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Conferences

Transport Behavior and Characterization of Precision 1 (OMEGA) Resistors for International Comparisons

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Randolph E. Elmquist, George R. Jones, Brian J. Pritchard

The U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Measurement Institute of Australia (NMIA) have recently examined two types of...

DMD diffraction measurements to support design of projectors for test and evaluation of multispectral and hyperspectral imaging sensors

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice, Jorge E. Neira, Michael Kehoe, Rand Swanson

We describe our use of Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs) for the performance testing, characterization, calibration, and system-level data product validation...

Methods for transferring the SI unit of force from millinewtons to piconewtons

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Gordon A. Shaw, Koo-Hyun Chung, Douglas T. Smith, Jon R. Pratt

The establishment of standards for small force measurement requires a link to an absolute measurement of force traceable to the international system of units...

Characterization of Uncertainties When Measuring Metal Cutting Temperatures Using Infrared Radiation Thermography

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Eric P. Whitenton

There are many error sources when using infrared radiation thermography to measure the temperature distribution of the tool, workpiece, and chip during metal...

Quantum Key Distribution System Operating at Sifted-Key Rate Over 4 Mbit/s¹

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Hai Xu, Barry J. Hershman, Joshua C. Bienfang, David H. Su, Ronald F. Boisvert, Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams

A complete fiber-based polarization encoding quantum key distribution (QKD) system based on the BB84 protocol has been developed at National Institute of...

Characterization of a Metafilm/Metasurface

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Edward E. Kuester

A metafilm (also referred to as a metasurface) is the surface equivalent of a metamaterial. More precisely, a metafilm is a surface distribution of suitably...

Hyperspectral Image Compressive Projection Algorithm

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice, Jorge E. Neira, David W. Allen

We describe a compressive projection algorithm and quantitatively assess its performance when used with a Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP). The HIP is being...

Robustness of display reflectance measurements: Comparison between BRDF and hemispherical diffuse reflectance

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Seungkwan Kim, Edward F. Kelley, John Penczek

We measured in-plane bidirectional-reflectance-distribution-function (BRDF) profiles for specular, haze and Lambertian samples using a converging light beam and...

Torsional spring constant measurement of a T-shaped atomic force microscope cantilever

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Mark Reitsma, Richard S. Gates, Robert F. Cook

We present a microfabricated atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever that is used to calibrate AFM friction data. The T-shaped lateral force cantilever is...

Generation of optical Schrödinger cat states by number-resolved squeezed photon subtraction

May 31, 2009

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Scott C. Glancy, Tracy S. Clement, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Aaron J. Miller, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Emanuel H. Knill

We have generated and measured an approximation of an optical Schrödinger cat state by photon subtraction from a squeezed state. Using single-photon avalanche...

Intensity dynamics in a waveguide array laser

May 31, 2009

Author(s)

Mingming M. Feng, Steven T. Cundiff, Kevin L. Silverman, Richard Mirin, Matt Williams, J. Nathan N. Kutz

We report the intensity dynamics of a five-emitter laser array subject to a linearly decreasing injection current. The array produces oscillatory power output...

Comparison of interpretability of 1080p30 and 720p60 motion imagery: trade-offs in resolution and frame rate

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

Charles D. Fenimore, James H. Yen, John W. Roberts, Hassan A. Sahibzada

We have conducted an evaluation comparing the interpretability potential of two standardized HD formats, 1080p30 and 720p60. Despite the lack of an existing...

Third- and fourth-order coherences measured with a multi-element superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Eric Dauler, Andrew J. Kerman, Richard J. Molnar, Scott A. Hamilton, Karl Berggren, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

We demonstrate a technique for measuring third- and fourth-order coherences using a multi-element detector consisting of four independent, interleaved...

Illuminance responsivity calibration of reference photometers at the NIST SIRCUS and SCF facilities

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Carl C. Miller, Thomas C. Larason, Yoshihiro Ohno

The illuminance responsivities of two transfer standard photometers have been directly determined from their spectral responsivity calibrations at two different...

Extension of the NIST tristimulus colorimeter for solid-state light source measurements

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Carl C. Miller, Thomas C. Larason, Yoshihiro Ohno

In order to obtain improved color measurement uncertainties for solid state light (SSL) sources, the second generation tristimulus colorimeter of NIST has been...

CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLID STATE LIGHTING PRODUCTS FOR MEASUREMENT INTERCOMPARISONS

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller

To meet the request of the United States Department of Energy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Voluntary Laboratory...

Standardization Activities for Solid State Lighting in the USA

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno

In support of the U.S. Department Energy s Energy Star program for solid state lighting, a series of standards for solid state lighting products have been...

NIST SPECTRALLY TUNABLE LIGHTING FACILITY FOR COLOR RENDERING AND LIGHTING EXPERIMENTS

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, Yoshihiro Ohno, Wendy L. Davis, Yuqin Zong, Kevin Dowling

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a spectrally tunable lighting facility to allow state-of-the-art vision experiments on color...

Generating and Using Data of Higher Dimension for Gas-Phase Chemical Sensing

May 29, 2009

Author(s)

Baranidharan Raman, Joshua L. Hertz, Kurt D. Benkstein, Douglas C. Meier, Casey Mungle, Stephen Semancik

Methods to acquire and analyze rich data streams from sensors are helpful, if not required, to track chemical components within complex gas-phase environments...

The TRECVid 2008 BBC Rushes Summarization Evaluation

May 28, 2009

Author(s)

Paul D. Over, Alan Smeaton, George M. Awad

This paper describes an evaluation of automatic video summarization systems run on rushes from several BBC dramatic series. It was carried out under the...

Time and Frequency-Domain Spectroscopy with Dual Frequency Combs

May 28, 2009

Author(s)

Nathan R. Newbury, Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann

High-resolution spectroscopic measurements of the amplitude and phase spectra from a gas sample can be acquired by use of dual frequency combs. Here we discuss...

Packaging and interconnect technologies for GaN nanowire-based light emitting diodes

May 26, 2009

Author(s)

Norman A. Sanford, Myongjai Lee, Jen-Hau Cheng, Dragos Seghete, Steven M. George, John B. Schlager, Kristine A. Bertness

GaN nanowires grown along c-axis on a silicon substrate using molecular beam epitaxy have been identified as one of the best materials for future light emitting...

Absolute Ranging Using Frequency Combs

May 25, 2009

Author(s)

William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

We present a technique for measuring absolute range that uses two mismatched frequency combs to measure distance over 1.5 m range with 10 nm level statistical...

Tensor Product Grid Generation for Complex Surface Visualizations in a Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

May 25, 2009

Author(s)

Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang

We have used tensor product B-spline grids to develop accurate plots that wnhance the understanding of high level mathematical functions described in the...

Optimization of Accurate SEM Imaging by Use of Artificial Images

May 22, 2009

Author(s)

Petr Cizmar, Andras Vladar, Michael T. Postek

Today the vast majority of the scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) are incapable of taking repeatable and accurate images at high magnifications. Geometric...

Vibration immune fiber-laser frequency comb based on a polarization-maintaining figure-eight laser

May 20, 2009

Author(s)

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

A frequency comb is phase-locked to a cw laser with an electro-optic-modulator providing 1.6 MHz feedback bandwidth. Residual phase noise is as low as -94 dBc...

Loss of Odor Through Conjugation, Suppression and Cross-Adaptation: How One Plus One Can Sometimes Equal Zero

May 19, 2009

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno

Since the days of the alchemist, the observation that some substances have a smell while others do not has been a source of fascination. The sense of smell, or...

A Design-of-Experiments Plug-In for Estimating Uncertainties in Finite Element Simulations

May 18, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Roland deWit, Pedro V. Marcal, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert

The objective of this paper is to introduce an economical and user-friendly technique for estimating a specific type of finite element simulation uncertainties...

Large Random Telegraph Noise in Sub-Threshold Operation of Nano-Scale nMOSFETs

May 18, 2009

Author(s)

Jason P. Campbell, Liangchun (. Yu, Kin P. Cheung, Jin Qin, John S. Suehle, A Oates, Kuang Sheng

We utilize low-frequency noise measurements to examine the sub-threshold voltage (sub-VTH) operation of highly scaled devices. We find that the sub-VTH low...

The Negative Bias Temperature Instability vs. High-Field Stress Paradigm

May 18, 2009

Author(s)

Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, John S. Suehle, A Oates

A new and more accurate fast-IDVG measurement methodology is utilized to examine the transient degradation and recovery associated with the negative-bias...

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