Probing Noise in Flux Qubits via Macroscopic Resonant Tunneling (open access)

Probing Noise in Flux Qubits via Macroscopic Resonant Tunneling

Article on the characterization of noise in a flux qubit using macroscopic resonant tunneling between the two lowest lying states of a bistable rf SQUID. Analysis of these results indicates that the dominant source of low energy flux noise in this device is a quantum mechanical environment in thermal equilibrium.
Date: September 10, 2008
Creator: Harris, R.; Johnson, M. W.; Han, S.; Berkley, A. J.; Johansson, J.; Bunyk, P. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Synthesis of Nanoporous Conformal Coatings via Plasma-Enhanced Sequential Infiltration of a Polymer Template (open access)

Rapid Synthesis of Nanoporous Conformal Coatings via Plasma-Enhanced Sequential Infiltration of a Polymer Template

This article reports a plasma-enhanced sequential infiltration synthesis (PE SIS) as a new platform toward deposition of nanoporous inorganic films.
Date: September 5, 2017
Creator: She, Yunlong; Lee, Jihyung; Diroll, Benjamin T.; Lee, Byeongdu; Aouadi, Samir; Shevchenko, Elena V. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys (open access)

Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys

Article discusses experimental results which reveal that the apparent activation-energy for grain-growth in an fcc-based AlxCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA) system increases from 179 to 486 kJ/mol when the Al content increases from x = 0.1 to 0.3.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Gwalani, Bharat; Salloom, Riyadh; Alam, Talukder; Valentin, S.G.; Zhou, X.; Thompson, G. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Shear Deformation of a Precipitation Hardened Al0.7CoCrFeNi Eutectic High-Entropy Alloy Using Hat-Shaped Specimen Geometry (open access)

Dynamic Shear Deformation of a Precipitation Hardened Al0.7CoCrFeNi Eutectic High-Entropy Alloy Using Hat-Shaped Specimen Geometry

The article reports on the shear deformation of a eutectic structured HEA and effect of precipitation on shear deformation, particularly Al₀.₇CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA). A split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) was used to compress the hat-shaped specimens to study the local dynamic shear response of the alloy. The change in the width of shear bands with respect to precipitation and deformation rates was studied. The precipitation of L1₂ phase did not delay the formation of adiabatic shear bands (ASB) or affect the ASB width significantly, however, the deformed region around ASB, consisting of high density of twins in fcc phase, was reduced from 80 µm to 20 µm in the stronger precipitation strengthened condition.
Date: April 10, 2020
Creator: Gwalani, Bharat; Wang, Tianhao; Jagetia, Abhinav; Gangireddy, Sindhura; Muskeri, Saideep; Mukherjee, Sundeep et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inkjet-printed MoS₂-based field-effect transistors with graphene and hexagonal boron nitride inks (open access)

Inkjet-printed MoS₂-based field-effect transistors with graphene and hexagonal boron nitride inks

This article reports the design, fabrication, and characterization of an all inkjet-printed field-effect transistor (FET).
Date: July 10, 2020
Creator: Hossain, Ridwan F. & Kaul, Anupama
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids (open access)

Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids

Article examining the palette of morphologies that arises when microdroplets are deformed into nonspherical shapes in a controllable manner. Specifically, geometrical confinement and mechanical strain are used to manipulate orientational order, phase transitions, and topological defects that arise in chiral liquid crystal droplets. The reported structures and assemblies offer potential for applications in smart coatings, smart fabrics, and wearable sensors.
Date: July 10, 2020
Creator: Sadati, Monirosadat; Martínez-González, José A.; Zhou, Ye; Qazvini, Nader Taheri; Kurtenbach, Khia; Li, Xiao et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A modified random network model for P2O5–Na2O–Al2O3–SiO2 glass studied by molecular dynamics simulations (open access)

A modified random network model for P2O5–Na2O–Al2O3–SiO2 glass studied by molecular dynamics simulations

This article investigates the short- and medium-range structural features of sodium aluminosilicate glasses with various P₂O₅ (0–7 mol%) content and Al/Na ratios ranging from 0.667 to 2.000 by using molecular dynamics simulations. Based on the simulated structural information, a modified random network model for P₂O₅-bearing sodium aluminosilicate glass has been proposed, which could be useful to optimize the mobility of sodium ions and design novel functional glass compositions.
Date: February 10, 2021
Creator: Zhao, Yaxian; Du, Jincheng; Cao, Xin; Zhang, Chong; Xu, Gang; Qiao, Xvsheng et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design approaches for printability-performance synergy in Al alloys for laser-powder bed additive manufacturing (open access)

Design approaches for printability-performance synergy in Al alloys for laser-powder bed additive manufacturing

This article highlights that design of Al alloys for laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) can lead to fundamental change in the microstructure evolution, proposed alloy design strategies lead to synergy between and printability and performance, hierarchical and heterogeneous microstructures have potential to overcome the strength-ductility tradeoff, and alloy design incorporating the specific attributes of an AM technology is crucial to maximizing its potential.
Date: March 10, 2021
Creator: Mishra, Rajiv & Thapliyal, Saket
System: The UNT Digital Library
Highly complex magnetic behavior resulting from hierarchical phase separation in AlCo(Cr)FeNi high-entropy alloys (open access)

Highly complex magnetic behavior resulting from hierarchical phase separation in AlCo(Cr)FeNi high-entropy alloys

Article presents for the first time the influence of a hierarchically decomposed B2 + A2 structure in an AlCo0.5Cr0.5FeNi HEA on the formation of magnetic vortex states within individual A2 (disordered BCC) precipitates, which are distributed in an ordered B2 matrix that is weakly ferromagnetic.
Date: March 10, 2022
Creator: Lan, Qianqian; Kovács, András; Caron, Jan; Du, Hongchu; Song, Dongsheng; Dasari, Sriswaroop et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library