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Observation and Analysis of Nine Orders of Magnitude Memory Window in pn GaN Regrowth Vertical Diodes

September 1, 2026

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Stephen Moxim, Gelu Comanescu, Cooper Voigt, Ory Maimon, Behrang Hamadani, Andrew Winchester, Emily Bittle, Qiliang Li, Travis Anderson, Jennifer Hite, Albert Davydov, Jason Campbell, Sujitra Pookpanratana, Jason Ryan

Wide bandgap semiconductors, including gallium nitride (GaN), are crucial for next-generation power electronics due to their superior properties compared to...

Microring Resonator Dispersion Metrology with Neural Networks

August 31, 2026

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Ergun Simsek, Shao-Chien Ou, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan

Precise control of geometry and material properties is critical for the reliable fabrication of high-performance photonic integrated circuits. Such control is...

A Reference Low-Pressure CO2 Adsorption Isotherm for Zeolite 13X: Results of an Interlaboratory Study

August 28, 2026

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Huong Giang Nguyen, David Newton, Riaz Ahmad, Carsten Prinz, Mario Zorrilla-Valtierra, Krista Walton, Killian Gmyrek, Ronny Pini, Camille Petit, Marcus Lange, Jens Mӧllmer, Evelyn Fuhrmann, Katharina Volz, Garrett Taggart, Andreas Schreiber, Yuko Konishi, Kazuyuki Nakai, Christos Tampaxis, Theodore Steriotis, Hai Wang, Charles David Brewster, Mi Tian, Rajan Jagpal, Siyi Liu, George Neville, Sunanda Sain, Timothy Mays, Riccardo Rea, Enzo Mangano, Stefano Brandani, Maxwell Tsipoaka, Fateme Rezaei, Adrien Houzé, Nicolas Heymans, Guy De Weireld, Charles Holland, Armin D. Ebner, James Ritter

This paper reports the results of an international interlaboratory study sponsored by the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) and led...

Application of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry for the Screening of Pesticide Contaminants on Cannabis Plant Materials

August 24, 2026

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Megan Chambers, Walter Wilson

As ambient ionization mass spectrometry is increasingly used for screening due to its ability to rapidly detect trace-level contaminants, this study developed a...

Lessons learned from community-scale use of temporary refuge areas during the Camp Fire

August 20, 2026

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Eric Link, Alexander Maranghides

Background. Wildfires can rapidly spread or ignite within wildland-urban interface areas, creating life-threatening conditions for people unable to evacuate or...

Calibration method for the height and linearity of an AFM z-piezo transducer in the sub-nanometer to nanometer range using stepped surfaces

August 19, 2026

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Gheorghe Stan

In this work, we present a method for height calibration of the z-piezo in an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) using stepped surfaces with subnanometer staircases...

Implications and Impacts of Mitigation Strategies for Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Smoke Exposure in Residential Environments

August 19, 2026

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Nathan Lima, Aika Davis, Michael Link, Thomas Cleary, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Rileigh Robertson, Steven Emmerich, Benjamin Werden, Peter DeCarlo, Dustin Poppendieck

This study examines the effectiveness of various indoor air quality pollutant mitigation strategies during Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire smoke events. We...

Tunable inter-bilayer magnetic correlations and candidate multipolar physics in the van der Waals oxyhalides DyOCl, DyOBr, and DyOI

August 19, 2026

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F. Brooks, X. Bai, J. Bacsa, M. B. Stone, S. Calder, Nicholas Butch, V. Garlea, M. Mourigal

Rare-earth van der Waals magnets provide a route to combining strong spin-orbit coupling, large magnetic moments, and reduced dimensionality in bulk crystals...

Predicting Cure Evolution and Thermal Endurance of a Highly Filled Epoxy Underfill for Advanced Packaging

August 16, 2026

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Ran Tao, Ryan Giang, Elena Moukhina, Amanda Forster, Tae Joon Cho, Polette Centellas, Stian Romberg, Zois Tsinas, Christopher Soles

Epoxy underfill materials are critical to advanced semiconductor packaging by enhancing mechanical integrity, redistributing thermomechanical stresses, and...

A quantum game of telephone

August 14, 2026

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Arefur Rahman, Matthew Stevens, Cory Nunn, Daniel Jones, Brian Kirby, Joseph Lukens

Characterizing multinode quantum networks without ubiquitous local entanglement sources poses a significant experimental challenge. We introduce "quantum...

