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On Digital Signal Processing of Time Series for Spectrum Estimation

September 11, 2024
Author(s)
Dazhen Gu, Jake Rezac, Xifeng Lu, Dan Kuester
We present a study of power spectral density (PSD) estimation from data sampled in the time domain. This work was motivated by our recent development of digital radiometry, where radiation spectra were obtained by processing the digitally sampled signal

Traceable RF Power Metering Procedures With Thermoelectric Sensors

September 4, 2024
Author(s)
Zenn Roberts, Aaron Hagerstrom, Cole Gray, Angela Stelson, Vincent Neylon, Christian Long
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the United State's primary standards for traceable RF and mm-wave power measurements. These measurements require special sensors that carry no active electronics, and that have operating

Using Commercial Source Measure Units for Traceable RF Power Measurements

September 4, 2024
Author(s)
Cole Gray, Aaron Hagerstrom, Zenn Roberts, Christian Long
Abstract—As a National Metrology Institute (NMI), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains traceable measurement capabilities for a variety of quantities, including microwave power. At NMIs and calibration laboratories, traceable

Dual-Frequency-Bias Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard Circuit Design

August 30, 2024
Author(s)
Alain Rufenacht, Anna Fox, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz
This paper presents a new 2 V programmable Josephson voltage standard circuit with dual microwave frequency input. This design provides three main features: (1) output voltages with nanovolt resolution, (2) the ability to perform a microwave frequency self

Demonstrating Broadside-Coupled Coplanar Waveguide Interconnects to 325 GHz

August 15, 2024
Author(s)
Nicholas Jungwirth, Bryan Bosworth, Aaron Hagerstrom, Meagan Papac, Eric Marksz, JEROME CHERON, Kassiopeia Smith, Angela Stelson, Ari Feldman, Dylan Williams, Nathan Orloff, Christian Long
State-of-the-art integrated circuits leverage dissimilar materials to optimize system performance. Such heterogeneous integration often involves multiple chips electrically coupled to one another via bump bonds or wire-bond interconnects. While these

NIST Special Publication 376, Metric Ruler

August 8, 2024
Author(s)
Elizabeth Benham, Kristen Dill
NIST SP 376, Metric Ruler is an educational tool designed to teach the International System of Units (SI) length measurements. The design includes approximate scales of 300 mm and 30 cm. One edge is graduated in centimeters by alternating solid markings in

Metric Conversion Card

August 2, 2024
Author(s)
Elizabeth Benham, Kristen Dill
NIST SP 365, Metric Conversion Card is a laminated wallet size card includes an 8 cm and 80 mm ruler with approximate unit conversion factors between common International System of Units (SI) and U.S. customary measurement units for length, area, mass

Far-UVC: The impact of optical filters on real-world deployment

July 20, 2024
Author(s)
C Cameron Miller, Ewan Eadie, Paul O'Mahoney, Sally Ibbotson, Kenneth Wood
In 2015, a study showed that Krypton-Chloride (KrCl) excimer lamps could induce erythema and basal layer DNA damage in human skin. Later studies found that filtering out longer wavelength emissions from these lamps resulted in no acute skin effects

The Need for Reproducible Research in Soft Robotics

July 16, 2024
Author(s)
Andrew Spielberg, Jeremy Marvel, Dylan Shah, Jennifer Case, Robert Baines
To avoid facing a reproducibility crisis that will undermine the recent rapid pace of research and hamper widespread adoption, the field of soft robotics needs to establish best practices and uphold rigorous reporting.

Test Facility for Pressure Losses in Plumbing Pipes and Fittings

July 15, 2024
Author(s)
Lingnan Lin, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Glen A. Glaeser
This report describes a new test facility at NIST for the measurement of pressure losses in pipes and fittings used in plumbing systems. Pressure losses are fundamental inputs to the design of premise plumbing systems, yet the available technical data on

A unified model of core metrological concepts

July 10, 2024
Author(s)
David W. Flater, Raghu N. Kacker, Douglas Foxvog
The definitions of core metrological terms, especially quantity, quantity value, and unit, have been the subject of years of wrangling in standards organizations. A chronic disagreement exists over whether quantities are conceptualized primarily as

Redetermination of the Gravitational Constant using the BIPM Torsion Balance

July 8, 2024
Author(s)
Stephan Schlamminger, Leon Chao, David B. Newell, Vincent Lee, Clive Speake
For the past several years, we have been using the torsion balance developed at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) to measure the gravitational constant $G$. The most notable feature of the apparatus is that it allows the measurement of

Entanglement kinetics in polymer melts are chemically specific

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Benjamin Dolata
We investigate the universality of entanglement kinetics in polymer melts. We compare predictions of a recently developed constitutive equation for disentanglement to molecular dynamics simulations of both united-atom polyethylene and Kremer-Grest models

Flexures for Kibble balances: Minimizing the effects of anelastic relaxation

July 1, 2024
Author(s)
Lorenz Keck, Stephan Schlamminger, Rene Theska, Frank Seifert, Darine El Haddad
Modern weighing cells would not be possible without flexure technology. Flexures are thin metal strips that form pivots, and they can be engineered to bend in a prescribed fashion, producing a desired restoring torque. In contrast to other pivots, flexures

A Distributed Theory for Contactless Interconnects at Terahertz Frequencies

June 25, 2024
Author(s)
Nicholas Jungwirth, Bryan Bosworth, Aaron Hagerstrom, Meagan Papac, Eric Marksz, JEROME CHERON, Kassiopeia Smith, Angela Stelson, Ari Feldman, Dylan Williams, Nathan Orloff, Christian Long
Here we test a multimodal model for distributed contactless interconnects by comparing it to 3D full-wave simulations. In comparison to 3D simulations, the model offers insight into how the interconnect works and reduces the computational cost of

New Method to Probe the Surface Properties of Polymer Thin Films by Two-Dimensional (2D) Inverse Gas Chromatography (iGC)

June 25, 2024
Author(s)
Whirang Cho, Lucas Flagg, Christopher Stafford, Jeremiah Woodcock, Daniel Burnett, Anett Kondor, Douglas Fox, John Hoffmann
Polymer-based functional surface coatings are extensively used in advanced technologies, including optics, energy, and environmental applications. Surface thermodynamic properties profoundly impact the molecular interactions that control interfacial

A proposal to change the leap-second adjustments to UTC

June 3, 2024
Author(s)
Judah Levine, Patrizia TAVELLA
The definition of UTC in 1972 balanced the needs of the time and frequency community for a universal time scale that was traceable to the definition of frequency in the SI system of units with the needs of the astronomical community for a time scale that
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