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Conferences

Glassy-Electret Random Access Memory – A naturally Nanoscale Memory Concept

April 19, 2018

Author(s)

Jason Campbell, Pragya Shrestha, Vasileia Georgiou, D. E. Ioannou, Kin (Charles) Cheung

Self-heating is a serious issue in state-of-the-art MOSFET technology. Much efforts are currently being made to combat this problem to enable further scaling...

In Situ Neutron Transmission Bragg Edge and Synchrotron X-Ray Measurement of Strain Fields Near Fatigue Cracks Grown in Hydrogen

April 18, 2018

Author(s)

Matthew J. Connolly, Peter E. Bradley, Damian S. Lauria, Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler

The embrittlement and enhanced fatigue crack growth rate of metals in the presence of hydrogen is a long-standing problem. In an effort to determine the...

Experimental Study on Long-Span Composite Floor Beams Subject to Fire: Baseline Data at Ambient Temperature

April 17, 2018

Author(s)

Lisa Y. Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, Matthew S. Hoehler, John L. Gross

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently expanded its large-scale structural-fire testing capabilities in the National Fire Research...

Low-GWP Refrigerants; Options and Issues

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski, Riccardo Brignoli, J S. Brown, Andrei F. Kazakov, Mark O. McLinden

This research explored the possibilities for refrigerants having low global warming potential (GWP) with a particular focus on high-pressure applications. The...

Stability of Steel Structures at Elevated Temperatures: A Hybrid Fire Testing Approach

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Ana Sauca, Chao Zhang, Mina S. Seif

The response of structural systems to fire loads is typically assessed through performing standard tests under constant mechanical boundary conditions. Such...

Poster: What Proportion of Vulnerabilities can be Attributed to Ordinary Coding Errors?

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Mohammad Raunak, Raghu N. Kacker

The analysis reported in this poster developed from questions that arose in discussions of the Reducing Software Vulnerabilities working group, sponsored by the...

Combinatorial Security Testing Course

April 11, 2018

Author(s)

Dimitris Simos, Yu Lei, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker

Combinatorial methods have attracted attention as a means of providing strong assurance at reduced cost, but when are these methods practical and cost-effective...

A Gateway to Easily Integrate Simulation Platforms for Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems

April 10, 2018

Author(s)

Thomas P. Roth, Martin J. Burns

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) research leverages the expertise of researchers from multiple domains to engineer complex systems of interacting physical and...

Bringing Precision to 5G Test: Activities in the U.S.

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, Maria G. Becker

(Workshop Abstract) The next generation (5G) network wont just deliver much faster connection and higher data capacity. It also promises to provide reliable...

Spatial Channels for Wireless Over-the-Air Measurements in Reverberation Chambers

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Maria G. Becker, Rob Horansky, Damir Senic, Vincent T. Neylon, Kate Remley

NIST is developing a hybrid test chamber for over-the-air characterization of the next generation of wireless devices in spatial channel environments. By...

Angle- and Delay-Dispersion Characteristics in a Hallway and Lobby at 60 GHz

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Roy Sun, Peter B. Papazian, Jelena Senic, Camillo A. Gentile, Catherine A. Remley

In this paper, we present results from measurement data collected in a hallway and lobby up to 33 meters in line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight conditions. The...

The New Large Antenna Positioning System for Over-The-Air Testing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

April 8, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, David R. Novotny, Josh Gordon, Alexandra Curtin, Michael S. Allman, Kim Hassett, Quang Ton

This paper introduces the new Large Antenna Positioning System (LAPS) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For the last eight years...

UNCERTAINTY IN MULTI-SCALE CREEP RUPTURE LIFE MODELING AND A NEW APPROACH TO ESTIMATING FREQUENCY OF IN-SERVICE INSPECTION OF COMPONENTS AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES (*)

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben, Marvin J. Cohn

Uncertainty in modeling the creep rupture life of a full-scale component using experimental data at microscopic (Level 1), specimen (Level 2), and full-size...

Integrating Data Visualization Software with Manufacturing Facility Databases: Reference Implementation and Lessons Learned

April 3, 2018

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein

This paper enumerates challenges and limitations faced as an open source visualization software, namely Keshif, was paired with an SQL database from the NIST...

Method for Determining the Electrical Shape of a Scanning Probe Microscope Tip

April 2, 2018

Author(s)

Joseph J. Kopanski, Malcolm Regan, Lin You

Knowledge of the actual electrical tip shape can be used to better understand electric field gradients measured with eSPMs and to determine the suitability of...

Subsurface imaging of biased structures with electrostatic force microscopy (EFM)

April 2, 2018

Author(s)

Lin You, Yaw S. Obeng, Joseph Kopanski

In subsurface imaging applications, contrast in EFM depends on the electrostatic force between the tip and sample. In the related technique, scanning Kelvin...

