Journals

Dataset construction challenges for digital forensics

July 29, 2021

Author(s)

James R. Lyle, Graeme Horsman

As the digital forensic field develops, taking steps towards ensuring a level of reliability in the processes implemented by its practitioners, emphasis on the...

Integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on titanium in-diffused lithium niobate waveguides

July 28, 2021

Author(s)

Varun Verma, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jan P. Hoepker, Maximilian Protte, Raimund Ricken, Victor Quiring, Christof Eigner, Christine Silberhorn, Tim J. Bartley

We demonstrate the integration of amorphous tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire single- photon detectors on titanium in-diffused lithium niobate...

Atmospheric-based greenhouse gas measurements can help cities achieve their climate and sustainability goals

July 28, 2021

Author(s)

Kimberly Mueller, Thomas Lauvaux, Kevin R. Gurney, Phil DeCola, Sharon Gourdji, Geoffrey Roest, James Whetstone

Cities' GHG climate mitigation policies are largely based on self-reported inventories (SRIs) constructed from a protocol guideline. However, there is no agreed...

Temperature-insensitive silicone composites as ballistic witness materials: the impact of water content on the thermophysical properties

July 28, 2021

Author(s)

Ran Tao, Fan Zhang, Huong Giang Nguyen, Philip Bernstein, Amanda L. Forster, Randy Mrozek, Aaron M. Forster

In this work, different formulations of a room-temperature silicone composite backing material (SCBM) composed of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), fumed silica and...

Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Characterization of SrCl₂-ENG Composite for Thermochemical Heat Storage

July 28, 2021

Author(s)

Anastasiia Karabanova, Kenneth D. Knudsen, Perizat Berdiyeva, Leide P. Cavalcanti, Yun Liu, Michel van der Pal, Stefano Deledda, Didier Blanchard

This work presents an in-situ nanoscale structural characterization of the composite material SrCl 2-Expanded Natural Graphite (ENG) during ammonia absorption...

De-excitation dynamics of muonic atoms revealed by high precision spectroscopy of electronic K x rays using a superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeter

July 27, 2021

Author(s)

Douglas Bennett, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Malcolm Durkin, Joseph Fowler, Johnathon Gard, Gene C. Hilton, Kelsey Morgan, Galen O'Neil, Carl D. Reintsema, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Toshiyuki Azuma, Pietro Caradonna, I-Huan Chiu, Tadashi Hashimoto, Ryota Hayakawa, Yuto Ichinohe, Paul Indelicato, TadaAki Isobe, Sohtaro Kanda, Daiji Kato, Miho Katsuragawa, Naritoshi Kawamura, Yasushi Kino, Kenya Kubo, Kairi Mine, Yasuhiro Miyake, Kazuhiko Ninomiya, Hirofumi Noda, Shinji Okada, Takuma Okumura, Kenichi Okutsu, Takahito Osawa, Nancy Paul, Kouichiro Shimomura, Patrick Strasser, Hirotaka Suda, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shinichiro Takeda, Soshi Takeshita, Motonobu Tampo, Hideyuki Tatsuno, XiaoMin Tong, Yasuhiro Ueno, Shin Watanabe, Shinya Yamada

We observed electronic K x rays emitted from muonic iron atoms using a superconducting transition-edge-type sensor microcalorimeter. The energy resolution of 5...

Promoting Persistent Superionic Conductivity in Sodium Monocarba-closo-dodecaborate NaCB11H12 via Confinement within Nanoporous Silica

July 26, 2021

Author(s)

Mikael Andersson, Vitalie Stavila, Alexander V. Skripov, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Malgorzata T. Psurek, Juscelino Leao, Olga Babanova, Roman Skoryunov, Alexei Soloninin, Maths Karlsson, Terrence J. Udovic

Superionic phases of bulk anhydrous salts based on large cluster-like polyhedral (carba)borate anions are generally stable only well above room temperature...

Layered Double Perovskites

July 26, 2021

Author(s)

Hayden Evans, Lingling Mao, Ram Seshadri, Anthony K. Cheetham

Successful strategies for the design of crystalline materials with useful function are frequently based on the systematic tuning of chemical composition within...

Exponentially correlated Hylleraas-configuration-interaction non-relativistic energy of the 1S ground state of the helium atom

July 26, 2021

Author(s)

James S. Sims, Maria B. Ruiz, Bholanath Padhy

A generalization of the Hylleraas-configuration-interaction method (Hy-CI) first proposed by Wang, et al. , the Exponentially Correlated Hylleraas-configuration...

Real-Time Low-Frequency Oscillations Monitoring

July 26, 2021

Author(s)

Bin Hu, Hamid Gharavi

A major concern for interconnected power grid systems is low frequency oscillation, which limits the scalability and transmission capacity of power systems. Un...

A Hybrid Wired/Wireless Deterministic Network for Smart Grid

July 26, 2021

Author(s)

Bin Hu, Hamid Gharavi

With the rapid growth of time-critical applications in smart grid, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation, demand for high reliability, low...

Collaborative Knowledge Management to Identify Data Analytics Opportunities in Additive Manufacturing

July 24, 2021

Author(s)

Hyunseop Park, Hyunwoong Ko, Yung-Tsun Lee, Shaw C. Feng, Paul Witherell, Hyunbo Cho

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is becoming data-intensive. The ability to identify Data Analytics (DA) opportunities for effective use of AM data becomes a...

Nondestructive testing of native and tissue-engineered medical products: adding numbers to pictures

July 24, 2021

Author(s)

Nathan Castro, Greta Babakhanova, Jerry Hu, Kyriacos Athanasiou

Traditional testing methods have helped to elucidate and correlate the structure-function relationship of natural tissues and have guided the development of...

