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Stephan Schlamminger, Leon Chao, Vincent Lee, David B. Newell, Jon Pratt, Clive Speake
Four fundamental forces, or technically more correct interactions, are known in physics. The gravitational force is one of them and is a mysterious one. Gravity...
Dagistan Sahin, Osman Celikten, Robert Williams, Jeremy Cook, Abdullah Weiss, Thomas Newton, David Diamond, Charles F. Majkrzak, Hubert King, Joy Shen, Anil Gurgen, Eliezer Nahmani, Idan Baroukh, Lap-Yan Cheng
The National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) provides a safe and reliable neutron source for the thousands of...
Anouar Rahmouni, Samprity Saha, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) is one of the most used techniques for nondestructive characterization of optical fiber links. Although conventional...
Anouar Rahmouni, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang, Thomas Gerrits, Lutong Cai, Qing Li, Oliver T. Slattery
Entangled photon sources are fundamental building blocks for quantum communication and quantum networks. Recently, silicon carbide emerged as a promising...
Small- and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) face exceptional challenges in implementing smart manufacturing solutions. Specifically, SMEs often struggle with...
Anouar Rahmouni, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Dileep Reddy, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang, Oliver T. Slattery
A quantum network will consist of many physically separated nodes connected by quantum communication channels that distribute entanglement between them. Such...
Ulf Griesmann, Keiko Munechika, Thomas Renegar, Xiaoyu Zheng, Johannes Soons, Weilun Chao, Ian Lacey, Carlos Pina-Hernandez, Peter Takacs, Valeriy Yashchuk, Thomas Germer
Accurate topography measurements of engineered surfaces over a wide range of spatial frequencies are required in many applications. The instrument transfer...
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly seen in many public facing applications such as self-driving land vehicles, autonomous aircraft, medical...
Recently significant attention has been paid to the regional risk assessment of infrastructure systems as proper risk assessment can lead to informed decision...
Paul Witherell, Brandon Lane, Ho Yeung, Zhuo Yang, Kincho Law
Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is one of the most promising forms of Additive Manufacturing (AM), allowing easily customized metal manufactured parts. Industry...
Lorenz Keck, Frank Seifert, David B. Newell, René Theska, Darine El Haddad
A quantum electro-mechanical metrology suite (QEMMS) is being built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As the first instrument in his...
Better understanding and ability to predict the aerosol dynamics of soot can improve life safety predictions generated by fire modeling tools. NIST's fire...
Papa Amoah, Joseph J. Kopanski, Yaw S. Obeng, Christopher Sunday, Chukwudi Okoro, Lin You, Dmirty Veksler
In this paper, we present an overview of our current research focus in developing non-destructive metrology for monitoring reliability issues in 3D-integrated...
Human-robot load-sharing is a potential application for human-robot collaborative systems in production environments. However, knowledge of the appropriate data...
Jordan Hoffman, Jinjin Ha, Brad Kinsey, Mark Iadicola, Dilip K. Banerjee
The automotive industry relies heavily on sheet metal forming processes for many components. Material data solely from uniaxial testing is insufficient to fully...
Michelle Stephens, Chris Yung, Nathan Tomlin, Dave Harber, Cameron Straatsma, Atasi Dan, Erica Freire Antunes, Peter Pilewskie, Odele Coddington, John H. Lehman
The Earth radiation budget, a 40-year data record of the balance between solar radiation reaching the Earth and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted from...
A technique to predict backdraft phenomenon using a binary logistic regression model is presented. The model is established from time-averaged temperature...
Ryann Cartor, Max Cartor, Mark Lewis, Daniel Smith-Tone
The Rainbow signature scheme as proposed in [10] is the only multivariate scheme listed as a finalist in round 3 of the NIST post-quantum standardization...
The Support Minors method of solving the MinRank problem has contributed to several new cryptanalyses of post-quantum cryptosystems including some of the most...
SPHINCS+ is a stateless hash-based signature scheme and a finalist in the NIST PQC standardization process. Its security proof relies on the distinct-function...
Aging buildings and ever evolving design codes imply the need of implementing retrofit techniques to ensure the safety and functionality buildings under current...
Linsey Rodenbach, Alireza Panna, Shamith Payagala, Ilan Rosen, Molly Andersen, Joseph Hagmann, Peng Zhang, Lixuan Tai, Kang Wang, Dean G. Jarrett, Randolph Elmquist, Jason Underwood, David B. Newell, David Goldhaber-Gordon, Albert Rigosi
In 2021, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA), conducted...
Catherine Cooksey, James A. Fedchak, Robert Hanisch, Gregory (Greg) C. Cala, Damian Lauria, Raymond Plante, Benjamin Long, John S. Quintavalle, Manmohan Moodra
Early in 2022 NIST embarked on a pilot project to produce digital calibration reports and certificates of analysis for reference materials. The goal of the...
William Dinis Camara, Steven J. Choquette, Katya Delak, Robert Hanisch, Benjamin Long, Melissa M. Phillips, Jared Ragland, Kate Rimmer
Early in 2022 NIST embarked on a pilot project to produce digital calibration reports and digital certificates of analysis for reference materials. The goal of...
Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) has become more prevalent and accepted as a construction material, and particularly as a retrofit technique. However, there...
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Milos Drobnjakovic, Farhad Ameri, Chris Will, Barry Smith
The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) has been formed to create a suite of interoperable ontologies that would serve as a foundation for data and information...