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Crossley E. Jayewardene, William J. Keery, Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Bradley N. Damazo
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has provided industry with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) magnification calibration sample...
Michael W. Cresswell, E. Hal Bogardus, Joaquin (. Martinez, Marylyn H. Bennett, Richard A. Allen, William F. Guthrie, Christine E. Murabito, B A. am Ende, Loren W. Linholm
Prototype linewidth reference materials with Critical Dimensions (CDs) as narrow as 70 nm have been patterned in (110) silicon-on-insulator films. The sidewalls...
Yi-hua D. Tang, Stuward L. Kupferman, Melquiades T. Salazar
A portable Josephson voltage standard (JVS) system has been used as a transfer standard to make an interlaboratory JVS comparison. The results are compared with...
An international comparison of dc resistance at 10 Mohm and 1 GHohm was organized under the auspices of the Consultative Committee for Electricity and Magnetism...
Thomas E. Lipe Jr., Carl D. Reintsema, Joseph R. Kinard Jr.
We are developing a new primary standard of ac-dc difference, based on a resistive superconducting transition-edge sensor. We describe the performance...
David B. Newell, Jon R. Pratt, John A. Kramar, Douglas T. Smith, Edwin R. Williams
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a five-year Microforce Realization and Measurement project focusing on the development of...
Joseph R. Kinard Jr., Thomas E. Lipe Jr., Thomas F. Wunsch
We report on the fabrication of new thin-film multijunction thermal converters suitable for the measurement of current and new, simpler multiconverter modules...
Details of the statistical uncertainty analysis applied to key comparison CCEM-K2 are reported. Formulas were derived to determine the uncertainty of the...
Randolph Elmquist, Neil M. Zimmerman, William Huber
An experiment using a high-value cryogenic resistor is proposed, with the aim of improving the experimental link between three quantum electrical standards...
M P. Manahan, R B. Stonesifer, Thomas A. Siewert, Christopher N. McCowan, D P. Vigliotti
Instrumented stricker systems and optical encoders are widely used for measurement of absorbed energy in both conventional and miniature Charpy tests. It has...
A distributed kinetic spanning tree algorithm is proposed for routing in wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Assuming a piecewise linear motion model for the nodes...
Uncertainties for 1 kHz capacitance calibrations have been decreased at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The improvements are based on...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a me surement service, number 65200S, "Fast Repetitive Pulse Transition Parameters," for...
J O. Indekeu, A I. Posazhennikova, David J. Ross, D Bonn, J Meunier
A mean-field theory is presented which describes the basic observations of recent experiments revealing rich wetting behaviour of n-alkane/methanol mixtures at...
Claude Weil, David R. Novotny, Robert T. Johnk, Arthur Ondrejka
We discuss a new broadband (10MHz to 40 GHz) RF field standard to be used for calibrating electrically-small electromagnetic field probes. The technique...
Jerzy Krupka, Kristof Derzakowski, A. Abramowicz, James R. Baker-Jarvis, Ronald H. Ono, Richard G. Geyer
The dielectric resonator technique is frequently used for surface resistance measurements of superconducting films. Generally, an effective surface resistance...
Jerzy Krupka, Kristof Derzakowski, Billy F. Riddle, James R. Baker-Jarvis, Robert N. Clarke, A. Abramowicz, O. C. Rochard
The use of both mode-matching and Rayleigh-Ritz numerical techniques for complex permittivity calculations using a TE 01δ mode dielectric resonator allows the...
Display metrology is discussed as applied to electronic displays and especially flat panel displays (FPDs). Topics include the importance of proper set up...
A series of atomic oscillator strengths measurements was carried out in the last seven years at NIST with a combination of emission spectroscopy and lifetime...
Mahalingam Balasubramanian, James McBreen, Xiao-Qing Yang, H S. Lee, A R. Moodenbaugh, Daniel A. Fischer, Ziwen Fu, D Abraham
Lithium-ion batteries are promising candidates for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). Batteries that exceed the requirements for HEV, as set by the Partnership for...
For a wireless LAN or a cluster of nodes in an ad hoc wireless network, multicast transmissions from a controlling station must be acknowledged by the nodes...
In recent years, the IEEE has been revising the now expired IEEE standards on pulse techniques and definitions. This revision includes adding and deleting...
The accuracy of particle image velocimetry measurements in polydisperse sprays is investigated using simulations. The objective of the study is to determine if...
Arthur H. Fanney, Brian P. Dougherty, Mark W. Davis
Predictive performance tools could accelerate the implementation of integrated photovoltaics (BIPV. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
Arthur H. Fanney, Brian P. Dougherty, Mark W. Davis
Buildings consume more than two-thirds of the electricity in the United States. The incorporation of photovoltaics into the buildings, referred to as building...