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Switchable detector array scheme to reduce the effect of single-photon detector's deadtime in a multi-bit/photon quantum link

February 25, 2019
Author(s)
Cong Liu, YONGXIONG Ren, Jiapeng Zhao, MOHAMMAD MIRHOSSEINI, SEYED RAFSANJANI, GUODONG XIE, Kai Pang, Zhe Zhao, Long Li, Joshua Bienfang, Alan L. Migdall, Todd Brun, Moshe Tur, Robert Boyd, Alan Wilner
We explore the use of a switchable single-photon detector (SPD) array to reduce the effect of individual SPDs' deadtime for a multi-bit/photon quantum link such as M-orbital-angular-momentum (OAM)-encoded one. Our method uses 􀡺 SPDs with a controllable 􀡹 ×

Trustworthy Email

February 25, 2019
Author(s)
Scott W. Rose, J. S. Nightingale, Simson Garfinkel, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
This document gives recommendations and guidelines for enhancing trust in email. The primary audience includes enterprise email administrators, information security specialists and network managers. This guideline applies to federal IT systems and will

Case Study - Exploring Children's Password Knowledge and Practices

February 23, 2019
Author(s)
Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Theofanos, Karen Renaud, Suzanne Prior
Children use technology from a very young age, and often have to authenticate themselves. Yet very little attention has been paid to designing authentication specifically for this particular target group. The usual practice is to deploy the ubiquitous

Femtosecond Optical Two-Way Time-Frequency Transfer in the Presence of Motion

February 22, 2019
Author(s)
Laura C. Sinclair, Hugo Bergeron, William C. Swann, Isaac H. Khader, Kevin C. Cossel, Michael A. Cermak, Nathan R. Newbury, Jean-Daniel Deschenes
Platform motion poses significant challenges to high-precision optical time and frequency transfer. We give a detailed description of these challenges and their solutions in comb-based optical two-way time and frequency transfer (O-TWTFT). Specifically, we

Methods to Characterize 3D Scanners for Forensic Applications

February 22, 2019
Author(s)
Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan
Forensic photography has been one of the most valuable tool for investigators over many decades. They preserve the history of the scene and provide a way for investigators to analyze the scene of interest. However, it is difficult to obtain any objective

A Metal-Organic Framework with Suitable Pore Size and Dual Functionalities for Highly Efficient Post-Combustion CO 2 Capture

February 21, 2019
Author(s)
Hui-Men Wen, Caijun Liao, Libo Li, Ali Alsalme, Zeid Alothman, Rajamani Krishna, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Jun Hu, Banglin Chen
Capturing carbon dioxide (Co 2) from flue gases with porous materials has been considered as a viable alternative technology to replace the traditional liquid amine adsorbents. A large number of microporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been

Mobile Device Security: Cloud and Hybrid Builds

February 21, 2019
Author(s)
Christopher J. Brown, Spike E. Dog, Sallie P. Edwards, Neil C. McNab, Matt Steele, Joshua M. Franklin
This document proposes a reference design on how to architect enterprise-class protection for mobile devices accessing corporate resources. The example solutions presented here can be used by any organization implementing an enterprise mobility management

Retro-Commissioning a Performing Arts Center using HVAC-Cx

February 21, 2019
Author(s)
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael A. Galler, Steven T. Bushby, Robert Leader, J. M. Whitcomb, David W. Rush
This paper presents the use of a semi-automated commissioning tool for the energy retro-commissioning of the Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. Researchers and field practitioners collaborated to implement the HVAC-Cx

Scaling of Lipid Membrane Rigidity with Domain Area Fraction

February 21, 2019
Author(s)
Elizabeth G. Kelley, Michihiro Nagao, Paul D. Butler
The elastic properties of cell membranes play a vital role in controlling the morphology changes necessary for cell processes such as endocytosis and cell division. These elastic properties are highly sensitive to the lipid composition and distribution

Characterization of a high-brightness, laser-cooled Li+ ion source

February 20, 2019
Author(s)
Jamie R. Gardner, William R. McGehee, Jabez J. McClelland
Ion sources based on laser cooling have recently provided new pathways to high-resolution microscopy, ion milling, and ion implantation. Here, we present the design and detailed characterization of Li-7 magneto-optical trap ion source (MOTIS) with a peak

Comparison of volumetric and bead-based counting of CD34 cells by single-platform flow cytometry

