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Conferences

Compliance-Free Pulse Forming of Filamentary RRAM

September 30, 2016

Author(s)

Pragya Shrestha, David M. Nminibapiel, Jihong Kim, Helmut Baumgart, Kin (Charles) Cheung, Jason Campbell

Despite the overwhelming effort to improve the efficacy of resistive random access memory (RRAM), the underlying physics governing RRAM operation have proven...

THE NIST MAGNETIC SUSPENSION MASS COMPARATOR: A LOOK AT AUTOMATION

September 29, 2016

Author(s)

Corey A. Stambaugh, Edward C. Mulhern

The magnetic suspension mass comparator at NIST is a fully automated mass comparator with the unique feature that it is able to directly compare a mass in...

Extended Data Analysis of Bilateral Comparisons with Air and Natural Gas up to 5 MPa

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Bodo Mickan, J-P Vallet, CHUNHUI LI

In 2015, the PTB, LNE-LADG, NIM and NIST performed informal bilateral comparisons using six critical venturi nozzles. The goal of the comparisons was to prove...

Back Pressure Ratio and the Transonic Resonance Mechanism of Low Unchoking in Critical Flow Venturis

September 28, 2016

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Keith A. Gillis, Aaron Johnson, Ida I. Shinder

Reliable Critical Flow Venturi (CFV) operation requires sonic velocity at the throat of the device. The maximum ratio of exit pressure to inlet pressure that...

Exploring frustrated magnetism with artificial spin ice

September 26, 2016

Author(s)

Ian J. Gilbert, Bojan R. Ilic

Nanomagnet arrays known as artificial spin ice provide insight into the microscopic details of frustrated magnetism because, unlike natural frustrated magnets...

Low noise thermistor read out for wideband room temperature infrared detectors

September 25, 2016

Author(s)

Ivan Ryger, Michelle S. Stephens, John H. Lehman, Matthew T. Spidell, Malcolm G. White, Nathan A. Tomlin, Dave Harber, Peter Lobotka

An absolute electrical substitution radiometer is a way to ensure highly accurate and stable measurement of optical power in a wide range of optical wavelengths...

Low noise resistive bolometer read out for wideband room temperature infrared detector

September 25, 2016

Author(s)

Ivan Ryger, Malcolm G. White, Nathan A. Tomlin, John H. Lehman, Peter Lobotka, Dave Harber

The absolute electrical substitution radiometer is the way to ensure highly accurate and stable measurement of optical power in wide range of optical wavelength...

Estimation and uncertainty quantification of yield via strain recovery simulations

September 25, 2016

Author(s)

Paul Patrone

What's a Special Character Anyway? Effects of Ambiguous Terminology in Password Rules

September 23, 2016

Author(s)

Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen Greene

Although many aspects of passwords have been studied, no research to date has systematically examined how ambiguous terminology affects the user experience...

Gas-Phase Interactions of Phosphorus Containing Compounds with Cup-Burner Diffusion Flames

September 20, 2016

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Valeri I. Babushok

The effects of phosphorus-containing compounds (PCC) on the extinguishment and structure of methane-air coflow diffusion flames, in the cup-burner configuration...

Evaluating IAQ and Energy Impacts of Ventilation in a Net-Zero Energy House Using a Coupled Model

September 20, 2016

Author(s)

Lisa C. Ng, William S. Dols, Dustin G. Poppendieck, Steven J. Emmerich

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) constructed the Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) to support the development and...

Extinguishment and Enhancement of Propane Cup-Burner Flames by Halon and Alternative Agents

September 20, 2016

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Valeri I. Babushok

Computations of cup-burner flames in normal gravity have been performed to reveal the combustion inhibition and enhancement by the CF3Br (halon 1301) and...

A Probabilistic Network Forensics Model for Evidence Analysis

September 20, 2016

Author(s)

Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera

Modern-day attackers tend to use sophisticated multi-stage/multi-host attack techniques and anti-forensics tools to cover their attack traces. Due to the...

Long term stability of ultra high molar mass polyethylene fibres

September 19, 2016

Author(s)

Amanda Forster, Aaron Forster, Joannie Chin, Sylvain H. Petit, Kai-Li Kang, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Kirk D. Rice, Don Jenket II, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly

Abstract. The performance of ultra-high molar mass polyethylene (UHMMPE) fibres for ballistic protection is predicated on the development of a highly aligned...

Abundance estimation of solid and liquid mixtures in hyperspectral imagery with albedo-based and kernel-based approaches

September 19, 2016

Author(s)

David W. Allen, Ronald G. Resmini, Robert S. Rand

This study investigates methods for characterizing materials that are mixtures of granular solids, or mixtures of liquids, which may be linear or non-linear...

