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Streamlining the Additive Manufacturing Digital Spectrum: A Systems Approach

January 1, 2015

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell

Testing Compressed Natural Gas Retail Motor-Fuel Dispensers/Arriving Prepared to Test

December 10, 2014

Author(s)

Richard A. Harshman

As the developing infrastructure for fueling vehicles that use compressed natural gas (CNG) as an engine fuel continues to unfold, some weights and measures...

U.S. National Working Group on Alternative Test Methods, Field Task Group Activities

December 10, 2014

Author(s)

Gloria D. Lee

The NIST, Office of Weights and Measures established the U.S. National working group (USNWG) on Alternative Test Methods (ATMs) for Commercial Measuring Devices...

Formalizing Software Bugs

December 8, 2014

Author(s)

Irena Bojanova

Knowing what makes a software systems vulnerable to attacks is critical, as software vulnerabilities hurt security, reliability, and availability of the system...

Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Carbon Nanotubes

November 26, 2014

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Fagan

Sedimentation velocity (SV) experiments on dispersed nanoparticles are a powerful method for determining otherwise hard to evaluate properties of the...

The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2013)

October 24, 2014

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

Solid State Lighting Annex 2013 Interlaboratory Comparison Final Report

October 9, 2014

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno

The Interlaboratory Comparison, IC2013, for measurement of solid state lighting (SSL) products was conducted by International Energy Agency (IEA) 4E SSL Annex...

Amplifier and Transistor Noise-Parameter Measurements

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

James P. Randa

Methods for measuring the noise parameters of amplifiers and on-wafer transistors are reviewed. After some preliminary background information and conventions...

Determination of nanoparticle surface coatings and nanoparticle purity using microscale thermogravimetric analysis

September 26, 2014

Author(s)

Elisabeth Mansfield

2014 INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP FOR SEMICONDUCTORS RADIO FREQUENCY AND ANALOG/MIXED-SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES

September 25, 2014

Author(s)

Herbert S. Bennett

Radio frequency (RF), high frequency (HF), and analog/mixed-signal (AMS) technologies serve the rapidly growing communications markets that include many of the...

Errors in Variables and Ridge Regression for Structural Data from Synthesized Amorphous Calcium Phosphate

September 19, 2014

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar

As vertebrates form mineralized tissues such as bone and teeth they use amorphous mineral precursors to store ions for use as needed. One such precursor is...

Methods for the Measurement of Release of MWCNTs from MWCNT-Polymer Composites

September 18, 2014

Author(s)

Debra L. Kaiser, Aleksandr B. Stefaniak, Keana C. Scott, Tinh Nguyen, Jurg Schutz

Multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/polymer composites hold great promise as advanced materials for consumer and industrial applications. Throughout the life...

Collaborative Robotics: A Gateway into Factory Automation

September 3, 2014

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Marvel

Software for Dielectric characterization by microwave cavity perturbation corrected for non-uniform fields*

September 1, 2014

Author(s)

Nathan D. Orloff, Jan Obrzut, Christian J. Long, Thomas F. Lam, Pavel Kabos, David R. Novotny, James C. Booth, James A. Liddle

This software package was developed to analyze microwave cavity perturbation data in order to determine material dielectric properties. Example software is...

How to Determine the Net Weight and Purge of Packaged Chitterlings Using NIST Handbook 133, Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods

August 13, 2014

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher

Weights and Measures Inspector tests frozen chitterlingsto determine if the package contains the labeled net weight and if the purge is 20 % or less. Inspectors...

The Use of Volumetric Pipets with NIST Handbook 133, "Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods"

July 7, 2014

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher

Guidance on the use of Class A pipets for precision measurement in package testing.

TRECVID 2013 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

May 5, 2014

Author(s)

Paul D. Over, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Gregory A. Sanders, David M. Joy, Martial Michel, George M. Awad, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij, Georges Quenot

TRECVID 2013 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which remains to promote progress in content-based exploitation of digital...

2013 ITRS Metrology Roadmap

April 15, 2014

Author(s)

Alain C. Diebold, Ndubuisi George Orji

In 2013 the ITRS Metrology Technical Working Group worked on updating the text and tables of the metrology chapter. New additions include a section on 3D...

A Prescription for THz Transistor Characterization

April 4, 2014

Author(s)

Dylan F. Williams

Advances in microwave wafer probes and vector network analyzers have opened up a whole new world of discovery in microwave metrology, making possible accurate...

NIST SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND STEP HEIGHT CALIBRATIONS, Measurement Conditions and Sources of Uncertainty

March 18, 2014

Author(s)

Theodore V. Vorburger, Thomas Brian Renegar, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Jun-Feng Song, Johannes A. Soons, Richard M. Silver

NIST methods for calibration of surface roughness parameters and step height are described. The surface roughness parameters currently being measured include...

Cybersecurity User's Guide to the Guidelines for Smart Grid Cybersecurity (NISTIR 7628 Vol. 1 2010)

February 26, 2014

Author(s)

Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Tanya L. Brewer

While the NISTIR 7628 document covers many significant cybersecurity topics, this User's Guide is focused primarily on the application of NISTIR 7628 Volume 1...

Summary of NIST SP 800-53, Revision 4: Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

February 19, 2014

Author(s)

Kelley L. Dempsey, Gregory A. Witte, Doug Rike

The white paper provides an overview of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Revision 4: Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and...

Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Version 1.0

February 12, 2014

Author(s)

Adam Sedgewick

The national and economic security of the United States depends on the reliable functioning of critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity threats take advantage of...

Possibilities and Tradeoffs for Low-GWP Refrigerants

January 19, 2014

Author(s)

Mark O. McLinden

presentation at ASHRAE Winter Conference: We explore the possibilities for refrigerants having low global warming potential (GWP) through two distinct, but...

Ionic Liquids Database - ILThermo (v2.0)

December 16, 2013

Author(s)

Andrei F. Kazakov, Joe W. Magee, Robert D. Chirico, Vladimir Diky, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Chris D. Muzny, Michael D. Frenkel

ILThermo is a web-based ionic liquids database available free to the public. It aims to provide users worldwide with up-to-date information on publications of...

Depicting Web Images for the Blind and Visually Impaired

December 9, 2013

Author(s)

Andrea Bajcsy, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mary C. Brady

A prototype to translate web graph and map images into 3D printed models in order to give the blind and visually impaired access to voting and election...

Enhanced WWVB Broadcast Format

September 30, 2013

Author(s)

John P. Lowe

Enhanced WWVB Broadcast for web site

The Case for Cross Disciplinary Research on Time Aware Applications, Computers and Communication Systems (TAACCS)

September 18, 2013

Author(s)

Marc A. Weiss, J C. Eidson, Charles Barry, L Goldin, Bob Iannucci, Edward Lee, Kevin Stanton

A new economy built on the massive growth of endpoints on the internet will require precise and verifiable timing in ways that current systems do not support...

Single Diode Equivalent Circuit Models

September 12, 2013

Author(s)

Matthew T. Boyd, Clifford Hansen

Package Testing Based on the Largest of the Declared Quantities

September 11, 2013

Author(s)

David A. Sefcik

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