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Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., David M. Jenkins, Norimitsu Ichikawa
Electroshock weapons (ESWs) are a commonly used tool in the escalation of force arsenal for law enforcement and the military around the world. ESWs function by providing a high-voltage low-current electrical shock that, when discharged into a live
Yanfei Yang, Guangjun Cheng, Chiashain Chuang, Angela R. Hight Walker, Randolph E. Elmquist, Irene G. Calizo, Randall M. Feenstra, Patrick Mende
Quantized magnetotransport is observed in 5.6 × 5.6 mm2 epitaxial graphene devices, grown using highly constrained sublimation on the Si-face of SiC(0001) at high temperature (1900 °C). The precise quantized Hall resistance of Rxy = h/〖2e〗^2 is maintained
Andrew J. Allen, Fan Zhang, Regis J. Kline, William F. Guthrie, Jan Ilavsky
The certification of a new standard reference material for small-angle scattering: NIST Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3600: Absolute Intensity Calibration Standard for Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), based on glassy carbon is presented. Creation
Objectives The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of biofilms and biofilm measurements in the context of studying biofilms on tooth and dental material surfaces to improve oral health. Methods A historical perspective and terminology is presented
This publication contains Good Measurement Procedures (GMP), Good Laboratory Procedures (GLP), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for use in calibration laboratories performing volumetric calibrations. This edition is updated from the 2013 version
Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is a surface topography measurement technique with reported sub- nanometer vertical resolution. While made commercially available recently, few studies have evaluated the uncertainty or noise in the phase measurement by
The purpose of a registration is to find the transformation between two coordinate frames: working frame (from which 3D data are transformed) and destination frame (to which the data are transformed). In point-based, rigid-body registration, the
Three grid-connected monocrystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays have been instrumented with research-grade sensors on the Gaithersburg, Maryland campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These arrays range from 73 kW to 271 kW
John S. Villarrubia, Vipin Tondare, Andras E. Vladar
Modern electronic devices are non-planar and have functional dependencies on device sizes in all three dimensions. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images have spatial resolution at the needed nanometer level, but like most microscope images they are
Michael T. Postek, Andras E. Vladar, John S. Villarrubia
In many fields of research and production, a great deal of dimensional metrology, characterization and process control is accomplished using scanning electron microscopes (SEM). The accuracy of these SEM measurements has always been important, but is often
Ruoyu Sun, Peter B. Papazian, Jelena Senic, Yeh Lo, Jae-Kark Choi, Kate Remley, Camillo Gentile
The 60 GHz band is being considered for many high bandwidth wireless applications. To support standards development for these applications, NIST has developed an untethered 60 GHz, 8×16 MIMO channel sounder. It employs a pseudorandom bit sequence with a
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids in human serum and plasma. This report describes the design
The current trend in manufacturing industry is from mass production towards flexible and adaptive manufacturing systems and cloud manufacturing. Self-learning machines and robot systems can play an essential role in the development of intelligent
Shannan Williams, Melissa Taylor, Kiebuzinski George
On January 26th and 27th, 2015, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), held a workshop entitled: Improving Biometric and Forensic Technology: The Future of Research Datasets
Kenneth Voss, B. Carol Johnson, Mark A. Yarbrough, Stephanie J. Flora, Michael Feinholz, Darryl Peters, Terrance Houlihan, Sean Mundell, Sandy Yarbrough, Art Gleason
This talk provided an overview of the MOBY project and the work we are doing now to move the MOBY instrumentation forward into the future. This is the first of 4 talks we gave at this workshop on various aspects of the MOBY project. The values of the MOBY
This talk covered the topics of uncertainty terminology (in brief), radiometric comparisons, gave an illustration of a spectral radiance scale realization, and concluded with a word on satellite system vicarious calibration (SVC).
In the early 1950s, it became popular for supermarkets to offer random weight packaged meats and produce using in-store scales. The Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation (UPLR) in NIST Handbook 130, Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal
State and local weights and measures jurisdictions or other testing laboratories that use transfer standards developed using the air-oven reference methods (referred to as air-oven reference standards) to test commercial grain moisture meters, collect
Warwick Dunn, David Broadhurst, Arthur S. Edison, Mark Viant, Dan Bearden, Richard Beger, Claude Guillou
The Metabolomics Society Data Quality Task Group (DQTG) developed a questionnaire regarding quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) to provide baseline information about current QA and QC practices applied in the international metabolomics
Tina G. Butcher, Linda D. Crown, Richard A. Harshman, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield
The 100th Annual Meeting of the National of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held July 19-23, 2015, at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of the meeting was "Weights and Measures
Arkadiusz Lewandowski, Wojciech Wiatr, Nate Orloff, James Booth
We present a new method for two-port vector-network-analyzer calibration which uses multiple offset-reflect standards and a flush thru connection. Offset-reflect standards consist of sections of the same uniform transmission-line with different lengths
Reference materials are essential tools to assure the quality of measurement results, from R&D labs to production facilities. They help increase the reliability of measurements, as laboratories can use reference materials to verify, for themselves, and
Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Matthew Fuld, Bernice Hoppel, Phillip Judy, Junfeng Guo, David Lynch, Antonio M. Possolo, Sean B. Fain
Computed Tomography imaging of the lung, reported in Hounsfield Units (HU), can be parameterized as a quantitative image biomarker for the diagnosis and monitoring of lung density changes due to emphysema, a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Gregor Jacob, Christopher U. Brown, M A. Donmez, Stephanie S. Watson
A series of 11 identical laser based powder bed fusion (PBF) builds were completed with varying amounts of virgin and recycled nitrogen gas atomized S17-4 PH stainless steel powder following a specific powder recycling strategy that simulates industrial
Joshua R. Biller, Karl F. Stupic, Anthony B. Kos, Timothy Weilert, George Rinard, Yoshi Nakashima, John M. Moreland
A low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument is an important tool for investigating a wide variety of samples under different conditions. In this paper, we describe a system constructed primarily with commercially available hardware and control