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Conferences

ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECT OF WIND ON FIREBRAND ACCUMULATION IN FRONT OF OBSTACLES

May 19, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

See paper. Conference requires two page extended abstract.

Optomechanical Quantum Correlations

May 18, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas P. Purdy, Karen E. Grutter, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Nikolai N. Klimov, Zeeshan Ahmed, Jacob M. Taylor

We present methods to measure optical quantum correlations arising from an optomechanical interaction even when large classical noise sources are present. We...

A telecom-band cavity-enhanced single-photon source with high klyshko efficiencies

May 18, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Lu Xiyuan, Steven Rogers, W C. Wiang, Sae Woo Nam, Qiang Lin

We develop an on-chip telecom-band single-photon source with Klyshko efficiencies up to 48%, the highest value for cavity-enhanced photon sources. For the first...

An Efficient Lagrangian Algorithm for an Anisotropic Geodesic Active Contour Model

May 18, 2017

Author(s)

Gunay Dogan

We propose an efficient algorithm to minimize an anisotropic surface energy generalizing the Geodesic Active Contour model for image segmentation. In this...

Advances in Next-Generation Polyolefin Standard Reference Materials

May 17, 2017

Author(s)

Sara V. Orski, Wesley S. Farrell, Andre M. Striegel, Kathryn L. Beers

NISTs approach to modernizing its synthetic polymer reference materials is to target precise and robust synthetic methods, making homogeneous standards than...

Development and Evaluation of Two New Droplet Evaporation Schemes for Fire Dynamics Simulations

May 15, 2017

Author(s)

Randall J. McDermott, Jason Floyd

The evaporation of sprinkler droplets is an important phenomena in fire simulations both for heat removal from the gas and for heat removal from surfaces. In...

Quantitative Analysis of Oxidation State in Cerium Oxide Nanomaterials

May 14, 2017

Author(s)

Christopher Sims, Russell Maier, Aaron Johnston-Peck, Justin Gorham, Vincent A. Hackley, Bryant C. Nelson

Cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) are receiving increased attention from the research community due to the large number and wide range of their current and...

Performance and Aging of Graphene Oxide/Polyurethane Nanocomposites

May 14, 2017

Author(s)

David Goodwin

Polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) containing graphene oxide (GO) can be used to enhance the mechanical strength, thermal properties, and barrier properties of a...

Multiheterodyne Spectroscopy Using Multi-frequency Combs

May 13, 2017

Author(s)

David F. Plusquellic, Gerd A. Wagner, Adam Fleisher, David Long, Joseph T. Hodges

Near-IR dual frequency combs generated from waveform driven electro-optic phase modulators (EOMs) are used for high resolution studies in low pressure cells and...

Positively Charged Ag-dendron Conjugates: Stability Enhanced AgNPs for Biomedical Applications

May 13, 2017

Author(s)

Tae Joon Cho, Jingyu Liu, Vincent A. Hackley

We developed positively charged silver nanoparticles ([Ag-Ds]+), nominally 20 nm in diameter, using dendron chemistry combined with reduction of silver nitrate...

Bandwidth-enhanced superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for telecom wavelengths

May 13, 2017

Author(s)

Stephan Krapick, Marina Hesselberg, Varun Verma, Igor Vayshenker, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin

We present a single-photon detector providing system detection efficiencies of at least (86.7 ± 0.9) % from 1450 nm to 1640 nm. It comprises bilayer...

A Comparison of Control-channel Schemes in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Networks using a Configurable Testbed

May 10, 2017

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile

In this paper, the control channel for secondary users in opportunistic spectrum access networks is considered. Given a licensed bandwidth for primary users, we...

Rheology of ballistic clay: the effect of temperature and shear history

May 9, 2017

Author(s)

Ran Tao, Kirk D. Rice, Aaron M. Forster

Ballistic clay is used as a backing material for standards-based ballistic resistance tests for the purposes of providing a measure of the energy transferred to...

NIST Cloud Computing Program Supporting the U.S. Cloud Computing Strategy

Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon

Cloud computing is the next step in the continued evolution of information systems. Cloud computing allows consumers to choose what and how they want services...

