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Peritectic Phase Transition of Benzene and Acetonitrile into a Cocrystal Relevant to Titan, Saturn's Moon

November 14, 2020
Author(s)
Christina A. McConville, Yunwen Tao, Hayden Evans, Benjamin Trump, Jonathan B. Lefton, Wenqian Xu, Andrey A. Yakovenko, Elfi Kraka, Craig Brown, Tomce Runcevski
Benzene and acetonitrile are two of the most commonly used solvents found in almost every chemical laboratory. Titan, Saturn's icy moon, is one other place in the Solar system that has even larger amounts of these compounds, together with many other

Contact resistance in organic field-effect transistors: conquering the barrier

May 15, 2020
Author(s)
Matthew Waldrip, Oana Jurchescu, David J. Gundlach, Emily Bittle
Organic semiconductors have sparked significant interest due to their inherent properties as flexible, solution processible, and chemically tunable electronic materials. In the last 10 years, the improvements in charge carrier mobility in small molecule

NIST Ballistics Toolmark Research Database

January 27, 2020
Author(s)
Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Robert M. Thompson, Sushama P. Singh, Cerasela Constantin
In 2009, a report by the National Academies called into question, amongst other issues, the objectivity of visual toolmark identification by firearms examiners. The National Academies recommended development of objective toolmark identification criteria

Quantum Capacitance-Limited MoS2 Biosensors Enable Remote Label-Free Enzyme Measurements

August 7, 2019
Author(s)
Son T. Le, Nicholas B. Guros, Robert C. Bruce, Antonio Cardone, Niranjana D. Amin, Siyuan Zhang, Jeffery B. Klauda, Harish C. Pant, Curt A. Richter, Arvind Balijepalli
We have demonstrated atomically thin, quantum capacitance-limited, field-effect transistors (FETs) that enable the detection of pH changes with 75-fold higher sensitivity (4.4 V/pH) over the Nernst value of 59 mV/pH at room temperature when used as a

Infrared electric-field sampled frequency comb spectroscopy

June 7, 2019
Author(s)
Abijith S. Kowligy, Henry R. Timmers, Alexander Lind, Ugaitz Elu, Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Peter Schunemann, Jens Biegert, Scott Diddams
Molecular spectroscopy in the mid-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (3--25 um) has been a cornerstone interdisciplinary analytical technique widely adapted across the biological, chemical, and physical sciences. Applications range from

Designing new structures in epitaxial graphene on SiC: transport and quantum effects

May 13, 2019
Author(s)
Randolph E. Elmquist, Hanbyul Jin, Mattias Kruskopf, Martina Marzano, Dinesh K. Patel, Alireza R. Panna, Albert F. Rigosi
When epitaxial graphene (EG) grows on hexagonal SiC(0001), chemical doping is produced by bonds at the epitaxial interface, or buffer layer. Robust quantum Hall effect (QHE) plateaus are observed at RK/2 = h/2e2, where RK is a constant of electrical

Chip-integrated visible-telecom entangled photon pair source for quantum communication

January 21, 2019
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Gregory Moille, Anshuman Singh, Vikas Anant, Kartik Srinivasan
Photon pair sources are fundamental blocks for quantum entanglement and quantum communication. Recent studies in silicon photonics have documented promising characteristics for photon pair sources within the telecommunications band, including sub-milliwatt

Optimizing linearity in high-speed photodiodes

November 7, 2018
Author(s)
Josue Davila-Rodriguez, X. Xie, J. Zang, Christian J. Long, Tara M. Fortier, Holly F. Leopardi, Takuma Nakamura, J. C. Campbell, Scott A. Diddams, Franklyn J. Quinlan
Analog photonic links require high fidelity, high speed optical-to-electrical conversion for applications such as radio-over-fiber, synchronization at kilometer-scale facilities, and low- noise electronic signal generation. Nonlinearity is a particularly

Unravelling Solid-State Redox Chemistry in Li 1.3 Nb 0.3 Mn 0.4 O 2 Single-Crystal Cathode Material