Validation of the network method for evaluating uncertainty and improvement of geometric error parameters of a laser tracker

July 23, 2021

Author(s)

Octavio Icasio Hernandez, Diego A. Bellelli, Luiz H. Vieira, Daniel Cano, Bala Muralikrishnan

Five national metrology institutes (NMIs) worked together to develop a standard method to evaluate a laser tracker's (LT) measurement uncertainty and LT...

Programmable System on Chip for controlling an atomic physics experiment

July 23, 2021

Author(s)

Ananya Sitaram, Gretchen K. Campbell, Alessandro Restelli

Most atomic physics experiments are controlled by a digital pattern generator used to synchronize all equipment by providing triggers and clocks. Recently, the...

Atom probe tomography

July 22, 2021

Author(s)

Ann Chiaramonti Debay, Baptiste Gault, Julie Cairney, Michael P. Moody, Oana Cojocaru-Miredin, Patrick Stender, Renelle Dubosq, Christoph Freysoldt, Surendra Kumar Makineni, Tong Li

Atom probe tomography (APT) provides three-dimensional compositional mapping with sub-nanometre resolution. The sensitivity of APT is in the range of parts per...

Simulated filament shapes in embedded 3D printing

July 22, 2021

Author(s)

Leanne Friedrich, Jonathan Seppala

Embedded 3D printing, wherein fluid inks are extruded into a bath, has enabled the manufacture of complex, custom structures ranging from cell-laden tissue...

Neutron Scattering Investigations of the Global and Local Structures of Ammine Yttrium Borohydrides

July 22, 2021

Author(s)

Jakob Grinderslev, Mikael S. Andersson, Benjamin Trump, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, Maths Karlsson, Torben Jensen

Complex metal hydrides are a fascinating and continuously expanding class of materials with many properties relevant for solid-state hydrogen and ammonia...

Comparison Demonstrates Factor of Three Improvement in Gas Flow Measurements

July 21, 2021

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Gina Kline, Kevin John, Brian Novitsky, Jason Bellavance, Kevin SHufelt, Bradley Nease, Miles Owen, Joseph Allen, Casey Rombouts, William Gause, John Cuccio

A comparison of seven gas flow calibration laboratories piloted by NIST used four laminar flow meters as the transfer standards for nine nitrogen gas flows...

Optimal state transfer and entanglement generation in power-law interacting systems

July 21, 2021

Author(s)

Minh Tran, A Deshpande, Andrew Guo, Andrew Lucas, Alexey Gorshkov

Binary Diffusion Coefficients for Fluorocarbons in Nitrogen

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

William S. McGivern, Jeffrey A. Manion

Binary gas-phase diffusion coefficients, of interest in physical models of atmospheric and combustion chemistry, have been measured in N2 for the homologous...

Challenges of Accuracy in Germline Clinical Sequencing Data

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Justin Zook, Ryan Poplin, Mark DePristo

Physicians are increasingly using clinical sequencing tests to establish diagnoses of patients who might have genetic disorders, which means that accuracy of...

Size Effects in Gold Nanorod Light-to-Heat Conversion under Femtosecond Illumination

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Seth Meyer, Jacob Pettine, David Nesbitt, Catherine Murphy

Two-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Spin-Orbital Excitations in Honeycomb VI₃

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

H. Lane, E. Pachoud, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, M. Songvilay, Guangyong Xu, Peter M. Gehring, J. Attfield, R. Ewings, Christopher Stock

Monte Carlo Reconstruction: a concept for propagating uncertainty in computed tomography

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Massimiliano Ferrucci, Evelina Ametova, Wim Dewulf

We present a concept for propagating uncertainty in X-ray computed tomography (CT) by a Monte Carlo Reconstruction (MCR) technique, comprising repeated...

On good reporting practices for property measurements

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Ala Bazyleva, John O'Connell

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Open port sampling interface mass spectrometry of wipe-based explosives, oxidizers, and narcotics for trace contraband detection

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Thomas P. Forbes, Jeffrey Lawrence, Changtong Hao, J Greg Gillen

Rapid screening for chemical traces of explosives and narcotics is widely used to support homeland security and law enforcement. These target compounds span a...

Facility for calibrating anemometers as a function of air velocity vector and turbulence

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Michael R. Moldover, James Filla, Aaron Johnson, Vladimir B. Khromchenko

NIST calibrates anemometers as a function of airspeed vector and turbulence intensity (Tu). The vector capability (sometimes called '3D') is particularly...

Antiferromagnetic Order and Spin-Canting Transition in the Corrugated Square Net Compound Cu₃(TeO₄)(SO₄)·H₂O

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Zhi-Cheng Wang, Kulatheepan Thanabalasingam, Jan P. Scheifers, Alenna Streeter, Gregory T. McCandless, Jonathan N. Gaudet, Craig Brown, Carlo U. Segre, Julia Y. Chan, Fazel Tafti

Strongly correlated electrons in layered perovskite structures have been the birthplace of high-temperature superconductivity, spin liquid, and quantum...

Real-Time Signal Processing for Mitigating SiPM Dark Noise Effects in a Scintillating Neutron Detector

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Kevin N. Pritchard, Jean Philippe Chabot, R. Robucci, F. S. Choa, A. Osovizky, Jeffrey B. Ziegler, Louis E. Binkley, Peter Tsai, Nancy Hadad, M. Jackson, C. Hurlbut, George M. Baltic, Charles Majkrzak, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj

A 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) based cold neutron detector with wavelength shifting (WLS) fibers and SiPM photodetector was developed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research...