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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...
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...
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...
The Optical Technology Division of the NIST provides reference measurements of specular and diffuse reflectance of materials, including measurements that...
In preparing specimens of thin films of copper for examination by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), surface preparation is often necessary to produce...
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...
Florian Kempel, Bernhard Schartel, Anja Hofmann, Gregory T. Linteris, Richard E. Lyon, Richard N. Walters, Stanislav Stoliarov
Two different numerical simulation tools, Fire Dynamic Simulator FDS and ThermaKin, are investigated with respect to their capability to predict the mass loss...
Dylan F. Williams, Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Denis X. LeGolvan, Ronald A. Ginley, Chih-Ming Wang, Jolene D. Splett
We present measurements indicating that electronic calibration units are stable enough to be used in place of mechanical vector-network-analyzer verification...
James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Xiaoli Lu, Yu Y. Wang, Eduard Rocas, Jordi Mateu, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Michael D. Janezic
We describe the development of coplanar waveguide measurement structures integrated with microfluidic channels in order to rapidly determine the broadband...
We have evaluated the correction factor of a WR-15 (50 to 75 GHz) rectangular waveguide calorimeter using four different techniques. The four methods are in...
Dave K. Walker, Dazhen Gu, Katherine MacReynolds, Randy Direen, James P. Randa, Amanda Cox, Derek A. Houtz, Robert L. Billinger
Accurate characterization of the brightness temperature (T_B) of black-body targets used for calibrating microwave remote-sensing radiometers includes many...
Dazhen Gu, Amanda Cox, Derek A. Houtz, Dave K. Walker, James P. Randa, Robert L. Billinger
We report the characterization of blackbody reflections as a part of the recent progress on the development of brightness standards for microwave remote sensing...
In this paper, the piezoelectric ceramics mounted on the endplates of a cylindrical resonator were used as the source and detector for acoustic speed...
SangHyun S. Lim, Atif A. Imtiaz, Dazhen Gu, Pavel Kabos, Thomas Mitchell (Mitch) Wallis
Patterned permallay films as a part of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) were fabricated, and the magnetization dynamics of such structures was investigated as...
Jason Coder, John M. Ladbury, Christopher L. Holloway, Kate Remley
In this paper we explore how placing the same amount of absorber in different locations within a reverberation chamber can have different loading effects. This...
This paper provides the basis for an interactive mini tutorial and covers how to convert technical content to training materials. It includes: defining the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now offers a service that provides customers with an oscillator locked to UTC(NIST), the United States...
The Sistema Interamericano de Metrologia (SIM), one of the world s five major regional metrology organizations (RMOs) recognized by the Bureau International des...
Refractometry of air is a central problem for interferometer-based dimensional measurements. Refractometry at the 10^{-9} level is only valid if air temperature...
The Moore M48 coordinate measuring machine (CMM) has provided NIST with unique and very flexible measurement capabilities for many years. The machines state of...
Linear modal analysis and superposition technique has been used extensively in earthquake engineering and seismic applications for decades, and it is here...
Dilip K. Banerjee, John L. Gross, Pradeep R. Gaddam, Thomas M. Olano, William J. Hess, Judith E. Terrill, Terence J. Griffin, John G. Hagedorn, John T. Kelso, Steven G. Satterfield
We have created an integrated interactive visualization and analysis environment, that can be used immersively or on the desktop, to study the interaction among...
We present experimental measurements and analysis of RF interference between a passive RFID system and a generic frequency hopping communications system in the...
Kichul Kim, Paul Rice, Pavel Kabos, Dejan Filipovic
Microwave interconnect configurations composed of single wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are studied in this paper. Specifically, an atomic layer deposition (ALD)...
Jason B. Coder, John M. Ladbury, Christopher L. Holloway, Catherine A. Remley
In this paper we explore how placing the same amount of RF absorber in different locations within a reverberation chamber can have different loading effects...
Thomas J. Bruno, Tim Edwards, Linda M. Shafer, Matthew Billingsley
Kerosene fuels possess physical and chemical properties which make them attractive for aerospace propulsion applications from operational and performance...
Daniel G. Kuester, David R. Novotny, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri
This paper compares the forward and reverse links' relative roles in determining the operational range of UHF RFID systems using passive tags. Simple free space...