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Bilateral NMI Comparison of Guarded-Hot-Plate Apparatus

April 27, 2014
Author(s)
Alain Koenen, Robert R. Zarr, William F. Guthrie
… from France and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States present measurements … West Lafayette, IN, US …

Performance Testing and Evaluation of Transformative Apps Devices

April 16, 2014
Author(s)
Anthony J. Downs, Lisa J. Fronczek, Emile L. Morse, Brian A. Weiss, Ian P. Bashor, Craig I. Schlenoff
… A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is responsible for designing and … by the NIST team for comparing AndroidTM-powered devices in consideration of becoming future TransApps devices. These … these test methods allow the program to be more informed in the purchasing decisions for future TransApps devices. …

Building Better Search Engines by Measuring Search Quality

March 3, 2014
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Paul D. Over, Ian Soboroff
… to return video clips based on the actions recorded in the clip rather than file names and donor tags. Search … REtrieval Conference (TREC) project has been instrumental in creating the necessary infrastructure to measure the … and has thus helped fuel the recent ex- plosive growth in search-related technologies. …

Pressure-Sensitive Sampling Wands for Homeland Security Applications

December 1, 2013
Author(s)
Matthew E. Staymates, Jennifer R. Verkouteren, Jessica Grandner
… This work discusses the use of Force Sensing Resistor (FSR) technology for Homeland Security applications. One area of … purposes, and new prototype sampling wands that fit in the palm of the hand. …

PDR: A Prevention, Detection and Response Mechanism for Anomalies in Energy Control Systems

October 30, 2013
Author(s)
Maria C. Alcaraz, Meltem Sonmez Turan
… issues, there is still a particular lack of investigation in these areas, and in particular in dynamic and automatic proactive solutions. In this paper … Information Infrastructures Security (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) … Prevention, Detection and Response Mechanism for Anomalies in Energy Control Systems …

An atomic clock with 10 -18 instability

September 13, 2013
Author(s)
Andrew D. Ludlow, Nathan M. Hinkley, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Nate B. Phillips, Marco Schioppo, Nathan D. Lemke, Kyle P. Beloy, M Pizzocaro, Christopher W. Oates
… Atomic clocks have been transformational in science and technology, leading to innovations such as … have long aspired toward measurement precision at 1 part in 10 18 . This milestone will enable a second revolution of …

Model Based Enterprise Technical Data Package Requirements

August 20, 2013
Author(s)
Simon P. Frechette, Paul J. Huang
… of Defense and the National Institute of Standards and Technology held a Model Based Enterprise Summit and Technical Data Package (TDP) Workshop December 15-17, 2009 in Gaithersburg, MD. The TDP workshop gathered subject matter …

Metrology for Lab-on-a-Chip Final-Product Devices

May 12, 2013
Author(s)
Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez, Michael W. Halter, Jeeseong Hwang
… to measure the critical parameters of internal structures in lab on a chip devices are greatly needed in order to develop standard tests for this technology. Here we present a method that combines a custom …

Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with a Spin-Orbit Qubit

October 17, 2012
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Karl Petersson, L. McFaul, M. Schroer, M. Jung, Andrew Houck, Jason Petta
… quality factor superconducting cavity. A charge trapped in the double quantum dot interacts with the electric field of the cavity, resulting in a large vacuum Rabi frequency of ~ 35 MHz. We drive single … dipole spin resonance and demonstrate that photons trapped in the cavity are sensitive to single spin dynamics, allowing …

Concrete rheometers

May 1, 2012
Author(s)
Chiara F. Ferraris, Nicos Martys
… The scope of this chapter is to introduce the current technology for measuring the rheological properties of … or assess the flow properties of concrete has resulted in the invention or design and standardization of hundreds of … comprehensive list of these tests methods can be found in the ACI 238 document [ ]. These tests can be roughly …

Two Dimensional (2D) Nanomembranes: Can They Outperform Lower Dimension Nanocrystals?

March 13, 2012
Author(s)
Babak Nikoobakht, Xiuling Li
… and one-dimension (1D) nanocrystals, are still present in most nanomembranes rendering their use more probable in practical applications. These advantages make them strong … highlights an important progress by Wang et al. in large scale fabrication of free-standing nanomembranes …

Nanofibers for RF and Beyond

December 1, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas M. Wallis, Kichul Kim, Pavel Kabos, Dejan Filipovic
… In order to realize new interconnect concepts based on … is required. Given the clock-speeds of integrated circuits in the present as well as the foreseeable future, this … metrology must be compatible with radio frequencies (RF). In addition it is also highly desirable to extract the …

A Polyimide Micro Heat Exchanger With a Suspended 3D Parallel Channel Structure for Cryogenic Application

November 11, 2011
Author(s)
Yunda Wang, Ryan J. Lewis, Mu Hong Lin, Yiwei Yan, Ray Radebaugh, Peter E. Bradley, Yung-Cheng Lee
… A heat exchanger (HX) plays an important role in many cryogenic systems. This paper demonstrates a fully … The fabrication is based on the surface micro-machining technology using electroplated copper as the sacrificial … flow-rate through it as assessed with standard nitrogen in room temperature. …

Nanoscale Focused Ion Beam from Laser-cooled Lithium Atoms

October 26, 2011
Author(s)
Brenton J. Knuffman, Adam V. Steele, Jon Orloff, Jabez J. McClelland
… To advance the capabilities of focused ion beam (FIB) technology, we have created a low-energy FIB from photoionized lithium atoms collected in a magneto-optical trap (MOT). This magneto-optical trap … the focal size as a function of temperature of atoms in the MOT and beam energy. …

Extending single-photon optimized superconducting transition edge sensors beyond the single-photon counting regime

September 19, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
… sensors (TES) are the cutting-edge enabling technology for high quantum efficiency photon number … with the goal of better uncertainties. An initial step in this direction would be to explore how far existing … it functions as a microcalorimeter and is therefore able, in principle, to measure optical powers from the …

Accurate Nanometer-Scale Imaging and Measurements with SEM

August 18, 2011
Author(s)
Bradley N. Damazo, Bin Ming, Premsagar P. Kavuri, Andras Vladar, Michael T. Postek
… Reference SEMs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These methods include: 1) very fast … oxygen plasma cleaning. These new methods can be applied in other SEMS as well to realize quantitative scanning …

A New Method for Evaluation of UNIFAC Interaction Parameters

July 1, 2011
Author(s)
Jeongwon Kang, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Joe W. Magee, Chris Muzny, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Andrei F. Kazakov, Michael D. Frenkel
… Center (TRC) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Using the proposed method, two sets of … method includes the use of evaluated uncertainties in measured/calculated variables and assessment of quality …

Five Grand Challenges in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics

June 6, 2011
Author(s)
Jason D. Averill
… This paper identifies five grand challenges in the multidisciplinary field of pedestrian and evacuation dynamics (PED). In order to maximize the ef-fectiveness of limited resources, … with fire hazard calculations, and (5) adoption of technology for people movement, data collection, and within …
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