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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...
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...
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...
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...
Michael Brundage, William Z. Bernstein, KC Morris, John A. Horst
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are crucial for measuring and improving the performance of a manufacturing process. An especially critical aspect of...
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...
Andree R. Charriere, Maria E. Nadal, Clarence Zarobila
The present work consists in developing a procedure which will allow to compare gloss values obtained from an angularly and spectrally resolved Bidirectional...
Gregory W. Hoth, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley, Bruno M. Pelle
Light pulse atom interferometry can be used to realize high-performance sensors of accelerations and rotations. In order to broaden the range of applications of...
V S. Nagarajan, S Jahanmir, B Hockey, Victoria Thompson
The effect of microstructure on the wear mechanisms of glass-ceramics and resin composites was studied. Wear tests on both types of materials were conducted...
J Ilavsky, P Jemain, Andrew J. Allen, Gabrielle G. Long
The USAXS facility at UNICAT Sector 33 at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a world-class resource for advanced materials research emphasizing full-range...
Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, W Greenwood, Anthony J. Kearsley
Applications of (Bi,Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O phase equilibria include material synthesis, melt processing and single crystal growth. Both liquidus and subsolidus data are...
The thermal conductivity of AIN specimens doped with Y2O3(5 wt.%) was determined using the photothermal deflection technique. The results agree within 10% of...
Low-speed friction experiments were conducted under boundary lubrication in a pin-on-disk tester. The 304 stainless steel disk had smooth areas alternating with...
Long-term service life of a load-bearing ceramic component such as a turbine blade atelevated temperatures is often controlled by the rates of nucleation and...