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Conferences

A Channel Propagation Model for the 700 MHz Band

September 1, 2010

Author(s)

Camillo A. Gentile, Nada T. Golmie, Catherine A. Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, William F. Young

Conversion from analog television in the United States combined with the appeal for broadband public safety communications is generating a lot of interest in...

Effect of 3D Hydogel Scaffold Modulus and Topology on Human Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Fate

September 1, 2010

Author(s)

Kaushik Chatterjee, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Sapun Parekh, Nicole M. Moore, Marcus T. Cicerone, marian F. young, Carl Simon Jr.

There is growing recognition that cells can sense and respond to the physical cues from their environment, such as stiffness, mechanical loading and topology...

X-Ray Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

September 1, 2010

Author(s)

E. H. Silver, N Brickhouse, T. Lin, G X. Chen, K. Kirby, John D. Gillaspy, Joseph N. Tan, J M. Laming

This paper presents (1) new laboratory data on the x-ray spectra of He-like Ar XVII over a broad spectral range (300-3500 eV) at high resolution (2) the results...

LWA Absorption and Desorption: The Influence on the Microstructure and Transport Properties of Internally Cured Mortars

September 1, 2010

Author(s)

Javier Castro, Ryan Henkensiefken, Tommy Nantung, Dale P. Bentz, Jason Weiss

The increased propensity for shrinkage cracking in low water-to-cement ratio (w/c) concrete has resulted in the development of new methods that can reduce the...

Framework and Indicators for a Sustainable Manufacturing Mapping Methodology

August 31, 2010

Author(s)

Marja Paju, Juhani Heilala, Markku Hentula, Antti Heikkila, Bjorn Johansson, Swee K. Leong, Kevin W. Lyons

Increasing numbers of companies in the manufacturing industry have identified market potential for implementing sustainable and green manufacturing. Yet...

Efficient photon pair sources based on Silicon-on-Insulator microresonators

August 30, 2010

Author(s)

Jun Chen, Zachary Levine, Jingyun Fan, Alan Migdall

We present a general quantum-mechanical formalism to describe photon pair generation via four-wave mixing in a Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) microresonator. We...

Towards Improved End-to-End System Efficiency of Photon Pair systems

August 30, 2010

Author(s)

Alexander E. Ling, Alan L. Migdall, Jingyun Fan

We report on our efforts in integrating a source and detection system of photon pairs that have a high end-to-end system efficiency. This requires combining...

Characterization of Two Spectrmeters in Support of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission

August 27, 2010

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, Robert D. Saunders, Zhigang Li, Abra Fein, Lawrence Ong, Milton Hom, Robert Barnes, B L. Markham

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) project at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is supervising...

The Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram of URu₂Si₂ Under Hydrostatic Conditions

August 26, 2010

Author(s)

Nicholas P. Butch, Jason R. Jeffries, William J. Evans, Song Xue Chi, Juscelino Leao, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, James J. Hamlin, Diego A. Zocco, M. B. Maple

Measurement Needs in Sustainability and Materials Performance

August 24, 2010

Author(s)

Richard E. Ricker

Sustainability is an attractive approach to environmental stewardship because it recognizes the importance of continued profitability in maintaining the...

Specification of Attribute Relations for Access Control Policies and Constraints Using Policy Machine

August 23, 2010

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, David F. Ferraiolo, Serban I. Gavrila

Attribute relations in access control mechanisms or languages allow accurate and efficient specification of some popular access control models. However, most of...

Practical Near-Collisions for Reduced Round Blake, Fugue, Hamsi and JH

August 23, 2010

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Erdener Uyan

A hash function is near-collision resistant, if it is hard to find two messages with hash values that differ in only small number of bits. In this study, we...

A Flexible and Efficient Numerical Framework for Image Segmentation by Energy Minimization

August 22, 2010

Author(s)

Gunay Dogan

A widely used approach to image segmentation is to define corresponding segmentation energies and to compute shapes that are minimizers of these energies. In...

PHOTOPOLYMERIZED DIMETHACRYLATE POLYMERS CONTAINING IN SITU GENERATED SILVER NANOPARTICLES

August 21, 2010

Author(s)

Yajun Cheng, Xinran Zhang, Diana N. Zeiger, Nancy Lin, Joseph M. Antonucci, Sheng Lin-Gibson

Polymeric nanocomposites containing silver are known to exhibit antibacterial activity. Here we demonstrate the synthesis and characterization of dimethacrylate...

Image specific error rate: A biometric performance metric

August 20, 2010

Author(s)

Elham Tabassi

Image-speciﬁc false match and false non-match error rates are deﬁned by inheriting concepts from the biometric zoo. These metrics support failure mode analyses...

