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Michael A. Lombardi, J. Mauricio Lopez-Romero, Nelida Diaz-Munoz, E. de Carlos-Lopez
The time and frequency metrology working group of the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM) has developed and currently maintains a number of measurement
Dustin G. Poppendieck, Lisa C. Ng, Matthew P. Schlegel, Andrew K. Persily, Alfred Hodgson
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) specification designed to minimize occupant exposures to indoor air pollutants
Todays low energy and sustainable buildings often call for innovative designs involving strategies such as natural ventilation. However, natural ventilation
To better understand and to reduce the occurrence of carbon monoxide fatalities, this paper presents measured CO emission rates from both stock (i.e., without
Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich, Yanling Wang, Brian J. Polidoro
A simulation study was conducted to evaluate indoor CO exposures as a function of portable generator location and CO emission rate in order to support the
Dustin G. Poppendieck, Steven J. Nabinger, Matthew P. Schlegel, Andrew K. Persily
The desire to build more energy efficient homes in the United States has lead to the expansion of the residential spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation
In this paper, we consider how high performing, sustainable building programs and designs are currently addressing indoor air quality (IAQ) and how they might
This is the third of a series of papers discussing various causes of measurement uncertainty in scanned particle beam instruments, and some of the solutions
Randolph E. Elmquist, Nobu-hisa Kaneko, Takehiko Oe, Wan-Seop Kim, Dong Hun Chae, Marlin E. Kraft
This paper describes a study on the transportation effect using four 100 Ω standard resistors of a new construction. All resistors have been transported by air
Yanfei Yang, Lung-I Huang, David B. Newell, Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Mariano A. Real, Randolph Elmquist
Epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) is used to fabricate Hall bar structures for metrological applications with a fabrication process that has been developed to
Darine El Haddad, Leon Chao, Frank Seifert, David B. Newell, Jon R. Pratt, Stephan Schlamminger
A redefinition of the International System of Units, the SI, is impending and could occur as early as 2017. After redefinition a means to realize the unit of
Jiwu Lu, Canute I. Vaz, Jason P. Campbell, Jason T. Ryan, Kin P. Cheung, Guangfan Jiao, Gennadi Bersuker, Chadwin D. Young
We utilize eye-diagram measurements of timing jitter to investigate the impact of PBTI in devices subject to DC as well as ring oscillator (RO) and pseudo
Jack A. Stone Jr., Patrick F. Egan, Jay H. Hendricks, Gregory F. Strouse, Douglas A. Olson, Jacob E. Ricker, Gregory E. Scace, Donavon Gerty
An apparatus capable of comparing displacements with picometer accuracy is currently being designed at NIST. In principle, we wish to compare one displacement
While most discussions of high performance buildings (HPB) include site impacts, water use, energy, materials and indoor environmental quality, energy often
John D. Wright, Casey Rombouts, Bair Michael, Jean Barbe, Rainer Kramer, Zdenek Krajicek
We describe an international comparison of gas flow standards spanning the range 2.1 x 10-4 g/s (10 sccm) of nitrogen to 0.21 g/s (10 slm) of nitrogen. For all
Todays low energy and sustainable buildings often call for innovative designs involving strategies such as natural ventilation. However, natural ventilation
WangChun Chen, Thomas R. Gentile, Ross W. Erwin, Shannon Watson, Qiang NMN Ye, Kathryn L. Krycka, Brian B. Maranville
A 3He neutron spin filter (NSF) program for polarized neutron scattering was launched in 2006 as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Robert Spragg, Scott Jones, Kenneth A. Snyder, Dale P. Bentz, Chiara Villani, Jason Weiss
Electrical measurements are becoming a common method to assess the transport properties of concrete. For a saturated homogenous system, the surface resistance
Kamran Sayrafian, Antonio M. Possolo, Nathalie Yarkony
Kinetic energy harvested from the human body motion seems to be one of the most attractive and convenient solution for wearable wireless sensors in healthcare
Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Roger D. Eastman
The American National Standards Institute/Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation (ANSI/ITSDF) B56.5 Safety Standard committee for automated guided
The hierarchical architecture of factory equipment networks consists of the factory level, cell level, and device level. The equipment at different levels of
Michael H. Francis, Ronald C. Wittmann, David R. Novotny, Joshua A. Gordon
We describe millimeter-wave near-field measurements made with the new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) robotic scanning system. This cost
Robert L. Amaro, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Andrew J. Slifka
A primary barrier to the widespread use of gaseous hydrogen as an energy carrier is the creation of a hydrogen-specific transportation network. Research
Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Robert L. Amaro, Damian S. Lauria, Louis E. Hayden, Douglas G. Stalheim, Yaoshan Chen
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has been testing pipeline steels to determine the fatigue crack growth rate in pressurized hydrogen gas; the
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Robert F. Cook
Exposed to mechanical stress, semiconductor materials may phase transform, resulting in changes of crystallographic structure and material properties, rather
Heayoung Yoon, Christopher C. Bohn, Youngmin Lee, Seung H. Ko, Jonathan S. Steckel, Seth Coe-Sullivan, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
A thin film of quantum dots (QD) was used to visualize the local photo-response of polycrystalline CdTe solar cells by down-converting an electron beam of high
Using the inferred measures framework is a popular choice for constructing test collections when the target document set is too large for pooling to be a viable
"Evaluation as a service" (EaaS) is a new methodology that enables community-wide evaluations and the construction of test collections on documents that cannot