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Conferences

Excimer Laser Treatment of Carbon Nanotubes

Author(s)
Katie Hurst, Darryl A. Keenan, Anne Dillon, Thomas Gennett, Paul Rice, John H. Lehman
Raman spectroscopy and spectral responsivity measurements are performed to investigate the alteration of sample purity and morphology, caused by varying pulse

Pseudo-Exhaustive Testing for Software

Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Vadim Okun
Pseudo-exhaustive testing uses the empirical observation that, for broad classes of software, a fault is likely triggered by only a few variables interacting

k=2 and Other Sometimes Hidden Assumptions in Chemical Measurement Uncertainty Intervals

Author(s)
David L. Duewer, S L. Ellison, William F. Guthrie, D B. Hibbert, C Jackson, A Kallner, Stefan D. Leigh, Reenie M. Parris, Kenneth W. Pratt, Michele M. Schantz, Katherine E. Sharpless
A recent interlaboratory study that required individual analysts to estimate uncertainty intervals for their results revealed that some experienced chemical

Chip scale atomic magnetometers

Author(s)
John M. Moreland, John Kitching, Peter D. Schwindt, Svenja A. Knappe, Li-Anne Liew, V Shah, V Gerginov, Ying-Ju Wang, Leo W. Hollberg
We are developing a new class of sensors based on atoms confined in micro-fabricated enclosures. Recent work at the National Institute of Standards and

Weights and Measures in the United States

Author(s)
Carol T. Hockert
What does the weights and measures system in the United States look like, and what impact does it have on commerce? Every state in the United States has its own

Elastodynamic characterization of imprinted nanolines

Author(s)
Ward L. Johnson, Colm Flannery, Sudook A. Kim, Roy H. Geiss, Christopher Soles, Paul R. Heyliger
Experimental techniques employing Brillouin light scattering (BLS) and analytical techniques employing finite-element (FE) and Farnell-Adler models are being

Is Quantum Cryptography Provably Secure?

Author(s)
Anastase Nakassis, Joshua Bienfang, P. Johnson, Alan Mink, D. Rogers, Xiao Tang, Carl J. Williams
Quantum cryptography asserts that shared secrets can be established over public channels in such a way that the total information of an eavesdropper can be made

Link Assessment in an Indoor 802.11 Network

Author(s)
Michael R. Souryal, Luke Klein-Berndt, Leonard E. Miller, Nader Moayeri
This paper presents the empirical results and analysis of a link variability study for an indoor, stationary 802.11 network subject to external interference

Recovering Spheres from 3D Point Data

Author(s)
Christoph J. Witzgall, Geraldine Cheok, Anthony J. Kearsley
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is involved in developing standard protocols for the performance evaluation of 3D imaging systems, which