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Conferences

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...

Using graph-based visualizations to explore key performance indicator relationships for manufacturing production systems

March 9, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Time and frequency from electrical power lines

March 6, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Fair Resource Allocation in the Citizen Broadband Radio Service Band

March 6, 2017

Author(s)

Anirudha Sahoo

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...

IAQ Assessments in High Performing Building

March 5, 2017

Author(s)

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...

An Analytical Model for Inference Attacks on the Incumbent's Frequency in Spectrum Sharing

March 5, 2017

Author(s)

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...

3.5 GHz Environmental Sensing Capability Sensitivity Requirements and Deployment

March 5, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Managing Systematic Errors in the NBSR Thermal Power Calorimetric Measurements

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Dagistan NMN Sahin, Samuel J MacDavid

NBSR Reactor Control Room Upgrade

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Dagistan NMN Sahin

Cyber Security using Multi-Threaded Architecture Data Diode at the NBSR

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Scott D Arneson, Dagistan Sahin

Be Prepared: How US Government Experts Think About Cybersecurity

February 26, 2017

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Sandra S. Prettyman, Susanne M. Furman, Simson L. Garfinkel

Carbon Dioxide Generation Rates from Building Occupants

February 26, 2017

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily

Comparison between angularly and spectrally resolved gloss measurements with gloss measurements carried out on a national reference goniometer for gloss calibration

February 22, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Analytical Tools for Point Source Interferometry

February 20, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Layers by Computed X-Ray Microtomography and Small-Angle Scattering

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Andrew J. Allen, T A. Dobbins, J Ilavsky, Fu Zhao, A Virkar, J Almer, F DeCarlo

Strain-Induced Ferroelectric SrTiO₃ Thin Films Grown Coherently on Si(001): Experiment and Theory

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, Eric L. Shirley, Daniel A. Fischer, S Sambasivan, C R. Ashman, C S. Hellberg, H Li

Ferroelectric crystals possess an electric dipole moment even in the absence of an external electric field. In order for this spontaneous polarization to arise...

Applications of Ceramics for Healthcare: The Future Has Begun

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Grady S. White

Dramatic improvements in our understanding of how biological systems work, diseases initiate, and illnesses progress have given rise to the expectation that...

Relationship Between Microstructure and Wear of Dental Ceramics and Composite Resins

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Transient Creep Cavity Growth in Structural Ceramics

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

A F. Bower, Tze J. Chuang

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...

Boundary Lubricated Friction Experiments With Coarse Surface Texture

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Jorn Larsen-Basse, L K. Ives, Stephen M. Hsu

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...

Phase Equilibria of the High Tc Superconductors in the (Bi, Pb) -SR-Ca-Cu-O System

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

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...

Thermal Diffusivity of AIN Using the Photothermal Deflection Technique

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

E J. Gonzalez

The thermal conductivity of AIN specimens doped with Y2O3(5 wt.%) was determined using the photothermal deflection technique. The results agree within 10% of...

New Synchrotron X-Ray Techniques for In-Situ Deformation Studies

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Lyle E. Levine, R Thomson, Gabrielle G. Long, David R. Black

Many types of defects contribute to local and long-range stresses and strains in materials. These include vacancies, voids, prismatic loops, interstitials...

Effect of Colloidal Probe Random Surface Features on Adhesion

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Seung H. Yang, Stephen M. Hsu

We have uncovered the fact that colloidal probes often have random surface features which when not properly accounted for, can significantly affect the...

Development of Multilayer Analyzer Array Detectors for X-Ray Fluorescence at the Third Generation Synchrotron Source

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

K Zhang, G Rosenbaum, R Liu, G Bunker, C Y. Liu, Daniel A. Fischer

The development of Multilayer Analyzer Array Detector (MADD) for X-ray fluorescence is to eliminate the count rate limitation encountered with the multi-element...

Nanofriction: The Observation of Elastic Plowing

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Z C. Ying, Stephen M. Hsu

Accurate friction measurement at nanoscale is critical in reliable device design. Literature papers have reported different friction values for the same...

Enhancement of Mercuric Iodide Detector Performance Through Crystal Growth in Microgravity: The Roles of Lattice Order

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

B W. Steiner, L van den Berg, U Laor

The hole mobility and carrier lifetime of [alpha] mercuric iodide high energy radiation detectors have been enhanced through crystal growth in microgravity. The...

Elastic Anomaly in SrTiO3 Thin Films Grown on Si(001)

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, F S. Aguirre-Tostado, A Herrera-Gomez, R Droopad, D G. Schlom, P Zschack, E Karapetrova, P Pianetta

Effects of Large Grains on Transgranular Fracture Toughness

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen W. Freiman

This paper addresses issues of fracture for materials in which large grains, exist in a matrix of much smaller grains. Materials used for optical components...

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