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Linewidth Measurement Intercomparison on a BESOI Sample

June 1, 2000
Author(s)
John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, J R. Lowney, Michael T. Postek, Richard A. Allen, Michael W. Cresswell, Rathindra Ghoshtagore
The effect of the instrument on the measurement must be known in order to generate an accurate linewidth measurement. Although instrument models exist for a variety of techniques, how does one assess the accuracy of these models? Intercomparisons between

Molecular Level Design of Fire Retardants and Suppressants (NISTIR 6275)

January 1, 2000
Author(s)
Marc R. Nyden
The various methods that comprise the field of molecular modeling are reviewed in the context of their potential for application to the molecular level design of new fire retardants and suppressants. The capabilities of these techniques are demonstrated by

Molecular Level Design of Fire Retardants and Suppressants (NISTIR 6275)

January 1, 1999
Author(s)
Marc R. Nyden
The various methods that comprise the field of molecular modeling are reviewed in the context of their potential for application to the molecular level design of new fire retardants and suppressants. The capabilities of these techniques are demonstrated by

Intelligent System Control: A Unified Approach and Applications

January 1, 1998
Author(s)
Hui-Min Huang, Harry A. Scott, Elena R. Messina, Maris Juberts, Richard Quintero
The hierarchical real-time control system (RCS) reference model architecture that is under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims at designing and developing intelligent control for large and complex systems. RCS is

Guidelines for Security of Computer Applications

June 30, 1980
Author(s)
Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology National Bureau of Standards
[Withdrawn February 8, 2005] Security decisions should be an integral part of the entire planning, development, and operation of a computer application. This guideline describes the technical and managerial decisions that should be made in order to assure

Pre-Conceptual Design of the NIST Neutron Source

April 16, 2023
Author(s)
Dagistan Sahin, Osman Celikten, Jeremy Cook, Abdullah Weiss, Thomas Newton, David Diamond, Charles F. Majkrzak, Hubert King, Joy Shen, Anil Gurgen, Lap-Yan Cheng, Peter Kohut, Cihang Lu, Athi Varuttamaseni
The National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR), a 20 MW thermal power Material Test Reactor (MTR), is located at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), providing a safe and reliable neutron source for the thousands of visiting U.S. and international

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments - Experimental Results from Low Voltage Switchgear Enclosures

December 29, 2021
Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Edward Hnetkovsky, Andre Thompson, Michael Selepak, Philip Deardorff, Kenneth Hamburger, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Miller
This report documents an experimental program designed to investigate High Energy Arcing Fault (HEAF) phenomena for low-voltage metal enclosed switchgear containing aluminum conductors. This report covers full-scale laboratory experiments using

Uncertainty in Finite Element Modeling and Failure Analysis: A Metrology-based Approach

February 1, 2006
Author(s)
Jeffrey Fong, James J. Filliben, Roland deWit, Richard J. Fields, Barry Bernstein, Pedro V. Marcal
In this paper, we first review the impact of the powerful finite element method (FEM) in structural engineering, and then address the shortcomings of FEM as a tool for risk-based decision making and incomplete-data-based failure analysis. To illustrate the

Laser Offset Stabilization with Chip-Scale Atomic Diffractive Elements

June 7, 2024
Author(s)
Heleni Krelman, Ori Nefesh, Kfir Levi, Douglas Bopp, Songbai Kang, Liron Stern, John Kitching
Achieving precise and adjustable control over laser frequency is an essential requirement in numerous applications such as precision spectroscopy, quantum control, and sensing. In many of such applications it is desired to stabilize a laser with a variable

Indirect Cooling of Weakly Coupled Trapped-Ion Mechanical Oscillators

April 2, 2024
Author(s)
Panyu Hou, Jenny Wu, Stephen Erickson, Giorgio Zarantonello, Adam Brandt, Daniel Cole, Andrew C. Wilson, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried
Cooling the motion of trapped ions to near the quantum ground state is crucial for many ap- plications in quantum information processing and quantum metrology. However, some motional modes of trapped ions are difficult to cool because they only interact

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTICAL RUBIDIUM VECTOR ATOMIC MAGNETOMETER

July 16, 2023
Author(s)
Ying-Ju Wang, John Kitching, Isaac Fan, Yang Li
The precise measurement of magnetic fields is a fundamental tool of remote sensing. However, accurately measuring the direction of magnetic fields is challenging with atomic magnetometers. The standard approach of collecting vector measurements involves

