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Piezoelectric shakers are well suited to generate motion suitable for use with laser interferometric methods at frequencies of 3 kHz and above. One advantage of...
Richard G. Southwick, Kin P. Cheung, Jason P. Campbell, Serghei Drozdov, Jason T. Ryan, John S. Suehle, Anthony Oates
Random Telegraph Noise (RTN) has been shown to surpass random dopant fluctuations as a cause for decananometer device variability, through the measurement of a...
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Richard L. Rhorer, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
The Kolsky bar test has been widely used in measuring material behavior under high strain rate conditions. In particular, this methodology has been used to...
Scott Grutzik, Richard S. Gates, Yvonne B. Gerbig, Robert F. Cook, Melissa Hines, Alan Zehnder
When designing micro- or nanoelectromechanical systems, (MEMS and NEMS), it is important to consider whether structural elements will withstand loads...
Rui Zhuang, Su Zhang, Scott DeLoach, Xinming Ou, Anoop Singhal
Moving-target defense has been hypothesized as a potential game changer in cyber defense, including that for computer networks. However there has been little...
Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Serghei Drozdov, Richard G. Southwick, Jason T. Ryan, Tony Oates, John S. Suehle
A recently developed series resistance (RSD) extraction procedure from a single nanoscale device is shown to be highly robust. Despite these virtues, the...
In order to contain a differential propagation delay in a block based cooperative MIMO system, a guard interval can be inserted to mitigate the effect of inter...
MTConnect is an open and extensible protocol designed for the exchange of data between shop floor devices and software applications. MTConnect allows...
John A. Slotwinski, Gregory W. Vogl, Robert W. Ivester, Ian Younker
This paper presents an investigation of the application of a suite of sensors for simultaneous in-situ measurements of machining processes. While not every...
Robert W. Ivester, Eric P. Whitenton, Jill Hershman, Kevin Chou, Qiang Wu
Two dimensional (2D) orthogonal cutting experiments using diamond-coated tools were conducted with forces and tool-tip temperatures measured by dynamometry and...
Karolina K. Owczarzak, John M. Conroy, Hoa T. Dang, Ani Nenkova
Automatic evaluation has greatly facilitated system development in summarization. At the same time, the use of automatic evaluation has been viewed with...
Martin Hardwick, Frederick M. Proctor, David Loffredo, Sid Venkatesh
STEP-NC is a new data format for manufacturing control. One of its applications is to enable integrated on machine measurement of machining processes using...
Karolina K. Owczarzak, Peter Rankel, Hoa T. Dang, John M. Conroy
We investigate the consistency of human assessors involved in summarization evaluation to understand its effect on system ranking and automatic evaluation...
John L. Michaloski, Guodong Shao, Swee K. Leong, Frank H. Riddick, Jonatan Berglund, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller
This paper discusses data synthesis of production and facility knowledge for sustainability analysis by applying the ISA 95 "Activity Models of Manufacturing...
Tasshi Dennis, John B. Schlager, Hao-Chih Yuan, Qi Wang, Daniel Friedman
The design and operation of a novel solar simulator based on a high-power, super-continuum fiber laser is described in this work. The simulator features a multi...
Randolph E. Elmquist, Mariano A. Real, Irene G. Calizo, Brian G. Bush, Tian T. Shen, Nikolai N. Klimov, David B. Newell, Angela R. Hight Walker, Randall M. Feenstra
This paper describes concepts and measurement techniques necessary for characterization of graphene in the development of graphene-based quantized Hall effect...
Bradley N. Damazo, Ravikiran Attota, Premsagar P. Kavuri, Andras Vladar
A novel through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) method that yields nanoscale information from optical images obtained at multiple focal planes will be...
Mariano A. Real, Tian T. Shen, George R. Jones Jr., Randolph Elmquist, Johannes A. Soons, Albert Davydov
Epitaxial growth of graphene layers on 6H-SiC(0001) substrates have been studied in order to improve graphene's performance for metrological applications. A...
Harold Sanchez, Lucas Di Lillo, Gregory Kyriazis, Rodrigo Ramos, Randolph Elmquist, Nien F. Zhang
This paper reports the results of the second Interamerican Metrology System (SIM) comparison on calibration of digital multimeters, performed for strengthening...
Attribute value uncertainty is present in a decision when the consequences are characterized by uncertain estimates of the underlying, unknown true values...
Paul W. Witherell, Sudarsan Rachuri, Anna D'Alessio
Organizational and production dispersions in manufacturing enterprises can create situations where manufacturers are asked to conform to multiple sustainability...
Joseph Reader, John Gillaspy, Dmitry D. Osin, Yuri Ralchenko
We describe recent observations with the electron beam ion trap (EBIT) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in which we observed large...
Assane Gueye, Vladimir V. Marbukh, Jean C. Walrand
In this paper, we propose a quantification of the vulnerability of a communication network when links are subject to failures due to the actions of a strategic...
Fiona Zhao, Thomas Kramer, John A. Horst, William G. Rippey, Robert Brown
As defined by major dimensional metrology system users and suppliers, the Quality Information Framework (QIF) is an integrated and holistic set of information...
Scott B. Papp, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott A. Diddams
We present line-spacing frequency control of a microresonator-based optical frequency comb by way of mechanical actuation. Using this novel technique we have...
Andrew D. Ludlow, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Nathan D. Lemke, Kyle P. Beloy, Nathan M. Hinkley, M. Pizzocaro, Richard W. Fox, Christopher W. Oates
We report a high accuracy measurement of the differential static polarizability for the clock transition in a Yb lattice clock, a key parameter for determining...
Jason A. DeSalvo, Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, David A. Howe
We present phase-noise measurements in support of terahertz electronics. Using digital phase-noise measurement techniques and an even-harmonic mixer, we achieve...
A digital phase/amplitude modulation (PM/AM) noise measurement system (DNMS) implementing field programmable gate array (FPGA) based digital down converters...