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Conferences

Characterizing Scratch Appearance on Polymer Coatings and Plastics:Effects of Illumination and Pigment Color

April 13, 2009

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Haiqing Hu

Scratch resistance is a desirable coating characteristic and is a key critical performance property in industry for evaluating the durability of polymer...

Publication 16 - Committee Reports for the 94th National Conference on Weights and Measures (Agenda)

April 13, 2009

Author(s)

Tina G. Butcher, Linda D. Crown, Lisa Warfield, Steven E. Cook, Ralph A. Richter

This is the annual meeting agenda for the standing committees of the National Conference on Weights and Measures. This meeting is scheduled to take place July...

Detector performance in long-distance quantum key distribution using superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

April 12, 2009

Author(s)

Burm Baek, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Xiao Tang, Sae Woo Nam

The recent advances in superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD or SSPD) technology has enabled long distance quantum key distribution (QKD) over...

Reference Metrology in a Research Fab: The NIST Clean Calibrations Thrust

April 12, 2009

Author(s)

Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Joseph Fu, Thomas B. Renegar, Xiaoyu A. Zheng, Theodore V. Vorburger, Albert M. Hilton, Marc J. Cangemi, Lei Chen, Michael A. Hernandez, Russell E. Hajdaj, Michael R. Bishop, Aaron Cordes

In 2004, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) commissioned the Advanced Measurement Laboratory (AML) a state-of-the-art, five-wing...

Using the Media Independent Information Service to Support Mobile Authentication in Fast Mobile IPv6

April 12, 2009

Author(s)

Constantine K. Christakos, Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares, Richard A. Rouil, Nada T. Golmie

We explore the use of the Media Independent Information Service (MIIS) in the IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) framework to improve handover...

CYCLE_D VERSION 4.0: Theoretical Vapor Compression Cycle Design Program

April 9, 2009

Author(s)

J S. Brown, Piotr A. Domanski, Eric Lemmon

This paper presents Version 4.0 of the CYCLE_D: NIST Vapor Compression Cycle Design Program. The model can simulate a basic subcritical or transcritical...

Accurate Picometers for DC and Low-Frequency Displacement Measurement

April 6, 2009

Author(s)

Jon R. Pratt, Douglas T. Smith, Lowell Howard

We have developed a fiber-optic interferometer optimized for best performance in the frequency range from DC to 1 kHz, with displacement linearity of 1 % over a...

Effect of Line Width Roughness on Optical Scatterometry Measurements

April 6, 2009

Author(s)

Brent C. Bergner, Thomas Germer, Thomas Suleski

Line width roughness (LWR) has been identified as a potential source of uncertainty in scatterometry measurements, and characterizing its effect is required to...

Mapping the Edge-Roughness of Test Structure Features for Nanometer-Level CD Reference-Materials

April 2, 2009

Author(s)

Michael W. Cresswell, M Davidson, Geraldine I. Mijares, Richard A. Allen, Jon C. Geist, M R. Bishop

The near-term objective of the work reported here is developing a protocol for rapidly mapping CD and edge roughness from high-resolution SEM images of...

Accurately Measuring Unsteady Water Flows Using A Dynamic Standard

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Iosif I. Shinder, Michael R. Moldover

We recently presented and tested a model for a dynamic gravimetric standard for steady water flows. In the range 10 kg/s to 60 kg/s, the difference between the...

Development of quantitative electric force microscopy for surface and subsurface characterization of nanostructures in polymeric coatings

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Minhua Zhao

Electron Microscope Study of Strain in InGaN Quantum Wells in GaN Nanowires

April 1, 2009

Author(s)

Roy H. Geiss, David T. Read

GaN nanowires with InGaN quantum wells (QW) were grown on heated Si(111) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) using elemental Ga and In and a radio...

Standard Radio CommunicationTest Method for Mobile Ground Robots

March 31, 2009

Author(s)

Kate Remley, Galen H. Koepke

This paper describes a proposed standard method for conducting a performance evaluation of wireless communications links used for the control and telemetry...

A Location-Based Mechanism for Mobile Device Security

March 31, 2009

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Vlad Korolev

While mobile handheld devices, such as cell phones and PDAs, provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. A vital safeguard against unauthorized...

Sensitivity of SEM width measurements to model assumptions

March 31, 2009

Author(s)

John S. Villarrubia, Zejun Ding

The most accurate width measurements in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) require raw images to be corrected for instrumental artifacts. Corrections are...

