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Stephen B. Balakirsky, Stefano Carpin, Arnoud Visser
The 2009 RoboCup Competitions took place in Graz Austria in July of 2009. The Virtual Robot Rescue Competition included 11 competitors from 10 different...
Tina G. Butcher, Linda D. Crown, Steven E. Cook, Lisa Warfield
This is the Annual Meeting agenda for the standing committees of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM). This meeting is scheduled to take place...
Kavita M. Jeerage, Elisabeth Mansfield, Tammy L. Oreskovic, Nikki S. Rentz, Timothy P. Quinn
Long-term studies of nanoparticle-cell interactions require an advanced tissue-like environment in which nanoparticles are encapsulated with a population of...
Jenni R. Popp, Colm Flannery, Tammy L. Oreskovic, Jennifer Recknor, Kristi S. Anseth, Timothy P. Quinn
Functional tissue engineering of articular cartilage is rapidly advancing as a technique to develop regenerative and reparative treatments for cartilage...
Tinh Nguyen, Bastien T. Pellegrin, Coralie Bernard, Xiaohong Gu, Justin M. Gorham, Paul E. Stutzman, Alexander J. Shapiro, Walter E. Byrd, Joannie W. Chin
This study assessed the fate of SiO2 nanoparticles (nanoSiO2) in epoxy/nanoSiO2 composites exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The matrix was a...
The electronic SURDAT database published in 2007 (available freely from the website www.imim.pl) is being integrated with the NIST database (available freely...
This paper describes and contrasts two families of schemes that enable a user to purchase digital content without revealing to anyone what item he has purchased...
Atif A. Imtiaz, Thomas M. Wallis, SangHyun S. Lim, Jonathan Chisum, Zoya Popovic, Pavel Kabos
The Scanning Microwave Probe (SMP) is emerging as an important broadband metrology tool for characterizing the materials and devices in the micron and sub...
Electronic devices designed for purposes other than transmitting and receiving electromagnetic fields nonetheless act as unintentional antennas. Measurement...
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...
R. Ryder, Robert C. Hendricks, Marcia L. Huber, D. T. Shouse
Civil and military flight tests using blends of synthetic and biomass fueling with jet fuel up to 50:50 are currently considered as drop in fuels. They are...
Timothy J. Burns, Steven P. Mates, Richard L. Rhorer, Eric P. Whitenton, Debasis Basak, Russell H. McFadden
A one-dimensional transient finite-difference model for the temperature distribution in orthogonal metal cutting, which was originally developed by Boothroyd...
This paper presents a Bayesian framework and a pricing structure for a secondary wireless user that opportunistically uses a RF channel belonging to a network...
We developed a spectrometer for signals at single photon levels in the near infrared (NIR) region based on a tunable up-conversion detector. This detector uses...
Because acoustic power density is proportional to frequency, the size of pulse tube cryocoolers for a given refrigeration power can be reduced by operating them...
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker, Robert C. Hagwood
To evaluate the performance of fingerprint-image matching algorithms on large datasets, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is applied. From the...
Douglas M. Fox, Mauro Zammarano, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Jieun Lee, Eric Balsley, Erica Ford
Due to its strength, charring ability, and biodegradability, cellulose-based reinforced polymers have received considerable attention. However, its high...
Richard Quintanilha, Martin Y. Sohn, Bryan M. Barnes, Richard M. Silver
Resist-on-silicon sub-50 nm targets have been investigated using a 193 nm angle-resolved scatter field microscope(ARSM). The illumination path of this...
Richard M. Silver, Bryan M. Barnes, Martin Y. Sohn, Richard Quintanilha, Hui Zhou, Chris Deeb, Mark Johnson, Milton Goodwin, Dilip Patel
New techniques recently developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology using bright field optical tools are applied to signal-based defect...
Katie Hurst, Elisabeth Mansfield, Anne Dillon, John H. Lehman
Bulk purified carbon nanotube (CNT) material is essential for the realization of CNT applications including incorporating them into various composite materials...
Katie Hurst, Jeffrey Blackburn, Larsen A. Brian, John H. Lehman
We discuss the photochemical treatment of transparent conducting (TC) films made from single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs).(1) The treatment process is...
Nancy Lin, Joseph M. Antonucci, Diana N. Zeiger, Kathy Tang, Bruce O. Fowler, Sheng Lin-Gibson
Biofilm growth and secondary caries have resulted in the failure of many dental composite restorations. One approach to address this issue is the modification...
Katie Hurst, Christopher L. Cromer, Elisabeth Mansfield, Roop Mahajan, John H. Lehman, Gurpreet Singh
We describe the development of two next-generation optical coatings; amorphous polymer-derived silicon carbonitride (SiCN) particles and a composite consisting...
John S. Villarrubia, Ronald G. Dixson, Andras Vladar
In contour metrology the CD-SEM (critical dimension scanning electron microscope) assigns a continuous boundary to extended features in an image. The boundary...
Theodore V. Vorburger, Albert M. Hilton, Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, J. A. Powell, A. J. Trunek, P. G. Neudeck, P. B. Abel
We aim to develop and calibrate a set of step height standards to meet the range of steps useful for nanotechnology. Of particular interest to this community is...
Roy H. Geiss, Elisabeth Mansfield, Jeffrey A. Fagan
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a series of single-walled carbon nanotube, SWCNT, reference materials, RMs, to provide...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a laser Doppler anemometer (LDA) as a working standard for airspeed calibrations in the range 0...
Ronald A. Ginley, Dylan Williams, N M. Ridler, J L. Hesler, Anthony R. Kerr, R D. Pollard
This paper describes an activity that has begun recently to develop an international standard for rectangular metallic waveguides and their interfaces for...
Jessica M. Torres, Christopher Stafford, Bryan D. Vogt
In this work, we examine the influence of relative molecular mass (Mn, or the number average molecular mass) of PS on the thickness-dependent moduli using a...
We demonstrate that thermal wrinkling can be utilized to measure the rubbery modulus and shear viscosity of polystyrene (PS) thin films as a function of...