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Journals

SRM Spotlight (February 2007)

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new...

Firebrand Generation From Burning Vegetation

Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Alexander Maranghides, William E. Mell
A series of real scale fire experiments were performed to determine the size and mass distribution of firebrands generated from Douglas-Fir (pseudotsuga...

Precision Atomic Spectroscopy for Improved Limits on Variation of the Fine Structure Constant and Local Position Invariance

Author(s)
Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Neil Ashby, Luca Lorini, Windell Oskay, Marie Delaney, James C. Bergquist, Steven R. Jefferts, Thomas E. Parker, Thomas P. Heavner, Filippo Levi, Jon H. Shirley, Wayne M. Itano, Kyoungsik Kim, Leo W. Hollberg
We report tests of local position invariance (LPI) and the constancy of fundamental constants from measurements of the frequency ratio of the 282-nm $^{199}$Hg$...

Metal Complexes and Free Radical Toxicity Derived From Pfiesteria piscicida

Author(s)
Peter D. Moeller, Kevin Beauchesne, Kevin Huncik, William Davis, Steven J. Christopher, Andrew Gelasco, Pamela Riggs-Gelasco
Pfiesteria piscicida represents one of many dinoflagellate species inhabiting inter-coastal waterways and estuaries. This organism has been implicated in the...

Solvation Structure of Ions in Water

Author(s)
Raymond D. Mountain
Molecular dynamics simulations of ions in water are reported for solutionsof varying solute concentration at ambient conditions for6 cations and 4 anions in 10...

Low-Noise PPLN-based Single-Photon Detector

Author(s)
Hai Xu, Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
This paper describes the detection of single photons, which have been transmitted through standard fiber at the telecom wavelength of 1310 nm. Following...

120Hz Pulse Tube Cryocooler for Fast Cooldown to 50K

Author(s)
Srinivas Vanapalli, Michael A. Lewis, Zhihua Gan, Ray Radebaugh
A pulse tube cryocooler operating at 120 Hz with 3.5 MPa average pressure achieved a no-load temperature of about 49.9 K and a cooldown time to 80 K of 5.5...

Trilateral optical powermeter comparison between NIST, NMIJ/AIST, and METAS

Author(s)
Igor Vayshenker, John H. Lehman, David J. Livigni, Xiaoyu X. Li, Kuniaki Amemiya, Daiji Fukuda, Seiji Mukai, Shinji Kimura, Michiyuki Endo, Jacques Morel, Armin Gambon
We describe the results of a comparison of reference standards between three National Metrology Institutes: the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
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