Test Chip to Evaluate Measurement Methods for Small Capacitances

March 30, 2009

Author(s)

Joseph J. Kopanski, Muhammad Y. Afridi, Chong Jiang, Curt A. Richter

We designed and fabricated a test chip to help us evaluate the performance of new approaches to measurement of small capacitances (femto-Farads to atto-Farads...

Hydrogen-Steel Compatibility Research at NIST-Boulder

March 30, 2009

Author(s)

Thomas A. Siewert

The NIST Materials Reliability Division is outfitting a high pressure (100 MPa) hydrogen testing facility to collect mechanical and thermodynamic property data...

Making the Case for EAP Channel Bindings

March 30, 2009

Author(s)

T. C. Clancy, Katrin Hoeper

In current networks that use EAP and AAA for authenticated admission control, such as WiFi, WiMAX, and various 3G internetworking protocols, a malicious base...

SHREC 09 Track: Structural Shape Retrieval on Watertight Models

March 29, 2009

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Helin Dutagaci, Xiaolan Li, Petros Daras, Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Takahiko Furuya, Masaki Tezuka, Thibault Napoleon

The annual SHape REtrieval Contest (SHREC) measures the performance of 3D model retrieval methods for several different types of models and retrieval purposes...

SHREC'09 Track: Generic Shape Retrieval

March 29, 2009

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Helin Dutagaci

In this paper we present the results of the SHREC 09- Generic Shape Retrieval Contest. The aim of this track was to evaluate the performances of various 3D...

SHREC 2009 - Shape Retrieval Contest of Partial 3D Models

March 29, 2009

Author(s)

Helin Dutagaci, Afzal A. Godil, A. Axenopoulos, P. Daras, T. Furuya, R. Ohbuchi

The objective of the SHREC 09 Shape Retrieval Contest of Partial Models is to compare the performances of algorithms that accept a range image as the query and...

Electromagnetic Emissions and Performance for Proximity RFID

March 23, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, David R. Novotny, Michael H. Francis, Catherine A. Remley

We examined the electromagnetic emissions, and performance of commercial High-Frequency (HF) proximity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems including...

Lower Uncertainty (0.015 % TO 0.025 %) OF NIST S Standard For Gas Flows From 0.01 TO 2000 Standard Liters/Minute

March 23, 2009

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Aaron N. Johnson

NIST has reduced the flow uncertainty of its 34 L and 677 L Pressure-Volume-Temperature-time (PVTt) primary flow standards from 0.05 % to 0.025 % (k = 2) for...

Combinatorial characterization of photopolymerizable composites: Effect of filler type and content on properties

March 22, 2009

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Aaron M. Forster, Haiqing Hu, Nancy Lin, Sheng Lin-Gibson

Multi-component formulations coupled with complex processing conditions govern the final properties of photopolymerizable dental composites. In this study, a...

Monitoring of elongation and orientation of osteoblast cells directed by anisotropic nanopatterns

March 22, 2009

Author(s)

Jirun Sun, Yifu Ding, Nancy Lin, Marcus T. Cicerone, Christopher Soles, Sheng Lin-Gibson

The time dependence of cell alignment and morphology (i.e., elongation) on anisotropic nanoscale gratings is characterized. The behavior of pre-osteoblasts...

Examination of thin film modulus for a series of poly(alkyl methacrylates)

March 22, 2009

Author(s)

Jessica M. Torres, Christopher Stafford, Bryan D. Vogt

In this work, the modulus of polymer thin films for a homologous series of poly(n-alkyl methacrylate)s will be discussed. In particular, the impact of the...

Word-synchronous linear optical sampling of 40 Gb/s QPSK signals

March 20, 2009

Author(s)

Tasshi Dennis, Paul A. Williams, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

We demonstrate word-synchronous measurements of QPSK format 40 Gb/s PRBS signals using linear optical sampling with a precision time-base, which allows us to...

Polarization-sensitive linear optical sampling for characterization of polarization-multiplexed QPSK

March 20, 2009

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Tasshi Dennis, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

We describe polarization-sensitive phase-referenced linear optical sampling for measuring polarization, amplitude, and phase of a high speed optical waveform...

Optical Performance Monitoring Using Artificial Neural Networks Trained with Parameters Derived from Delay-Tap Asynchronous Sampling

March 20, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Jargon, Xiaoxia Wu, Alan Willner

We demonstrate a technique for optical performance monitoring by simultaneously identifying optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), chromatic dispersion (CD), and...

A transmitter for calibrating the extinction ratio of optical receivers

March 20, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Jargon, Xiaoxia Wu, Paul D. Hale, Klaus M. Engenhardt, Alan Willner

We describe a transmitter being developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for calibrating extinction ratio measurements of optical...

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