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Conferences

Ion-beam radiation damage to DNA by investigation of free radical formation and base damage

March 1, 2020

Author(s)

Melis Kant, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Samuel Ward, Alexander Stark, David Becker, Amitav Adhikary, Michael Sevilla, Miral M. Dizdar

This work investigated the physicochemical processes and DNA base products involved in Ne-22 ion- beam (ca. 1.4 GeV) radiation damage to hydrated (12 waters...

A Graph Database Approach to Wireless IIoT Work-cell Performance Evaluation

February 28, 2020

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany, Yongkang Liu, Karl R. Montgomery, Sebti Foufou

The work-cell is an essential industrial environment for testing wireless communication techniques in factory automation processes. A new testbed was recently...

Distributed Resource Allocation Schemes for Out-of-Coverage D2D Communications

February 27, 2020

Author(s)

Jian Wang, Richard A. Rouil, Fernando J. Cintron

In many public safety scenarios, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication should be capable of handling out-of-coverage situations, ensuring that D2D devices can...

On Upper Bounds for D2D Group Size

February 27, 2020

Author(s)

David W. Griffith, Aziza Ben Mosbah

In this paper, we examine the Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel (PSDCH) for out-of-coverage (OOC) Device-to-Device (D2D) Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks...

Polarization-dependent absolute-phase-corrected multidimensional coherent spectra of exciton-polaritons

February 27, 2020

Author(s)

Jagannath Paul, Jared Wahlstrand, Alan Bristow

Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy measures the third-order polarization response of a system to reveal microscopic electronic and many-body phenomena...

Method for Effective Measurement, Labeling, and Classification of Botnet C2s for Predicting Attacks

February 23, 2020

Author(s)

Mitsuhiro Hatada, Matthew A. Scholl

In the IoT era, botnet threats are rising, which has prompted many studies on botnet detection. This study aims to detect the early signs of botnet attacks such...

Atomic flux circuits

February 23, 2020

Author(s)

Douglas Bopp, Ellyse Taylor, Khoa Le, Susan Schima, Matthew Hummon, John Kitching

Atomic vapors are a crucial platform for precision metrology but in their simplest implementation, a thermal vapor, the intrinsic optical resonances are...

Millimeter-Wave Highly-Multipath Channel Measurements

February 21, 2020

Author(s)

Alec Weiss, Joshua Kast, Rob Jones, Jeanne Quimby, Rodney Leonhardt, Benjamin Jamroz, Peter Vouras, Dylan Williams, Kate Remley

We provide the frequency response of a high multipath propagation channel using a narrow beamwidth synthetic aperture measurement technique from 26.5 - 40 GHz.

EV Fleet Charging: Managing Power Flows Today and Tomorrow

February 19, 2020

Author(s)

David Holmberg

Slide deck introducing the EV Fleet Charging: Managing Power Flows Today and Tomorrow session, in Track 2 of the ISGT conference, presented Feb 19, 2020...

A Residential Energy Control Algorithm Assessment Tool for Smart Grid: Multi-Criteria Decision Making Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process

February 18, 2020

Author(s)

Farhad Omar

For homes to become active participants in a smart grid, intelligent control algorithms are needed to facilitate autonomous interactions that take homeowner...

Implementing Grain Traceability Standards: CART and Simulation

February 18, 2020

Author(s)

Frank H. Riddick, Evan K. Wallace, Scott Nieman, Joe Tevis, R. A. Ferreyra

To ensure food safety, food manufacturers need the ability to quickly identify and trace food products to all equipment and processes throughout the entire...

Extending NIST's CAVP Testing of Cryptographic Hash Function Implementations

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Nicky W. Mouha, Christopher T. Celi

This paper describes a vulnerability in Apple's CoreCrypto library, which affects 11 out of the 12 implemented hash functions: every implemented hash function...

Simplified Ray Tracing for the Millimeter Wave Channel: A Performance Evaluation

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Mattia Lecci, Paolo Testolina, Marco Giordani, Michele Polese, Tanguy Ropitault, Camillo Gentile, Neeraj Varshney, Michele Zorzi

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the cornerstone innovations of fifth- generation (5G) wireless networks, thanks to the massive bandwidth...

TMPS: Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

John M. Kelsey, Dana Dachman-Soled, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Sweta Mishra

We introduce the notion of Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening (TMPS), a technique for allowing users to derive keys from passwords while imposing a strict...

First Direct Measurement of Sub-Nanosecond Polarization Switching in Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Pragya R. Shrestha, xiao Lyu, Mengwei Si, Kin P. Cheung, Pei D. Ye

In this work, we report on an ultrafast direct measurement on the transient ferroelectric polarization switching in hafnium zirconium oxide with a crossbar...

