Faculty research from the Physics & Astronomy department.
Submissions from 2017
Thermal Disk Winds in X-Ray Binaries: Realistic Heating and Cooling Rates Give Rise to Slow, but Massive, Outflows, N. Higginbottom, Daniel Proga, C. Knigge, and K. S. Long
Single-Unit-Cell Layer Established Bi2WO6 3D Hierarchical Architectures: Efficient Adsorption, Photocatalysis and Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Performance, Hongwei Huang, Ranran Cao, Shixin Yu, Kang Xu, Weichang Hao, Yonggang Wang, Fan Dong, Tierui Zhang, and Yihe Zhang
Superconductivity Bordering Rashba Type Topological Transition, M. L. Jin, F. Sun, L. Y. Xing, S. J. Zhang, S. M. Feng, P. P. Kong, W. M. Li, X. C. Wang, J. L. Zhu, Y. W. Long, H. Y. Bai, C. Z. Gu, R. C. Yu, W. G. Yang, G. Y. Shen, Y. S. Zhao, H. K. Mao, and C. Q. Jin
Global MHD Simulations of Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Variables (CVs). II. the Relative Importance of MRI and Spiral Shocks, Wenhua Ju, James M. Stone, and Zhaohuan Zhu
Direct Observations of a Dynamically Driven Phase Transition with in situ X-Ray Diffraction in a Simple Ionic Crystal, P Kalita, P Specht, S Root, N Sinclair, A Schuman, M White, A L. Cornelius, J Smith, and S Sinogeikin
Electric-Field Noise and Carbon Diffusion on Au(110), Eunja Kim, A. Safavi Naini, D. A. Hite, K. S. McKay, D. P. Pappas, P. F. Weck, and H. R. Sadeghpour
Electric-Field Noise From Carbon-Adatom Diffusion On An Au(110) Surface: First-Principles Calculations And Experiments, Eunja Kim, A. Safavi-Naini, D. A. Hite, K. S. McKay, D. P. Pappas, P. F. Weck, and H. R. Sadeghpour
Lattice Dynamics and Thermomechanical Properties of Zirconium(IV) Chloride: Evidence for Low-temperature Negative Thermal Expansion, Eunja Kim, Philippe E. Weck, Rosendo Borjas, and Frederic Poineau
Adsorption of Chlorine on Zr(0001) surface: First-principles Predictions, Eunja Kim, P F. Week, R Boijas, and F Poineau
Soft but Powerful Artificial Muscles Based on 3D Graphene–CNT–Ni Heteronanostructures, Jaehwan Kim, Seok-Hu Bae, Moumita Kotal, Tyler Stalbaum, Kwang J. Kim, and Il-Kwon Oh
UV-Curing Kinetics and Performance Development of In Situ Curable 3D Printing Materials, Ye Chan Kim, Sungyong Hong, Hanna Sun, Myeong Gi Kim, Kisuk Choi, Jungkeun Cho, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Ja Cchoon Koo, Hyungpil Moon, Doyoung Byun, Kwang J. Kim, Jonghwan Suhr, Soo Hyun Kim, and Jea-Do D. Nam
Multi-Step Cure Kinetic Model of Ultra-Thin Glass Fiber Epoxy Prepreg Exhibiting both Autocatalytic and Diffusion-Controlled Regimes under Isothermal and Dynamic-Heating Conditions, Ye Chan Kim, Hyunsung Min, Ssungyong Hong, Mei Wang, Hanna Sun, In-Kyung Park, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Ja Choon Koo, Hyungpil Moon, Kwang J. Kim, Jonghwan Suhr, and Jae-Do Nam
Charging Assisted Structural Phase Transitions in Monolayer Inse, Liangzhi Kou, Aijun Du, Yandong Ma, Ting Liao, and Changfeng Chen
Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators: Progress and Prospects, Liangzhi Kou, Yandong Ma, Ziqi Sun, Thomas Heine, and Changfeng Chen
Consumption of Movie Experience: Cognitive and Affective Approaches, Jaesok Lee, Chih Chien Chen, Hak-Jun Song, and Choong-Ki Lee
Hyperaccreting Black Hole as Gamma-Ray Burst Central Engine. II. Temporal Evolution of the Central Engine Parameters during the Prompt and Afterglow Phases, Wei-Hua Lei, Bing Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu, and En-Wei Liang
Phonon-Mediated High-T C Superconductivity in Hole-Doped Diamond-Like Crystalline Hydrocarbon, Chao-Sheng Lian, Jian-Tao Wang, Wenhui Duan, and Changfeng Chen
