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Conferences

Effect of Amplitude Mismatch on Entanglement Visibility in Photon-Pair Sources

July 14, 2020

Author(s)

Paulina S. Kuo

Entangled photons produced by parametric down-conversion effectively have two down-conversion paths. Ideally, amplitudes of the two paths are matched.We show...

A Suite of Metrics for Calculating the Most Significant Security Relevant Software Flaw Types

July 13, 2020

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell, Assane Gueye

The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a prominent list of software weakness types. This list is used by vulnerability databases to describe the underlying...

Microresonator enhanced, waveguide coupled emission from silicon defect centers for superconducting optoelectronic networks

July 10, 2020

Author(s)

Alexander N. Tait, Sonia M. Buckley, Jeffrey M. Shainline, Adam N. McCaughan, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin

Superconducting optoelectronic networks could achieve scales unmatched in hardware-based neuromorphic computing. After summarizing recent progress in this area...

Over-The-Air Calibration of a Dual-Beam Dual-Polarized 28-GHz Phased-Array Channel Sounder

July 9, 2020

Author(s)

Sung Yun Jun, Derek Caudill, Jelena Senic, Camillo Gentile, Jack Chuang, Nada T. Golmie

This paper describes an over-the-air calibration procedure for the impulse response of a 28-GHz phased-array antenna channel sounder. The silicon-germanium...

Penetration Loss at 60 GHz for Indoor-to-Indoor and Outdoor-to-Indoor Mobile Scenarios

July 8, 2020

Author(s)

Sung Yun Jun, Derek Caudill, Jack Chuang, Peter B. Papazian, Anuraag Bodi, Camillo Gentile, Jelena Senic, Nada T. Golmie

This paper investigates the penetration loss of an office building in indoor-to-indoor and outdoor-to-indoor mobile scenarios. The measurements were collected...

Online Testbed for Evaluating Vulnerability of Deep Learning Based Power Grid Load Forecasters

July 7, 2020

Author(s)

Himanshu Neema, Peter Volgyesi, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Thomas Roth, Cuong Nguyen

Modern electric grids that integrate smart grid technologies require different approaches to grid operations. There has been a shift towards increased reliance...

Record Fast Polarization Switching Observed in Ferroelectric Hafnium Oxide Crossbar Arrays

July 2, 2020

Author(s)

Pragya R. Shrestha, xiao Lyu, Mengwei Si, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Peide Ye

The polarization switching speed of ferroelectric (FE) hafnium zirconium oxide (HZO) is studied with the device size down to sub-μm in lateral dimension...

DNA mixture interpretation principles: insights from the NIST scientific foundation review

July 1, 2020

Author(s)

John Butler, Hariharan Iyer, Richard Press, Melissa Taylor, Peter Vallone, Sheila Willis

DNA mixture interpretation has become more challenging in recent years due to several factors including submission of more touch evidence samples to aid...

Development and Validation of a Simulation Testbed for the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) using TRNSYS

July 1, 2020

Author(s)

Amanda Pertzborn, Ojas Pradhan, Jin Wen, Liang Zhang

This paper documents the development and validation process of a dynamic primary cooling and thermal storage system simulation testbed. The system simulation...

Anomalous accelerated negative-bias- instability (NBI) at low drain bias

June 30, 2020

Author(s)

Kin P. Cheung

We observed at very low drain bias an anomalous acceleration of Negative-bias-instability at room temperature, as if the channel temperature has been raised...

Memory update characteristics of carbon nanotube memristors (NRAM) under circuitry-relevant operation conditions

June 30, 2020

Author(s)

Dmitry Veksler, gennadi bersuker, A W. Bushmaker, Maribeth Mason, Pragya Shrestha, Kin P. Cheung, Jason Campbell, T Rueckes, L Clevlend, H Luan, D C. Gilmer

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) resistance-change memory devices were assessed for neuromorphic applications under high frequency use conditions by employing the ultra...

Evolving Advanced Persistent Threat Detection Using Provenance Graph and Metric Learning

June 29, 2020

Author(s)

Gbadebo Ayoade, Khandakar A. Akbar, Pracheta Sahoo, Yang Gao, Anoop Singhal, Kangkook Jee, Latifur Khan, Anmol Agarwal

Advanced persistent threats (APT) have increased in recent times as a result of the rise in interest by nationstates and sophisticated corporations to obtain...

Retrieval of the Refractive Index Structure Parameter from Frequency Comb Timing Jitter Data

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Emily Caldwell, Nathan Newbury, William Swann, Laura Sinclair, Jennifer L. Ellis, Martha I. Bodine, Greg Rieker, Carter Mak, Nathan Kuczun, Andreas Muschinski

ASSESSMENT OF A NOVEL POSITION VERIFICATION SENSOR TO IDENTIFY AND ISOLATE ROBOT WORKCELL HEALTH DEGRADATION

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Jared Kaplan

Manufacturing processes have become increasingly sophisticated leading to greater usage of robotics. Sustaining successful manufacturing robotic operations...

