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Conferences

Analysis of Multiscale Porosity at the Coso Geothermal Field

February 13, 2013

Author(s)

Lawrence M Anovitz, David R. Cole, David D. Faulder, Julie Sheets, Gernot Rother, Matthew John Wasbrough, Rex P. Hjelm, Monika Hartl, Vitaliy Pipich, Zhensdong Fu

The multiscale pore structure of the rocks making up a geothermal reservoir and the mineralogy associated with those pores are critical factors for estimating a...

Declarative Integration of Interactive 3D Graphics into the World-Wide Web: Principles, Current Approaches, and Research Agenda

February 10, 2013

Author(s)

Jacek Jankowski, Johannes Behr, Yvonne Jung, Kristian Sons, Philipp Slusallek, Sanford P. Ressler

With the advent of WebGL, plugin-free hardware-accelerated interactive 3D graphics has finally arrived in all major Web browsers. WebGL is an imperative...

Development of a Reference Material for Building Product Emissions Testing

February 4, 2013

Author(s)

Cynthia H. Reed, Zhe Liu, Steve Cox, Andrew K. Persily, John Little

The business of measuring volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from building products and materials has grown to include more than 100 laboratories, many...

Standard Formaldehyde Source for Chamber Testing of Material Emissions: Modeling and Preliminary Tests

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Wenjuan Wei, Cynthia H. Reed, Andrew K. Persily, Yinping Zhang

Formaldehyde is recognized as a harmful indoor air pollutant for human health (IARC. 2004) and is emitted from building materials, including urea-formaldehyde...

Indoor ultrafine particles of outdoor origin: importance of building operating conditions

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Dong H. Rim, Lance L. Wallace, Andrew K. Persily

Airborne ultrafine particles (UFP) have been associated with human mortality and morbidity. Human exposure to ambient UFP occurs indoors due to entry of UFP...

Diffusion-controlled reference material for VOC emissions testing: The effect of temperature and humidity.

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

John Little, Liu Zhe, Cynthia H. Reed, Steven Cox

To improve the reliability and accuracy of chamber tests for measuring emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from interior building products, the...

Bibliometric and Impact Analyses by Librarians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

January 31, 2013

Author(s)

Stacy M. Bruss, Susan L. Makar

Workshop presentation summarizing several key bibliometric analyses conducted by librarians at NIST. Presentation includes brief summary of bibliometric...

Frequency Dependent Charge Pumping -- A Defect Depth Profiling Tool?

January 31, 2013

Author(s)

Jason Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason Campbell, Kin Cheung, John S. Suehle

We investigate the validity of using frequency-dependent charge pumping (FD-CP) to determine bulk defect depth distributions. Using simple physical arguments we...

SERIES RESISTANCE: A MONITOR FOR HOT CARRIER STRESS

January 31, 2013

Author(s)

Jason Campbell, Serghei Drozdov, Kin Cheung, Richard G. Southwick, Jason Ryan, John S. Suehle, Anthony Oates

In this work, we examine a series resistance extraction technique which yields accurate values from single nano-scale devices. The series resistance values...

Development of a New, Precise Near-infrared Doppler Wavelength Reference: A Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer

January 31, 2013

Author(s)

Samuel Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Stephen L. Redman, Gillian Nave, John C. Wilson , Fred Hearty, Jon Holtzman

We present the ongoing development of a commercially available Micron Optics ber-Fabry Perot Interferometer as a precise, stable, easy to use, and economic...

Joint Spectral Measurements at the Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Dip

January 29, 2013

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Francesco F. Marsili, Varun B. Verma, Adriana E. Lita, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Jeffrey A. Stern, Matthew Shaw, William Farr, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

We employed a 2 channel single-photon detection system with high detection efficiency and low jitter to characterize the joint spectral distribution (JSD) of...

Application of a Linear Fit Rating Method for Mixed Single-Speed Unitary Air Conditioners

January 28, 2013

Author(s)

William V. Payne, Piotr A. Domanski

A method employing the simultaneous solution of two linear fits is used to determine the rated cooling capacity and seasonal energy efficiency ratio, SEER, of...

EXPOSING WOOD DECKING ASSEMBLIES TO CONTINUOUS WIND-DRIVEN FIREBRAND SHOWERS

January 28, 2013

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki

Sections of wood decks (1.2 m by 1.2 m) were constructed and attached to a re-entrant corner assembly. The deck/re-entrant corner assembly was then exposed to...

Performance Improvement of a Roof Top Air-Conditioning Unit by Refrigerant Circuitry Optimization

January 26, 2013

Author(s)

Sunil Lee, David A. Yashar, Piotr A. Domanski

In this experiment-aided simulation study, we achieved the performance improvement of a Roof Top Unit (RTU) by optimizing an evaporator's refrigerant circuitry...

