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Conferences

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...

Cross-Industry Standard Test Method Developments – from Manufacturing to Wearable Robots

February 20, 2016

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Elena R. Messina, Sebti Foufou

Manufacturing robotics are moving towards human-robot collaboration with light duty robots being used side-by-side with workers. Similarly, exoskeletons that...

Measuring laser power as a force: A new paradigm to accurately monitor optical power during laser-based machining operations

February 14, 2016

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Brian J. Simonds, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Joshua A. Hadler

In laser manufacturing operations, accurate measurement of laser power is important for product quality, operational repeatability, and process validation...

Optical system design for femtosecond-level synchronization of clocks

February 13, 2016

Author(s)

Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Hugo Bergeron, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, Michael A. Cermak, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

Synchronization of optical clocks via optical two-way time-frequency transfer across free-space links can result in time offsets between the two clocks below...

Impact of Monovalent Counter-ions on the Conformation of Flexible Polyelectrolytes Having Different Molecular Architectures

February 10, 2016

Author(s)

Alexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas

We explore the condensation of monovalent counter-ions on the molecular conformation of highly charged flexible polyelectrolytes for a range of molecular...

Bottom Up Approaches to Improved Polyolefin Measurements

February 4, 2016

Author(s)

Sara Orski, Thomas W. Rosch, Anthony Kotula, Richard J. Sheridan, Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Kalman Migler, Chad R. Snyder, Luis F. Vargas Lara, Jack F. Douglas, Kathryn L. Beers

As a class of materials, polyolefins remain the largest production volume polymer in the world, as well as a highly desirable medium from which to engineer high...

Security Analysis and Key Modification for ZHFE

February 4, 2016

Author(s)

Ray A. Perlner, Daniel C. Smith-Tone

ZHFE, designed by Porras et al., is one of the few promising candidates for a multivariate public-key encryption algorithm. In this article we extend and...

A Regret Matching Strategy Framework for Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation

February 4, 2016

Author(s)

Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti

A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors located inside or in close proximity to the human...

On the Differential Security of the HFEv^- Signature Primitive

February 4, 2016

Author(s)

Ryann Cartor, Ryan Gipson, Daniel Smith-Tone, Jeremy Vates

Multivariate Public Key Cryptography (MPKC) is one of the most attractive post-quantum options for digital signatures in a wide array of applications. The...

Impact of the Energy Detection Threshold on Performance of the IEEE 802.15.6 CSMA/CA

January 28, 2016

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti

A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio interface standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors located inside or in close proximity to...

Kinetic-Based Micro Energy-Harvesting for Wearable Sensors

January 28, 2016

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Dora Budic, Dina Simunic

Wearable sensors are considered to be a key component of cognitive infocommunications systems. These sensors, which are basically enabler of inter-cognitive...

The Performance of an Auxiliary Heat Pump Water Heater Installed in a Dual-Tank System in a Net-Zero Energy Residence

January 27, 2016

Author(s)

Tania Ullah, William M. Healy

In the effort to achieve low-energy operation of residential buildings, advanced water heating technologies are vitally important. This paper explores the year...

Ethernet Time Transfer through a U.S. Commercial Optical Telecommunications Network, Part 2

January 25, 2016

Author(s)

Marc A. Weiss, Lee Cosart, James Hanssen

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 Auto-Regressive Moving-Average Time Scale Algorithm (ARMA) for Synchronizing Networked Clocks

January 25, 2016

Author(s)

Judah Levine

I will report on a study of the usefulness of ARMA time scale algorithms to synchronize clocks on a digital network. The algorithm acquires periodic time...

GPS Jamming and GPS Carrier-Phase Time Transfer

January 25, 2016

Author(s)

Jian Yao, Marc A. Weiss, Charles Curry, Judah Levine

This paper studies the impact of GPS jamming on GPS carrier-phase time transfer. To study this issue, at NIST, we have installed a commercial GPS jamming...

A TWSTFT calibration guideline and the use of a GPS calibrator for UTC TWSTFT link calibration

January 25, 2016

Author(s)

Zhiheng Jiang, Demetrios Matsakis, Victor S. Zhang, Hector Esteban, Dirk Piester, Shinn-Yan Lin

Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT) links were first introduced to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) generation in 1999 [1,19]. These...

Annual Performance of a Two-Speed, Dedicated Dehumidification Heat Pump in the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility

January 21, 2016

Author(s)

William V. Payne

A 2715 ft2 (252 m2), two story, residential home of the style typical of the Gaithersburg, Maryland area was constructed in 2012 to illustrate technologies...

Does Your SEM Really Tell the Truth?—How Would You Know? Part 4: Charging and its Mitigation

January 19, 2016

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras E. Vladar

This is the fourth part of a series of tutorial papers discussing various causes of measurement uncertainty in scanned particle beam instruments. Scanned...

Massively Parallel TDDB testing : SiC Power devices

January 14, 2016

Author(s)

Zakariae Chbili, Jaafar Chbili, Jason P. Campbell, Jason T. Ryan, M Lahbabi, D Ioannou, Kin P. Cheung

Novel Charge Pumping Method Applied to Tri-Gate MOSFETs for Reliability Characterization

January 14, 2016

Author(s)

Brad Bittel, S Novak, Steve Ramey, S Padiyar, Jason Ryan, Jason Campbell, Kin P. Cheung

A Simulation Study of the LTE Interference on WiFi Signal Detection

January 6, 2016

Author(s)

Yao Ma, Daniel G. Kuester, Jason B. Coder, William F. Young

To address the spectrum scarcity problem and enhance spectrum utilization efficiency, spectrum sharing and coexistence of different wireless communication...

Conference Paper Session 12, Heat Pumps and Unitary Equipment: Optimizing Efficiencies: Annual Performance of a Two-Speed, Dedicated Dehumidification Heat Pump in the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility

January 6, 2016

Author(s)

William V. Payne

Spectrum Sensing with WLAN Access Points

January 5, 2016

Author(s)

Jason Coder, Ryan T. Jacobs, Vivian Musser

With wireless communication becoming more and more common in simple everyday devices, the available spectrum is quickly filling up and the risk of interference...

Testing Spectrum Sensing Networks by UAV

January 5, 2016

Author(s)

Dan Kuester, Ryan T. Jacobs, Yao Ma, Jason Coder

We consider here the use of hovering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to test spectrum sensing capabilities of Citizen's Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) systems...

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