Cryogenic Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer from 4 to 20 Micrometers

August 20, 2010

Author(s)

Simon G. Kaplan, Solomon I. Woods, Timothy M. Jung, Adriaan C. Carter

We describe the design and performance of a cryogenic Fourier transform spectrometer (Cryo-FTS) operating at a temperature of approximately 15 K. The instrument...

NEW Scanning Electron Microscope Magnification Calibration Reference Material (RM) 8820

August 19, 2010

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, William J. Keery, Michael Bishop, Benjamin Bunday, John Allgair

Reference Material 8820 (RM 8820) is a new scanning electron microscope calibration reference material for nanotechnology and nanomanufacturingtion recently...

MTCONNECT-BASED KAIZEN FOR MACHINE TOOL PROCESSES

August 18, 2010

Author(s)

Byeong Eon Lee, John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor, Sid Venkatesh, Nils Bengtsson

Kaizen is a part of Lean Manufacturing that focuses on the concept of continuous improvement to reduce waste. For implementing Kaizen on the factory floor...

Embedded Capacitive Displacement Sensor for Nanopositioning Applications

August 17, 2010

Author(s)

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic1, Nicholas Dagalakis, Rae Duk Lee, Yong Sik Kim, Jae M. Yoo, Seung H. Yang

The scale of nano objects requires very precise position determination. The state-of-the-art manipulators involve accurate nanometer positioning. This paper...

Broadband coherent spectroscopy in the near infrared using dual coherent frequency combs

August 15, 2010

Author(s)

Nathan R. Newbury, Ian R. Coddington, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Alexander M. Zolot

Fiber-based frequency combs can provide broadband coherent light that enables new possibilities for high-accuracy, high-resolution broadband spectroscopy. We...

Indoor Air Quality in Sustainable, Energy Efficient Buildings

August 15, 2010

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich

Building designers, contractors, owners and managers have long been challenged with providing quality indoor environments at a reasonable energy cost. Current...

CT Measurements of SAP Voids in Concrete

August 15, 2010

Author(s)

Sara Laustsen, Dale P. Bentz, Marianne Hasholt, Ole M. Jensen

This paper describes how X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning can be used to determine the void distribution in hardened concrete. Three different approaches...

Report on the NIST workshop of December 10, 2009: calibration strategies for bridging possible climate data gaps

August 12, 2010

Author(s)

Raju V. Datla, Joseph P. Rice, Catherine C. Cooksey, Kurtis J. Thome, Robert Barnes, Changyong Cao

A one day workshop was held on December 10, 2009 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to address the issue of data gaps in the time series of...

Conductive Carbon Nanotubes for Semiconductor Metrology

August 10, 2010

Author(s)

Joseph J. Kopanski, Victor H. Vartanian, Vladimir Mancevski, Phillip D. Rack, Ilona Sitnitsky, Matthew D. Bresin

This paper presents an evaluation of e-beam assisted deposition and welding of conductive carbon nanotube (c-CNT) tips for electrical scanning probe microscope...

Variability in the Geometric Accuracy of Additively Manufactured Test Parts

August 9, 2010

Author(s)

April L. Cooke, Johannes A. Soons

Results of a study on the variability in the geometric accuracy of a metal test part manufactured by several service providers using either electron beam or...

NIST COORDINATION OF SMART GRID INTEROPERABILITY STANDARDS

August 9, 2010

Author(s)

David A. Wollman, Gerald FitzPatrick, Paul A. Boynton, Thomas L. Nelson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has efforts underway to accelerate the development of interoperability standards to support the future...

Performance Requirements for End-to-End Verifiable Elections

August 9, 2010

Author(s)

Stefan Popoveniuc, John M. Kelsey, Andrew Regenscheid, Poorvi Vora

The term end-to-end verifiability has been used over the past several years to describe multiple voting system proposals. The term has, however, never been...

Understanding the Hazards of Grouped Electrical Cables

August 8, 2010

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Andrew J. Lock, Nathan D. Marsh, Marc R. Nyden, Jason Dreisbach, David Stroup

CHRISTIFIRE (Cable Heat Release, Ignition, and Spread in Tray Installations during FIRE) is a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Research program to...

Message Recovery and Pseudo-Preimage Attacks on the Compression Function of Hamsi-256

August 8, 2010

Author(s)

Cagdas Calik , Meltem Sonmez Turan

Hamsi is one of the second round candidates of the SHA-3 competition. In this study, we present non-random differential properties for the compression function...

An Experimental Study of Interference Impacts on ZigBee-based Wireless Communications Inside Buildings

August 7, 2010

Author(s)

Wenqi Guo, William M. Healy, Mengchu Zhou

ZigBee is a wireless technology developed as an open global standard to address the unique needs of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor networks. This standard...

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