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Conferences

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...

Metadata for Long Term Preservation of Product Data

August 2, 2010

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

Product data can usefully be defined as structured information about objects which are produced by industrial and business processes. In terms of information...

Surface Energy/Chemistry Gradients for Block Copolymer Thin Film Studies

August 2, 2010

Author(s)

Julie N. Albert, Michael J. Baney, Christopher Stafford, Jennifer Y. Kelly, Thomas H. Epps

Development of self-assembling block copolymer materials for emerging nanotechnologies requires an understanding of how surface energy and chemistry affect thin...

Supercontinuum fiber laser source for reflectance calibrations in remote sensing

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Clarence J. Zarobila, Heather J. Patrick

The Optical Technology Division of the NIST provides reference measurements of specular and diffuse reflectance of materials, including measurements that...

Flow Visualization Techniques for the Evaluation of Non-Contact Trace Contraband Detectors

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Matthew E. Staymates, Wayne Smith, John G. Gillen, Richard T. Lareau, Robert A. Fletcher

Efforts are underway in the Surface and Microanalysis Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study trace aerodynamic sampling...

Nanoparticle Separation and Metrology by Three-Dimensional Nanofluidic Size Exclusion

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Samuel M. Stavis, Jon C. Geist, Michael Gaitan

Spectroscopy with a coherent dual frequency comb interferometer at 3.4 µm

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

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

A coherent dual fiber-comb spectrometer centered at 1.5 µm wavelengths is transferred to 3.4 µm by difference-frequency generation with a 1064 nm cw laser. It...

Argon ion beam alters grain structure of copper in surface preparation for EBSD

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Roy H. Geiss, David T. Read

In preparing specimens of thin films of copper for examination by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), surface preparation is often necessary to produce...

Catalyst-free GaN Nanowire Growth and Optoelectronic Characterization

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, John B. Schlager

Characterizing Interphase Properties in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite with Advanced AFM Based Tools

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Donna C. Hurley, Sandeep S. Nair, Siqun Wang, Seung H. Lee

Advanced atomic force microscopy techniques such as contact resonance force microscopy, noncontact mode phase imaging, and scanning thermal microscopy...

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