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Peer Review Report 2010

September 22, 2010

Author(s)

Thomas A. Siewert, Robert Smith, Theresa Bell, Joseph D. McColskey, Richard J. Fields

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration s Pipeline Safety Research and Development (R&D) Program held a structured peer review of active...

Quantum Dots Precisely Placed by Controlled Flow

August 24, 2010

Author(s)

James A. Liddle

Ropp et al. report on the use of controlled flow to achieve nanometer precision placement of single quantum dots.

Spin Torque with Point Contacts: Generating Nonlinear Waves with Magnetic Media in a Localized Way

August 16, 2010

Author(s)

Thomas J. Silva

Spin torque offers new means to locally excite nonlinear dynamics in magnets. Possible applications include oscillators, disk drive heads, and non-volatile...

Human Assisted Speaker Recognition in NIST 2010 Speaker Recognition Evaluation

June 30, 2010

Author(s)

Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg

The 2010 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation or SRE10 (see SLTC Newsletter, July 2010) included a pilot test of human assisted speaker recognition (HASR). This...

Scientific Data at NIST: Current Practices and Vision

June 29, 2010

Author(s)

Daniel G. Friend

This is a Powerpoint presentation given as a talk at Scientific Data Management (SDM) for Government Agencies Workshop to Improve SDM, 29 June 2010,Washington...

Phantoms and the Problem of Quantification in Medical Computed Tomography (CT)

June 15, 2010

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine

Medical CT may be made more useful by increasing the quantification. Phantoms have shown that volumetric analysis may be ten times more precise than the...

Rationale of Color Quality Scale

June 10, 2010

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno, Wendy L. Davis

The color quality of solid state lighting (SSL) products is critical and is the subject of increasing attention. The CIE Color Rendering Index (CRI) [1] has...

Chip-scale waveguide source for photonic quantum information processing

June 10, 2010

Author(s)

Jun Chen, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

A bright, bandwidth-tunable waveguide photon-pair source can support two types of spontaneous parametric downconversion.

Full waveform metrology: characterizing high-speed electrical signals and equipment

June 1, 2010

Author(s)

Paul D. Hale, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Chih-Ming Wang

We review NIST efforts in high-speed waveform metrology and place these in the context of the Euramet project on dynamical metrology. Aspects of waveform...

Why are we concerned with large covariance matrices?

June 1, 2010

Author(s)

Paul D. Hale, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Chih-Ming Wang

In order to promote discussion, we outline the two different paradigms for propagating uncertainties from the various waveform measurement impairments to the...

CCQM-K63.a,b Non-Peptide Hormones in Serum: Cortisol and Progesterone: Final Report

May 30, 2010

Author(s)

Susan Tai, David L. Duewer

Hormones are chemical messengers that regulate many life functions. Deviations from normal hormone levels can have serious health consequences. Accurate...

Safety Considerations in Designing a Facility for Mechanical Property Measurements in High Pressure Gaseous Hydrogen Environments.

May 4, 2010

Author(s)

Andrew J. Slifka, Yaakov Levy, Nicholas Nanninga, Thomas A. Siewert, Joseph D. McColskey

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TRECVID 2009 -- Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics

April 30, 2010

Author(s)

Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Martial Michel, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij

The TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) 2009 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which was to promote progress in...

CCQMK62: Nutrients in Infant/Adult Formula Vitamins: Final Report

April 24, 2010

Author(s)

Katherine E. Sharpless, Catherine A. Rimmer, Karen W. Phinney, Bryant C. Nelson, David L. Duewer, Stephen A. Wise

Key Comparison CCQM-K62 was designed to enable demonstration of the equivalence in capabilities for measurement of vitamins in a food matrix. A milk-based...

Smart Phone Tool Specification

April 23, 2010

Author(s)

Richard Ayers

This paper defines requirements for mobile device applications capable of acquiring data from smart phones operating over a Global System for Mobile...

Smart Phone Tool Test Assertions and Test Plan

April 23, 2010

Author(s)

Richard Ayers

This paper defines assertions and test cases for mobile device applications capable of acquiring data from mobile devices operating over a Global System for...

Strategic Plan 2010

April 21, 2010

Author(s)

Gerald T. Fraser

The Optical Technology Division s 2010 Strategic Plan defines the Mission, Vision, and Strategic Elements for the Division. The Strategic Elements consist of...

DNA Origami Used to Assemble Nanoplasmonic Structure

April 9, 2010

Author(s)

James A. Liddle

Towards Consensus Standards for Reference Data for Biofuels

March 17, 2010

Author(s)

Daniel G. Friend

Slides for a presentation at the International Conference on Biofuels Standards Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 15-17, 2010

NIST Simulation of E-beam Inspection and CD-SEM in-line metrology: Interim Report for 1st year of project

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

John S. Villarrubia

This report summarizes results from the first year of a 2-year project to develop a simulator for electron beam (e-beam) inspection and critical dimension...

Measuring the Size of Nanoparticles Using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

John E. Bonevich, Wolfgang K. Haller

This assay protocol outlines procedures for sample preparation and the determination of mean nanoparticle size (in projection) using transmission electron...

Analysis of Au Nanoparticles by Electrospray Differential Mobility Analysis (ES-DMA)

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

Rebecca A. Zangmeister

This document describes a protocol for size analysis of citrate stabilized gold nanoparticles of nominally 10 nm, 30 nm, and 60 nm sizes using electrospray...

Nanomechanical Measurements and Tools

February 23, 2010

Author(s)

Robert F. Cook

Nanotechnology provides great opportunities for the development of advanced devices with enormous quality-of-life and economic benefits, with applications...

Nanostructured Solar Cells Have Improved Charge Collection and Self-Cleaning Properties

February 8, 2010

Author(s)

Fred Sharifi

Controlled deposition of microparticle arrays for LEDs

December 29, 2009

Author(s)

James A. Liddle

MEMS Parallel Plate Rheometer for Oscillatory Shear Micro Rheology Measurements

December 11, 2009

Author(s)

Gordon Christopher, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Steven D. Hudson, Kalman D. Migler

Growing numbers of applications including proteomics, cosmetics, and thin film coatings use novel viscoelastic materials that derive their rheological...

Report on the Key Comparison CCPR K2.a-2003

October 30, 2009

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno, Steven W. Brown, Thomas C. Larason

Under the framework of Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) for national measurements standards and for calibration and measurement certificates issued by...

The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge

October 30, 2009

Author(s)

Hoa T. Dang, Danilo Giampiccolo, Bernardo Magnini, Ido Dagan, Elena Cabrio, Bill Dolan

Improving security information gathering with IEEE 802.21 to optimize handover performance

October 30, 2009

Author(s)

Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares, Nada T. Golmie

In mobile networks, authentication is a time-consuming operation that needs to be shortened in order to provide seamless handovers. Furthermore, the time...

Innovations in Maximum Likelihood Quantum State Tomography

October 9, 2009

Author(s)

Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill, Thomas Gerrits, Tracy S. Clement, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Aaron J. Miller, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin

At NIST we are engaged in an experiment whose goal is to create superpositions of optical coherent states (such superpositions are sometimes called...

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