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Helical Level Structure of Dirac Potential Wells

November 28, 2017
Author(s)
Daniel T. Walkup, Joseph A. Stroscio
In graphene and other massless 2D Dirac materials, Klein tunneling compromises electron confinement, and momentum-space contours can be assigned a Berry phase which is either zero or π. Consequently, in such systems the energy spectrum of circular

Multimodality of Structural, Electrical, and Gravimetric Responses of Intercalated MXenes to Water

November 28, 2017
Author(s)
Eric S. Muckley, Michael Naguib, Hsiu-Wen Wang, Lukas Vlcek, Naresh C. Osti, Robert L. Sacci, Xiahan Sang, Raymond R. Unocic, Yu Xie, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Eugene Mamontov, Katharine L. Page, Paul R. C. Kent, Jagjit Nanda, Ilia N. Ivanov
Understanding of structural, electrical and gravimetric peculiarities of water vapor interaction with ion-intercalated MXenes used to design of a multimodal humidity sensor. Neutron scattering coupled to molecular dynamics and ab initio calculations showed

Probing the dielectric response of the interfacial buffer layer in epitaxial graphene via optical spectroscopy

November 28, 2017
Author(s)
Heather M. Hill, Albert Rigosi, Sugata Chowdhury, Yanfei Yang, Nhan Van Nguyen, Francesca Tavazza, Randolph Elmquist, David B. Newell, Angela R. Hight Walker
Monolayer epitaxial graphene (EG) is a suitable candidate for a variety of electronic applications. One advantage of EG growth on the Si face of SiC is that it develops as a single crystal, as does the layer below, referred to as the interfacial buffer

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 11-28-2017]

November 28, 2017
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Patrick Viscuso, Gary Guissanie, Kelley L. Dempsey, Mark Riddle
[Superseded by SP 800-171 Rev. 1 (December 2016, updated 02/20/2018): https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-171r1] The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) while residing in nonfederal information systems and organizations is of paramount

Rydberg Atom Electric-Field Metrology

November 28, 2017
Author(s)
Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons
We present a technique which shows great promise for realizing an atomic standard measurement of RF fields that is intrinsically calibrated, directly linked to the SI and atomic structural constants. This technique relies on the reponse of Rydberg atoms to

Guidance on the TDEA Block Ciphers

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Elaine B. Barker, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information found in NIST SP 800-67, Rev. 2, Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher. This bulletin offers an overview of the TDEA block cipher along with usage guidance and NIST’s plans.

Kicking the Tires of the NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework Part 2*

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Ronald A. Ginley
Traceability of a measurement requires two parts. An unbroken chain of measurements and uncertainties for each link of the chain. The NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework (MUF) can provide both the required parts for a single link in the chain or for

Neutron and X-ray Tomography (NeXT) system for simultaneous, dual modality tomography

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Jacob M. LaManna, Daniel S. Hussey, Elias M. Baltic, David L. Jacobson
Dual mode tomography offers the potential of improved estimation of the composition of a sample from the complimentary of the interaction of the two probes with the sample. We have developed a simultaneous neutron and 90 keV X-ray tomography system that is

Plasma nanotexturing of silicon surfaces for photovoltaics applications: Influence of initial surface finish on the evolution of topographical and optical properties

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Guillaume Fischer, Etienne Drahi, Martin Foldyna, Thomas Germer, Erik V. Johnson
Using a plasma to generate a surface texture with feature sizes on the order of nanometers ("nanotexturing") is a promising technique being considered for application in thin, high- efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells. This study investigates the

Pressure Tuning of Collapse of Helimagnetic Structure in Au 2 Mn

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
I Lin NMN Liu, Maria J. Pascale, Juscelino Leao, Craig Brown, William D. Ratcliff, Qingzhen Huang, Nicholas Butch
We identify the phase boundary between spiral spin and ferromagnetic phases in Au 2Mn at a critical pressure of 16.4 kbar, as determined by neutron diffraction, magnetization and magnetoresistance measurements. The temperature-dependent critical field at a

The 2017 IARPA Face Recognition Prize Challenge (FRPC)

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, Lars Ericson, Kayee K. Hanaoka, Christopher Boehnen
This report documents NIST’s execution of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Face Recognition Prize Challenge 2017. The (FRPC) was conducted to assess the capability of contemporary face recognition algorithms to recognize faces

Towards a Hybrid Human-Computer Scientific Information Extraction Pipeline

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Roselyne B. Tchoua, Kyle Chard, Debra Audus, Logan T. Ward, Lequieu Joshua, Juan J. de Pablo, Ian Foster
The emerging field of materials informatics has the potential to greatly reduce time-to-market and development costs for new materials. The success of such efforts hinges on access to large, high-quality databases of material properties. However, many such

Two-Dimensional Strain-Mapping by Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Confocal Raman Spectroscopy

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Andrew J. Gayle, Lawrence Henry Friedman, Ryan Beams, Brian G. Bush, Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Mark D. Vaudin, Robert F. Cook
The strain field surrounding a spherical indentation in silicon is mapped in two dimensions (2- D) using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) cross-correlation and confocal Raman spectroscopy techniques. The 200 mN indentation created a 4 m diameter

Clustering and Percolation in Suspensions of Carbon Black

November 22, 2017
Author(s)
Jeffrey J Richards, Julie Beth Hipp, John K Riley, Norman J. Wagner, Paul Butler
High-structured carbon fillers are ubiquitous as the conductive additive comprising suspension-based electrochemical storage technologies. Carbon black networks provide the necessary electric conductivity as well as mechanical percolation in the form of a

CRITICALLY EVALUATED SPECTRAL DATA FOR NEUTRAL CARBON (C I)

November 22, 2017
Author(s)
Haris Kunari, Alexander Kramida
In this critical compilation, all known to us experimental data on the spectrum of neutral carbon were methodically evaluated and supplemented by parametric calculations with Cowan's code. The sources of experimental data vary from laboratory to

Low-Loss Reciprocal Optical Terminals for Two-Way Time-Frequency Transfer

November 22, 2017
Author(s)
William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Isaac H. Khader, Nathan R. Newbury, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Hugo Bergeron
Optical two-way time-frequency transfer (O-TWTFT) over atmospheric free-space paths requires low- loss, single-mode, bi-directional and fully reciprocal optical terminals for transmitting precise frequency comb pulses over 10 kilometer scale paths. We
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