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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...
Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, Anthony J. Kearsley, A R. Roosen
Three types of liquids were found in the BSCCO system: transient, metastable, and stable liquids. The roles of these liquids are discussed with examples...
The hole mobility and carrier lifetime of [alpha] mercuric iodide high energy radiation detectors have been enhanced through crystal growth in microgravity. The...
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...
Accurate friction measurement at nanoscale is critical in reliable device design. Literature papers have reported different friction values for the same...
Development of low friction surfaces has become an important issue for the development of reliable devices with moving components. The common way to measure...
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...
Optical semiconductor characterization and metrology rely heavily on digital camera imaging and its associated optical imaging systems. This work characterizes...
Josh Gordon, David R. Novotny, Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael H. Francis, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Periasamy Lavanya, Albin Gasiewski
All-metal 3D printing is investigated as a viable option for millimeter wave applications. 3D printing is finding applications across many areas and may be a...
Kathryn M. Butler, Erik L. Johnsson, Marco G. Fernandez, Mariusz Zarzecki, Glenn P. Forney, Eric Auth
In wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, combustible materials pose a potential threat to contiguous or nearby structures. Flame spread and firebrand spotting...
Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires have devastated communities on multiple continents. Large outdoor fires in Japan mainly occur due to post-earthquake fires...
The field of intrusion detection is divided into signature detection and anomaly detection. The former involves identifying patterns associated with known...
The fire blocking performance of barrier fabrics laminated to upholstery materials was investigated. The results are two-fold. The first involves information...
We revisit the problem of Full Disk Encryption (FDE), which refers to the encryption of each sector of a disk volume. In the context of FDE, it is assumed that...
Victor S. Zhang, Demetrios Matsakis, Zhiheng Jiang
Calibration and link stability are the key issues for the UTC time transfer. This study is made in the framework of a joint task group of the CCTF Working Group...
Joshua J. Savory, Liz C. Forero, Kristopher Maurer, Stefania Romisch
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) timescale produces a real-time realization of UTC(NIST) in the form of a pulse-per-second (PPS) time...
We report on a preliminary design of a new Kalman-filter Hydrogen-maser time scale at NIST. The time scale is composed of a few Hydrogen masers and a Cs clock...
The current real-time timescale at NIST, AT1, as well as the post-processed scale TP162, both contain hydrogen masers and commercial cesium frequency standards...
Victor S. Zhang, Zhiheng Jiang, Thomas E. Parker, Jian Yao, Yi-Jiun Huang, Shinn-Yan Lin
The conventional wisdom suggests a direct Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT or TW) time link should result in a smaller uncertainty than...
Jian Yao, Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, Bijunath Patla, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Victor S. Zhang
Errors in the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) offset parameters broadcast by Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites caused many thousands of GPS clocks to...
Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker, Joseph Achkar, Dirk Piester, Yi-Jiun Huang, Shinn-Yan Lin, Zhiheng Jiang
The BIPM and the CCTF Working Group on TWSTFT have stimulated a pilot study on using software defined radio (SDR) receivers for TWSTFT in the framework of the...
David R. Leibrandt, Samuel M. Brewer, Jwo-Sy Chen, Aaron M. Hankin, David B. Hume, David J. Wineland, Chin-Wen Chou
Frequency and its inverse, time, are the most accurately measured quantities. Historically, improvements in the accuracy of clocks have enabled advances in...
Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers maintained by national timing laboratories are ideally synchronized to a one pulse-per-second (pps) signal from the official...
Marc A. Weiss, Alison Silverstein, Francis Tuffner, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud
Today, the principal way that power system owners and operators use precision timing is for fault recording, protection system operation and in synchrophasor...
The Public Safety Communications Research Program (PSCR) convened over 80 stakeholders at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder, CO...
Defense-in-depth is an important security architecture principle that has significant application to industrial control systems (ICS), cloud services...
Vincent Y. Kotsubo, Ray Radebaugh, Sae Woo Nam, Joel N. Ullom, Brandon L. Wilson, Paul Hendershott, Micheal Bonczyski
We are developing a compact, low power, closed cycle cooling system for Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors. The base temperature of the present...
This paper presents optical measurements of the dynamic strain profiles along the tethers of microelectromechanical resonators and relates them to quality...