Nanoparticle Release from Polymer Nanocomposites Used for Potable Water Infrastructure and Food Packaging: Current Progress & Beyond

Author(s)

Andrew Whelton, T.V. Duncan , J.L. Koontz , Tinh Nguyen

Nanoparticle (NP) enhanced polymers have the potential to revolutionize food packaging and water pipe performance, though release from these materials has gone...

Characterizing and Fractionating Native Cellulose Nanofibers

Author(s)

Iulia A. Sacui, Jeffrey W. Gilman

Cellulose nanofibers have good elastic modulus properties and can be used as nano-reinforcements in polymer composites. Native cellulose nanofibers from wood...

Buckling of steel gusset plates

Author(s)

Chiara Crosti, Dat Duthinh

As a result of the structural failure of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis in 2007, FHWA issued guidelines for the load rating of gusset plates and recommended...

Metrology and process control: dealing with measurement uncertainty

Author(s)

James E. Potzick

Metrology is often used in designing and controlling manufacturing processes. A product sample is processed, some relevant property is measured, and the process...

Preliminary Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework (DPIF) Results

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang

In October 2009, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/ International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1)...

Advanced Digital Image Archival System Using MPEG Technologies

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang

Digital information and records are vital to the human race regardless of the nationalities and eras in which they were produced. Digital image contents are...

Handover-based Call Admission Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Author(s)

Nicolas Chevrollier, Nada T. Golmie, Nicolas Montavont

With the need for mobility comes stringent quality of service requirements that have to be met before users are able to roam seamlessly across different network...

Receiver Sensitivity in CSMA Networks

Author(s)

B Yan, Hamid Gharavi

This paper aims at improving the power efficiency of the CSMA/CA protocol for transmission of multimedia information over multihop wireless channels. Using a...

Wind Loading Codification in the Americas: Fundamentals for a Renewal

Author(s)

Emil Simiu

A survey of current wind engineering practices and their reflection in codes and standards reveals the existence of areas in which substantial progress needs to...

Development of a miniature radiation pressure-measuring microscale

Author(s)

Ivan Ryger, Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Paul A. Williams, Nathan A. Tomlin, Michelle S. Stephens, Matthew T. Spidell, John H. Lehman

Traditional methods for accurate measurement of high-power lasers involve total absorption of the laser light [1]. Our method, however, measures photon pressure...

Group Discovery Time in Device-to-Device (D2D) Proximity Services (ProSe) Networks

May 4, 2017

Author(s)

David W. Griffith, Aziza Ben Mosbah, Richard A. Rouil

Device-to-device (D2D) communications for Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks relies on a discovery process to enable User Equipment (UE) to determine which D2D...

Fully-Stabilized All Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Erbium Frequency Comb

May 3, 2017

Author(s)

Laura C. Sinclair, Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Kana Iwakuni, Nathan R. Newbury

We demonstrate a completely polarization-maintaining fiber frequency comb operating at a 200 MHz repetition rate and show stability and noise performance...

Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Yasemin Acar, Michael Backes, Sascha Fahl, Simson L. Garfinkel, Doowon Kim, Michelle L. Mazurek, Christian Stransky

Potentially dangerous cryptography errors are well-documented in many applications. Conventional wisdom suggests that many of these errors are caused by...

Improvements in Accelerometer Calibration at NIST Using Digital Vibrometry

April 29, 2017

Author(s)

Beverly F. Payne, Richard A. Allen, Colleen E. Hood

Improvements in shaker design and laser vibrometer development has provided more precise calibration of accelerometers. Calibrations are performed at...

Indicator frameworks

April 26, 2017

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee, Christine Kendrick, Abhishek Dubey, Joshua Tan

We develop a diagrammatic tool for constructing correlations between random variables, called an abstract indicator framework. Abstract indicator frameworks are...

Towards a Foundation for a Collaborative Replicable Smart Cities IoT Architecture

April 26, 2017

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee, Cuong Nguyen, Alexander Nelson, Daniel Hoffman, Greg Toth

The pervasive instrumentation of the physical world with sensors and actuators grants an unprecedented level of information granularity that is useful in...

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