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We present PFLASH, an asymmetric digital signature scheme appropriate for smart card use. We present parameters for several security levels in this low resource...
There are several different ways that measuring systems (which include measuring instruments) can be characterized, including calibration, adjustment, and...
Enrico Lucon, Christopher N. McCowan, Raymond L. Santoyo
NIST in Boulder Colorado investigated the correlations between impact test results obtained from standard, full-size Charpy specimens (CVN) and specimens with...
Anthony Bernheim, Alred Hodgson, Andrew K. Persily
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) constructed a Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) to support the development and...
Assane Gueye, Peter M. Mell, Richard Harang, Richard J. La
Securely configured Internet Protocol version 6 networks can be made resistant to network scanning, forcing attackers to propagate following existing benign...
Dilip K. Banerjee, Mark A. Iadicola, Adam A. Creuziger, Timothy J. Foecke
Lightweighting materials (e.g., advanced high strength steels, aluminum alloys etc.) are increasingly being used by automotive companies as sheet metal...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting research to develop a Community Disaster Resilience Framework and quantitative science...
This paper presents an effective and simple image resizing method. Our method is an improved version of seam carving that changes the backtracking basis of seam...
Cross-referenced parallel markup for mathematics allows the combination of both presentation and content representations while associating the components of...
Felipe Guzman, Oliver Gerberding, John T. Melcher, Julian Stirling, Jon R. Pratt, Gordon A. Shaw, Jacob M. Taylor
Compact optical cavities can be combined with motion sensors to yield unprecedented resolution and SI-traceability in areas such as acceleration sensing and...
Ulf Griesmann, Quandou (. Wang, Johannes A. Soons, Kate Medicus
We describe a new interferometric method for the measurement of large sphere radii in which the converging test beam is replaced by a pair of test beams with...
Felipe Guzman, Yiliang Bao, Jason J. Gorman, John R. Lawall, Jacob M. Taylor, Thomas W. LeBrun
Current acceleration primary standards reach relative uncertainties of the order of 0.001 and consist of complex test facilities, typically operated at National...
Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan
The toughness of polymer and glass laminates or win-dow glazing, are used to protect buildings and occupants from shattered glass resulting from natural...
Daniel S. Hussey, Christoph W. Brocker, David L. Jacobson, Thomas R. Gentile, Wangchun Chen, Elias M. Baltic, DV Baxter, J. Doskow, Muhammad D. Arif
The NIST neutron imaging program will build a new imaging instrument in the NCNR guide hall at the end of the neutron guide NG-6, beginning operation in summer...
Uncertainty has proven difficult to implement in calibrations labs. The subject has mathematics and statistics that are part of normal scientific research but...
Laser interferometry, the basis for modern length metrology, achieves very high accuracies as a consequence of the stable, well-known frequencies of laser...
Douglas A. Olson, Kevin O. Douglass, Miao Yu, Haijun H. Liu
We have constructed a fiber optical sensor using graphene with four monolayers that demonstrates similar performance to a traditional high-precision acoustic...
In this work we report on the development of silicon photonic temperature sensors with ultra-small foot print and high temperature sensitivity as an alternative...
We report on the fabrication and characterization of photonic-based nanothermometers, a silicon photonic Bragg grating and photonic crystal cavity. When cladded...
Image retargeting attempts to adapt images to different devices while preserving the salient contents. Most existing methods address retargeting of a single...
Eric Lass, Yaakov S. Idell, Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner
The discovery of a two-phase γ (FCC)-γ' (L12) field in the ternary Co-Al-W phase diagram has sparked significant research interest into possible Co-based...
Bo Sundman, Ursula R. Kattner, Mauro Palumbo, Suzana G. Fries
Thermodynamics is at the core of materials science. The Calphad method, a powerful tool for materials design and engineering applications, has been shown to be...
Howard S. Cohl, Marjorie A. McClain, Bonita V. Saunders, Moritz Schubotz, Cherry Y. Zou, Alex A. Danoff, Azeem S. Mohammed
One initial goal for the DRMF is to seed our digital compendium with fundamental orthogonal polynomial formulae. We have received permission from Springer...
Ambient particles are ubiquitous in the atmosphere and exert a strong influence on the climate by altering the Earth's radiative balance. Aerosol interactions...
Frank Lombardo, Tanya Brown, Marc Levitan, James LaDue
Estimation of near-surface wind fields in tornadoes has important applications in both structural engineering and meteorology. Estimated near-surface wind...
Mark Alexander Henn, Richard M. Silver, Nien F. Zhang, Hui Zhou, Bryan M. Barnes
In hybrid metrology two or more measurements of the same measurand are combined to provide a more reliable result that ideally incorporates the individual...
Vladimir A. Aksyuk, Brian S. Dennis, Michael Haftel, David Czaplewski, Daniel Lopez, Girsh Blumberg
The authors recent Nature Photonics article titled Compact Nano-Mechanical Plasmonic Phase Modulators [1] is reviewed which reports a new phase modulation...
Craig R. Copeland, Craig D. McGray, Jon C. Geist, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, Samuel M. Stavis
A recently introduced particle-tracking method was used to measure the single motion cycles of an electrothermal actuator with nanometer and microradian...
The clamped single-edge notched tension (SE(T)) specimen has seen increased use as a single-specimen testing scheme to determine tearing resistance curves in...