Influence of many-body correlation and mixed-valence fluctuations on X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

August 14, 2026

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B. H. Kim, S.-J. Lee, H. Huang, D. Lu, S. S. Hong, S. Lee, P. Abbamonte, Y. I. Joe, Paul Szypryt, William Doriese, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, C.-C. Kao, J.-S. Lee, B. Kim

Room-temperature multiferroicity in all-van der Waals heterostructures

August 13, 2026

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Huairuo Zhang, Albert Davydov, Qinqin Wang, Cheng Gong, Baojuan Xin, Wei-HUa Wang, Chen Liu, Yinchang Ma, Xixiang Zhang, Mario Lopez, Hao Wu, Qishuo Tan, Gaojie Zhang, Haixin Chang, Xi Ling, Efrain Rodriguez, Evgeny Tsymbal

Multiferroics are rare crystals of simultaneous and coupled ferroic orders, allowing disparate external stimuli to induce abrupt transformations in their...

Development and Evaluation of an Urban Atmospheric Inverse Modeling Framework for the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD metropolitan area: Initial Results from a Wintertime Case Study

August 12, 2026

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Miguel Cahuich-Lopez, Christopher Loughner, Fantine Ngan, Anna Karion, Lei Hu, Israel Lopez Coto, Kimberly Mueller, Julia Marrs, Arlyn Andrews, John Miller, Brian McDonald, Colin Harkins, Congmeng Lyu, Meng Li, Kevin Gurney, Mark Cohen, Howard Diamond, Ariel Stein, James Whetstone

Accurate and up-to-date city-specific pollutant emissions data are crucial to assess the impact of sources and sinks on atmospheric composition and air quality...

Acoustic Nonlinearity and Loss Associated with Unbonded Interfaces and Dislocations in Additively Manufactured CoCrMo Parts with Complex Geometries

August 11, 2026

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Ward Johnson, Jared Tarr, Anne-Francoise Obaton

Complex geometries of additively manufactured (AM) metal parts present challenges for rapid post-build part qualification with most conventional nondestructive...

Understanding the Electronic Structure of Ruthenium Oxides during Redox Cycling with High Energy Resolution X‑ray Absorption Spectroscopy

August 11, 2026

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R. Soyoung Kim, Oscar Parades Mellone, John Vinson, Angel Garcia-Esparza, Mengxin Liu, Ikenna Chris-Okoro, Eric Zhao, Yiming Ding, Haoyi Li, Lei Zhang, Geoffroy Hautier, Tanja Cuk, Jin Suntivich, Dhananjay Kumar, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Junko Yano

Ruthenium oxides are essential catalysts and charge storage materials whose performance across reactions, from the oxygen evolution reaction to the chlor-alkali...

Adhesion Behaviors of Polydimethylsiloxane with Porous Membranes

August 10, 2026

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Meril Moni, Emma Emma Letourneau, Sundus Qureshi, Christina Cabrello, Jason Killgore, Yifu Ding

Multilayer configuration is used in many membrane technologies. Among them, Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)films are often laminated atop porous supports to either...

Revealing statistically robust strain rate effects on mechanical performance of pristine single fiber aramids

August 10, 2026

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Atik Faisal, Alexander Landauer, Walter Adamy, Dumbari Kabari, Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard, Amanda Forster, Amy Engelbrehcht-Wiggans

High-performance synthetic fibers, especially aramid fibers, are widely used for body armor applications for their strength, stiffness, and excellent strength...

Rigor and Reproducibility in Electrocatalysis: Best Practices for Operando Studies

August 7, 2026

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Brian Tackett, Marcel Schreier, Ezra Clark, Evan Jahrman, Linsey Seitz, Adam Hoffman, Qiaowan Chang, Simon Bare, Jingguang Chen, Matthias Waegele, Elizabeth Corson, Anthony Hall, Yao Yang, Sungin Kim, Jiahong Jiang, David Raciti

Comparative Analysis of Voltage Losses in Perovskite and GaAs Solar Cells at Low Temperatures

August 6, 2026

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Hurriyet Yuce Cakir, Isaac Ogunniranye, Margaret A. Stevens, Matthew P. Lumb, Kenneth J. Schmieder, Susanna Thon, Zhaoning Song, Behrang Hamadani

This study presents a comparative analysis of the open circuit voltage behavior of perovskite vs. gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cells at low temperatures...

