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Matthew Suchomel, Xiang Sun, Gangjian Tan, Xinfeng Tang, Lan (. Li, Igor Levin
The structures and thermoelectric properties of double-filled (CaxCe1-x)Fe4Sb12 series (x=0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1) have been investigated using the combination of experimental and computational approaches. Structural analysis shows that single phases of
The development of graphene electronic devices produced by industry will rely on efficient control of heat transfer from the graphene sheet to its environment. In nanoscale devices, heat is one of the major obstacles to the operation of such devices at
Chukwudi A. Okoro, Lyle E. Levine, Yaw S. Obeng, Klaus Hummler, Ruqing Xu
In this study, we report a new method for achieving depth resolved determination of the full stress tensor in buried Cu through-silicon vias (TSVs), using synchrotron based X-ray micro-diffraction technique. Two adjacent Cu TSVs were analyzed; one capped
John Unguris, Samuel R. Bowden, Daniel T. Pierce, M. Trassin, R. Ramesh, S.- W. Cheong, Sean Fackler, Ichiro Takeuchi
Combining ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials has produced exciting new opportunities to design and produce structures with new functionalities.1,2,3 In particular, ferromagnetic/ferroelectric multilayers provide a means of making nanodevices where
Chukwudi A. Okoro, Lyle E. Levine, Ruqing Xu, Klaus Hummler, Yaw S. Obeng
One of the main causes of failure during the lifetime of microelectronics devices is their exposure to fluctuating temperatures. In this work, synchrotron-based X-ray micro-diffraction is used to study the evolution of stresses in copper through-silicon
Sorting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) of different chiralities is both scientifically interesting and technologically important. Recent studies have shown that polymer aqueous two-phase extraction is a very effective way to achieve nanotube sorting
Yongkwan Dong, Artem R. Khabibullin, Kaya Wei, Zhen-Hua Ge, Joshua Martin, James Salvador, Lilia Woods, George S. Nolas
A new stannite phase was synthesized and its temperature dependent transport properties were investigated. It is found that the electrical resistivity increases with increasing temperature. Hall and Seebeck coefficient measurements indicate Cu2CdSnTe4