Advanced sensing development to support accuracy assessment for industrial robot systems

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao, Jonathan H. Garner

Manufacturers currently struggle with the assessment of a machine/robots' accuracy degradation that limits the efficiency of machine/robots in high precision...

Asset Condition Management: A Framework for Smart, Health-Ready Manufacturing Systems

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Luis Hernandez, Ravi Rajamani, Brian Weiss

Unscheduled downtime in manufacturing systems can be a major source of lost productivity, profits, and, ultimately, reduced process quality and reliability...

MSEC: A QUANTITATIVE RETROSPECTIVE

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Rachael Sexton, Michael Brundage, Alden A. Dima, Michael Sharp

The Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) in 2020 is the 15th annual conference put on by the Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) of ASME...

Operational Measurement Uncertainty and Bayesian Probability Distribution

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

The JCGM documents have undermined the operational concept of uncertainty in measurement established by the GUM and restored the pre-GUM practice of stating...

A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK MODEL FOR LEARNING RUNTIME FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION USING SENSOR MEASUREMENTS

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Yongzhi Qu, Gregory W. Vogl, Zechao Wang

The frequency response function (FRF), defined as the ratio between the Fourier transform of the time-domain output and the Fourier transform of the time-domain...

Influence of Dispositional and Situational Factors on Human Perceptions of Fire Risk

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Isaac T. Leventon, Justin W. Bonny

Studies of human behavior during emergencies have observed that when presented with situational cues that a hazard may be present, humans can fail to act on...

The Impossibility of Efficient Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping

June 22, 2020

Author(s)

Carl A. Miller

How can two parties with competing interests carry out a fair coin flip, using only a noiseless quantum channel? This problem (quantum weak coin-flipping) was...

Understanding and Evaluating Naive Diagnostics Algorithms Applicable in Multistage Manufacturing from a Risk Management Perspective

June 21, 2020

Author(s)

Mehdi Dadfarnia, Michael Sharp, Timothy A. Sprock

The world has entered a state of unprecedented access to machine intelligence algorithms, where the ease of deployment has created a scenario where nearly every...

HALO - High Amplification Laser-pressure Optic

June 21, 2020

Author(s)

Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Kyle A. Rogers, Paul A. Williams, John H. Lehman

Efforts are underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to drastically reduce the uncertainty of laser power measurements using radiation...

Compact 1.7 K Cryocooler for Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

June 18, 2020

Author(s)

Vincent Y. Kotsubo, Joel N. Ullom, Sae Woo Nam

State-of-the-art superconductor-based cryogenic detector systems are being installed at numerous research facilities worldwide and are achieving world-record...

Contributions to Acoustic Loss in Langasite, Langatate, and Catangasite Resonators at High Temperatures

June 17, 2020

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson

Piezoelectric crystals in the langasite family can serve as a basis for resonant acoustic sensors that operate at temperatures exceeding the range of...

Integrating Field Measurements into a Model-Based Simulator for Industrial Communication Networks

June 11, 2020

Author(s)

Jing Geng, Honglei Li, Mohamed Hany, Yongkang Liu, Rick Candell, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Efficient and accurate simulation methods are of increasing importance in the design and evaluation of factory communication systems. Model-based simulation...

EXPPO: EXecution Performance Profiling and Optimization for CPS Co-simulation-as-a-Service

June 10, 2020

Author(s)

Yogesh Barve, Himanshu Neema, Zhuangwei Kang, Hongyang Sun, Aniruddha Gokhale, Thomas Roth

A co-simulation may comprise several heterogeneous federates with diverse spatial and temporal execution characteristics. In an iterative time-stepped...

HLVU : A new challenge to test deep understanding of movies the way humans do

June 8, 2020

Author(s)

Keith Curtis, George M. Awad, Shahzad K. Rajput, Ian M. Soboroff

A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Estimating KPI and PoC for LTE-LAA-based Spectrum Sharing

June 7, 2020

Author(s)

Somayeh Mosleh, Yao Ma, Jake D. Rezac, Jason B. Coder

Machine learning (ML) approaches have been extensively exploited to model and to improve wireless communication networks in the past few years. Nonetheless, the...

Evaluation of Nondestructive Volumetric Testing Methods for Additively Manufactured Parts

June 4, 2020

Author(s)

Anne Francoise H. Obaton, Bryan Butsch, Stephen McDonough, Nans Laroche, Yves Gaillard, Jared Tarr, Patrick Bouvet, Rodolfo Cruz, Alkan Donmez

Additive manufacturing enables the production of customized and complex parts. These two aspects are very attractive for aerospace and medical sectors. However...

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