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Conferences

The Effect Of The Free Surface On Penetration Depth Limited X-ray Stress Measurements

June 3, 2024

Author(s)

Thomas Gnaupel-Herold

The elastic behaviour of grains bordering a free surface is analysed through the self-consistent grain-matrix interaction model. The approach proposed here...

Power and Energy Generation and Measurement System to Support DC Charging of Electric Vehicles

May 31, 2024

Author(s)

Bryan C. Waltrip, Thomas L. Nelson, Katya Delak

This paper describes the implementation of a system for the generation and measurement of DC power and energy for voltages with magnitudes up to 800 V DC and...

Terms of Deception: Exposing Obscured Financial Obligations in Online Agreements with Deep Learning (Extended Abstract

May 23, 2024

Author(s)

Elisa Tsai, Anoop Singhal, Atul Prakash

This paper investigates one type of social engineering scam, where unsuspecting users inadvertently consent to hidden financial obligations by performing...

ANT: A Multizone Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Ventilation Analysis Plug-in for Algorithm Aided Design

May 21, 2024

Author(s)

Jialei Shen, William Stuart Dols, Brian Polidoro

To facilitate the design and analysis related to indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation in buildings, a plug-in named ANT (contam-in-ANT) has been developed...

Mathematical Entities: Corpora and Benchmarks

May 20, 2024

Author(s)

Jacob Collard, Valeria de Paiva, Eswaran Subrahmanian

Mathematics is a highly specialized domain with its own unique set of challenges. Despite this, there has been relatively little research on natural language...

A 0.1 GHz to 1.1 THz Inverted Grounded-CPW mTRL Calibration Kit Characterization in an InP HBT Process

May 13, 2024

Author(s)

Jerome Cheron, Rob Jones, Dylan Williams, Miguel Urteaga, Bryan Bosworth, Nick Jungwirth, Jeffrey Jargon, Ben Jamroz, Chris Long, Nate Orloff, Ari Feldman, Peter Aaen

We report a novel design approach of on-wafer multiline thru-reflect-line (mTRL) calibration kit fabricated on a commercial semiconductor-based transistor...

An Analytical Evaluation for Software-based TSN in Industrial Wi-Fi Networks

May 12, 2024

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is an emerging topic for the advancement of wireless networking for industrial applications. TSN, as defined under the umbrella...

On the Impact of TIG Welding Interference on Industrial Wi-Fi Networks: Modeling of Empirical Data and Analytical Studying of Coexistence

May 12, 2024

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Jing Geng, Karl Montgomery, Rick Candell

The use of IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi in industrial applications has been enabled by Time-sensitive networking capabilities to achieve deterministic communications...

Usability for Poll Workers: A Voting System Usability Test Protocol

May 8, 2024

Author(s)

Dana Chisnell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Karen Bachmann, Svetlana Z. Lowry

In this paper, we discuss our efforts to develop a repeatable test protocol for assessing usability for poll workers – temporary election officials who ensure...

Forecasting Rare Earth Element Demands for Clean Energy Technologies with the Bass Diffusion Model

May 7, 2024

Author(s)

Nehika Mathur, Thomas Maani, Chuanbing Rong, John Sutherland

The push to decarbonize has spurred the demand for clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines (WTs). These technologies rely on...

Recovery pathway assessment of recycled HDPE for circular economy: Shorter-life vs longer-life products

May 7, 2024

Author(s)

Buddhika Hapuwatte, Ashley Hartwell, Matthew Triebe, Abheek Chatterjee, Nehika Mathur, Daniel Figola, Katherine Morris

High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) is a highly recyclable thermoplastic comprising 17% of all plastic produced. Yet, demand for recycled HDPE (r-HDPE) has outrun...

The intersection of noise, amplitude, and nonlinearity in a high-Q micromechanical torsion pendulum

May 6, 2024

Author(s)

Jon R. Pratt, Stephan Schlamminger, Dalziel Wilson, Charles Condos, Aman Rajendra Agrawal, Christian Pluchar

We derive a nonlinear equation of motion for a chip-scale pendulum comprising a thick plate suspended from a tensioned nanoribbon. Recently we explored the use...

Programmable Synapses and Dendritic Circuits for Superconducting Optoelectronic Neuromorphic Computing

May 3, 2024

Author(s)

Bryce Primavera, Saeed Khan, Samuel Adler, Jeff Shainline

Superconducting optoelectronic hardware is promising for large-scale neuromorphic computing. In this work, analog circuits combining Josephson junctions and...

The NIST Material Flammability Database

May 1, 2024

Author(s)

Isaac Leventon, Morgan Bruns, Michael Heck

7 The fire modeling community is actively working to develop the tools needed to quantitatively predict material 8 and product flammability behavior (e.g...

Working equation for a Fabry-Perot cavity based optical pressure standard

May 1, 2024

Author(s)

Yuanchao Yang, Patrick Egan, Tom Rubin

From basics of Fabry-Perot (FP) resonator and roundtrip phase, a complete working equation for a FP cavity based optical pressure standard (OPS) is derived and...

