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Electrical modes of scanning probe microscopes have found considerable metrology applications in integrated circuits and emerging nano-electronic devices...
Although mass has historically been defined using an artifact standard, other means of realization are possible. One alternative approach employs a precision...
An overview is presented on precision high-ohmic resistance measurements for values of 100 Mohmand above. The two main measurement techniques in this...
Alain Rufenacht, Charles J. Burroughs, Bryan C. Waltrip, Stephane P. Solve, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
We are integrating an AC waveform source into our Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard system (PJVS). The objective is to provide a convenient, highly...
Guarded Hamon transfer standards are used at NIST for scaling to high resistance levels. An improved design for a guarded Hamon transfer standard in the range...
We present a photonic-assisted time-domain measurement technique for exploring millimeter-wave propagation through a W-band waveguide. The electric fields...
Frank C. Seifert, Alireza R. Panna, Leon S. Chao, Yusi A. Cao, Darine El Haddad, Shisong Li, Stephan Schlamminger, Jon R. Pratt, Heeju Choi, Lori Haley
A watt balance is a promising instrument to realize the unit of mass at the kilogram level. The magnet system is one of the key elements of such an instrument...
Jeffrey T. Fong, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben, Pedro V. Marcal, Stephen W. Freiman
The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to finding a risk-informed safety factor for the "fail-safe" design of a high-consequence engineering...
Yicheng Wang, Felipe Guzman, Corey A. Stambaugh, Radek Smid, Hugo Zuniga Calvo, Andrew D. Koffman, Jon R. Pratt, John R. Lawall
This paper reports progress on the NIST effort to develop a new calculable capacitor, focusing on improvement of the guard electrode motion control as well as...
A correlation between the relative humidity nd the effective efficiency of several rectangular waveguide thermistor sensors has been observed. The difference...
David B. Newell, Jacques Liard, Leon S. Chao, Yusi A. Cao, Frank C. Seifert, Darine El Haddad, Jon R. Pratt, Stephan Schlamminger
A new watt balance is being constructed at NIST in preparation for the redefinition of the International System of Units and the realization of mass through an...
Darine El Haddad, Frank C. Seifert, Stephan Schlamminger, Leon S. Chao, David B. Newell, Jon R. Pratt
This paper gives a brief description of the laser interferometer system designed for the next generation watt balance experiment aimed to realize the unit of...
Alessio Pollarolo, Weston L. Tew, Horst Rogalla, Samuel P. Benz
In the Johnson Noise Thermometry approach, Boltzmanns constant k is obtained as the ratio of the noise power measured across a sense resistor at the triple...
Quantitative fire risk analysis can be used to conduct safety assessments at nuclear facilities to evaluate the consequences of potential fire scenarios that...
Leon S. Chao, Stephan Schlamminger, Frank C. Seifert, Yusi A. Cao, Darine El Haddad, David B. Newell, Jon R. Pratt
The design of the new permanent-magnet driven watt balance and novel mechanical features will demonstrate the high-precision capabilities of a large complex...
Stephane Solve, Regis Chayramy, Alain Rufenacht, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel Benz
The Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard (PJVS) leakage resistance to ground (LRG) is defined as the electrical resistance of one side of the measurement...
Jifeng Qu, Kunli Zhou, Horst Rogalla, Samuel Benz, Yunfeng Fu
Since 2010 we have been developing a quantum-voltage-calibrated Johnson noise thermometer at NIM to measure the Boltzmann constant k. With recent improvements...
One-time memories (OTM's) are simple, tamper-resistant cryptographic devices, which can be used to implement sophisticated functionalities such as one-time...
James C. Booth, Spencer T. Egan, Charles A. Little, A Padilla, Yu Y. Wang, Nathan D. Orloff
The interactions of electromagnetic fields with matter are described by means of the polarization and magnetization of the material under study. Analogous to...
Sarah Wolff, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, David Lechevalier, KC Morris
Sustainable manufacturing aims to increase efficiency and offset negative impacts throughout the life cycle of products. A myriad of standards pertaining to...
Christopher L. Holloway, Joshua A. Gordon, Steven R. Jefferts, Thomas P. Heavner
We present a significantly new approach for an electric (E) field probe. The probe is based on the interaction of RF-fields with Rydberg atoms, where alkali...
David F. Ferraiolo, Serban I. Gavrila, Wayne Jansen
A primary objective of enterprise computing (via a data center, cloud, etc.) is the controlled delivery of data services (DS). Typical DSs include applications...
Esther Baumann, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
The ultimate precision of coherent laser three-dimensional mapping of a diffusely scattering surface will be determined by speckle noise. Speckle phase noise...
Donald R. Burgess Jr., Jeffrey A. Manion, Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris
We developed a new chemical mechanism for modeling flame inhibition by 2-bromotrifluoropene (2-BTP). The modeling results qualitatively predicted agent behavior...
Despite the existence and interest in additive manufacturing (AM) for many decades, industry adoption of AM technologies has been relatively slow. Recent...
Small Arcane Nontrivial Datasets (SANDs) are frequently complex enough to warrant custom software for access and editing, yet too small or specialized to...