Measurement Error Models Enable Accurate Correlation of Nanoscale Properties and Structures

August 6, 2026

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Adam Pintar, Andrew Madison, Craig Copeland, Natalia Farkas, Samuel Stavis

Realizations of the triple points of carbon dioxide and sulfur hexafluoride – ITS-90 temperature determinations and interpolations

August 5, 2026

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Klaus Natorf Quelhas, Richmond Wang, Andrea Peruzzi, Weston Tew

The triple points of carbon dioxide (TP CO2) and sulfur hexafluoride (TP SF6) have been studied over the last decade as alternative fixed points to the triple...

Measurement-Induced Entanglement in Noisy 2D Random Circuits

August 5, 2026

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Zhi-Yuan Wei, Jon Nelson, Joel Rajakumar, Esther Cruz, Alexey Gorshkov, Michael Gullans, Daniel Malz

We study measurement-induced entanglement generated by column-by-column sampling of noisy, shallow 2D random Clifford circuits. Focusing on the operator...

Precise measurement of the Kerr coefficient using phase-sensitive pump-probe hyperspectral imaging

August 5, 2026

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Jared Wahlstrand, Chad Cruz

Phase-sensitive pump-probe hyperspectral imaging is a precise technique for absolute two-beam measurements of the optical Kerr coefficient (n2). The irradiance...

Methods for Estimating Fe Redox in Mesoamerican Jadeite Jade

August 5, 2026

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Edward P. Vicenzi, Thomas Lam, Evan Jahrman, Bruce Ravel, Melinda Dyar, Jamie Weaver

Green jadeite has been selectively mined and used by Mesoamerican Indigenous cultures for centuries, with the green hues resulting from interactions among...

Generation of blue electro-optic frequency combs via a four-wave-mixing process in rubidium atomic vapor

August 4, 2026

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Roy Zektzer, Ashish Chanana, Khoi Hoang, Rahul Shrestha, David Long, Kartik Srinivasan

Electro-optic frequency combs (EO combs) enable high spectral and temporal resolution in atomic, molecular, and cavity-based spectroscopy that is at the heart...

AI-Guided Prediction of Aflatoxin B1 Bioactivation Validated by Toxicity and DNA Adduct Formation in VERO E6 Cells

August 4, 2026

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Bharti Sangwan, Ugochukwu Okoro, Isabella Atteck, Pawel Jaruga, Chinwe Ekenna, Michael Fasullo

VERO cells, derived from the kidney epithelium of the African green monkey, are widely used in virology, but their ability to metabolize xenobiotics is not...

Quantum Wave Atom Transforms

August 3, 2026

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Marianna Podzorova, Yi-Kai Liu

This paper constructs the first efficient implementation of a quantum wavelet packet transform with a 'parabolic scaling' tree structure, sometimes called a...

SpherIndent: An open-source python software for calibration, analysis and visualization of spherical nanoindentation experiments

August 1, 2026

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Nicolas Alderete, Yvonne Gerbig

Instrumented indentation (nanoindentation) remains a leading technique for micro- and nanoscale mechanical characterization. Unlike other indenter geometries...

Absorptivity scaling behaviour during laser powder bed fusion of copper alloys

August 1, 2026

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Sagar Patel, David Deisenroth, Alimehr Peyman, Mihaela Vlasea

Copper (Cu) and its alloys are used in many industries owing to their high thermal and electrical conductivity, alongside their corrosion resistance and...

Challenges and research opportunities in chemical thermodynamics, thermophysics, and material property science

July 31, 2026

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Vladimir Diky, Tausif Altamash, Marc Assael, Ala Bazyleva, Ralf Dohrn, Peter Dvorak, José Fonseca, Johan Jacquemin, Georgios Kontogeorgis, Joerg Krafczyk, Herbert Loria, Demian Riccardi, Bastian Schmid, Vojtěch Štejfa, Jadran Vrabec, Thorsten Windmann

A new web service for sharing unresolved inconsistencies and unexplained anomalies in thermophysical data has been launched. The goals of this service are to...