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Pulse-to-pulse jitter measurement by photon correlation in high-ss lasers

January 20, 2015
Author(s)
Armand Lebreton, Abram Izo, Remy Braive, Nadia Belabas, Isabelle Sagnes, Francesco F. Marsili, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Martin Stevens, Alexios Beveratos
The turn-on delay jitter in pulsed lasers in which a large fraction (β) of spontaneous emission is channeled into the lasing mode is measured by use of a photon correlation technique. This jitter is found to significantly increase with β, reaching values of

Phase Diagram of the Relaxor Ferroelectric (1-x)Pb(Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3 )O 3-x PbTiO 3 Revisted: A neutron Powder Diffraction Study of the Relaxor Skin Effect

January 19, 2015
Author(s)
Daniel Phelan, Efrain E. Rodriguez, J Gao, Y Bing, Z.-G. Ye, Qingzhen Huang, Jinsheng Wen, Guangyong Xu, C. Stock, M Matsuura, Peter M. Gehring
We revisit the phase diagram of the relaxor ferroelectric PMN-xPT using neutron powder diffraction to test suggestions that residual oxygen vacancies and/or strain affect the ground state crystal structure. Powdered samples of PMN-xPT were prepared with

Solution-processed high-efficiency p-NiO/n-ZnO heterojunction photodetector

January 19, 2015
Author(s)
Ratan K. Debnath, Ting Xie, Baomei Wen, Wei Li, Abhishek Motayed, Nhan V. Nguyen
This paper presents a high efficiency heterojunction p-NiO/n-ZnO thin film ultraviolent (UV) photodetector fabricated on conductive glass substrates. The devices are fabricated by using a simple spin-coating layer-by-layer method from precursor solutions

How Random is Your RNG?

January 18, 2015
Author(s)
Meltem Sonmez Turan, John M. Kelsey, Kerry A. McKay
Cryptographic primitives need random numbers to protect your data. Random numbers are used for generating secret keys, nonces, random paddings, initialization vectors, salts, etc. Deterministic pseudorandom number generators are useful, but they still need

Open Calphad - a free thermodynamic software

January 17, 2015
Author(s)
Bo Sundman, Ursula R. Kattner, Mauro Palumbo, Suzana G. Fries
The use of thermodynamics in many applications in material science like simulation of phase trans- formation suffers from the lack of high quality open source software for calculations of multicomponent systems. The goal of the Open Calphad (OC) software

Pyrolysis Smoke Generated Under Low-Gravity Conditions

January 17, 2015
Author(s)
Jiann C. Yang, Thomas G. Cleary, George W. Mulholland, D L. Urban, Gary A. Ruff, Zeng-guang Yuan, Marit Meyer, Victoria Bryg
A series of smoke experiments were carried out in the Microgravity Science Glovebox on the International Space Station (ISS) Facility to assess the impact of low-gravity conditions on the size distribution and structure of the smoke aerosol. This

Semiconductor Double Quantum Dot Micromaser

January 16, 2015
Author(s)
Michael Gullans, Yinyiu Liu, George Stehlik, Jacob M. Taylor, Jason Petta
The coherent generation of light, from masers to lasers, relies upon the specific structure of the individual emitters that lead to gain. Devices operating as lasers in the few- emitter limit provide opportunities for understanding quantum coherent

Bounds on quantum communication via Newtonian gravity

January 15, 2015
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Dvir Kafri, G J. Milburn
The classical understanding of gravity yields specific observ- able consequences, the most striking of which is the emergence of a 1/r2 force. In so far as communication can arise via such interactions between distant particles, we can ask what would be

NIST program of spectroscopic data for light elements of fusion interest

January 15, 2015
Author(s)
Joseph Reader, Alexander Kramida, Yuri Ralchenko, Wolfgang L. Wiese, Jeffrey R. Fuhr
This paper summarizes work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in support of the IAEA Coordinated Research Project on “Light Element Atom, Molecule and Radical Behaviour in the Divertor and Edge Plasma Regions.” It includes

Poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate)s as Electrode Modifiers for Inverted Organic Electronics

January 14, 2015
Author(s)
Hyunbok Lee, Egle Puodziukynaite, Dean DeLongchamp, Todd Emrick, Alejandro Briseno
We demonstrate the use of poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate) (PSBMA), and its pyrene-containing copolymer, as solution-processable work function reducers for inverted organic electronic devices. A notable feature of PSBMA is its orthogonal solubility relative

Bottom-up processing and low temperature transport properties of polycrystalline SnSe

January 13, 2015
Author(s)
Zhen-Hua Ge, Kaya Wei, Hutton Lewis, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas
A simple hydrothermal approach was employed to synthesize SnSe nanorods. Micro sized flower shaped crystals were obtained under reaction temperatures below 180°C and nanorods were obtained at a reaction temperature of 180°C, the "flowers" changed to rods

How Oxidation and Dissolution in Diabase and Granite Control Porosity during Weathering

January 13, 2015
Author(s)
Ekaterina Bazilevskaya, Gernot Rother, David F. Mildner, Milan Pavich, David Cole, Maya P. Bhatt, Lixin Jin, Carl I. Steefel, Susan L. Brantley
Weathering extends to shallower depths on diabase than granite ridgetops despite similar climate and geomorphological regimes of despite similar climate and geomorphological regimes of denudation in the Virginia (USA) piedmont. Deeper weathering has been

Reversing hydride-ion formation in quantum-information experiments with Be+

January 12, 2015
Author(s)
Brian C. Sawyer, Justin G. Bohnet, Joseph W. Britton, John J. Bollinger
We demonstrate photodissociation of BeH + ions within a Coulomb crystal of thousands of 9Be + confined in a Penning trap. The BeH + molecular ions form via exothermic reactions between trapped, laser-cooled Be +($^2\text{P}_{3/2}$) and background H 2
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