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Chunmei Liu, Chen Shen, Jack Chuang, Richard A. Rouil, Hyeong-Ah Choi
Public safety incidents typically involve a significant amount of group traffic and have a stringent requirement of connection reliability. Hence multicast...
The issue of Additive Manufacturing (AM) energy consumption attracts attention in both industry and academia, as the increasing trend of AM technologies being...
One of the most prevalent additive manufacturing processes, the powder bed fusion process, is driven by a moving heat source that melts metals to build a part...
Nenad Ivezic, Elena Jelisic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Hakju Oh, Zoran Marjanovic
Business context has a potential to become a powerful mechanism for interoperable usage and efficient maintenance of message standards. In the literature, there...
Seulki Cho, Son T. Le, Curt A. Richter, Arvind Balijepalli
We demonstrate that single-gated, commercially-sourced, field-effect transistors (FETs) operated with a lock- in amplifier (LIA) under closed-loop control can...
To reduce the possibility of fraudulent activity and market manipulation, the world's major stock exchanges require every clock involved in a stock market...
Mattias Kruskopf, Dinesh K. Patel, Chieh-I Liu, Albert Rigosi, Randolph Elmquist, Yicheng Wang, Stefan Bauer, Yefei Yin, Klaus Pierz, Eckard Pesel, Martin Goetz, Jurgen Schurr
The frequency dependence of the quantized Hall resistance at alternating current results from capacitive losses inside the sample as well as between the sample...
Randolph E. Elmquist, Mattias Kruskopf, Dinesh K. Patel, I Fan Hu, Chieh-I Liu, Albert F. Rigosi, Alireza R. Panna, Shamith U. Payagala, Dean G. Jarrett
Quantized Hall array resistance standards (QHARS) span values from 100 (ohm) to 1 M(ohm) and demonstrate precision approaching that of single devices. This...
David C. Deisenroth, Leonard M. Hanssen, Sergey Mekhontsev
Additive manufacturing involving layer-wise selective laser melting of a powder material, or laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), is a fast-growing industry. At the...
Abstract Many machine learning algorithms examine large amounts of data to discover insights from hidden patterns. Testing these algorithms can be expensive...
Shamith U. Payagala, Alana M. Dee, Dean G. Jarrett
The adapted Wheatstone bridge technique has been utilized at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other National Metrology Institutes (NMIs...
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Ilya F. Budovsky, Samuel Benz
We have extended the voltage range of the Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer from 1 mV down to 1 μV at frequencies from 60 Hz to 1 kHz to calibrate...
Takehiko Oe, Alireza R. Panna, Randolph E. Elmquist, Dean G. Jarrett, Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Nobu-Hisa Kaneko
We have fabricated 129 kΩ and 1 MΩ quantum Hall array devices using GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures and their quantized Hall resistance plateaus were precisely...
Valeriy V. Yashchuk, Sergey Babin, Stefano Cabrini, Weilun Chao, Ulf Griesmann, Ian Lacey, Stefano Marchesini, Keiko Munechika, Carlos Pina-Hernandez, Allen L. Roginsky
Recently, a technique for calibrating the modulation transfer function (MTF) of a broad variety of metrology instrumentation has been demonstrated. This...
Alain Rufenacht, Anna E. Fox, Grace E. Butler, Charles J. Burroughs, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Robert E. Schwall, Stefan Cular, Samuel P. Benz
This paper presents precision measurements with a prototype cryogen-liquid-free DC Josephson voltage standard that produces a 1 V maximum output. Its cryostat...
Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Akim Babenko, Anna E. Fox, Justus A. Brevik, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
This paper describes the generation of a quantum-based rms output voltage of 1.332 V using an ac-coupled Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) without...
Hansong Xu, Wei Yu, Xing Liu, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is predicted to drive the fourth industrial revolution through massive interconnection of industrial devices, such as...
Takehiko Oe, Shamith U. Payagala, Dean G. Jarrett, Nobu-Hisa Kaneko
DC high resistance measurement capability has been evaluated using a NMIJ traveling dual source bridge between NIST and NMIJ. The NMIJ bridge determines the...
Mark Bieler, Paul Struszewski, Ari Feldman, Jeffrey Jargon, Paul D. Hale, Pengwei Gong, Wen Xie, Chuntao Yang, Zhigang Feng, Kejia Zhao, Zhijun Yang
We report on the first international comparison in ultrafast waveform metrology. To this end, the frequency and time responses of a photodiode with a nominal...
Ari D. Feldman, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Tasshi Dennis, Paul D. Hale
We present the first-ever comparison of a photodiodes measured frequency response calibrated with an electro-optic sampling system and a heterodyne system up...
Dean G. Jarrett, Shamith U. Payagala, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Charles J. Waduwarage Perera, Neil M. Zimmerman
A system for the calibration of electrometers that measure currents from ionization chambers is described. The calibration system uses a 1 GΩ standard resistor...
Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Alain Rufenacht, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
This paper describes a method for calibrating an ac source using a Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) by summing the sources in series and tuning...
Leon S. Chao, Rafael Marangoni, Frank C. Seifert, Darine El Haddad, Jon R. Pratt, David B. Newell, Stephan Schlamminger
After the recent redefinition of the International System of Units (SI), torque no longer needs to be traceable to a calibrated mass in a gravitational field...
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Dianne L. Poster, Atsushi Muto, Takeshi Sunaoshi
A new and exciting imaging technique being applied to thin films, nanocoatings, nanogels, and nanoparticle analysis is ultra-low accelerating voltage or ultra...
Interoperability across emerging visualization modalities, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), remains a challenge with respect to...
The number and types of measurement devices used for monitoring and controlling laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes and inspecting the resulting AM metal...