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Conferences

Statistical Methods for Change-Point Detection in Surface Temperature Records

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar, Antonio M. Possolo, Nien F. Zhang

We describe several statistical methods to detect possible change-points in a time series of values of surface temperature measured at a meteorological station...

Improvements to the Johnson Noise Thermometry System for Measurements at 505 800 K

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew, Kazuaki Yamazawa, Samuel P. Benz, Alessio Pollarolo, Horst Rogalla, Paul D. Dresselhaus

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is currently using Johnson noise thermometry (JNT) to determine the deviations of the International...

Characteristics of Rhodium-Iron Resistance Thermometers And Interpolation Properties From 0.65 K To 24.5561 K

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew, Richard Rusby

Resistance thermometers using wires of rhodium with 0.5 mol % of iron (Rh-Fe thermometers or RIRTs) were first made by H Tinsley & Co in 1969 for applications...

The Residual and Temperature-Dependent Resistance of Reference-Grade Platinum Wire Below 13.8 K

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew, William E. Murdock, Michal J. Chojnacky, Dean C. Ripple

We report the Residual Resistance Ratio (RRR) and resistance ratio W(GaMP) (gallium melting point) values for well-annealed samples of the original SRM 1967...

A Consilience-based Approach to Engineering Services in Global Supply Chains

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Albert W. Jones

Technology life cycles are becoming shorter as is the time for those technologies to become ubiquitous in the society. The Industrial Revolution took about 150...

Normal and Anomalous Self-Heating in Capsule-type Resistance Thermometers in the Range 1 K to 273 K

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew, Christopher W. Meyer

The normal self-heating coefficient for standard capsule-type resistance thermometers is gas-mediated over most of their designed range of use. This is readily...

Use Case Analysis for Standard Manufacturing Service Capability Model

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Yunsu Lee, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Marko Vujasinovic, Nenad Ivezic

To efficiently assemble manufacturing supply chains, manufacturers need to provide precise and easily accessible their manufacturing service capability (MSC)...

Updated Uncertainty Budgets For NIST Thermocouple Calibrations

September 11, 2013

Author(s)

Christopher W. Meyer, Karen M. Garrity

We have recently updated the uncertainty budgets for calibrations in the NIST Thermocouple Calibration Laboratory. The purpose for the updates has been to 1)...

Development of a Quantum-Voltage-Calibrated Noise Thermometer at NIM

September 11, 2013

Author(s)

Jifeng Qu, Samuel Benz, Jianqiang Zhang, Horst Rogalla, Yang Fu, Alessio Pollarolo, Jintao Zhang

A quantum-voltage-calibrated Johnson-noise thermometer was developed at NIM, which measures the Boltzmann constant k through comparing the thermal noise across...

Johnson-noise thermometry based on a quantized-voltage noise source at NIST

September 11, 2013

Author(s)

Alessio Pollarolo, Tae H. Jeong, Samuel Benz, Paul Dresselhaus, Horst Rogalla, Weston L. Tew

Johnson Noise Thermometry is an electronic approach to measuring temperature. For several years, NIST has been developing a switching-correlator-type Johnson...

Link Layer Adaptation in Body Area Networks: Balancing Reliability and Longevity

September 8, 2013

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Mehdi Alasti

High-performance free-space photonic links for frequency/time transfer

September 8, 2013

Author(s)

Nathan R. Newbury, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Esther Baumann, Ian R. Coddington

We discuss optical two-way time and frequency transfer over air to connect remote optical clocks/oscillators. This method can link remote sites with a residual...

Fracture toughness instrumentation techniques for single-specimen clamped SE(T) tests on X100 line pipe steel: Experimental Setup

September 7, 2013

Author(s)

Timothy Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, David T. Read, M. D. Richards

A Study of the Diurnal in the Transatlantic TWSTFT Difference

September 7, 2013

Author(s)

Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker

The daily variation (diurnal) in the two-way satellite time and frequency transfer (TWSTFT) difference is one of the most significant instabilities of the...

Holographic Radius Test Plates

September 7, 2013

Author(s)

Quandou (. Wang, Johannes A. Soons, Ulf Griesmann

We evaluate a method for testing the radius of spheres with a hologram that consists of a pair of nested Fresnel zone lenses. The hologram is positioned in the...

Method for Assessing the Potential Effects of Nanoparticles and other Emerging Contaminants on the Catabolic Capabilities of Microbial Communities

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Kela Weber, Elijah Petersen, Sonja Bissegger, Lars Rehmann, Iris Koch, Jun Zhang, Kenneth Reimer, Robin Slawson, Raymond Legge, Denis O'Carroll

With an increasing utilization of nanoparticles (NPs) in consumer products, the potential for release to the environment also increases. It is therefore...