Be a “Superhost”: The Importance of Badge Systems for Peer-To-Peer Rental Accommodations, Sai Liang, Markus Schuckert, Rob Law, and Chih Chien Chen
Flexural Behavior of High Strength Concrete Filled High Strength Square Steel Tube, Guochang Li, Di Liu, Zjijian Yang, and Chunyu Zhang
A detailed investigation into the geometric and electronic structures of CoB: Q n (n = 2-10, Q = 0, -1) clusters, Peifang Li, Guoliang Sun, Jianping Bai, Weihua Wang, Gang Bao, and Cheng Lu
Neutrino-dominated Accretion Flows as the Central Engine of Gamma-ray Bursts, Tong Liu, Wei-Min Gu, and Bing Zhang
Black Hole Hyperaccretion Inflow-outflow Model. I. Long And Ultra-long Gamma-ray Bursts, Tong Liu, Cui-Ying Song, Bing Zhang, Wei-Min Gu, and Alexander Heger
Linear Analysis of the Evolution of Nearly Polar Low-mass Circumbinary Discs, Stephen H. Lubow and Rebecca G. Martin
Extraordinary Indentation Strain Stiffening Produces Superhard Tungsten Nitrides, Cheng Lu, Quan Li, Yanming Ma, and Changfeng Chen
A Peculiar GRB 110731A: Lorentz Factor, Jet Composition, Central Engine, and Progenitor, HouJun Lü, XiangGao Wang, RuiJing Lu, Lin Lan, He Gao, EnWei Liang, Melissa L. Graham, WeiKang Zheng, Alexei V. Filippenko, and Bing Zhang
Effect of Geometrical Parameters on Flow and Heat Transfer Performances in Multi-Stream Spiral-Wound Heat Exchangers, Xing Lu, Gaopeng Zhang, Yi-tung T. Chen, Qiuwang Wang, and Min Zeng
Polar Alignment of a Protoplanetary Disk around an Eccentric Binary, Rebecca G. Martin and Stephen H. Lubow
Numerical Study on Thermal-Hydraulic Performance of a Two-Sided Etched Zigzag-Type High-Temperature Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger, Ting Ma, Ulrik Pasquier, Yi-tung Chen, and Qiuwang Wang
Effect of Fin-Endwall Fillet on Thermal Hydraulic Performance of Airfoil Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger, Ting Ma, Fei Xin, Lei Li, Xiang-yang Xu, Yi-tung Chen, and Qiu-wang Wang
Inner-shell Chemistry under High Pressure, Maosheng Miao, Jorge Botana, Michael G. Pravica, Daniel Sneed, and Changyong Park
PM2.5 Emissions and Source Profiles from Open Burning of Crop Residues, Haiyan Ni, Jie Tian, Xiaoliang Wang, Qiyuan Wang, Yongming Han, Junji Cao, Xin Long, Lung-Wen Antony Chen, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson, Ru-Jin J. Huang, and Ulrike Dusek
X-Ray Induced Synthesis of a Novel Material: Stable, Doped Solid CO at Ambient Conditions, Michael Pravica, Egor Evlyukhin, Petrika Cifligu, Blake Harris, Jung Jae Koh, Ning Chen, and Yonggang Wang
High Pressure Resonant X-ray Emission Studies of WO3 and Hydrogenated WO3, Michael G. Pravica, Yonggang Wang, Yuming Xiao, and Paul Chow
A Novel Method for Generating Molecular Mixtures at Extreme Conditions: The Case of Fluorine and Oxygen, Michael Pravica, Melanie White, and Yonggang Wang
The Psychometrics of the Mini-K: Evidence from Two College Samples, George B. Richardson, Ching-Chen Chen, Chia-Liang Dai, Michael D. Brubaker, and Joseph L. Nedelec
Substance Use and Mating Success, George B. Richardson, Ching-Chen Chen, Chia-Liang Dai, Christopher M. Swoboda, Joseph L. Nedelec, and Wei-Wen Chen
Is the Non-Sentinel Lymph Node Compartment the Next Site for Melanoma Progression from the Sentinel Lymph Node Compartment in the Regional Nodal Basin?, Andrei Rios Cantu, Ying Lu, Victor Melendez Elizondo, Michael Chen, Alejandra Gutierrez Range, Niloofar Fadaki, Suresh Thummala, Carla West Coffee, James Cleaver, Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, and Stanley P.L. Leong
Deep imaging search for planets forming in the TW hya protoplanetary disk with the Keck/NIRC2 Vortex Coronagraph, G. Ruane, D. Mawet, J. Kastner, T Meshkat, M. Bottom, B. F. Castella, O. Absil, C. G. Gonzalez, É. Huby, Zhaohuan Zhu, R. Jenson Clem, E. Choquet, and E. Serabyn
