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Cryogenic photonic resonator with 10-17/s drift

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
Wei Zhang, William Milner, Jun Ye, Scott Papp
Thermal noise is the predominant instability in the provision of ultrastable laser frequency by reference to a cavity. Reducing the thermal-noise limit of a cavity means either making it larger to spread thermal fluctuations, reducing the sensitivity of

Nanophotonic oscillators for laser conversion beyond an octave

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
Grant Brodnik, Haixin Liu, David Carlson, Jennifer Black, Scott Papp
Many uses of lasers place the highest importance on access to specific wavelength bands. For example, mobilizing optical-atomic clocks for a leap in sensing requires compact lasers at frequencies spread across the visible and near infrared. Integrated

Photonic Millimeter-wave Generation Beyond the Cavity Thermal Limit

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
William Groman, Igor Kudelin, Takuma Nakamura, Yifan Liu, Charles McLemore, Franklyn Quinlan, Scott Diddams, Dahyeon Lee, Megan Kelleher, Joel Guo, Warren Jin, John Bowers
With the next generation of telecommunications and radar/navigation upon us, moving from the microwave to the higher bandwidth, millimeter-wave domain has become ever relevant. Simultaneously, the burgeoning field of photonic integrated chips has yielded a

The bandgap-detuned excitation regime in photonic-crystal resonators

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
Yan Jin, Erwan Lucas, Jizhao Zang, Travis Briles, Ivan Dickson, David Carlson, Scott Papp
Control of nonlinear interactions in microresonators enhances access to classical and quantum field states across nearly limitless bandwidth. A recent innovation has been to leverage coherent scattering of the intraresonator pump as a control of group

Infographic on Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Performance

February 10, 2025
Author(s)
Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook
In the U.S., building codes and standards have been developed to reduce the likelihood of building collapse but do not address the loss of building functions or recovery times due to earthquakes. When scaled to the community level, negative consequences

NIST Neutron Source Pre-Conceptual Design

February 10, 2025
Author(s)
David Diamond, Abdullah Weiss, Osman Celikten, Jeremy Cook, Dagistan Sahin, Hubert King, Anil Gurgen, Joy Shen
A pre-conceptual design has been completed for a NIST Neutron Source (NNS). It would replace the existing facility at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) to enable significantly more thermal and cold neutrons to be used in many more experiments

The Burning Characteristics of 3 m to 6 m Dry Douglas-Fir Trees

February 5, 2025
Author(s)
Erik Johnsson, Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Eric Mueller, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Chakalis, Marco Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
A series of experiments are reported on the burning behavior of dry, 3 m to 6 m tall, Douglas fir trees. The measurements were conducted in the open under quasi-quiescent conditions. The global measurements reported include the transient, peak, and total

UV Stabilizer BTMPS in the Illicit Fentanyl Supply in 9 US Locations

February 5, 2025
Author(s)
Chelsea Shover, Morgan Godvin, Meghan Appley, Elise Pyfrom, Fernando Montero Castrillo, Karli Hochstatter, Neil Garg, Adam Koncsol, Joseph Friedman, Caitlin Molina, Ruby Romero, Brendan Harshberger, Jordan Spoliansky, Candace Winstead, Edward Sisco
Bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate (BTMPS) belongs to a class of molecules called hindered amine light stabilizers that are used in plastics manufacturing and as adhesives or sealants.1 BTMPS has not been studied in humans or approved for human

A Collection of Dwellings to Represent the U.S. Housing Stock

February 4, 2025
Author(s)
Nathan Lima, Andrew K. Persily, Steven Emmerich
This report presents a comprehensive update to the collection of dwellings used to represent the U.S. housing stock, reflecting changes and trends up to the year 2024. This update aims to ensure the collection remains relevant and accurately mirrors the

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 (Greek translation)

February 4, 2025
Author(s)
Cherilyn Pascoe, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 provides guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks. It offers a taxonomy of high-level cybersecurity outcomes that can be used by any organization —