Rydberg Excitons and Trions in Monolayer MoTe2

April 12, 2023
Author(s)
Souvik Biswas, Aurelie Champagne, Jonah Haber, supavit pokawanvit, Joeson Wong, Hamidreza Akbari, Sergiy Krylyuk, Kenji Watanabe, Albert Davydov, Zakaria Al Balushi, Felipe H. da Jornada, Diana Qiu, Jeffrey Neaton, Harry Atwater
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors exhibit strong excitonic optical resonances which serve as a microscopic, non-invasive probe into their fundamental properties. Like the hydrogen atom, such excitons can exhibit an entire

Wideband Synthetic-Aperture Millimeter-Wave Spatial-Channel Reference System With Traceable Uncertainty Framework

January 24, 2023
Author(s)
Kate Remley, Peter Vouras, Ben Jamroz, Alec Weiss, Jeanne Quimby, Dylan Williams, Rod Leonhardt, Damla Guven, Rob Jones, Joshua Kast
This paper describes a wideband synthetic-aperture system and the associated Fourier processing for generating high-resolution spatial and temporal estimates of the signal propagation environment in wireless communication channels at millimeter-wave

Room-temperature valence transition in a strain-tuned perovskite oxide

December 15, 2022
Author(s)
Vipul Chaturvedi, Supriya Ghosh, Dominique Gautreau, William M. Postiglione, John E. Dewey, Patrick Quarterman, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Brian Kirby, Hua Zhou, Huikui Cheng, Amanda Huon, Timothy Charlton, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Caroline Korostynski, Andrew Jacobson, Lucca Figari, Javier Garcia Barriocanal, T. Birol, K. A. Mkhoyan, Chris Leighton
Cobalt oxides have long been understood to display intriguing phenomena known as spin-state crossovers, where the cobalt ion spin changes vs. temperature, pressure, etc. A very different situation was recently uncovered in praseodymium-containing cobalt

Machine learning enabling high-throughput and remote operations at large-scale user facilities

May 18, 2022
Author(s)
Bruce D. Ravel, Tatiana Konstantinova, Phillip Michael Maffettone, Stuart Campbell, Andi Barbour, Daniel Olds
Imaging, scattering, and spectroscopy are fundamental in understanding and discovering new functional materials. Contemporary innovations in automation and experimental techniques have led to these measurements being performed much faster and with higher

The MaCFP Condensed Phase Working Group: A Structured, Global Effort Towards Pyrolysis Model Development

November 23, 2021
Author(s)
Isaac Leventon, Benjamin Batiot, Morgan Bruns, Simo Hostikka, Yuji Nakamura, Pedro Reszka, Thomas Rogaume, Stanislav Stoliarov
The International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Working Group on Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (i.e., the MaCFP Working Group) has been established as a global collaborative effort between experimentalists and modelers in the

Growth of Magnetic Nanowires in an Applied Field

October 12, 2021
Author(s)
R D K. Misra, H Nathani, William F. Egelhoff Jr.
Nanostructured quasi one-dimensional magnetic materials (nanowires) have attracted significant scientific and technological interest because they exhibit unique magnetic properties not displayed by their bulk or nanoparticle counterparts. Nanocrystalline

Optical Scattering Characteristics of 3D Lunar Regolith Particles Measured using X-Ray Nano Computed Tomography

April 27, 2021
Author(s)
Edward Garboczi, Ann Debay, Somen Baidya, Ahmed M. Hassan, Andrew Sharits, Jay D. Goguen, Thomas Lafarge, Mikolas Melius
Shape is a critical property, besides size and material composition, which has a strong effect on the optical scattering characteristics of a particle. In this work, we computationally study how the measured three-dimensional shapes of lunar regolith

Grand Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research Series: Ridding the Cold Chain for Biologics

February 8, 2021
Author(s)
Yihua B. Yu, Katharine T. Briggs, Marc B. Taraban, Robert Brinson, John Marino
Biologics are complex pharmaceuticals that include formulated proteins, plasma products, vaccines, cell and gene therapy products, and biological tissues. These products are fragile and typically require cold chain for their delivery and storage
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