The ALMA Early Science View of FUor/EXor Objects - II. The Very Wide Outflow Driven by HBC 494, D. Ruíz Rodríguez, L. A. Cieza, J. P. Williams, J. J. Tobin, A. Hales, Zhaohuan Zhu, K. Mužić, D. Principe, H. Canovas, A. Zurlo, S. Casassus, S. Perez, and J. L. Prieto
Diagnostic Efficiency of the Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory (CASI-4R) Depression Subscale for Identifying Youth Mood Disorders, Stephanie Salcedo, Yen-Ling Chen, Eric A. Youngstrom, Mary A. Fristad, Kenneth D. Gadow, Sarah M. Horwitz, Thomas W. Frazier, L. Eugene Arnold, Mary L. Phillips, Boris Birmaher, Robert A. Kowatch, and Robert L. Findling
Rb Adsorbate-Induced Negative Electron Affinity on Quartz, J. A. Sedlacek, Eunja Kim, S. T. Rittenhouse, P. F. Weck, H. R. Sadeghpour, and J. P. Shaffer
Bayesian Framework to Constrain the Photon Mass with a Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts, Lijing Shao and Bing Zhang
Structural Correlation in Water Probed by Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering, David Shelton
Water-Water Correlations in Electrolyte Solutions Probed by Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering, David Shelton
The Third Ambient Aspirin Polymorph, Alexander G. Shtukenberg, Chunhua T. Hu, Qiang Zhu, Martin U. Schmidt, Wenqian Xu, Melissa Tan, and Bart Kahr
Powder Diffraction and Crystal Structure Prediction Identify Four New Coumarin Polymorphs, Alexander G. Shtukenberg, Qiang Zhu, Damien J. Carter, Leslie Vogt, Johannes Hoja, Elia Schneider, Hongxing Song, Boaz Pokroy, Iryna Polischuk, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Artem R. Oganov, Andrew L. Rohl, Mark E. Tuckerman, and Bart Kahr
Metallic Hydrogen, Isaac F. Silvera, Ranga Dias, Ori Noked, Ashkan Salamat, and Mohamed Zaghoo
Reply to "comment on 'Evidence of a First-order Phase Transition to Metallic Hydrogen' ", Isaac F. Silvera, Mohamed Zaghoo, and Ashkan Salamat
Asteroid Impacts on Terrestrial Planets: The Effects of Super-Earths and the Role of the V6 Resonance, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen Lepp, and Mario Livio
High-Pressure Equation of State of Cesium Fluoride to 120 GPa, Daniel Sneed, Michael G. Pravica, Eunja Kim, and Philippe Weck
Forcing Cesium into Higher Oxidation States Using Useful hard x-ray Induced Chemistry under High Pressure, D. Sneed, Michael Pravica, Eunja Kim, N. Chen, C. Park, and M. White
Dynamics and collisional evolution of closely packed planetary systems, Jason H. Steffen; Jason H. Steffen; J. C. Lombardi, Jr.; and Frederic A. Rasio
X-Ray Counterpart of Gravitational Waves Due to Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Light Curves, Luminosity Function, and Event Rate Density, Hui Sun, Bing Zhang, and He Gao
XMM-Newton Observation of the Nearby Pulsar B1133+16, Andrzej Szary, Janusz Gil, Bing Zhang, Frank Haberl, George I. Melikidze, Ulrich Geppert, Dipanjan Mitra, and Ren-Xin Xu
Atmospheric Deposition of Particles at a Sensitive Alpine Lake: Size-Segregated Daily and Annual Fluxes From Passive Sampling Techniques, Anna Y.C. Tai, Lung-Wen A. Chen, Xiaoliang Wang, Judith C. Chow, and John G. Watson
Characteristics of Carbonaceous Particles from Residential Coal Combustion and Agricultural Biomass Burning In China, Jie Tian, Haiyan Ni, Junji Cao, Yongming Han, Qiyuan Wang, Xiaoliang Wang, Lung-Wen Chen, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson, Chong Wei, Jian Sun, Ting Zhang, and Rujin Huang
A Fuzzy-PD Controller for an Autonomous Aerial Robot, Do Khac Tiep, Kinam Lee, Young-Jae Ryoo, and Si Jung Kim