Poster: Green Network Optimization with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Work in Progress

May 1, 2024

Author(s)

Vladimir Marbukh

This paper proposes a distributed Green Network Optimization (GNO) with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). GNO-MARL combines: (a) Network Utility...

Evaluating the security of CRYSTALS-Dilithium in the quantum random oracle model

April 29, 2024

Author(s)

Kelsey Jackson, Carl A. Miller, Daochen Wang

In the wake of recent progress on quantum computing hardware, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is standardizing cryptographic protocols...

Practical Attack on All Parameters of the DME Signature Scheme

April 28, 2024

Author(s)

Pierre Briaud, Maxime Bros, Ray Perlner, Daniel Smith-Tone

DME is a multivariate scheme submitted to the call for additional signatures recently launched by NIST. Its performance is one of the best among all the...

Context-Aware Channel Sounder for AI-Assisted Radio-Frequency Channel Modeling

April 26, 2024

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile, Jelena Senic, Anuraag Bodi, Samuel Berweger, Raied Caromi, Nada Golmie

We describe a context-aware channel sounder that consists of three separate systems: a radio-frequency system to extract multipaths scattered from the...

AI-Based Environment Segmentation Using a Context-Aware Channel Sounder

April 26, 2024

Author(s)

Anuraag Bodi, Samuel Berweger, Raied Caromi, Jihoon Bang, Jelena Senic, Camillo Gentile

We describe how the data acquired from the camera and Lidar systems of our context-aware radio-frequency (RF) channel sounder is used to reconstruct a 3D mesh...

Instrument Development for Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Diffractometry in the EUV

April 24, 2024

Author(s)

Stephanie Moffitt, Bryan Barnes, Thomas A. Germer, Steven Grantham, Eric Shirley, Martin Sohn, Daniel Sunday, Charles S. Tarrio

Semiconductor devices are noted for ever-decreasing dimensions but now are also becoming more complex. While scanning probe microscopy can still resolve the...

Towards the development of standards and performance metrics for 3D imaging systems

April 22, 2024

Author(s)

Prem Rachakonda, Kamel S. Saidi, Marek Franaszek, Helen Qiao, John Sweetser, Armin Khatoonabadi, David Dechow, Wesley Rhodes

NIST is leading and supporting multiple efforts to develop standards for 3D imaging systems for manufacturing automation applications. Many manufacturers...

Performance evaluation of ground-source integrated heat pump for residential net-zero energy buildings across different climates

April 22, 2024

Author(s)

Dongsoo Jang, Harrison M. Skye

Ground-source integrated heat pumps (GSIHPs) can save energy in residential buildings by providing all the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC), and...

CHIP SCALE FORCE ELASTIC PROVING DEVICE FOR INSTRUMENTED INDENTER FORCE CALIBRATION

April 22, 2024

Author(s)

Gordon A. Shaw

A chip-scale elastic fused silica parallelogram flexure device has been fabricated for use as a reference spring for force calibration in instrumented...

Merging Outcomes of SAM Applied to RGB and Depth Images in Bin Picking Applications

April 19, 2024

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Prem Rachakonda, Pavel Piliptchak, Kamel S. Saidi

Segmenting images containing many objects stacked in unstructured piles is a challenging and vital task in robotic bin picking applications. Objects in such...

Applications and Limitations of the Kibble-Robinson Theory

April 19, 2024

Author(s)

Lorenz Keck, Kumar Arumugam, Leon Chao, Zane Comden, John Dragenov, Frank Seifert, David B. Newell, Darine El Haddad, Stephan Schlamminger

An Introduction to Machine Learning Lifecycle Ontology and its Applications

April 18, 2024

Author(s)

Milos Drobnjakovic, Perawit Charoenwut, Ana Nikolov, Hakju Oh, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

Machine Learning (ML) adoption is on the rapid rise, with a nearly 40% compound annual growth rate over the next decade. In other words, companies will be...

Empirical Characterization of Doppler in Industrial Wireless Channels

April 16, 2024

Author(s)

Dreyelian Morejon, Jon Montalban, Eneko Iradier, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Pablo Angueira

This paper analyzes the temporal variation of the radio propagation channel in industrial environments. The results have been obtained by processing empirical...

Transmitting time and frequency data by using broadcast TV signals observed in common-view

April 14, 2024

Author(s)

Judah Levine

We will study the possibility of transmitting time and frequency data by using broadcast TV signals observed in common-view, in which two sites receive the...

Improved Cryptanalysis of HFERP: Unseen Implications of the Simple Attack

April 13, 2024

Author(s)

Max Cartor, Ryann Cartor, Hiroki Furue, Daniel Smith-Tone

In this paper we introduce a new attack on the multivariate encryption scheme HFERP, a big field scheme including an extra variable set, additional equations of...

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