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Conferences

Emerging Flood Model Validation Frameworks for Street-Level Inundation Modeling with StormSense

April 25, 2017

Author(s)

Cuong Nguyen, Sokwoo Rhee, Jon 'Derek' Loftis

Technological progression in flood monitoring methods and the proliferation of cost-efficient Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled water level sensors is opening...

Stuck in a moment: A view from the MIRE

April 20, 2017

Author(s)

Patrick Egan, Jack A. Stone Jr., Jacob Edmond Ricker, Jay H. Hendricks

The next-generation pressure standards will be realized via gas density and the equation of state. One way to access the density is through a measurement of gas...

Epistemic Uncertainty in Solution Algorithms for Analyzing Geometric Nonlinearity of Framed Structures

April 6, 2017

Author(s)

Kevin K F Wong, Siamak Sattar, Steven McCabe

One important aspect of performance-based earthquake engineering is developing structural models that can accurately capture key characteristics of dynamic...

Acceptance Criteria for Nonlinear Alternative Load Path Analysis of Steel and Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures

April 5, 2017

Author(s)

Jonathan Weigand, Yihai Bao, Joseph Main

Alternative load path analysis is the primary approach for evaluating the potential for disproportionate collapse in structural design. In this approach...

Alternative Load Path Analysis of a Prototype Reinforced Concrete Frame Building

April 5, 2017

Author(s)

Yihai Bao, Joseph Main, Hai S. Lew

This paper presents alternative load path analyses of a 5-bay by 5-bay, 10-story prototype reinforced concrete moment frame building under column loss scenarios...

Evaluating the Effects of Modeling Errors for Isolated Finite3-D Targets

March 29, 2017

Author(s)

Mark-Alexander Henn, Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou

Optical 3-D nanostructure metrology utilizes a model-based metrology approach to determine critical dimensions (CDs) that are well below the inspection...

Assessing the wavelength extensibility of optical patterned defect inspection

March 29, 2017

Author(s)

Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou, Mark-Alexander Henn, Martin Sohn, Richard M. Silver

Qualitative comparisons have been made in the literature between the scattering off deep- subwavelength-sized defects and the scattering off spheres in free...

Elucidating the Structural and Electronic Properties of Solution-Synthesized 2D SnS Crystals

March 28, 2017

Author(s)

Adam Biacchi, Brian Alberding, Son Le, Joseph Hagmann, Sugata Chowdhury, Curt Richter, Edwin Heilweil, Angela Hight Walker

The vast majority of nanoscale 2D materials are synthesized by exfoliation or gas phase deposition techniques. Alternatively, bottom-up colloidal solution...

High Strain Rate Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites using Digital Image Correlations

March 28, 2017

Author(s)

Louise A. Ahure Powell, William E. Luecke, Matthias J. Merzkirch, Timothy J. Foecke, Katherine Avery

The introduction of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites to structural components in lightweight automotive structures necessitates an assessment...

Trade-offs in Size and Performance for a Point Source Interferometer Gyroscope

March 27, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Toward a Diagnostic and Prognostic Method for Knowledge-Driven Decision Making in Smart Manufacturing Technologies

March 24, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Patterns for modeling operational control of discrete event logistics systems (DELS)

March 24, 2017

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock

Designing smart operational control systems for Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS) requires a standard description of control behaviors executed at the...

Verification of Resilience Policies that Assist Attribute Based Access Control

March 24, 2017

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, Antonios Gouglidis, Jeremy Busby, David Hutchison

Access control offers mechanisms to control and limit the actions or operations that are performed by a user on a set of resources in a system. Many access...

Precision vs Accuracy Dilemma in Point-Based Rigid-Body Registration

March 23, 2017

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine S. Cheok

The purpose of a registration is to find the transformation between two coordinate frames: working frame (from which 3D data are transformed) and destination...

AP Selection Algorithm with Adaptive CCAT for Dense Wireless Networks

March 22, 2017

Author(s)

Ye Na Kim, Munsuk Kim, SuKyoung Lee, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)-enabled devices are now everywhere and their rapid spread has created dense deployment environments. For such dense WLANs...

Reference Materials to Enable Precise and Accurate Imaging with Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopes

March 21, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph J. Kopanski, Lin You, Yaw S. Obeng

Electrical scanning probe microscopes (eSPMs), such as the scanning Kelvin force microscope (SKFM), scanning capacitance microscope (SCM), or various scanning...

Assessing Scanning Electron Microscopy Stereophotogrammetry Algorithms with Virtual Test Samples

March 20, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Nanoelectronics Dimensional Metrology: Understanding the Differences between Secondary and Backscattered Electron Imaging

March 20, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics: 2017

March 20, 2017

Author(s)

Erik M. Secula, David G. Seiler

The 2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics (FCMN) has the goal of bringing together scientists and...

Assessing Quantitative Optical Imaging for Realizing In-die Critical Dimension Metrology

March 19, 2017

Author(s)

Bryan Barnes, Mark-Alexander Henn, Hui Zhou, Martin Sohn, Richard M. Silver

Bryan M. Barnes, Mark-Alexander Henn, Hui Zhou, Martin Y. Sohn, and Richard M. Silver

Validation of Robotics for Antenna Measurements

March 18, 2017

Author(s)

Jeffrey R. Guerrieri

This paper presents recent measurements using the newly developed Configurable Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna (CROMMA) facility by the Antenna Metrology Lab at...

Design and Calibration of a Double-directional 60 GHz Channel Sounder for Multipath Component Tracking*

March 18, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Electronic Structure of Single Crystal α-Perylene

March 16, 2017

Author(s)

Sujitra Pookpanratana, Katelyn Goetz, Ruslan Ovsyannikov, Erika Giangrisostomi, Emily Bittle, Oana Jurchescu, Steven W. Robey, Christina 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...

Neuroelectronic Device Process Development and Challenge

March 16, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Identification of machine tools linear axes performance using on-machine embedded inertia measurement units

March 15, 2017

Author(s)

Gregory W. Vogl, Andreas Archenti, Alkan Donmez

The current trend in manufacturing industry is from mass production towards flexible and adaptive manufacturing systems and cloud manufacturing. Self-learning...

INDOOR CARBON DIOXIDE AS METRIC OF VENTILATION AND IAQ: YES OR NO OR MAYBE?

March 14, 2017

Author(s)

Andrew Persily

Spectral correlation and interference in continuous-wave non-degenerate photon pairs at telecom wavelengths

March 14, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Enhancing the Efficacy of Cancer Therapy: Use of Small Molecule Inhibitors of DNA Glycosylases as Potential Drugs

March 12, 2017

Author(s)

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...

ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY LIMITS IN THE NIST-2008 ELECTRONIC KILOGRAM

Author(s)

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...

REDUCING THE UNCERTAINTY IN A MEASURE OF THE ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY FOR THE ELECTRONIC KILOGRAM

Author(s)

Richard L. Steiner, Beatrice Parker

Calculating the force on a reference mass for the electronic kilogram experiment requires using both absolute and relative gravity meters to measure the...

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