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Conferences

The MEMS 5-in-1 Reference Materials (RM 8096 and 8097)

March 21, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Comparison of laser-based and monochromator-based thermodynamic temperature measurements

March 19, 2012

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Howard Yoon, Jorge Neira Arango, Vladimir B. 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...

Calibrations of Multi-Hole Pitot Tubes Depend on Tubulence

March 19, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Stability of Solid-Supported Enzyme Catalysts for Ring-Opening Polymerization

March 19, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Broad bandwidth trace gas and standoff detection with infrared frequency comb sources

March 11, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Producing known complex modulation signals for calibration of optical modulation analyzers

March 4, 2012

Author(s)

Tasshi Dennis, Bernd Nebendahl

A family of optical modulation signals with known properties was generated using three phase-locked lasers for calibration of the complex measurement plane...

EFFECT OF AL2O3 NANOLUBRICANT ON A TURBO-BII R134A POOL BOILING SURFACE

March 3, 2012

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

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...

Optical fibre-coupled cryogenic radiometer with carbon nanotube absorber

March 2, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Determining Nanoparticle Purity and the Presence of Nanoparticle Surface Coatings through Microscale TGA - Presentation at HiTemp2011

March 1, 2012

Author(s)

Elisabeth Mansfield

Modeling the Vapor Pressure of Biodiesel Fuels

February 22, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Multiscale assessment of the osteochondral interface width in the femoral head

February 4, 2012

Author(s)

Sara E. Campbell, Donna C. Hurley, Virginia L. Ferguson

Validating the LASSO Algorithm by Unmixing Spectral Signatures in Multicolor Phantoms

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Hyperspectral Imaging of Ischemic Wounds

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

David Allen

Optical imaging has the potential to achieve high spatial resolution and high functional sensitivity in wound assessment. However, clinical acceptance of many...

A Three-Antenna Technique for Determining the Total and Radiation Efficiencies of Antennas in Reverberation Chambers

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

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...

OASIS Collaborative Energy Standards, Facilities, and ZigBee Smart Energy

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg, William Cox, Don Sturek

The enterprise integration-style interfaces and information models in the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS)...

Determining Authentication Strength for Smart Card-based Authentication Use Cases

January 30, 2012

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Smart cards are now being extensively deployed for identity verification(smart identity tokens) for controlling access to Information Technology (IT) as well as...

Frequency Characterization of an External-Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser at 4.5 υm using a Frequency Comb

January 25, 2012

Author(s)

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...

EFFECT OF ETHANOL FUEL AND MICROBIOLOGICALLY INFLUENCED CORROSION ON THE FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF PIPELINE STEELS

January 25, 2012

Author(s)

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...

The Effects of Folding on High Strength Fibers Used in Soft Body Armor

January 23, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Optimization and analysis of code-division multiplexed TES microcalorimeters

January 20, 2012

Author(s)

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...

High-resolution, high-accuracy dual comb spectroscopy with over 40 THz bandwidth

January 20, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Analysis of Suppressant-Enhanced Overpressure in the FAA Aerosol Can Simulator

January 18, 2012

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Donald R. Burgess Jr., Jeffrey A. Manion, Peter B. Sunderland, John L. Pagliaro, Viswanath R. Katta, Fumiaki Takahashi, Oliver Meier

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Texture Evolution in TRIP 590 Steels

January 3, 2012

Author(s)

Adam A. Creuziger, Lin Hu, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, A. D. Rollett

Evolution of Anisotropic Stress Factors with Texture in the Biaxial Deformation of HSLA50 Steel

January 3, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Adam A. Creuziger, Mark A. Iadicola

The effects of crystallographic texture produced by biaxial deformation on the diffraction elastic constants (DEC) are discussed. Predictions of DEC values from...

A Novel Method for Determining the Lower Bound of Antenna Efficiency

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Jason B. Coder, John M. Ladbury, Mark Golkowski

Determining the absolute antenna efficiency has been a difficult task since the inception of the antenna itself. While there are methods that can measure an...

Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) method provides three-dimensional information (i.e. the size, shape and location) about micro- and nanometer...

The LaTeXML Daemon: Editable Math on the Collaborative Web

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Deyan Ginev, Heinrich Stammerjohanns, Bruce R. Miller, Michael Kohlhase

The language of the \TeX/\LaTeX} typesetting system has become all-pervasive in scientific publications and has proven its stability, convenience and...

Vulnerability Hierarchies in Access Control Configurations

December 27, 2011

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn

This paper applies methods for analyzing fault hierarchies to the analysis of relationships among vulnerabilities in misconfigured access control rule...

NATURAL AND FORCED VENTILATION OF BUOYANT GAS RELEASED IN A FULL-SCALE GARAGE: COMPARISON OF MODEL PREDICTIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA

December 19, 2011

Author(s)

Kuldeep R. Prasad, William M. Pitts, Marco G. Fernandez, Jiann C. Yang

Increase in the number of hydrogen fueled applications in the marketplace will require a better understanding of the potential for fires and explosion...

Experimentally Based Methodology for Charge Pumping Bulk Defect Trapping Correction

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Chadwin Young, John S. Suehle

We develop a simple experimental approach to remove bulk trap contributions from charge pumping data collected on devices which suffer from large amounts of...

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