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Gregory W. Hoth, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley, Bruno Pelle
Point source interferometry (PSI) is a promising technique that could lead to a compact, high- performance gyroscope based on atom interferometry. We consider
Designing smart operational control systems for Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS) requires a standard description of control behaviors executed at the
Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney, Jaime A. Camelio
Making high-quality manufacturing decisions in real-time is difficult. Smart manufacturing requires sufficient knowledge be available to the decision maker to
Chung Tong Hu, Antonios Gouglidis, Jeremy Busby, David Hutchison
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The purpose of a registration is to find the transformation between two coordinate frames: working frame (from which 3D data are transformed) and destination
Ye Na Kim, Munsuk Kim, SuKyoung Lee, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
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Electrical scanning probe microscopes (eSPMs), such as the scanning Kelvin force microscope (SKFM), scanning capacitance microscope (SCM), or various scanning
The 2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics (FCMN) has the goal of bringing together scientists and
John S. Villarrubia, Vipin Tondare, Andras E. Vladar
Modern electronic devices are non-planar and have functional dependencies on device sizes in all three dimensions. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images
Michael T. Postek, Andras E. Vladar, John S. Villarrubia
In many fields of research and production, a great deal of dimensional metrology, characterization and process control is accomplished using scanning electron
Ruoyu Sun, Peter B. Papazian, Jelena Senic, Yeh Lo, Jae-Kark Choi, Kate Remley, Camillo Gentile
The 60 GHz band is being considered for many high bandwidth wireless applications. To support standards development for these applications, NIST has developed
This paper presents recent measurements using the newly developed Configurable Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna (CROMMA) facility by the Antenna Metrology Lab at
Jessie Zhang, Gymama Slaughter, Matthew Robinson, Joel Tyson
One of the major challenges of brain activity monitoring is to obtain high quality signals from the brain using metal electrodes. The probes consisting of metal
Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Katelyn Goetz, Ruslan Ovsyannikov, Erika Giangrisostomi, Emily G. Bittle, Oana Jurchescu, Steven W. Robey, Christina A. Hacker
In organic electronics, the highest estimated charge mobility in a device is typically achieved when the organic semiconductor is a single crystal. However, the
The current trend in manufacturing industry is from mass production towards flexible and adaptive manufacturing systems and cloud manufacturing. Self-learning
Paulina S. Kuo, Thomas Gerrits, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam
We have developed an entangled photon pair source based on a domain-engineered, type-II periodically poled lithium niobate crystal that produces signal and
Erdem Coskun, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Marcus J. Calkins, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Pawel Jaruga, Amanda K. McCullough, M Miral Dizdar, R. S. Lloyd
Chemotherapy aims to destroy cancer cells by damaging their DNA. However, the overexpression of DNA repair proteins in cancer cells causes the removal of DNA
Richard L. Steiner, Edwin R. Williams, Ruimin Liu, Beatrice Parker
The NIST electronic kilogram has had three published results, each with slightly less uncertainty. In the present design, there are several measurement
Calculating the force on a reference mass for the electronic kilogram experiment requires using both absolute and relative gravity meters to measure the
Jonathan E. Hardis, Demetrios Matsakis, Blair Fonville
Due to the efforts of Henry Warren, inventor of the Telechron electric clock, electric power companies have been a source of time and frequency reference for
The Citizen Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band has three tiers of users. The General Authorized Access (GAA) has the lowest priority and operates without a
Kevin Teichman, Steven Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily
Despite numerous efforts to encourage good indoor air quality (IAQ) in high-performing buildings, including several building rating programs, measured IAQ
Azza Ben Mosbah, Timothy Hall, Michael R. Souryal, Hossam Afifi
In spectrum sharing, incumbents with sensitive parameters require full protection of their operations. The incumbent's protection includes the protection of its
Thao T. Nguyen, Anirudha Sahoo, Michael R. Souryal, Timothy Hall
Spectrum sharing in the 3.5 GHz band between commercial and government users along U.S. coastal areas depends on an Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC), a