A bilateral comparison of 227Th activity standards between NPL and NIST

February 3, 2025
Author(s)
Andrew Fenwick, Denis Bergeron, Brittany Broder, Emma Bendall, Jeffrey Cessna, Sean Collins, Leticia Pibida, Natasha Ramirez, Elisa Napoli
The National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States) each determined the massic activity and effective separation time of a common solution of 227Th. Measurements at both laboratories were

Insights on grain refinement of Al-Mn-Fe-Si alloy via in situ reaction during laser direct energy deposition

February 2, 2025
Author(s)
Qingyu Pan, Fan Zhang, Deepak Vikraman Pillai, Zilong Zhang, Yufeng Zheng, Lang Yuan, Monica Kapoor, John Carsley, Xiaoyuan Lou
In the present work, we studied the grain refinement by adding in situ reactants, pure titanium (Ti) or a combination of Ti and boron (B), and investigated the governing mechanism in Al-Mn-Fe-Si 3104 alloy made by laser direct energy deposition (DED)

BIT-FL: Blockchain-Enabled Incentivized And Secure Federated Learning Framework

February 1, 2025
Author(s)
Tao Zhang, Chenhao Ying, Fuyuan Xia, Haiming Jin, Yuan Luo, David Wei, Xinchun Yu, Yibin Xu, Xikun Jiang, Weiting Zhang, Dacheng Tao
Federated learning (FL) enables the protection of data privacy through collaborative training of a machine learning (ML) model without sharing local data. However, several common problems arise when designing FL frameworks, as they rely on a central server

Error Floor Prediction with Markov Models for QC-MDPC Codes

February 1, 2025
Author(s)
Sarah Arpin, Jun Bo Lau, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Valentin Vasseur, Jean-Pierre Tillich
Quasi-cyclic moderate-density parity check (QC-MDPC) code-based encryption schemes under iterative decoders offer highly-competitive performance in the quantum-resistant space of cryptography, but the decoding-failure rate (DFR) of these algorithms are not

Layer ensemble averaging for fault tolerance in memristive neural networks

February 1, 2025
Author(s)
Osama Yousuf, Brian Hoskins, Karthick Ramu, Mitchell Fream, William Borders, Advait Madhavan, Matthew Daniels, Andrew Dienstfrey, Jabez McClelland, Martin Lueker-Boden, Gina Adam
Advancements in continual learning with artificial neural networks have been fueled in large part by scaling network dimensionalities. As this scaling continues, conventional computing systems are becoming increasingly inefficient due to the von Neumann

QM-ARC: QoS-aware Multi-tier Adaptive Cache Replacement Strategy

February 1, 2025
Author(s)
Lydia Ait Oucheggou, Abdella Battou, Jalil Boukhobza, Stephane Rubini
Distributed data-centric systems, such as Named Data Networking, utilize in-network caching to reduce application latency by buffering relevant data in high-speed memory. However, the significant increase in data traffic makes expanding memory capacity

Aflatoxin B1-induced DNA adduct formation in murine kidney and liver

January 31, 2025
Author(s)
Pawel Jaruga, Vladimir Vartanian, Irina Minko, M Miral Dizdar, Amanda McCullough, R. Stephen Lloyd
Aflatoxicosis is a life-threatening nephrotoxic condition arising from eating foods highly contaminated with aflatoxin-producing molds. Additionally, chronic aflatoxin exposures are linked to enhanced hepatocellular carcinomas. Using recent advances in

Designing Usable Audio for Voting Systems: Best Practices and a Test Approach

January 31, 2025
Author(s)
Lynn Baumeister, Whitney Quesenbery, Sharon J. Laskowski
Voting systems must support multiple interaction modes: presenting information both visually and auditorily, accepting navigation and selections from both screen touches and key presses on a tactile controller. The best practices outlined in this document
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