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Chung Tong Hu, Timothy Grance, David F. Ferraiolo, David R. Kuhn
Access Control (AC) systems are among the most critical of network security components. A system's privacy and security controls are more likely to be...
Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Vincent D. Lee, Daniel S. Sawyer, Steven D. Phillips, John Palmateer
The Dimensional Metrology Group (DMG) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is involved in the development of documentary standards for...
Katharine M. Shilling, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer
The proliferation of laser scanners in a number of industries such as the metrology of large artifacts, digitization and reverse engineering, historical...
The 245th American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting and Exposition was held in Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 7-11, 2013. This...
Jon R. Pratt, Stephan Schlamminger, David B. Newell, Leon S. Chao, Zeina J. Kubarych, Patrick J. Abbott, Yusi A. Cao, Frank C. Seifert, Darine El Haddad
NIST recently used a watt balance instrument known as NIST-3 to measure the Planck constant in terms of IPK with a relative uncertainty of approximately 45...
Leon S. Chao, Frank C. Seifert, Shisong Li, Darine El Haddad, Stephan Schlamminger, Jon R. Pratt
A watt balance is an electromagnetic force balancing instrument to realize the unit of mass at the kilogram level. The magnet system is one of the key...
Paul A. Lane, Paul D. Cunningham, Joseph S. Melinger, Edwin J. Heilweil
We present a study of charge transfer and carrier dynamics in nano-films of zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) and buckmisnster¬fullerene (C60) by investigated by time...
A unitary operator that satisfies the constant Yang-Baxter equation immediately yields a unitary representation of the braid group Bn for every n ≥ 2. If we...
Emre H. Brookes, Nadeem Anjum, Joseph E. Curtis, Suresh Marru, Raminder Singh, Marlon Pierce
A new framework (GenApp) for rapid generation of scientific applications running on a variety of systems including science gateways has recently been developed...
Alexander Brodsky, Mohan Krishnamoorthy, Daniel A. Menasce, Guodong Shao, Sudarsan Rachuri
This paper is focused on decision analytics for smart manufacturing. We consider temporal manufacturing processes with stochastic throughput and inventories. We...
Kin P. Cheung, Jiwu Lu, Guangfan Jiao, Jason P. Campbell, Jason T. Ryan
Bias temperature instability (BTI) is known to be a serious reliability issue for state-of-the-art Silicon MOSFET technology [1-6]. It is well-known that in...
The deterioration of stone and brick architecture or sculpture often involves damage caused by moisture. The feasibility of a non-destructive testing (NDT)...
Recent advances in machine automation and sensing technology offer new opportunities for continuous condition monitoring of an operating machine. This paper...
Geoffrey B. McFadden, Allan Reiman, Antoine Cerfon, E. Lazarus, S. Lazerson
We are pursuing a cross-benchmarking and validation initiative for tokamak 3D equilibrium calculations, with 11 codes participating: the linearized tokamak...
Peter Bajcsy, Antoine Vandecreme, Mary C. Brady, Phuong Nguyen
Our objective is to lower the barrier of executing spatial image computations in a computer cluster/cloud environment instead of in a desktop/laptop computing...
Lu Deng, Runbing Li, Chengjie Zhu, Edward W. Hagley
Using a polarization-selective-Kerr-phase-shift technique we demonstrate an all-optical polarization gate in an atomic gain medium with the control-field...
The major benefits of the emerging cloud computing infrastructure include elimination of the fixed cost and reduction in the marginal cost for the users due to...
John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, Michael T. Postek
The ability to model the effect of fields due to charges trapped in insulators with floating conductors has been added to JMONSEL (Java Monte Carlo simulator...
Howard S. Cohl, Marjorie A. McClain, Bonita V. Saunders, Moritz Schubotz, Janelle Williams
The purpose of the NIST Digital Repository of Mathematical Formulae (DRMF) is to create a digital compendium of mathematical formulae for orthogonal polynomials...
Emilio Hernandez-Bautista, Dale P. Bentz, Sadoth Sandoval-Torres, Prisciiano Cano Barrita
Steam curing under atmospheric pressure is used routinely in the precast concrete industry because of the increase in compressive strength up to 70 % obtained...
We use a combination of theoretical analysis and numerical simulation to investigate the fundamental operation of a laser oscillating from gain supplied by the...
Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Brian P. Dougherty, Howard W. Yoon
Irradiance-mode spectral response measurements of solar cells are important because they provide a direct, reliable and accurate route for determination of the...
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), we have a capability to calibrate and test laser interferometer systems used to measure...
Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities throughout the world. In the USA, over...
David R. Novotny, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Joshua A. Gordon
We present the alignment techniques, positional accuracy and uncertainty results for a mmWave antenna scanning system at 183 GHz. We are using six degree-of...
Bartosz K. Nowakowski, Douglas T. Smith, Stuart T. Smith
Laser interferometry has become a staple of SI-traceable displacement measurement techniques. With decreasing cost per channel, miniaturization, and a multitude...
Although highly accurate relative position data can be achieved using laser tracking systems which are suitable for millimeter wave antenna characterization, a...
Jeffrey A. Jargon, DongJoon Lee, JaeYong Kwon, YoungPyo Hong
We demonstrate an endoscopic probing system to measure field distribution through a W-band waveguide. The electric fields propagating inside a WR-10 waveguide...
Although highly accurate relative position data can be achieved using laser tracking systems which are suitable for millimeter wave antenna characterization, a...
Jeffrey T. Fong, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben, Li Ma, Karl F. Stupic, Kathryn E. Keenan, Stephen E. Russek
Using the RF module of COMSOL, we compute the magnetic flux density norm (BN) profiles for frequencies in the 76 to 100 MHz range, inside of a prototype...