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Nanoscale Spin Valve Josephson Junction Devices

April 14, 2015

Author(s)

Burm Baek, William H. Rippard, Matthew R. Pufall, Samuel P. Benz, Stephen E. Russek, Horst Rogalla, Paul D. Dresselhaus

Traditionally, superconductivity and magnetism have had a mutually exclusive relationship. However, the physics of superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures...

Towards a "Periodic Table" of Bugs

April 8, 2015

Author(s)

Irena Bojanova

Our vision for a "periodic table" of bugs is a "natural" organization of a catalog or dictionary or taxonomy to describe software weaknesses and vulnerabilities...

Analysis of VAES3 (FF2)

April 2, 2015

Author(s)

Morris J. Dworkin, Ray A. Perlner

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) specified three methods for format-preserving encryption (FPE) in Draft NIST Special Publication (SP)...

Draining Test Measures and Provers

March 26, 2015

Author(s)

Gloria D. Lee

This article reviews the correct procedures for draining 5-gallon test measures and truck mounted provers, frequently asked questions concerning the test...

TRECVID 2014 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

March 26, 2015

Author(s)

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

The TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) 2014 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which remains to promote progress in...

User's Guide to Running the Draft NIST SP 800-90B Section 9 Entropy Estimation Tests

March 10, 2015

Author(s)

Timothy Hall, Kerry A. McKay

This is a brief introduction on how to run the Python command-line programs (hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment) that...

The Office of Weights and Measures Proposes Revisions to the Method of Sale for Animal Bedding and Recommends New Test Procedures and Test Measures for Use in Verifying the Quantity Declarations on Packages of Peat Moss and Animal Bedding

February 19, 2015

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher

Animal Bedding (bedding), also called pet or stall bedding, litter or simply bedding, is generally sold by dry volume in compressed or uncompressed packages...

Effect of Installation Faults on Air-to-Air Heat Pump Performance

January 20, 2015

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

Numerous studies and surveys indicate that typically-installed HVAC equipment operate inefficiently and waste considerable energy due to different installation...

SCATMECH: Polarized Light Scattering C++ Class Library and the Modeled Integrated Scattering Tool (MIST)

January 15, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas Germer

SCATMECH is an object-oriented C++ class library developed to distribute models for light scattering applications. Included in the library are models for...

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 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 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...

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