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Bettye C. Johnson, Steven W. Brown, George P. Eppeldauer, Keith R. Lykke
A number of transfer radiometers have been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the support and funding of the National...
The polymer threading a membrane transition (PTM) which is a first-order thermodynamic phase transition for an isolated linear polymer in the limit of infinite...
Single pulse shock tube studies of the thermal decomposition of hexachloroethane at temperatures of 960 - 1080 K and pressures of 130 -1,100 kPa have been...
Jun-Feng Song, Li Ma, Eric P. Whitenton, Theodore V. Vorburger
The RM (Reference Material) 8240 standard bullets are currently under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology 9NIST) to support the...
The Object Management Group (the consortium that issues the Common Object Request Broker Architecture and Unified Modeling Language standards) is making the...
The CW Laser Radiometry project in the Optoelectronics Division at NIST is concerned with measuring steady-state laser, detector, and component properties such...
The NIST Weights and Measurements Division (WMD), formerly the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM), conducts training in mass metrology at basic, intermediate...
C D. O'Connell, Peter E. Barker, M A. Marino, P McAndrew, Donald H. Atha, Pawel Jaruga, M Birincioglu, M. Dizdaroglu, H Rodriguez
The goal of the research was to help identify cellular biomarkers and assess measurement technologies that will help manufacturers determine how cells react to...
P E. DesJardin, Cary Presser, P J. Disimile, J R. Tucker
The overall objective of this research is to gain fundamental knowledge of fire-suppression agent transport in the cluttered environments of aircraft engine...
Sae Woo Nam, Samuel Benz, John M. Martinis, Paul Dresselhaus, Weston L. Tew, David R. White
Johnson Noise Thermometry (JNT) involves the measurement of the statistical variance of a fluctuating voltage across a resistor in thermal equilibrium. Modern...
Theodore V. Vorburger, Ndubuisi George Orji, Li Piin Sung, T Rodriguez
Surface finsih affects the performance of a wide variety of manufactured products ranging from road surfaces and ships to mechanical parts, microelectronics...
Jon R. Pratt, David B. Newell, John A. Kramar, J Mulholland, Eric P. Whitenton
The sensitivity of a piezoresistive cantilever force sensor has been determined by probing the weighing pan of the NIST prototype electrostatic force balance...
Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Robert A. Clary, Li Ma, M Ols, Eric P. Whitenton
Standard bullets and casings are currently under development to support the National Integrated Ballistics Information System (NIBIN) in the U.S. Based on a...
A Sen Gupta, David A. Howe, Craig Nelson, Archita Hati, F L. Walls, J F. Garcia nava
We report exceptionally low PM and AM noise levels from a microwave oscillator that uses a conventional air-dielectric cavity resonator as a frequency...