We carried out a fundamental investigation of uniaxial direct W-to-Cu bonding at relatively low temperatures in ambient air, which would potentially allow for simple preparation and maintenance divertor wall components. W/Cu bonds formed 500◦C with pressure 0.1 MPa, but the mechanical interfacial strength was about 1 significantly lower than state-of-the-art values around 1000◦C vacuum. Higher ...

The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is a distributed file system built on top of direct-access transports (DAT). Direct-access transports are characterized by using remote direct memory access (RDMA) for data transfer and user-level networking. The motivation behind the DAT-enabled distributed file system architecture is the reduction of the overhead on the I/O data path. The goal of this work...

At the dawn of the 19 century, M. Lapace presented his theory of capillary attraction to the Institute of France, in which his law relating wall tension of a thin-walled sphere or tube to radius and cavity pressure first appeared. Nearly two centuries later, this law appears to have found its most direct application in a novel surgical therapy for congestive heart failure initially described by...