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G. Mei, R. Xu, R. Lao, C. Kwan, Vincent M. Stanford
Real-time speaker verification, with speech acquired using the NIST Mk-III microphone array and an autodirective beamforming algorithm, is demonstrated. The
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Hannah Friedman, Marti Frank
In 2005, the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency s (IEA) Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems (ECBCS) program approved the
Patrick S. Lysaght, Joseph Woicik, Brendan Foran, Joel Barnett, Gennadi Bersuker, B H. Lee
HfO2 gate dielectric thin films have been exposed to anneal processing in NH3 and N2 ambient in order to decouple the influence of N incorporation from that of
Krishna Verma Verma, Thomas A. Siewert, F. Beckmann
This paper highlights developments that led the FHWA¿s Office of Bridge Technology, working with State departments of transportation (DOT) and the concrete and
M Erdtmann, M T. Currie, Joseph Woicik, David R. Black
Dislocation glide kinetics dictate in relaxed graded buffers a fundamental opposition between the defectivity and throughput. For state-of-the-art Si-based
Several approaches for the precision control of micro-scale positioning mechanisms, or MEMS nanopositioners, are presented along with initial experimental
Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, J. Brian Hutchison, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan
Patterned two-dimensional cell cultures are increasingly important for constructing bioanalytical tools for cell and molecular biology to address questions
Pierre-Alain Auroux, Jayna J. Shah, James Booth, Mulpuri Rao, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan
We report on temperature time domain and spectral measurements for on-chip microwave thermocycling. In particular we observe enhanced specificity of the heating
Andreas Jahn, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Don DeVoe, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan
Previously, we demonstrated liposome formation using hydrodynamic focusing in a microfluidic network which enables us to produce liposomes of a controlled size
As of October 2006, there were approximately 535 citations to the seminal 1977 paper of Misra and Sudarshan which pointed out the quantum Zeno paradox (more
Alan Brannon, Vladislav Gerginov, Svenja A. Knappe, Z Popovic, John E. Kitching
We report on our progress in developing a prototype Chip-Scale Atomic Clock with the integration of the local oscillator and the physics package. A discussion
Consider a system of two millimeter wave transceiver nodes A and B. We assume that each node is equipped with a circular array antenna that has beamforming
NIST has developed numerous platforms for characterizing the physical properties of sample libraries with orthogonal gradients using combinatorial methodologies
Gurpreet Singh, Paul Rice, Richard J. McIntosh, Roop L. Mahajan
A prototype microtome knife for cutting 100 nm thick slices of frozen-hydrated biological samples has been constructed using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT
Jason J. Gorman, Yong Sik Kim, Andras Vladar, Nicholas Dagalakis
In this paper, the design and proposed operation of a MEMS-based nanoassembly system is presented. The nanoassembly system is comprised of four nanomanipulators
Georges Grinstein, Theresa O'Connell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Catherine Plaisant, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting
Visual analytics experts realize that one effective way to push the field forward and to develop metrics for measuring the performance of various visual
We present design concepts for calibrated hyperspectral image projectors (HIP) and related sources intended for system-level testing of instruments ranging from
Kalman filtering is introduced as a rational means for developing a monitoring strategy for concrete structures. The mathematics and utility of linear Kalman
Hao Xiong, Nhan V. Nguyen, Joseph J. Kopanski, John S. Suehle, Eric M. Vogel
Work function of TaSiN (TaCN) films on HfO2 or SiO2 gate dielectrics is investigated for the first time using a combination of Capacitance?Voltage, Fowler
M. Myslinski, Kate Remley, Dominique Schreurs, Bart Nauwelaers
This paper presents a simple test-bench providing RF vector measurements of typical wireless communication system building blocks under realistic signal
Martin Stevens, Robert Hadfield, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin
We report the observation of photon antibunching from a single, self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot (QD) at temperatures up to 135 K. The second-order intensity
Radio Frequency Indentification (RFID) and other automated identification technologies (AIT) are being used by government and industry to replace barcodes and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is a United States Government Agency that develops metrology for the use and advancement of industry
We discuss a practical implementation of a photon-counting detector calibration using correlated photon pairs produced by parametric down-conversion. In this
Jose M. Lopez, Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, Jean-Simon Boulanger, Raymond Pelletier, Carlos Donado
A network for time and frequency comparisons within the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM) has been developed. The SIM time and frequency network uses the
John H. Lehman, Christopher L. Cromer, Shao Yang, Marla L. Dowell
High accuracy laser radiometry is on the verge of growth and improvements just as new laser technologies are evolving. Our present tasks are directed toward
Ankush Varma, Muhammad Afridi, Akin Akturk, Paul Klein, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Bruce Jacob
Designers of SoCs with non-digital components, such as analog or MEMS devices, can currently use highlevel system design languages, such as SystemC, to model