Experimental and Numerical Study on Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer Performance of Grille-Sphere Composite Structured Packed Bed, Jingyu Wang, Jian Yang, Zhilong Cheng, Yan Liu, Yi-tung Chen, and Qiuwang Wang
Selected Papers from the 3rd International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT2015), Qiu-Wang Wang, Tzu-Chen Hung, Yitung Chen, Chao-An Lin, and Chi-Chuan Wang
It’s More Complicated than We Think: The Implications of Social Capital on Innovation, Sheng Wang, Rebecca Guidice, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Zhong-Ming Wang
Density Functional Analysis of Fluorite-Structured (Ce, Zr)O2/CeO2 Interfaces, Philippe F. Weck, Pierre-Alexandre Juan, Remi Dingreville, and Eunja Kim
Model Representations of Kerogen Structures: An Insight from Density Functional Theory Calculations and Spectroscopic Measurements, Philippe F. Weck, Eunja Kim, Yifeng Wang, Jesiica N. Kruichak, Melissa M. Mills, Edward N. Matteo, and Roland J.M. Pellenq
Multimessenger Tests of the Weak Equivalence Principle from GW170817 and Its Electromagnetic Counterparts, Jun-Jie Wei, Bin-Bin Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu, He Gao, Peter Mészáros, Bing Zhang, Zi_gao Dai, Shuang-Nan Zhang, and Zong-Hong Zhu
Two-Dimensional Chemical Etching Process Simulation for Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger Channels Based on Cellular Automata Model, Fei Xin, Ting Ma, Yitung Chen, and Qiuwang Wang
Adiabatic Non-resonant Acceleration in Magnetic Turbulence and Hard Spectra of Gamma-Ray Bursts, Siyao Xu and Bing Zhang
Scatter Broadening Of Pulsars and Implications on the Interstellar Medium Turbulence, Siyao Xu and Bing Zhang
The Structure of Glycine Dihydrate: Implications for the Crystallization of Glycine from Solution and Its Structure in Outer Space, Wenqian Xu, Qiang Zhu, and Chunua Hu
DDT Polymorphism and the Lethality of Crystal Forms, Jingxiang Yang, C. T. Hu, Xiaolong Zhu, Qiang Zhu, Michael D. Ward, and Bart Kahr
Large Host-galaxy Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts, Yuan-Pei Yang, Rui Luo, Zhuo Li, and Bing Zhang
Dispersion Measure Variation of Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources, Yuan-Pei Yang and Bing Zhang
Tight Constraint on Photon Mass from Pulsar Spindown, Yuan-Pei Yang and Bing Zhang
Lorentz Factor — Beaming Corrected Energy/Luminosity Correlations and GRB Central Engine Models, Shuang-Xi Yi, Wei-Hua Lei, Bing Zhang, Zi-Gao Dai, Xue-Feng Wu, and En-Wei Liang
Repeating FRB 121102: Eight-year Fermi-LAT Upper Limits and Implications, Bin-Bin Zhang and Bing Zhang
A "cosmic Comb" Model of Fast Radio Bursts, Bing Zhang
Control of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer through Photo-Induced Wettability Change of Titania Nanotube Arrayed Surface, Bong June Zhang, Ranjan Ganguly, Kwang Jin Kim, and Chi Young Lee
Entropy-Driven Pt3Co Nanocube Assembles and Thermally Mediated Electrical Conductivity with Anisotropic Variation of the Rhombohedral Superlattice, Jun Zhang, Jinlong Zhu, Ruipeng Li, Jiye Fang, and Zhongwu Wang
Structural Metatransition of Energetically Tangled Crystalline Phases, Dan Zhou, Quan Li, Weitao Zheng, Yanming Ma, and Changfeng Chen
Building Temperature-Insensitive Nanoscale CMOS Circuits with Adaptive Voltage Power Supplies, Ming Zhu, Yingtao Jiang, Mei Yang, and Xiaohang Wang
Submissions from 2016
Technetium incorporation in scheelite: insights from first-principles, M Ackerman, Eunja Kim, P F. Weck, W Chernesky, and Ken Czerwinski
Finding the Center: An Aanlysis of the Tilted Ring Model Fits to the Inner and Outer Parts of Six Dwarf Galaxies, John H Boisvert and G Rhee
Cancellation policies in the hotel, airline and restaurant industries, Changfeng Chen
