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Parametric pumping of precession modes in ferromagnetic nanodisks

March 26, 2014
Author(s)
Feng Guo, Lyubov Belova, Robert McMichael
We report parametric excitation of magnetic precession modes in nanodisks using a parallel pumping configuration. The excitations are detected using a ferromagneitc resonance force microscopy method, and the parallel-pumped spectra reveal nonlinear

Dual-polarization-sensitive kinetic inductance detectors for balloon-borne, sub-millimeter polarimetry

March 20, 2014
Author(s)
James A. Beall, Dan Becker, Justus Brevik, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Dale Li, David P. Pappas, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen, Johannes Hubmayr
We are developing arrays of kinetic inductance detectors for sub-millimeter polarimetry that will be deployed on the BLAST balloon-borne instrument. The array is feedhorn-coupled, and each pixel contains two lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors

Dipole-Dipole Interactions in TiOPc Adlayers on Ag

February 20, 2014
Author(s)
Steven W. Robey, Xianjie Liu, Yinying Wei, Janice E. Reutt-Robey
The molecular organization in layers of a polar phthalocyanine, titanyl phthalocyanine (TiOPc), on the Ag(110) surface was studied with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). TiOPc molecules adsorb on Ag(110) in a tilted configuration in contrast to the flat

Properties of TiN for Detector and Amplifier Applications

February 8, 2014
Author(s)
Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Martin O. Sandberg, Dale Li, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Clint Bockstiegel, Ben Mazin, Henry G. Leduc, Saptarshi Chaudhuri, David P. Pappas, K D. Irwin
We have experimentally explored and carefully characterized the important properties of TiN, including the resistivity, nonlinear kinetic inductance, the anomalous electro-dynamical response, and the two-level-system induced frequency shift and noise. We

Head and Media Challenges for 3 Tb/in 2 Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording

February 3, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Mike Mallary, Kumar Srinivasan, Gerado Bertero, Dan Wolf, Christian Kaiser, Michael Chaplin, Mahendra Pakala, Leng Qunwen, Yiming Wang, Carl Elliot, Lui Francis
A specific design for Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) at about 3Tb/in 2 (0.47 Tb/cm 2 or 4.7 Pb/m 2) is discussed in detail to highlight the challenges of MAMR and to contrast its requirements with conventional Perpendicular Magnetic Recording

Comment on Detection of Microwave Spin Pumping Using the Inverse Spin Hall Effect

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva, Mathias A. Weiler, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw
In a recent Letter, Hahn et al. reported on the detection of an ac voltage in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/platinum (Pt) bilayer under the condition of parametrically excited resonance. The authors observe an ac voltage at the frequency of the magnetization

Phase-slip lines as a resistance mechanism in transition-edge sensors

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom
The fundamental mechanism of resistance in voltage-biased superconducting films is poorly understood despite its importance as the basis of transition-edge sensors (TESs). TESs are utilized in state-of- the-art microbolometers and microcalorimeters

Sub-100 mK cooling using normal-metal?insulator?superconductor tunnel junctions

December 15, 2013
Author(s)
Peter J. Lowell, Galen C. O'Neil, Jason M. Underwood, Xiaohang NMN Zhang, Joel N. Ullom
Normal-metal∖insulator∖superconductor (NIS) junctions can be used as solid-state refrigerators since the hottest electrons preferentially tunnel from the normal metal into the superconductor. In this paper, we present NIS junctions optimized to cool

Identification and elimination of anomalous thermal decay in gamma-ray microcalorimeters

November 18, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Barry L. Zink, Joel N. Ullom
Microcalorimeter detectors rely on superconducting components and cryogenic temperatures to provide over an order-of-magnitude improvement in energy resolution compared to semiconducting sensors. Resolution improvements impact fields from gamma-ray

High resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed TES array

November 11, 2013
Author(s)
Omid Noroozian, John A. Mates, Douglas A. Bennett, Justus A. Brevik, Joseph W. Fowler, Jiansong Gao, Robert D. Horansky, Kent D. Irwin, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Zhao Kang
We demonstrate the first gamma-ray spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed two-pixel TES(transition-edge sensor) array. We measured a $^{153}$Gd photon source and achieved an energy resolution of 63 eV full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) at 97 keV and an