Nonlinear acoustic effects in multilayer ceramic capacitors

January 25, 2013

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Sudook A. Kim, Timothy P. Quinn, Grady S. White

Nonlinear resonant acoustics was explored as an approach for nondestructively evaluating the susceptibility of BaTiO3-based multilayer ceramic capacitors to...

TSV REVEAL HEIGHT AND BUMP DIMENSION METROLOGY BY THE TSOM METHOD: FROM NANOMETER TO MICROMETER SCALE

January 23, 2013

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, Victor Vertanian, Steve Olson, Robert Edgeworth, Iqbal Ali, Craig Huffman, Pate Moschak, Harry Lazier, Elizabeth Lorenzini

The exceptional z-height resolution of TSOM, as well as very fast measurement time, is particularly important for high volume manufacturing. These two...

Mapping Evidence Graphs to Attack Graphs

January 17, 2013

Author(s)

Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera

Attack graphs compute potential attack paths from a system configuration and known vulnerabilities of a system. Evidence graphs model intrusion evidence and...

Using Attack Graphs in Forensic Examinations

January 16, 2013

Author(s)

Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera

Attack graphs are used to compute potential attack paths from a system configuration and known vulnerabilities of a system. Attack graphs can be used to...

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

January 15, 2013

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris

As metrologists we are typically subject matter experts (SMEs) in a technical area of measurement. However, most of us are not experts in measuring the value or...

Identifying improved standardized tests for measuring cement particle size and surface area

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Chiara F. Ferraris, Edward J. Garboczi

The Blaine fineness (Blaine) of a cement powder is a single parameter that is meant to characterize the specific surface area of a cement, and is assumed to be...

Compression-Fatigue, Elastic Modulus, and Thermal Contraction of Insulated Conduit Arrays of ITER CS Modules

January 9, 2013

Author(s)

Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, Richard Reed, Robert Walsh, N. Martovetsky

Abstract- Compression-fatigue tests at 76 K were conducted to compare two insulation systems (epoxy resin impregnated glass/Kapton) for use in the ITER Central...

A Bayesian Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) Approach to Estimating Remaining Life of Aging Pressure Vessels and Piping

January 1, 2013

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, William F. Guthrie, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert

In this paper, we use a Bayesian quantitative nondestructive evaluation (QNDE) approach to estimating the remaining life of aging structures and components. Our...

Observation of Interface/Near Interface Defects in 4H SiC MOSFETs With a New Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance Technique

January 1, 2013

Author(s)

Jason Ryan, Brad Bittel, Pat Lenahan, Jody Fronheiser, Aivars Lelis

We study 4H SiC MOSFETs with a new electrically detected magnetic resonance technique (EDMR) we call spin dependent charge pumping (SDCP). Our SDCP results...

An Investigation of Antenna Characterization Techniques in Microwave Remote Sensing Calibration

December 31, 2012

Author(s)

Derek A. Houtz

We compare three methods of quantifying illumination efficiency (IE). The ratio IE describes the contribution of energy emitted from a blackbody target to the...

Monitoring methane in the boundary layer using a network of instruments at tall towers in the northeastern US

December 24, 2012

Author(s)

Kuldeep R. Prasad, Elena Novakovskaia

Methane is one of the major greenhouse gases and in recent years more efforts have been undertaken to estimate its emissions at local and regional scales...

Optimum placement of sensors on building rooftop for measurement of greenhouse gas mixing ratio

December 24, 2012

Author(s)

Kuldeep R. Prasad, Anthony Bova, James R. Whetstone, Elena Novakovskaia

Currently, inverse atmospheric dispersion models are being used around the world to provide measurement-based, or top- down, estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG)...

A FRAMEWORK FOR INTEROPERABLE SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS ANALYSIS APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT

December 12, 2012

Author(s)

Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick, Juyeon Lee, Mark B. Campanelli, Duck B. Kim, Yung-Tsun T. Lee

Sustainable manufacturing (SM) continues to grow in importance. However, analysis tools to assess the sustainability performance of SM processes are difficult...

Antenna-Environment Multiple Scattering in Reverberation Chamber Measurements

December 12, 2012

Author(s)

Ryan J. Pirkl, Catherine A. Remley

High-resolution synthetic aperture measurements in a reverberation chamber revealed the presence of multiple scattering between the scan antenna and the...

Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets

December 10, 2012

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Dean P. McCullough, Jimmy Lin, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Richard McCreadie

Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text...

Dictionary-based Face Recognition from Video

December 10, 2012

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Yi-Chen Chen, Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chellappa

The main challenge in recognizing faces in video is effec- tively exploiting the multiple frames of a face and the accompanying dynamic signature. One prominent...

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