Study of Lehman Creek Watershed's Hydrologic Response to Climate Change Using Downscaled CMIP5 Projections, Changfeng Chen, Sajjad Ahmad, J Mejia, and A Kalra
Genetic Relationship between Schizophrenia and Nicotine Dependence, J Chen, S A. Bacanu, H Yu, Z Zhao, P Jia, K S. Kendler, H R. Kranzler, J Gelernter, L Farrer, C Minica, R Pool, Y Milaneschi, D I. Boomsma, B WJH Penninx, R F. Tyndale, J J. Ware, J M. Vink, J Kaprio, M Munafò, and X Chen
Capturing the electromagnetic counterparts of binary neutron star mergers through low-latency gravitational wave triggers, Q Chu, E J. Howell, A Rowlinson, H Gao, Bing Zhang, S J. Tingay, M Boër, and L Wen
Collision-Induced Magnetic Reconnection and a Unified Interpretation of Polarization Properties of GRBs and Blazars, Wei Deng, H Zhang, Bing Zhang, and H Li
The central engine of GRB 130831A and the energy breakdown of a relativistic explosion, M De Pasquale, S R. Oates, J L. Racusin, D A. Kann, Bing Zhang, A Pozanenko, A A. Volnova, A Trotter, N Frank, A Cucchiara, E Troja, B Sbarufatti, N R. Butler, S Schulze, Z Cano, M J. Page, A J. Castro-Tirado, J Gorosabel, A Lien, O Fox, O Littlejohns, J S. Bloom, J X. Prochaska, J A. de Diego, J. Gonzalez, M G. Richer, C. Román-Zúñiga, A M. Watson, N. Gehrels, H. Moseley, A. Kutyrev, S. Zane, and V. Hoette
The 80 Ms follow-up of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 130427A challenges the standard forward shock model, M. De Pasquale, M.J. Page, D.A. Kann, S.R. Oates, S. Schulze, Bing Zhang, Z. Cano, B. Gendre, D. Malesani, A. Rossi, E. Troja, L. Piro, M. Boer, G. Stratta, and N. Gehrels
Ultralow-Frequency Collective Compression Mode and Strong Interlayer Coupling in Multilayer Black Phosphorus, S Dong, A Zhang, K Liu, J Ji, Y G. Ye, X G. Luo, X H. Chen, X Ma, Y Jie, Changfeng Chen, X Wang, and Q Zhang
In-situ high-pressure x-ray diffraction study of zinc ferrite nanoparticles, S Ferrari, Ravhi Kumar, F Grinblat, J C. Aphesteguy, F D. Saccone, and D Errandonea
Constraints on binary neutron star merger product from short GRB observations, H Gao, Bing Zhang, and H J. Lü
A Model of White Dwarf Pulsar AR Scorpii, Jinjun Geng, Bing Zhang, and Y F. Huang
Propagation of Relativistic, Hydrodynamic, Intermittent Jets in a Rotating, Collapsing GRB Progenitor Star, Jinjun Geng, Bing Zhang, and R Kuiper
Monazite-type SrCr O4 under compression, J Gleissner, D Errandonea, A Segura, J Pellicer-Porres, M A. Hakeem, J E. Proctor, S V. Raju, Ravhi Kumar, P Rodríguez-Hernández, A Muñoz, S Lopez-Moreno, and M Bettinelli
Efficient Production of High-energy Nonthermal Particles during Magnetic Reconnection in a Magnetically Dominated Ion-Electron Plasma, F Guo, X Li, H Li, W Daughton, Bing Zhang, N Lloyd-Ronning, Y H. Liu, H Zhang, and W Deng
Structural and electronic phase transitions of ThS2 from first-principles calculations, Y Guo, C Wang, W Qiu, X Ke, P Huai, C Cheng, Z Zhu, and Changfeng Chen
Transit Timing Observations from Kepler. IX. Catalog of the Full Long-cadence Data Set, Tomer Holczer, Tsevi Mazeh, Gil Nachmani, Daniel Jontoff-Hutter, Eric B. Ford, Daniel Fabrycky, Darin Ragozzine MacKenzie, Kane, and Jason H. Steffan
Fast response electromagnetic follow-ups from low latency GW triggers, E J. Howell, Q Chu, A Rowlinson, H Gao, Bing Zhang, S J. Tingay, M Boër, and L Wen
A Statistical Study of GRB X-Ray Flares: Evidence of Ubiquous Bulk Acceleration in the Emission Region, Lanwei Jia, Z L. Uhm, and Bing Zhang
When Do Scientific Explanations Compete? Steps Toward A Heuristic Checklist, Todd E. Jones and Michael G. Pravica
Auxetic and Ferroelastic Borophane: A Novel 2D Material with Negative Possion's Ratio and Switchable Dirac Transport Channels, L Kou, Y Ma, Chun Tang, Z Sun, A Du, and Changfeng Chen