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Conferences

MRI Birdcage RF Coil Resonance with Uncertainty and Relative Error Convergence Rates

October 4, 2017

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben, Pedro V. Marcal, Robert Rainsberger, Karl F. Stupic, Stephen E. Russek

In a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, it is necessary to excite the nuclei of a patient into coherent precession for imaging. This requires a coupling...

Identification of Industrial Robot Arm Work Cell Use Cases and a Test Bed to Promote Monitoring, Diagnostic, and Prognostic Technologies

October 4, 2017

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Alexander S. Klinger

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is performing research to advance the state of the art in monitoring, diagnostic, and prognostic...

Diagnostics of machine tool linear axes via separation of geometric error sources

October 4, 2017

Author(s)

Gregory W. Vogl, Michael Sharp

Manufacturers need automated, efficient, and robust methods to diagnose the condition of their machine tool linear axes with minimal disruptions to production...

Si-traceable top-of-the-atmosphere lunar irradiance: Potential tie-points to the output of the ROLO Model

October 3, 2017

Author(s)

Steven W. Brown, Robert E. Eplee, Xiaoxiong Xiong

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has developed an empirical model, known as the Robotic Lunar Observatory (ROLO) Model, that predicts the reflectance...

Electronic and Chemical Structure of 2D materials

October 3, 2017

Author(s)

Sujitra Pookpanratana

The drive to produce smaller, faster, lower power electronic components for computing is pushing the semiconductor industry to nanometer-scale device structures...

Quantifying Thermophoretic Deposition of Soot on Surfaces

October 2, 2017

Author(s)

Amy E. Mensch, Thomas G. Cleary

Quantitative data on deposition of soot agglomerate particles in the literature is needed to advance fire forensic analysis as well as fire model predictions of...

Compressed Volume Rendering using Deep Learning

October 2, 2017

Author(s)

Wesley N. Griffin, Afzal A. Godil, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Judith E. Terrill, Amitabh Varshney, Somay Jain

Scientific simulations often generate large amounts of multivariate time varying volumetric data. Visualizing these volumes is essential for understanding the...

A Comparison of Carbon Monoxide Gas Sensing to Particle Smoke Detection in Residential Fire Scenarios

October 1, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Cleary, Amy Mensch

Recent research has suggested that carbon monoxide (CO) sensing might be better than photoelectric detectors for detecting smoldering fires in dwellings...

Polarized Light Scattering of Smoke Sources and Cooking Aerosols

October 1, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Cleary, Amy Mensch

Light scattering data was gathered during experiments conducted in an ANSI/UL 217 test room constructed at NIST to assess the performance of currently available...

Temperature dependence of nonlinearity in high-speed, high-power photodetectors

September 30, 2017

Author(s)

Josue Davila-Rodriguez, Holly Leopardi, Tara Fortier, Xiaojun Xie, Joe C. Campbell, James Booth, Nate Orloff, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan

We present an experimental study of the nonlinearity of modified uni-traveling carrier (MUTC) photodiodes at cryogenic temperatures. At 120 K, the amplitudeto...

The Role of Filtering Higher Order Reflections in Antenna Extrapolation Measurements

September 30, 2017

Author(s)

Rob Horansky, Mohit S. Mujumdar, Dylan Williams, Kate Remley, David R. Novotny, Michael H. Francis

With more and more wireless devices being made with no test ports, and with the need to test these devices in real-world scenarios with no cable interference...

Using Sensor Feedback to Accurately Estimate Part Pose in Gripper

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

Nithyananda Bhat Kumbla, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta

High volume manufacturing use custom made fixtures during assembly operations. Small volume manufacturing cannot use fixtures in order to keep setup time and...

Identifying Evidence for Implementing a Cloud Forensic Analysis Framework

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera

Cloud computing provides several benefits to organizations such as increased flexibility, scalability and reduced cost. However, it provides several challenges...

Combinatorial Coverage Measurement of Test Vectors used in Cryptographic Algorithm Validation (Presentation)

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

Dimitris Simos, Stavros Mekesis, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker

We measured the combinatorial coverage of test vectors provided by the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP). Input models were defined and...

Aperture Arrays for Subnanometer Calibration of Optical Microscopes

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

Craig Copeland, Craig McGray, Jon Geist, James Alexander Liddle, Robert Ilic, Samuel Stavis

We fabricate and test subresolution aperture arrays as calibration devices for optical localization microscopy. An array pitch with a relative uncertainty of...