February 20, 2019
Author(s)
Luisa Saraiva, Lili Wang, Martin Kammel, A. Kummrow, E Atkinson, J Y. Lee, B Yalcinkaya, M Akgoz, A Ruf, A Engel, Yu-Zhong Zhang, O O''Shea, M P. Sassi, C Divieto, T Lekishvili, J J. Campbell, Y Liu, J Wang, R Stebbings, Adolfas Gaigalas, P Rigsby, J Neukammer, S Vessillier
Background: Over 2000 people a year in the UK need a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant. It is important to accurately quantify the haematopoietic stem cells to predict whether the transplant will be successful in replenishing the immune system

EBIT Observation of Low Charge State Ar Dielectronic Recombination Features Near the Unknown Faint X-Ray Feature Found in the Stacked Spectrum of Galaxy Clusters

February 20, 2019
Author(s)
A. Gall, A. Foster, R. Silwal, Joan M. Dreiling, A. Borovik, E. Kilgore, M. Ajello, John Gillaspy, Yuri Ralchenko, Endre Takacs
Motivated by possible atomic origins of the unidentified emission line detected at 3.55 keV - 3.57 keV in a stacked spectrum of galaxy clusters (Bulbul et al. 2014), an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) was used to investigate resonant dielectronic

Probe assisted localized doping of aluminum into silicon substrates

February 20, 2019
Author(s)
Jungjoon Ahn, Santiago D. Solares, Lin You, Hanaul Noh, Joseph Kopanski, Yaw S. Obeng
In this paper, we demonstrate AFM probe assisted deterministic doping (PADD) of Al into an n- type Si (100) wafer, to generate nanoscale counter-doped junctions with a few nanometers depth from Si surface. The local electrical potential changes resulting

Review of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural Fire Engineering

February 20, 2019
Author(s)
Yi Bao, Ying Huang, Matthew Hoehler, Genda Chen
Reliable and accurate measurements of temperature and strain in structures subjected to fire can be difficult to obtain using traditional sensing technologies based on electrical signals. Fiber optic sensors, which are based on light signals, solve many of

A Review of Halogenated Natural Products in Arctic, Subarctic and Nordic Ecosystems

February 19, 2019
Author(s)
Terry Bidleman, Agneta Andersson, Liisa Jantunen, John Kucklick, Henrik Kylin, Robert Letcher, Mats Tysklind, Fiona Wong
Halogenated natural products (HNPs) are organic compounds containing bromine, chlorine, iodine, and sometimes fluorine. HNPs comprises many classes of compounds, ranging in complexity from halocarbons (mostly halomethanes and haloethanes) to higher

A Deep Learning-Based Weather Forecast System for Data Volume and Recency Analysis

February 18, 2019
Author(s)
Jarrett Booz, Wei Yu, Guobin Xu, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
Accurate weather forecast is important to our daily life. Through physical atmospheric models, the weather can be accurately forecasted in a short period time. To provide weather forecast, machines learning techniques can be used for understanding and

Fast quantification of nanorod geometry by DMA-spICP-MS

February 18, 2019
Author(s)
Jiaojie Tan, Yong Yang, Hind El Hadri, Mingdong M. Li, Vincent A. Hackley, Michael R. Zachariah
A fast, quantitative method for determining the geometries of nanorods (i.e., length and dimeter) is described, based on hyphenation of differential mobility analysis (DMA) with single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS). Seven

Interoperability Analysis Tool for IEC 61850-9-2 Standard-based Merging Units

February 18, 2019
Author(s)
Yuyin Song, Gerald J. FitzPatrick, Kang B. Lee, Avi M. Gopstein
Interoperability test and plugfest provide a congenial environment to test and assure interoperability of power grid devices helping to achieve equipment plug and play. However, interoperability analysis and evaluation are very time-consuming and error

Performance Assessment of Smart Meter Traffic over LTE Network Using SDR Testbed

February 18, 2019
Author(s)
Amirshahram Hematian, Wei Yu, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
In the smart grid, a variety of smart meters will be deployed to support diverse services, such as energy distribution management, grid monitoring and management, and the integration of renewable energy resources. On the power distribution side, regular

Planarized process for single-flux-quantum circuits with self-shunted Nb/NbxSi1-x/Nb Josephson junctions

February 18, 2019
Author(s)
David I. Olaya, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Javier Pulecio, John P. Biesecker, Soroush Khadem, Theodore Lewitt, Peter F. Hopkins, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
We describe the single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuit fabrication process employed at NIST's Boulder Microfabrication Facility. The process includes four superconducting metal layers, one palladium-gold resistor layer, and a contact pad layer. Chemical
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