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Conferences

Enabling Quantitative Optical Imaging for In-die-capable Critical Dimension Targets

April 4, 2016

Author(s)

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

Dimensional scaling trends will eventually bring the semiconductor critical dimensions (CDs) down to only a few atoms in width. New optical techniques are...

A Study on Reducing the Diurnal in the Europe-to-Europe TWSTFT Links.

April 4, 2016

Author(s)

Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker, Shengkang Zhang

Most of the Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT or TW) links exhibit a daily variation (diurnal) on the order of 1 ns in the differences. The...

Inhibitors of DNA glycosylases as potential therapeutic drugs in cancer

April 4, 2016

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Amanda K. McCullough, R. S. Lloyd

Ionizing radiation and most chemotherapeutic agents kill tumor cells by damaging DNA. The efficacy of DNA-damaging agents may be influenced by increased DNA...

MIMO-OFDM Transmissions Invoking Space-Time/Frequency Linear Dispersion Codes Subject to Doppler and Delay Spreads

April 4, 2016

Author(s)

Jiayi Zhang, Hamid Gharavi, Bin Hu

Linear dispersion codes (LDC) can support arbitrary configurations of transmit and receive antennas in multiinput multi-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we...

Extended Source Interferometry in the Compact Regime

April 4, 2016

Author(s)

Bruno M. Pelle, Gregory W. Hoth, Stefan Riedl, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley

We present an atom interferometer based on an expanding cloud of laser-cooled atoms sensitive to rotations along two axes and acceleration along one axis in an...

Cross-spectral Collapse from Anti-correlated Thermal Noise in Power Splitters

April 4, 2016

Author(s)

Craig Nelson, Archita Hati, David A. Howe

We discuss the cross-spectral collapse due to anti-correlated thermal noise that originates from the common-mode power divider (splitter) in a cross-spectrum...

The 2015 TWSTFT calibration for UTC and related time links

April 4, 2016

Author(s)

Zhiheng Jiang, Dirk Piester, Christian Schlunegger, Erik Dierks, Javier Galindo, Demetrios Matsakis, Victor S. Zhang

Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT or TW) is one of the primary time transfer techniques for UTC generation. Although it has expensive...

Cyber-Physical Systems: A Framework for Dynamic Traffic Light Control at Road Intersections

April 2, 2016

Author(s)

Ossama M. Younis, Nader Moayeri

Traffic control at road intersections is based on traffic lights. The control mechanism typically used for traffic lights operates based on a periodic schedule...

The Need for Realism when Simulating Network Congestion

April 2, 2016

Author(s)

Kevin L. Mills, Christopher E. Dabrowski

Many researchers use simulation to investigate network congestion, often finding congestion spread can be modeled as percolation, spreading slowly under...

SOLID-STATE LIGHTING MEASUREMENT ASSURANCE PROGRAM SUMMARY WITH ANALYSIS OF METADATA

March 31, 2016

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, Yoshihiro Ohno, Maria E. Nadal, Benjamin K. Tsai, Yuqin Zong

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began to offer proficiency testing for Solid-State Lighting (SSL) products through a Measurement...

Vision experiment ii on white light chromaticity for lighting

March 30, 2016

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno, Semin Oh

In response to a published discussion (Wei & Houser, 2015) on the 2013 NIST experiment on white light chromaticity for lighting (Ohno & Fein, 2013), the second...

Optimizing noise for defect analysis with through-focus scanning optical microscopy

March 25, 2016

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, John A. Kramar

A domain-specific language for model composition and verification of multidisciplinary models

March 22, 2016

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Amogh Kulkarni, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai

Complex, engineered products and manufacturing processes often necessitate integrated analysis that cuts across physical domains and engineering disciplines...

Virtual rough samples to test 3D nanometer-scale SEM stereo photogrammetry

March 22, 2016

Author(s)

John S. Villarrubia, Vipin N. Tondare, Andras Vladar

The combination of SEM for high spatial resolution, images from multiple angles to provide 3D information, and commercially available stereo photogrammetry...

A domain-specific language for model composition and verification of multidisciplinary models

March 21, 2016

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Amogh Kulkarni, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai

Complex, engineered products and manufacturing processes often necessitate integrated analysis that cuts across physical domains and engineering disciplines...

Analysis of Virtual Networking Options for Securing Virtual Machines

March 20, 2016

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Virtual Machines (VMs) constitute the primary category of resources to be protected in virtualized infrastructures. Out of the two types of protection for VMs -...

SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITORS OF DNA GLYCOSYLASES AS POTENTIAL DRUGS IN CHEMO- AND RADIOTHERAPIES

March 19, 2016

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Marcus J. Calkins, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Amanda K. McCullough, R S. Lloyd, Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga

Introduction: Ionizing radiation and most chemotherapeutic agents kill tumor cells by damag-ing DNA. The efficacy of DNA-damaging agents may be influenced by...

Laser Welding of Dual-Phase Galvanized Sheet Steel

March 18, 2016

Author(s)

Stephanie L. Miller, Erik A. Pfeif, Andrei F. Kazakov, Esther Baumann, Marla L. Dowell

Laser welding has many advantages over traditional joining methods, but remains underutilized. NIST has undertaken an initiative to improve predictions of...

Characterization of type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion in domain-engineered PPLN

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Paulina S. Kuo, Thomas Gerrits, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang

Dual-beam laser thermal processing of silicon photovoltaic materials

March 14, 2016

Author(s)

Brian J. Simonds, Anthony Teal, Tian Zhang, Joshua A. Hadler, Zibo Zhou, Sergey Varlamov, Ivan Perez-Wurfl

Laser processing for photovoltaics (PV) has traditionally been used for very small dimension features where focused beams are rastered to create lines for edge...

Hypothetical Accident Analyses of the Proposed Split Core at NIST using ANL-Paret Code

March 13, 2016

Author(s)

Zeyun NMN Wu, Robert E. Williams, J. Michael Rowe

Preliminary design basis accident analyses have been performed on the proposed split core to examine the thermal-hydraulics (T/H) safety characteristics of the...

Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) and Next Generation Access Control (NGAC)

March 11, 2016

Author(s)

David F. Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, David R. Kuhn, Chung Tong Hu

Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) and Next Generation Access Control (NGAC) are very different attribute based access control standards with...

Detecting GNSS Spoofing using a Network of Hardware Oscillators

March 11, 2016

Author(s)

Dhananjay Anand, Tanvir M. Arafin, Gang Qu

In the face of growing concern about spoofing attacks on GNSS transmissions, we propose a scheme to cross validate GNSS based timing against intrinsic...

Lambertian nature of tissue phantoms for use as calibrators in near infrared fluorescence imaging

March 9, 2016

Author(s)

Maritoni Litorja, Simon Lorenzo, Banghe Zhu, Eva Sevick Muraca

The use of tissue phantoms as calibrators to transfer SI-referenced scale to an imager offers convenience, compared to other methods of calibration. The tissue...

The 21st Century Library: Building on Customer Relationships

March 8, 2016

Author(s)

Stacy M. Bruss, Kathleen A. Rapp, Vicky Spitalniak

Measurement and accumulation of electric charge on a single dielectric particle trapped in air

March 4, 2016

Author(s)

Thomas W. LeBrun, Haesung Park

Normally occurring charges on small particles provide a means to control the motion of the particles. Using a piezoelectric- based resonator to launch...

Vulnerabilities of "McEliece in the World of Escher"

March 3, 2016

Author(s)

Dustin Moody, Ray A. Perlner

Recently, Gligoroski et al. proposed code-based encryption and signature schemes using list decoding, blockwise triangular private keys, and a nonuniform error...

The Magnetic Transitions and Dynamics in the Multiferroic Lu_0.5Sc_0.5FeO₃

February 26, 2016

Author(s)

Junjie Yang, Chunruo Duan, John R. Copley, Craig Brown, Despina Louca

In spite of its frustrated lattice, the multiferroic Lu 0.5Sc 0.5FeO 3 exhibits two consecutive magnetic transitions at T% N1approximately equal to}175 K and T...

A set-theoretic approach to analyzing timing uncertainty within cyber-physical systems

February 25, 2016

Author(s)

DJ Anand

Clocks are deeply integrated into practically every cyber-physical system either explicitly as provenance for time-triggered actions, or implicitly in cases...

An Optomechanical Accelerometer with a High-Finesse Hemispherical Optical Cavity

February 22, 2016

Author(s)

Yiliang Bao, Felipe Guzman, Arvind Balijepalli, John Lawall, Jacob Taylor, Thomas W. LeBrun, Jason J. Gorman

A new design for an optomechanical accelerometer is presented. The design includes a hemispherical optical cavity that can achieve high finesse and a proof mass...

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