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Nathan Malarich, Brian Washburn, Kevin Cossel, Fabrizio Giorgetta, Griffin Mead, Daniel Herman, Nathan R. Newbury, Ian Coddington
Dual-comb spectroscopy measures greenhouse gas concentrations over kilometer-length open-air paths with high precision. However, characterizing the absolute accuracy of these outdoor measurements is challenging, as most gas species have fluctuating
Catherine Cooksey, Daniel Poitras, Luke Sandilands, Penghui Ma, Stacey Lee, Michael Jacobson
Participants to the 2022 Manufacturing Contest were challenged to fabricate an optical filter with a specified stepped transmittance spanning three orders of magnitude from 400 nm to 1100 nm. The problem required that contestants be equally versed in the
Abdul Rumaiz, Ian Harding, Conan Weiland, Neha Nooman, Thomas Krings, Ethan Hull, Gabriele Giacomini, Wei Chen, Eric J. Cockayne, D. Peter Simmons, Joseph Woicik
Development of a robust, thin, hole-blocking (n+) contact on high purity germanium (HPGe) has been the main challenge in the development of Ge-based radiation sensors. Yttrium has been reported to be a viable hole-blocking contact on HPGe, and detectors
Nanna Hagstrom, Rahul Jangid, F. N. U. Meera, Diego Turenne, Jeffrey Brock, Erik Lamb, Boyan Stoychev, Justine Schlappa, Natalia Gerasimova, Benjamin Van Kuiken, Rafael Gort, Laurent Mercadier, Loic Le Guyader, Andrey Samartsev, Andreas Scherz, Giuseppe Mercurio, Hermann Durr, Alexander Reid, Monika Arora, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Emmanuelle Jal, Eric Fullerton, Mark Keller, Roopali Kukreja, Stefano Bonetti, Thomas J. Silva, Ezio Iacocca
Symmetry is a powerful concept in physics, but its applicability to far-from-equilibrium states is still being understood. Recent attention has focused on how far-from-equilibrium states lead to spontaneous symmetry breaking. Conversely, ultrafast optical
Despite the ubiquity of three-dimensional (3D) anisotropic materials, their 3D molecular alignment cannot be measured using conventional two-dimensional (2D) polarization imaging. Here, we present images of the 3D angles of molecular orientations with
Oscar Ariel Paredes Mellone, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Trevor Willey, Michael Nielsen, John Vinson
We investigate the sensitivity and potential of a synergistic experiment-theory X-ray Raman spectroscopy (XRS) methodology on revealing and following the static and dynamic electronic structure of high explosive molecular materials. We show that advanced
Nicholas Tostanoski, Edwin J. Heilweil, Peter Wachtel, David Musgraves, S. K. Sundaram
We report structure-terahertz property relationship for various non-oxide chalcogenide glasses including unary (vitreous selenium (Se)), binary (arsenic sulfide (As-S), arsenic selenide (As-Se), and germanium selenide (Ge-Se)), and ternary (germanium
Photothermal induced resonance (PTIR), an atomic force microscopy (AFM) analogue of IR spectroscopy capable of nanoscale lateral resolution, finds broad applications in biology and materials science. Here, the spectral range of a top-illumination PTIR
Atomic scale spectroscopy provides an exceptional ability to define electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties of materials at the nanoscale. At these scales, dimensional confinement can lead to new and unusual properties, where the
Ryan DeCrescent, Zixuan Wang, Poolad Imany, Robert Boutelle, Corey McDonald, Travis Autry, John Teufel, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) coupled to quantum dots (QDs), trapped atoms and ions, and point defects have been proposed as quantum transduction platforms, yet the requisite coupling rates and cavity lifetimes have not been experimentally established
Joseph Fowler, Luis Miaja Avila, Galen O'Neil, Joel Ullom, Hope Whitelock, Daniel Swetz
We have previously used an array of cryogenic microcalorimeters with 4 eV energy resolution to measure emission-line profiles and energies for the characteristic L-shell x rays of four elements of the lanthanide series: praseodymium, neodymium, terbium
Kenneth Myers, Patrick Lenahan, James Ashton, Jason Ryan
Electrically detected magnetic resonance (EDMR) is arguably the most sensitive method available to study electrically active point defects in semiconductor devices. Most EDMR studies have utilized spin dependent recombination current and thus require p-n
Joseph Fowler, Bradley Alpert, Galen O'Neil, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom
The nonlinear energy response of cryogenic x-ray microcalorimeters is usually corrected though an empirical calibration. Certain x-ray emission lines of known shape and calibrated energy are used to anchor a smooth function that gener- alizes the
Extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) has evolved into an unprecedented technique for local structural determination in material, chemical, and physical problems in materials science. Just as for other experimental techniques, such as x-ray and
Alline F. Myers, Shozo Takagi, Stanislav Frukhtbeyn, Laurence Chow, Veronika Szalai, Lonnie Cumberland, Ileana Pazos, Eaman Karim
Ionizing radiation-induced paramagnetic defects in calcified tissues like tooth enamel are indicators of irradiation dose. Hydroxyapatite (HA), the principal constituent in these materials, incorporates a variety of anions (CO32, F, Cl, SiO44 ) and
An electro-optic dual-comb system based on chirped-pulse waveforms is used to simultaneously acquire temporally magnified rapid passage signals and normal spectral line shapes from the back-transformation to the time domain. Multi-heterodyne terahertz (THz
Eliot Gann, Veronica Reynolds, Michael L. Chabinyc, Christopher Bates, Devon Callan, Elizabeth Murphy, Yan-Qiao Chen, Kaitlin Albanese, Claire Wu, Craig Hawker
Resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSoXS) probes structure with chemical sensitivity that is useful for determining the morphology of multiblock copolymers. However, the hyperspectral data produced by this technique are challenging to interpret. Here, we use
Removing distortions in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectra due to interference with the nonresonant background (NRB) is vital for quantitative analysis. Popular computational approaches, the Kramers-Kronig relation and the maximum entropy
Bruce D. Ravel, Denis Leshchev, Bruno Luvizotto, Ruslan Kadyrov, Klaus Attenkofer, Eli Stavitski
Abstract The Inner Shell Spectroscopy (ISS) beamline on the 8-ID station at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), Upton, NY, USA, is a high throughput X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy beamline designed for the in situ, operando, and time