March 13, 2018
Author(s)
Wang Hay Kan, Dongchang Chen, Joseph K. Papp, Alpesh Khushalchand Shukla, Ashfia Huq, Craig Brown, Bryan D. McCloskey, Guoying Chen
Recent reports on high capacities delivered by Li-excess transition-metal oxide cathodes have triggered intense interest in utilizing reversible oxygen redox for high-energy battery applications. In order to control oxygen electrochemical activities

Chapter 7. Probe-based measurement systems

September 17, 2017
Author(s)
Thomas M. Wallis, Pavel Kabos
In the preceding chapters, we have focused on broadband, calibrated measurements of nanoelectronic devices. In particular, we have described measurement techniques for the measurement of calibrated, complex scattering parameters and the subsequent

Preparation and coherent manipulation of pure quantum states of a single molecular ion

May 11, 2017
Author(s)
Chin-Wen Chou, Christoph Kurz, David B. Hume, Philipp N. Plessow, David R. Leibrandt, Dietrich G. Leibfried
Laser cooling and trapping of atoms and atomic ions has led to breakthroughs in understanding of exotic phases of matter [1-3], development of exquisite sensors [4] and state-of-the-art atomic clocks [5]. For molecules, with their more complicated internal

Extrapolative Scaling Expression: A Fitting Equation for Extrapolating Full Ic(B,T,e) Data Matrixes from Limited Data

January 4, 2017
Author(s)
John (Jack) W. Ekin, Najib Cheggour, Loren F. Goodrich, Jolene D. Splett, Bernardo Bordini, David Richter, Luca Bottura
Scaling analysis of several thousand Nb3Sn critical-current (Ic) measurements is used to derive the extrapolative scaling expression (ESE), a global fitting equation that can quickly and accurately extrapolate (or interpolate) limited datasets to obtain

Study of Direct Lithiation of Thin Si Membranes with Spatially-Correlative Low Energy Focused Li Ion Beam and Analytical Electron Microscopy Techniques

November 22, 2016
Author(s)
Vladimir P. Oleshko, Christopher L. Soles, Kevin A. Twedt, J J. McClelland
Understanding and controlling defect interactions and transport properties of Li ions in silicon is crucial for the development of emerging technologies in energy storage and microelectronics. With a theoretical energy storage capacity of ~4200 mAhg-1

A quantum enigma machine: Experimentally demonstrating quantum data locking

August 12, 2016
Author(s)
Daniel Lum, Michael S. Allman, Thomas Gerrits, Cosmo Lupo, Seth Lloyd, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, John Howell
During the first half of the 20th century, enigma machines (i.e., pseudorandom polyalphabetic ciphers) of increasing sophistication gave better resistance against brute-force codebreaking attacks. However, the ultimate form of cryptographic security is

Silicon epitaxy on H-terminated Si (100) surfaces at 250deg C

March 31, 2016
Author(s)
Xiao Deng, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Kai Li, Xiqiao Wang, Gheorghe Stan, Alline F. Myers, Xinbin Cheng, Tongbao Li, Richard M. Silver
Silicon on silicon growth at low temperatures has become increasing important due to its use to encapsulate buried nanoscale dopant devices. The performance of atomic scale devices is fundamentally affected by the quality of the silicon matrix in which the

The I/O transform of a chemical sensor

March 14, 2016
Author(s)
Nalin Katta, Douglas C. Meier, Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik, Baranidharan Raman
A number of sensing technologies using a variety of transduction principles have been proposed for the purpose of non-invasive chemical sensing. A fundamental problem common to all sensing technologies is determining what features of the transducer's

Super Stiff and Highly Transparent Multilayer Thin Films Prepared through Hydrogen-Bonding Layer- by-Layer Assembly of Graphene and Polymer

February 8, 2016
Author(s)
Fangming Xiang, Dorsa Parviz, Tara M. Givens, Ping Tzeng, Eric Davis, Christopher Stafford, Micah J. Green, Jaime C. Grunlan
Since its discovery in 2004, graphene has been intensely studied due to its high elastic modulus, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, and gas impermeability. Although it is possible to use small quantities of graphene sheets for fundamental
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