Correlating Photovoltaic Clear-Sky and Actual Output to Sky Cover Measurements

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

David R. Daily, David Holmberg, John Baras

As distributed energy resources are added to existing building systems, and variable priced electricity tariffs are introduced, facility owners may profit from...

Physical and chemical characterization techniques for metallic powders

August 28, 2013

Author(s)

John A. Slotwinski, Paul E. Stutzman, Stephanie S. Watson, Edward J. Garboczi, Max A. Peltz, Chiara F. Ferraris

Systematic studies have been done on two different powder materials used for additive manufacturing: stainless steel and cobalt-chrome. An extensive array of...

Application of physical and chemical characterization techniques to metallic powders

August 28, 2013

Author(s)

Edward J. Garboczi, John A. Slotwinski, Max A. Peltz, Chiara F. Ferraris, Stephanie S. Watson, Paul E. Stutzman

Systematic studies have been done on two different powder materials used for additive manufacturing: stainless steel and cobalt-chrome. The characterization of...

Calibration of a Long-Wavelength Acoustic Flowmeter Using a Lumped Impedance Acoustic Model

August 26, 2013

Author(s)

Lee J. Gorny, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover

As a part of NISTs program to standardize measurements of greenhouse gas emissions, we are developing long-wavelength acoustic flowmeter (LWAF) for accurate...

QKD on a Board Limited by Detector Rates in a Free-Space Environment

August 25, 2013

Author(s)

Alan Mink, Joshua Bienfang

We discuss a high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system with the protocol infrastructure implemented on a single printed circuited board that can operate...

Differential Fault Attack Against Grain Family -- Pushing Towards Very Few Faults using SAT Solver

August 22, 2013

Author(s)

Santanu (. Sarkar

There are now a series of published works related to Differential Fault Attack (DFA) on the Grain family, but most of them require quite a large number...

Thermal Stability of RP-2 as a Function of Composition: The Effect of Linear, Branched, and Cyclic Alkanes

August 22, 2013

Author(s)

Jason A. Widegren, Thomas J. Bruno

The objective of this work is to identify compositional changes that could improve the thermal stability of RP-2. For this study, we tested the effect of alkane...

Investigating the Application of Moving Target Defenses to Network Security

August 15, 2013

Author(s)

Rui Zhuang, Su Zhang, Alex Bardas, Scott DeLoach, Xinming Ou, Anoop Singhal

This paper presents a preliminary design for a moving-target defense (MTD) for computer networks to combat an attacker's asymmetric advantage. The MTD system...

Integration of Energy Information for Product Assembly and Logistics Processes

August 13, 2013

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, FNU Kumaraguru, Kincho H. Law, Kyeong Rim Ahn

This paper presents an on-going effort at NIST to model the energy performance in assembly and supply chain processes as a part of a larger sus-tainability...

Correlation Coefficient and Loading Effects for MIMO Antennas in a Reverberation Chamber

August 13, 2013

Author(s)

Nick Janssen, Kate Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, William F. Young

The correlation coefficient is a common metric for assessing the performance of an antenna for a multiple-input, multiple-out wireless device. In this paper...

Influence on Q-Factor of Proximity and Orientation with Respect to Large-Form-Factor Loads in a Reverberation Chamber

August 13, 2013

Author(s)

Willem Burger, Christopher L. Holloway, Kate Remley

In this paper, it is shown that the presence of largeform-factor loads in close proximity to an antenna under test can affect the measured Q-factor (if measured...

Soft X-ray Characterization of DSA Block Copolymers

August 12, 2013

Author(s)

Daniel F. Sunday, Wen-Li Wu, Regis J. Kline

Multilingual Summarization: Dimensionality Reduction and a Step Towards Optimal Term Coverage

August 9, 2013

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu, John M. Conroy, Sashka T. Davis, Jeff Kubina, Dianne P. O'Leary, Judith D. Schlesinger

In this paper we present three term weighting approaches for multi-lingual document summarization and give results on the DUC 2002 data as well as on the 2013...

On the Link Between Insertion Loss and Lower Bound of Efficiency

August 9, 2013

Author(s)

Levon Barsikyan, Jason Coder, Mark Golkowski, John M. Ladbury

We investigate the effect of chamber loss on the recently developed 2-port antenna model and the associated method of determining antenna efficiency. The loss...

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