Deep Silicon Etching for X-Ray Diffraction Devices Fabrication

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

Houxun Miao, Mona Mirzaeimoghri, Lei Chen, Han Wen

We report deep reactive ion etching of silicon gratings via cryogenic and Bosch processes. An aspect ratio of > 50 is achieved for 400 nm period gratings with...

A Network Measurement Framework for Named Data Networks

September 26, 2017

Author(s)

Davide Pesavento, Omar Ilias El Mimouni, Eric E. Newberry, Lotfi Benmohamed, Abdella Battou

In this poster, we propose a network measurement framework for NDN. We define the goals of network measurement and discuss how these goals can be achieved by...

NDN-Trace: A Path Tracing Utility for Named Data Networking

September 26, 2017

Author(s)

Siham Khoussi, Davide Pesavento, Lotfi Benmohamed, Abdella Battou

In this paper we propose NDN-Trace, a path tracing utility to determine the characteristics of the available paths to reach a given name prefix in NDN-based...

Local measurements of photocurrent and band gap in CdTe solar cells

September 25, 2017

Author(s)

Yohan Yoon, Jungseok Chae, Aaron M. Katzenmeyer, Heayoung Yoon, Joshua D. Schumacher, Sang M. An, Andrea Centrone, Nikolai B. Zhitenev

Polycrystalline thin film technology has shown great promise for low cost, high efficiency photovoltaics. To further increase the power efficiency, a firm...

The UT1 and UTC Time Services Provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

September 25, 2017

Author(s)

Judah Levine

I will describe the network-based time services provided by the Time and Frequency Division of NIST. The network service is realized with approximately 20...

Methods for Channel Sounder Measurement Verification

September 23, 2017

Author(s)

Kate Remley, Camillo Gentile, Alenka Zajic, Jeanne Quimby

We describe an activity of the 5G mmWave Channel Sounder Alliance to verify the hardware performance of channel sounders operating at mmWave frequencies. Such...

Industrial Wireless: Problem Space, Success Considerations, Technologies, and Future Direction

September 22, 2017

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany

The use of wireless technologies within factories demands a comprehensive understanding of the problems and potential solutions associated with the rigors of...

High-efficiency superconducting detectors and their applications in quantum optics

September 21, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits

High efficiency single-photon detection resides at the heart of many quantum information applications. Our efforts towards high efficiency, fast single photon...

Evaluating the Effects of Cyber-Attacks on Cyber Physical Systems using a Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Testbed

September 21, 2017

Author(s)

Bradley Potteiger, William Emfinger, Himanshu Neema, Xenofon Koutsoukos, CheeYee Tang, Keith A. Stouffer

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of embedded computers with sensing and actuation capability, and are integrated into and tightly coupled with a physical...

An Integrated Simulation Study on Reliable and Effective Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grid

September 21, 2017

Author(s)

Sriharsha Mallapuram, Wei Yu, Paul Moulema, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie, Fan Liang

The smart grid, as a cyber-physical system, consists of both cyber subsystems (e.g., control, communication networks) and physical subsystems (e.g., power grid)...

Quantum Randomness from Probability Estimation with Classical Side Information

September 20, 2017

Author(s)

Emanuel H. Knill, Yanbao Zhang, Peter L. Bierhorst

We develop a framework for certifying randomness from Bell test trials based on directly estimating the probability of the measurement outcomes with adaptive...

Bound Electron Nonlinearity Beyond the Ionization Threshold

September 18, 2017

Author(s)

Jared K. Wahlstrand, Sina Zahedpour, H M. Milchberg

Using supercontinuum spectral interferometry, we measure the ionization induced optical phase shift in three noble gases and nitrogen and oxygen. Results...

Conceptual System for Evaluating the Impact on Residential Life Safety of New Fire Protection Technology

September 18, 2017

Author(s)

Paul A. Reneke, Morgan Bruns, Richard D. Peacock, Thomas G. Cleary, Chandler P. MacLaren

Monitoring early-age shrinkage strain and temperature distributions in full-scale steel-concrete composite beams with distributed fiber optic sensors

September 14, 2017

Author(s)

Yi Bao, Matthew Hoehler, Lisa Choe, Matthew Klegseth, Genda Chen

Carbon Dioxide Generation Rates for Building Occupants

September 13, 2017

Author(s)

Andrew Persily

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