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Jan Obrzut, Keith White, Yanfei Yang, Randolph Elmquist
Surface conductance of graphene films is investigated in a non-contact microwave cavity operating at 7.4543 GHz. This cavity technique characterizes specimens...
Justin A. Kauffman, William L. George, Jonathan S. Pitt
Fluid-structure interaction simulations where solid bodies undergo large deformations require special handling of the mesh motion for Arbitrarily Lagrangian...
Jeffrey T. Fong, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Dennis D. Leber, Paul A. Berkman, Robert E. Chapman
Risk, as the product of failure probability and failure consequence, has been estimated and applied by engineers and managers to help make critical decisions on...
Behrang H. Hamadani, Andrew M. Shore, Howard W. Yoon, Mark Campanelli
We used an LED-array-based combinatorial flux addition method to explore the wavelength and the intensity-dependence of the spectral responsivity in silicon...
Nicolas Bouvet, Eric D. Link, Stephen A. Fink, Erica D. Kuligowski
NIST is currently developing a time-resolved, three-dimensional particle tracking and sizing diagnostic (a.k.a an emberometer) that will be applied to...
Neutron Depth Profiling (NDP) is an analytical nuclear technique for the determination of elemental mass as a function of depth into a sample's surface. It is...
The task of registering two coordinate frames is frequently accomplished by measuring the same set of points in both frames. Noise and possible bias in the...
Recent advances in the digitization of manufacturing have prompted ASME and ISO standards committees to reexamine the definition of datums. Any new definition...
Kamran Sayrafian, Katjana Krhac, Mehdi Alasti, Kamya Yazdandoost, Dina Simunic
Comprehensive study of wireless communication for ingestible electronics is a very challenging task. To initiate the study on wireless capsule endoscopy, an...
Kamran Sayrafian, Sofia Perez-Simbor, Katjana Krhac, Concepcion GarciaPardo, Dina Simunic, Narcis Cardona
Sophisticated medical implants that allow vital information delivery to/from the human body are opening the door to novel approaches in diagnosis and/or therapy...
A key challenge for many manufacturers today is efficiently producing and delivering their products on time. Issues include demand for customized products...
The latest innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will change manufacturing and simulation forever. Ideas such as Industry 4.0...
In this paper, we propose an analytical framework to derive all positive integer moments of MIMO mutual information in high-SNR regime. The approach is based on...
Sanjay Jain, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Yung-Tsun Lee
Selecting the right data analytics (DA) approach for an application is rather complex. Obtaining sufficient and right kind of data for evaluating these...
Nithyananda Kumbla, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta
This paper presents an automated part localization technique for performing fixtureless assembly operations in a human-robot collaborative workcell. The main...
Alex Yuffa, Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael H. Francis, Josh Gordon, David R. Novotny
the unknown-thru calibration technique is being used to achieve a system level calibration at milli-meter frequencies (>50 GHz) on the robotic ranges at NIST...
This paper derives a gradient based implementation of maximum likelihood angle estimation for virtual planar arrays used to sound millimeter wave channels.
We discuss the development of a new format for beacons-- servers which provide a sequence of digitally signed and hash-chained public random numbers on a fixed...
In the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service, 100 MHz of spectrum will be shared between commercial users and federal incumbents. Dynamic use of the band...
Aruna N. Ramanayaka, Ke Tang, Joseph Hagmann, Hyun S. Kim, Curt A. Richter, Joshua M. Pomeroy
Elimination of unpaired nuclear spins can result in low error rates for quantum computation; therefore, isotopically enriched 28Si is regarded as an ideal...
Nina P. Basta, Jasper A. Drisko, Aaron M. Hagerstrom, Joshua A. Orlicki, Jennifer M. Sietins, Daniel B. Knorr, Jr., Edward J. Garboczi, Christian J. Long, Nathan D. Orloff
The electrical properties of materials are a necessary part of any circuit design. As applications at millimeter-wave frequen-cies increase, there is a growing...
John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox, Walter G. Peacock, Harvey Cutler, Maria Dillard, Jong Lee, Lori Peek, Judith Mitrani-Reiser
Community resilience is often defined as the ability of a community to prepare for, absorb, and recover rapidly from a hazard event. In 2015, the U.S. National...
Firebrands generated from structures are a source of rapid fire spread within communities during large outdoor fires, such as wildland-urban (WUI) fires and...
Murat Aksu, John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor
Measuring the agility performance of the industrial robots as they are performing in unstructured and dynamic environments is a thought-provoking research topic...
In a recent urban fire in Itoigawa-city, Niigata, Japan, structures were exposed to firebrands and it was reported roofing assemblies were ignited, which led to...
Raied Caromi, John Mink, Cosburn H. Wedderburn, Michael R. Souryal, Naceur El Ouni
This paper presents a framework and apparatus for laboratory testing of environmental sensing capability (ESC) sensors for the 3.5 GHz band. These sensors are...
Corey A. Stambaugh, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Hamza Shakeel
The Quartz Crystal Microbalance provides critical measurement capability for a wide variety of \textit{in situ} and \textit{in vivo} applications. However, it...
Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Katherine Johnson, Therese P. McAllister, Steven McCabe
For typical residential and commercial buildings, the intent of buildings codes is to protect building occupants against life-threatening actions while...
Successful spectrum management requires reliable methods for determining whether communication signals are present in a spectrum portion of interest. The widely...