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Precision standard resistors manufactured within the last two decades using improved construction techniques and materials, such as the resistance alloy Evanohm...
A two-way Josephson voltage standard (JVS) direct comparison between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Research Council...
In this paper we present the uncertainty evaluation of a new cryogenic current comparator (CCC) bridge designed to compare two-terminal 1M Ω} and 10M Ω}...
Randolph Elmquist, George R. Jones Jr., Brian J. Pritchard, Marcos E. Bierzychudek, Felipe L. Hernandez
We describe a cryogenic current comparator (CCC) bridge for resistance scaling that provides improved measurement uncertainty over a range of resistance values...
Dean G. Jarrett, Randolph Elmquist, Nien F. Zhang, Alejandra Tonina, Janice Fernandes, Daniel Izquierdo, Dave Inglis, Felipe Hernandez-Marquez
A regional comparison of DC resistance standards at the nominal values of 1 Ohm, 1 MOhm, and 1 GOhm has recently been completed in the System Interamericano de...
Brian A. Weiss, Craig I. Schlenoff, Gregory A. Sanders, Michelle P. Steves, Sherri Condon, Jon Phillips, Dan Parvaz
One of the most challenging tasks for uniformed service personnel serving in foreign countries is effective verbal communication with the local population. To...
Peter O. Denno, Thomas Thurman, John Mettenburg, Dwayne Hardy
This paper considers the requirements of a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) discipline, and the benefits that would be realized from it. A premise of MBSE...
Evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) technology is often tied to the requirement for tedious manual judgments of translation quality. While automated MT...
Patrick Hoffmann, Shaw C. Feng, Gaurav Ameta, Parisa Ghodous, Lihong Qiao
Multiple perspectives need to be included in a product development process. Engineers from different departments usually have different views on a product...
Defects in nanoscale gate dielectric of MOS devices can exchange charges with the substrate via quantum mechanical tunneling. This characteristic has been...
Jennifer A. Taylor, Craig W. Nelson, Archita Hati, Neil Ashby, David A. Howe
The opto-electronic oscillator (OEO) has emerged in recent years as an excellent low-noise source that rivals the best RF oscillators over broad offset...
Cameras are often used for visual servoing or realtime mapping of the external environment in both autonomous and teleoperated tasks with a dexterous...
Walter G. McDonough, Gale A. Holmes, Jae Hyun Kim, Derek L. Ho
Research has indicated that the folding of ballistic fibers comprising soft body armor may be a factor in the performance deterioration that has been observed...
Nathan R. Newbury, Paul A. Williams, William C. Swann
We have recently demonstrated the coherent transfer of an optical signal over a 251 km link of optical fiber using the standard Doppler-cancellation approach to...
The throughput capacity of random wireless networks has been studied extensively in the literature. Nevertheless, most existing studies are based on the...
Katherine C. Morris, Puja Goyal, Simon P. Frechette
In enterprise integration, a data exchange specification is an architectural artifact that evolves along with the business. Developing and maintaining a...
The effective use of modeling, simulation, and analysis (MSA) applications could greatly enhance our nation s ability to achieve homeland security goals. The...
Simple formulas are developed that enable emission limits from one EMC facility type to be translated to other EMC facility types. Facility types considered are...
Marc A. Weiss, P Fenton, Edward Powers, A. Kropp, Raymond Pelletier
Two Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) satellites are now transmitting the standard L1 and L5 carriers and codes of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Since...
Two geodetic-type receivers of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals of different manufacture were connected with a splitter to the same antenna for...
John E. Kitching, Svenja A. Knappe, Vishal Shah, P Schwindt, William C. Griffith, Ricardo Jimenez Martinez, Jan Preusser
We describe recent work at NIST to develop compact, sensitive atomic magnetometers using a combination of precision optical spectroscopy, atomic physics and...
First responders and incident management personnel need better training resources to prepare for future disasters. Live training exercises while valuable are...
We describe a simple method for observing high-contrast coherent population trapping signals on the Cs D 1 line. The high-contrast signals were achieved by use...
Nanoelectronics require the introduction of several new uncharacterized material(s) combinations and new processing techniques. The critical metrology and...
Nathan R. Newbury, Paul A. Williams, William C. Swann
We have recently demonstrated the coherent transfer of an optical signal over a 251 km link of optical fiber by use of the standard Doppler-cancellation...
Presently we are in the development process for a 4 K Stirling-type pulse tube cryocooler to support cooling requirements for a mobile THz detector system. In...
The explosive RDX (1,3,5-trinitrohexahydro-s-triazine) is thought to decompose by homolytic N-N bond cleavage, among other possible initiation reactions...
Chin P. Cheng, Jiayi Pan, Gloria T. Lau, Kincho H. Law, Albert T. Jones
Increasingly, taxonomies are being developed for a wide variety of industrial domains and specific applications within those domains. These taxonomies attempt...