Stress Profiling in Cold-Spray Coatings by Different Experimental Techniques: Neutron Diffraction, X-ray Diffraction and Slitting Method

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Vladimir Luzin, Kevin Spencer, Michael R. Hill, Tao Wei, Michael Law, Thomas H. Gnaupel-Herold

The residual stress profiles in Cu and Al coatings sprayed using kinetic metallization to thickness of 2 mm have been studied. Due to specific parameters of the...

Improved Cryptanalysis of HFEv- via Projection

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Jintai Ding, Ray Perlner, Albrecht R. Petzoldt, Daniel Smith-Tone

The HFEv- signature scheme is one of the most studied multivariate schemes and one of the major candidates for the upcoming standardization of post-quantum...

HFERP -- A New Multivariate Encryption Scheme

April 1, 2018

Author(s)

Yashuhiko Ikematsu, Ray Perlner, Daniel Smith-Tone, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Jeremy Vates

In 2016, Yasuda et al.presented a new multivariate encryption technique based on the Square and Rainbow primitives and utilizing the plus modifier that they...

Incorporating an Optical Clock into a Time Scale at NIST: Simulations and Preliminary Real-Data Analysis

March 29, 2018

Author(s)

Jian Yao, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Tara M. Fortier, Thomas E. Parker, Judah Levine, Joshua J. Savory, Stefania Romisch, William F. McGrew, Robert J. Fasano, Stefan A. Schaeffer, Kyle P. Beloy, Andrew D. Ludlow

This paper shows the recent NIST work on incorporating an optical clock into a time scale. We simulate a time scale composed of continuously-operating...

SIM Time Scale: 10 years of operation

March 29, 2018

Author(s)

J. M. Lopez, Michael A. Lombardi, E. de Carlos, N. Munoz, C. Ortiz

The Inter-American Metrology System (SIM) is one of the world's five major Regional Metrology Organizations (RMO's). Starting in 2005, the SIM Time and...

Instrumenting Open vSwitch with Monitoring Capabalities: Designs and Challenges

March 28, 2018

Author(s)

Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Douglas C. Montgomery, Songqing Chen

The recent advances on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) have made flexible and programmable network measurement possible. A promising trend is to conduct...

Characterizing Gas-Collection Volumes with Acoustic and Microwave Resonances

March 27, 2018

Author(s)

Jodie Gail Pope, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, J B. Mehl, Eric Harman

We characterized a 1.8 m3, nearly-spherical, steel shell at pressures up to 7 MPa for use as a gas flow standard. For pressure, volume, temperature, and time...

Testing IoT Systems

March 26, 2018

Author(s)

Jeffrey M. Voas, David R. Kuhn, Phil Laplante

The ability to test systems that are based on the underlying products and services commonly referred to as the Internet of 'things' (IoT) is discussed. The role...

An Analytical Framework for Smart Manufacturing

March 25, 2018

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Amogh Kulkarni, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai

Smart manufacturing is an emerging paradigm for the next generation of manufacturing systems. One key to the success of smart manufacturing is the ability to...

Millimeter-wave Frequency FDTD Simulation for Error Vector Magnitude of Modulated Signals

March 24, 2018

Author(s)

Joseph Diener, Jeanne Quimby, Kate Remley, Atef Elsherbeni

At millimeter frequencies, a simulation of propagating complex modulated signals through a environmental channel can be computationally prohibitive using the...

Numerical Validation of a Boundary Element Method With E and dE/dN as the Boundary Unknowns

March 24, 2018

Author(s)

Johannes Markkanen, Alex Yuffa, Josh Gordon

We recently developed a surface integral equation method where the electric field and its normal derivative are chosen as the boundary unknowns. After reviewing...

A Design Tool for High Performance Image Processing on Multicore Platforms

March 23, 2018

Author(s)

Timothy J. Blattner, Jiahao Wu, Walid Keyrouz, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Design and implementation of smart vision systems often involve the mapping of complex image processing algorithms into efficient, real-time implementations on...

A System for Centralized ABAC Policy Administration and Local ABAC Policy Decision and Enforcement in Host Systems using Access Control Lists

March 21, 2018

Author(s)

David F. Ferraiolo, Serban I. Gavrila, Gopi Katwala

We describe a method that centrally manages Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) policies and locally computes and enforces decisions regarding those policies...

Errors in Rate of Rise Gas Flow Measurements from Flow Work

March 20, 2018

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Aaron Johnson, Gina Kline, Michael R. Moldover

The rate of rise (RoR) method measures the time rate of change of the mass of gas in a collection volume as it is filled via a flow meter under test. The mass...

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