Time Required to Injection-Lock Spin Torque Nanoscale Oscillators

October 29, 2013
Author(s)
William H. Rippard, Matthew R. Pufall, Anthony B. Kos
We have injection-locked a spin-transfer oscillator to a second-harmonic electrical input signal and measured the relative phase and amplitude of the device output as a function of DC current under steady-state conditions. The relative phase of the device

EUV-Driven Carbonaceous Film Deposition and Its Photo-oxidation on a TiO2 Film Surface

September 23, 2013
Author(s)
Nadir S. Faradzhev, Monica McEntee, John Yate, Shannon B. Hill, Thomas B. Lucatorto
We report the photo-deposition of a carbonaceous layer grown on a TiO2 thin film by EUV radiation-induced chemistry of adsorbed n-tetradecane and the subsequent photo-oxidation of this film. It is found by chemical analysis of the C layer that irradiation

Feeling Small: Exploring the tactile perception limits

September 12, 2013
Author(s)
Lisa Skedung, Martin Arvidsson, Jun Y. Chung, Christopher Stafford, Birgitta Berglund, Mark W. Rutland
The human finger is exquisitely sensitive in distinguishing different materials, but the question remains as to what length scales are capable of being discriminated in active touch? We combine psychophysical approaches with materials science to

Reply to "Comment on: 'Ultrafast Demagnetization Measurements Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light: Comparison of Electronic and Magnetic Contributions'"

September 4, 2013
Author(s)
Justin Shaw, Thomas J. Silva, Hans Nembach, Emrah Turgut, Patrik Grychtol, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Stefan Mathias, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus Schneider, Daniel E. Adams
In the following, we show that the conclusions of our article titled "Ultrafast Demagnetization Measurements Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light: Comparison of Electronic and Magnetic Contributions" are correct. The Comment of Vodungbo et al. argues that a

Giant Secondary Grain Growth in Cu Films on Sapphire

August 1, 2013
Author(s)
David L. Miller, Mark W. Keller, Justin Shaw, Katherine P. Rice, Robert Keller, Kyle M. Diederichsen
Single crystal metal films on insulating substrates are attractive for microelectronics and other applications, but they are difficult to achieve on macroscopic length scales. The conventional approach to obtaining such films is epitaxial growth at high

Properties of magnetic barrier structures for superconducting-magnetic hybrid Josephson junctions

July 7, 2013
Author(s)
Burm Baek, Samuel P. Benz, William H. Rippard, Stephen E. Russek, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Horst Rogalla, Matthew R. Pufall
If Josephson and spintronic technologies can be successfully integrated to produce a cryogenic memory that can be controlled with single-flux quantum pulses, then they may enable ultra-low-power, high-speed computing. We have developed hybrid Josephson

99.996% 12C films enriched and deposited in situ

June 28, 2013
Author(s)
Kevin J. Dwyer, Joshua M. Pomeroy, David S. Simons
A mass selected ion beam system is used to isotopically enrich and deposit thin films, which are measured to be 99.9961(4)% 12C. In solid state quantum information, isotopic enrichment of materials has allowed significant improvements in the coherence time

Atomic-level stick-slip

June 28, 2013
Author(s)
Robert W. Carpick, Rachel J. Cannara, Ashlie Martini
Atomic level stick-slip refers to the behavior of a sliding interface, usually an atomic force microscope tip sliding along a crystalline surface, whereby the tip sticks and then slips laterally with respect to the surface in a periodic fashion. The

Fermion Mediated Interactions Between Ultracold Bosons

June 16, 2013
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Subhadeep De
We describe a new method for creating spin-dependent long-range interactions between atomic ultra-cold neutral bosons in an optical lattice. In this proposal, the bosonic system is immersed in a spin polarized degenerate Fermi gas. We first show that the

Nanosecond-scale timing jitter in transition edge sensors at telecom and visible wavelengths

June 10, 2013
Author(s)
Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana Lita, Joern Beyer, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Transition edge sensors (TES) have the highest reported efficiencies (> 98%) for single photon detection in the visible and near infrared. Experiments in quantum information and foundations of physics that rely on this efficiency have started incorporating
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