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Computer systems often exhibit degraded performance due to resource leakage caused by erroneous programming or malicious attacks, and computers can even crash...
Shawn P. Moylan, David Blumenfeld, Michael L. McGlauflin, Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., M A. Donmez
Machining of a test artifact is an attractive method of evaluating the performance of a machine tool because the tests are often quick and do not require...
Joseph J. Kopanski, Ilona Sitnitsky, Victor H. Vartanian, Paul McClure, Vladimir Mancevski
Electrical scanning probe microscopes, such as the scanning capacitance microscope (SCM) for two dimensional dopant profiling, scanning Kelvin force microscope...
Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., M A. Donmez, Shawn P. Moylan
Many new compact ultra-precision linear translation stages with exceptionally long ranges of motion on the order of tens of millimeters and positioning...
Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) is a relatively new method that transforms conventional optical microscopes into truly three-dimensional...
Ryan J. Lewis, Mu Hong Lin, Yunda Wang, Jill Cooper, Peter E. Bradley, Ray Radebaugh, Marcia L. Huber, Yung-Cheng Lee
Joule-Thompson (J-T) based micro cryogenic coolers (MCCs) are attractive because they can provide the cryogenic temperatures needed for small electronic devices...
Matthew E. Staymates, Jessica M. Grandner, John G. Gillen, Stefan Lukow
In collaboration with the Transportation Security Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been developing a prototype shoe sampling...
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Wei Ren, Dennis S. Everett, Eric S. Stanfield, Theodore D. Doiron
Non-contact dimensional measurement of fuel cell plates is critical to the eventual rapid manufacture by supporting in-process measurement and control. This...
We consider the approximate pointwise control of a linear parabolic system with multiple targets. Assuming a hierarchy among the objectives, we derive...
John P. Lowe, Matthew J. Deutch, Glenn K. Nelson, Douglas D. Sutton, William C. Yates, Peder Hansen, Oren Eliezer, Tom Jung, Stephen Morrison, Yingsi Liang, Dinesh Rajan, Sidharth Balasubramanian, Arun Ramasami, Waleed Khalil
The WWVB broadcast of the time-code signal has not undergone major changes in its communications protocol and modulation scheme since its introduction in 1963...
Paul D. Kunz, Vladislav Gerginov, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts
We are developing a transportable rubidium (Rb) atomic fountain frequency standard which uses independently phase-locked diode lasers for laser-cooling. At this...
William C. Swann, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Nathan R. Newbury
Low phase-noise microwave generation has previously been demonstrated using self-referenced frequency combs to divide down a low noise optical reference. We...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) currently operates 35 public network time servers that are located at many different sites in the...
David A. Howe, Danielle G. Lirette, Neil Ashby, Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson
We create a measurement technique and metrics consistent with easy interpretation to be used in development of new oscillators specifically for applications in...
Richard M. Silver, Bryan Barnes, Martin Sohn, Hui Zhou, Jing Qin
The semiconductor manufacturing industry is now facing serious challenges in achieving defect detection rates with acceptable throughput and accuracy. With...
Kristine A. Bertness, Joshua R. Montague, Norman A. Sanford, Victor Bright, Charles T. Rogers
A variable-temperature, homodyne reflectometry measurement technique for detecting nanoscale mechanical motion has recently been developed. We have extended...
Yunda Wang, Ryan J. Lewis, Mu Hong Lin, Yiwei Yan, Ray Radebaugh, Peter E. Bradley, Yung-Cheng Lee
A heat exchanger (HX) plays an important role in many cryogenic systems. This paper demonstrates a fully integrated fabrication process to make a novel...
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE) are an ongoing series of projects conducted by NIST. In the NIST...
Robert R. Keller, Mark C. Strus, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, David T. Read, Younglae Kim, Yung J. Jung
We describe the development of electrical test methods to evaluate damage that determines reliability in advanced, small-scale conductors, including damascene...
With the increasing adoption of cloud computing service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service...
The reliable measurement of pressures on low-rise buildings in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow remains a challenge, as has been shown by the large...
A number of computational tools have been developed in recent years to simulate the disproportionate (progressive) collapse behavior of multi-story reinforced...
Collapse analyses of a 10-story reinforced concrete frame building are carried out to investigate the robustness of structural systems against column removal...
Langasite (LGS), langatate (LGT), and similar piezoelectric crystals in the P321 crystal class have become an increasing focus of research during the past two...
This paper offers a collection of recommendations to architect a comprehensive and coherent architectural solution for a global interoperability testing...
Tony V. Cheneau, Maryline Laurent, Andrei V. Sambra
This paper presents a new public key distribution scheme adapted to ad hoc networks called TAKES for Trustful Authentication and Key Exchange Scheme. Its...
We address the problem of state estimation of the power system for the Smart Grid.We assume that the monitoring of the electrical grid is done by a network of...
Jeff McIntire, David Moyer, James K. McCarthy, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke, Frank De Luccia, Xiaoxiong Xiong, James J. Butler, Bruce Guenther
Verification of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) End-to-End (E2E) sensor calibration is highly recommended before launch, to identify any...