Towards Building Simulation Tools for Next Generation Soft Body Armour Testing Standards

September 18, 2016

Author(s)

Steven P. Mates, Amanda L. Forster, Michael A. Riley, Kirk D. Rice, Juliana Ivancik

Accurate simulation tools for soft body armour testing would vastly improve test designer's ability to optimize and refine standards by supplying quantitative...

Nanomanufacturing Concerns about Measurements Made in the SEM Part V. Dealing with Noise

September 17, 2016

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar

Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) are used extensively in research and advanced manufacturing for materials characterization, metrology and process control...

Interaction of aerosol particle with a standing wave optical field

September 16, 2016

Author(s)

John J. Curry

Trajectories of spherical dielectric particles carried across an optical standing wave by a flowing medium areinvestigated. Trajectories are determined by a...

Comparison of Registration Methods for Mobile Manipulators

September 15, 2016

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Roger Eastman, Tsai H. Hong, Omar Aboul-Enein, Steven A. Legowik, Sebti Foufou

Mobile manipulators can be effective, efficient and flexible for automation on the factory floor but will need safety and performance standards for wide...

NIST Programs to Advance Accurate, Internationally-Recognized Stack Emissions Measurements

September 15, 2016

Author(s)

Aaron Johnson, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Rodney A. Bryant, JohnPaul R. Abbott, Keith A. Gillis, Joey Boyd, James Filla, Michael R. Moldover

Accurate flow measurements are essential to quantify the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other pollutants emitted from power plant stacks. Although...

Characterizing Indoor Air Quality Performance Using a Graphical Approach

September 14, 2016

Author(s)

Kevin Y. Teichman, Andrew Persily, Steven Emmerich

In this paper, we describe and demonstrate an approach to illustrate the performance of buildings with respect to indoor air quality (IAQ). In the absence of an...

Cantilever array with optomechanical read-out and integrated actuation for simultaneous high sensitivity force detection

September 14, 2016

Author(s)

Thomas Michels, Ivo W. Rangelow, Vladimir Aksyuk

We present an on-chip cavity optomechanical cantilever array with integrated actuation, that combines high measurement bandwidth and very low displacement noise...

Results of The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

September 12, 2016

Author(s)

Hui Zhao, Desire Banse, G R. Doddington, Craig Greenberg, Audrey N. Tong, John M. Howard, Alvin F. Martin, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Lisa Mason, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer

In 2015, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE) meant to foster research in language recognition. The...

Validating controlled English statements of requirements using functional models

September 11, 2016

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Chang Christopher

Organizing and validating system requirements are essential tasks in systems engineering. These tasks are not easily automated. We describe a method of tracing...

Networked Engineering Notebooks for Smart Manufacturing

September 8, 2016

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno

A goal of the industrial internet is to make information about manufacturing processes and resources available wherever decision making may be required. Agile...

Semi-Autonomous Labeling of Unstructured Maintenance Log Data for Diagnostic Root Cause Analysis

September 7, 2016

Author(s)

Michael E. Sharp, Thurston B. Sexton, Michael P. Brundage

To facilitate root cause analysis in the manufacturing in- dustry, maintenance technicians often ll out \maintenance tickets" to track issues and corresponding...

Broadband Radiometric LED Measurements

September 6, 2016

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, P. Yvonne Barnes, Howard W. Yoon, Leonard Hanssen, Vyacheslav B. Podobedov, Robert E. Vest, Uwe Arp, C Cameron Miller

At present, broadband radiometric measurements of LEDs with uniform and low-uncertainty results are not available. Currently, either spectral radiometric...

INVESTIGATION OF URBAN ROCK VARNISH ON THE SANDSTONE OF THE SMITHSONIAN CASTLE

September 6, 2016

Author(s)

Richard A Livingston, Carol A. Grissom, Edward Vicenzi, Zoe Weldon-Yochim, Nicole Little, Janet Douglas, Alexandre Fowler, Cara Santelli, Dorothea Macholdt, Diana Ortiz-Montalvo, Stephanie S. Watson

Bluish black, highly adherent patches have been observed growing on the Seneca sandstone of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC. They are significantly...

Precision Time Transfer using IEEE 1588 over OTN through a Commercial Optical Telecommunications Network

September 5, 2016

Author(s)

Marc A. Weiss, James Hanssen, Jian Yao

There is a need to back up critical timing infrastructure at the national level. This paper provides an update on a joint project employing commercial equipment...

An Overview of a Smart Manufacturing System Readiness Assessment

September 5, 2016

Author(s)

Kiwook Jung, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Sangsu Choi, Michael Brundage

Technologies for creating smart manufacturing systems or factories are becoming increasingly abundant. However, manufacturers, large and small, need to...

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