Development and Applications of a Four-Volt Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Alain Rufenacht, Anna E. Fox, Steven B. Waltman, Robert E. Schwall, Justus A. Brevik, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

We have recently created a 4 V rms cryocooled JAWS (Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer) using 204,960 nearly identical Josephson junctions (JJs) that are...

Modeling and Improving Named Data Networking over IEEE 802.15.4

February 10, 2020

Author(s)

Amar Abane, Paul Muhlethaler, Samia Bouzefrane, Abdella Battou

Enabling NDN in real-world IoT deployments becomes essential to benefit from ICN/NDN features in current IoT systems. To design realistic NDN-based...

Ray-based classification framework for high-dimensional data

February 3, 2020

Author(s)

Justyna Zwolak, Jacob Taylor, Sandesh Kalantre, Thomas McJunkin, Brian Weber

While classification of arbitrary structures in high dimensions may require complete quantitative information, for simple geometrical structures, low...

EFFECTS OF ALKALI-SILICA REACTION ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURAL CAPACITIES OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES

January 31, 2020

Author(s)

Long T. Phan, Fahim Sadek, Travis E. Thonstad, Hai S. Lew, Sorin Marcu, Jacob Philip

This paper describes an ongoing, comprehensive research program being conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the...

Developing Models for a 0.8 mm Coaxial VNA Calibration Kit within the NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework

January 28, 2020

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Jargon, Christian J. Long, Ari D. Feldman, Jon Martens

We developed models for a 0.8 mm coaxial vector network analyzer (VNA) calibration kit within the NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework. First, we created...

DARPA Organic Interconnect Characterization

January 27, 2020

Author(s)

Dylan Williams, Richard Chamberlin, Jerome Cheron, Sam Chitwood, Ken Willis, Brad Butler, Farhang Yazdani

We report on a study of interconnects fabricated on organic and silicon interposers used to connect state-of-the art digital, analog and RF chiplets...

On Characterizing Uncertainty Sources in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Models

January 21, 2020

Author(s)

Tesfaye M. Moges, Paul W. Witherell, Gaurav Ameta

Tremendous effort has been dedicated to computational models and simulations of Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes to better understand process complexities...

Particle Tracking of a Complex Microsystem in Three Dimensions and Six Degrees of Freedom

January 18, 2020

Author(s)

Craig Copeland, Craig McGray, Robert Ilic, Jon Geist, Samuel Stavis

We exploit the intrinsic aberrations of an optical microscope to track single particles in three dimensions. We combine information from multiple particles on a...

Key Considerations for Microbial Viability Measurements

January 14, 2020

Author(s)

Joy Dunkers, Sandra M. Da Silva, Stephanie Servetas, James J. Filliben, Guilherme L. Pinheiro, Nancy Lin

Making reliable measurements of antimicrobial killing efficacy requires careful consideration of the sources of biological variability, measurement bias and...

Standards, Metrology and Technology to Minimize Healthcare-Associated Infections: Novel approaches to measure efficacy

January 14, 2020

Author(s)

Brian J. Nablo, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, Dianne L. Poster, Michael T. Postek, Yaw S. Obeng

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) impose great burdens on public health, making HAIs the strongest contender as the most pressing healthcare problem in...

Phononic Frequency Combs For Engineering MEMS/NEMS Devices With Tunable Sensitivity

January 13, 2020

Author(s)

Adarsh V. Ganesan, Ashwin Seshia, Jason J. Gorman

Over the past two decades, MEMS resonators have received considerable attention for physical, chemical and biological sensing applications. Typically, the...

A Science Gateway for Atomic and Molecular Physics

January 7, 2020

Author(s)

Barry I. Schneider, Klaus Bartschat, Oleg Zatsarinny, Igor Bray, Fernando Martin, Armin Scrinzi, Sudhakar Pamidighantam, Jonathan Tennyson, Jimena Gorfinkiel, Markus Klinker

We describe the creation of a new Atomic and Molecular Physics science gateway (AMPGateway). The gateway is designed to bring together a subset of the AMP...

Forensic Analysis of Advanced Persistent Threat Attacks in Cloud Environments

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera

Due to the increasing cyber-activities and the use of diverse devices offered on cloud environments, post-attack cloud forensic investigations must deal with...

BowTie - a deep learning feedforward neural network for sentiment analysis

January 3, 2020

Author(s)

Apostol T. Vassilev

How to model and encode the semantics of human-written text and select the type of neural network to process it are not settled issues in sentiment analysis...

Dynamic Compression Tests of Alumina Dumbbells Using a Spherical Joint

December 19, 2019

Author(s)

Richard Rhorer, George D. Quinn, Steven Mates

The dynamic compressive strength of ceramic armor materials is difficult to obtain experimentally due to the sensitivity of fracture strength to even small...

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