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Stephen B. Balakirsky, Zeid Kootbally, Thomas R. Kramer, Rajmohan Madhavan, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael O. Shneier
Industrial assembly of manufactured products is often performed by first bringing parts together in a kit and then moving the kit to the assembly area where the...
Dustin Moody, Souradyuti Paul, Daniel C. Smith-Tone
The JH hash function is one of the five fi nalists of the ongoing NIST SHA3 hash function competition. Despite several earlier attempts, and years of analysis...
Julien M. Amelot, YaShian Li-Baboud, Clement Vasseur, Jeffrey Fletcher, Dhananjay Anand, James Moyne
The numerous time synchronization performance requirements in the Smart Grid entails the need for a set of common metrics and test methods to verify the ability...
The 2011 Solutions in Perception Challenge (SPC) presented an international collection of teams with the opportunity to develop algorithms that could positively...
In this paper, an overview of methods that solve the robot-sensor calibration problem of the forms AX = XB and AX = YB is given. Each form will be split into...
Adam S. Jacoff, Hui-Min Huang, Ann Virts, Anthony Downs, Raymond Sheh
More than 60 robot test methods are being developed by a team lead by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the sponsorship of U.S...
Donghoon Chang, Morris Dworkin, Seokhie Hong, John M. Kelsey, Mridul Nandi
The sponge construction, designed by Bertoni, Daemen, Peeters, and Asscheis, is the framework for hash functions such as Keccak, PHOTON, Quark, and spongent...
Thomas B. Renegar, Johannes A. Soons, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, John S. Villarrubia, Xiaoyu A. Zheng, Theodore V. Vorburger, Jun-Feng Song
Stylus instruments are widely used for surface characterization. It is well known that the size and shape of the stylus tip affects the measured surface...
Janet M. Cassard, Jon C. Geist, Michael Gaitan, David G. Seiler
The MEMS 5-in-1 Reference Material (RM) contains test structures for five standard test methods on one test chip, so companies can compare their in-house...
George P. Eppeldauer, Howard W. Yoon, Jorge E. Neira, Vladimir Khromchenko, Charles E. Gibson, Allan W. Smith
In this work, we describe the comparisons between the laser-based and monochromator-based radiance responsivity calibrations of a radiation thermometer. The...
Sara V. Orski, Santanu S. Kundu, Kathryn L. Beers, Richard Gross
The enzyme Candida antarctica Lipase B (CAL B), immobilized on a crosslinked poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) support, catalyzes the ring-opening polymerization...
Iosif I. Shinder, Christopher J. Crowley, Michael R. Moldover
NIST is developing techniques to calibrate 2- and 3-dimensional anemometer systems (such as multi-hole pitot tubes) with a resolution of 0.3 %. The pitch and...
Nathan R. Newbury, Alexander M. Zolot, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Florian B. Adler, Ian R. Coddington, Kevin O. Knabe, Lora L. Nugent-Glandorf, Paul A. Williams, Scott A. Diddams, Tyler W. Neely
An optical frequency comb based on the output of a mode-locked femtosecond laser can be used in spectroscopic studies and sensing applications. The broad array...
A family of optical modulation signals with known properties was generated using three phase-locked lasers for calibration of the complex measurement plane...
This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a Turbo-BII-HP boiling surface. An...
David J. Livigni, Nathan A. Tomlin, Christopher L. Cromer, John H. Lehman
A cryogenic radiometer was constructed for direct-substitution optical-fibre power measurements. The cavity is intended to operate at the 3 K temperature stage...
O. Castellanos Diaz, F. Schoeggl, H.W. Yarranton, Marco Satyro, Tara Lovestead, Thomas J. Bruno
The composition, vapour pressure, and heat capacity of nine biodiesel fuels from different sources were measured. The vapour pressure of the biodiesel fuels is...
Daniel V. Samarov, Matthew L. Clarke, Ji Y. Lee, David W. Allen, Maritoni A. Litorja, Jeeseong Hwang
As hyperspectral imaging (HSI) sees increased implementation into the biological and medical fields it becomes increasingly important that the algorithms being...
Christopher L. Holloway, Ryan J. Pirkl, William F. Young, David A. Hill, John M. Ladbury
In this paper, we present a three-antenna reverberation chamber method that allows for the determination of the antenna efficiency of three antennas. While...
The enterprise integration-style interfaces and information models in the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS)...
Optical imaging has the potential to achieve high spatial resolution and high functional sensitivity in wound assessment. However, clinical acceptance of many...
Smart cards are now being extensively deployed for identity verification(smart identity tokens) for controlling access to Information Technology (IT) as well as...
Kevin O. Knabe, Paul A. Williams, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Chris Armacost, Michael Radunsky, Nathan R. Newbury
We measure the frequency noise spectrum of a free-running external-cavity quantum cascade laser at 4.5 υm through sum frequency generation with a fiber...
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, James R. Fekete, Jain Luke, Charles H. Williamson
Ethanol fuel production and consumption is expected to increase significantly in the near future. Existing pipeline infrastructure could be repurposed to...
Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Joy Dunkers, Jae H. Kim, Hae-Jeong Lee, Scott Wight, Amanda L. Forster, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
Poly (p-phenylene benzobisoxazole) (PBO) fibers have been used in soft body armor (SBA) because of their high mechanical strength. However, there was an...
Alexander M. Zolot, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Jeff Nicholson, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
Most spectroscopic instruments directly measure optical wavelength, which is converted to frequency and calibrated against spectral features that have...
Joseph W. Fowler, William B. Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Daniel R. Schmidt, Greg Stiehl, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale
We are developing code-division multiplexing (CDM) readout systems for TES arrays for good scalability to large multiplexing factors. We report high energy...
Gregory T. Linteris, Donald R. Burgess Jr., Jeffrey A. Manion, Peter B. Sunderland, John L. Pagliaro, Viswanath R. Katta, Fumiaki Takahashi, Oliver Meier