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Grain Moisture Meter Test Methods and Tolerances

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Gloria D. Lee
Due to the significant economic impact of each grain moisture meter and the importance of applying correct test methods and tolerances, this article has been written to answer recent inquires regarding using the two test methods in NIST Handbook 44

Inter-laboratory study approach to validate the performance of a prototype reference material for product emissions testing

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Cynthia H. Reed, Andrew K. Persily, Zhe Liu, Steve Cox, John Little, Wolfgang Horn, Olaf Wilke, Katharina Wiegner
Product emissions chamber testing involves a complex protocol with several sources of measurement uncertainty (ASTM, 2010; ISO, 2006). Despite the potential for significant variability in measurement results within and among laboratories, there is no

Low Vibration Sensitivity Fiber Spools for Laser Stabilization

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Archita Hati, T Li, B. Argence, A. Haboucha, H. Jiang, J. L. Dornaus, D Kone, A. Clairon, P. Lemonde, G. Santarelli, Craig W. Nelson, E. Burt
Mechanical vibration induced frequency noise is dominated at low Fourier frequencies in a fiber spool stabilized laser. Environmental vibration causes mechanical deformations in the fiber which induce phase fluctuations and then convert into excess

Neutron Charged Radius and the Neutron Electric Form Factor

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas R. Gentile, C.B. Crawford
For nearly forty years, the Galster parametrization has successfully fit existing data for the neutron electric form factor, GEn,vs. the square of the four-momentum transfer, Q^2. Typically this parametrization is constrained to be consistent with

On The Magnitude of Random Telegraph Noise in Ultra-Scaled MOSFETs

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Kin P. Cheung, Jason P. Campbell
Random telegraph noise (RTN) has been shown to be a more severe scaling issue than the Random Dopant Effect (RDE). However this observation relies heavily on studies which focus only on threshold voltage (VTH) fluctuations. VTH measurements make separation

Relationship between Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Ranging Patterns in Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from Coastal Georgia, USA

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
John Kucklick, Brian C. Balmer, Lori Schwacke, Randall Wells, Clay George, Jennifer Hoguet, Suzanne Lane, Anthony Martinez, William McLellan, Patricia Rosel, T K. Rowles, Kate Sparks, Todd Speakman, Eric Zolman, D A. Pabst
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are apex predators and common in coastal southeastern U.S. waters; as such they are indicators of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in coastal ecosystems. The concentrations of POPs and patterns of specific

SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING INDICATOR REPOSITORY

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Prabir Sarkar, Che B. Joung, John Carrell
Sustainable manufacturing promotes manufacturing processes that minimize environmental and social impacts while maintaining economic benefits. To achieve this, manufacturers seek metrics and measurement methods to enable them to track the progress and

Characterization of high-purity, pulsed squeezed light at telecom wavelengths from pp-KTP for quantum information applications

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Burm Baek, Martin J. Stevens, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Robert Hadfield, Ryan Bennink, Warren Grice, Sander N. Dorenbos, Tony Zijlstra, Teun Klapwijk, Val Zwiller
We characterize a pp-KTP crystal designed to produce pure single mode squeezed vacuum at 1570 nm. Measurements show Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with 97% visibility and a circular joint spectral distribution with a Schmidt number of 1.08.

Characterization of the First Order Nonlinear Stiffened Elasticity of the Piezoelectric Layer in Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Juan C. Collado Gomez, Eduard Rocas, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, James C. Booth, Alberto Padillo, Juan Callaghan
This work proposes a procedure to characterize the intrinsic nonlinearities of bulk acoustic wave resonators by performing one port measurements of the second harmonic and second order intermodulation spurious signals. Closed-form expressions have been

DEoptim: An R Package for Global Optimization by Differential Evolution

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Katharine M. Mullen, David Ardia , David L. Gil, Donald A. Windover, James P. Cline
This article describes the R package DEoptim which implements the differential evolution algorithm for the global optimization of a real-valued function of a real-valued parameter vector. The implementation of differential evolution in DEoptim interfaces

Dual comb spectroscopy from 1.25 to 1.7 ym

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Alexander M. Zolot, Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
A coherent dual comb spectrometer spanning much of the near infrared was constructed from broadened erbium fiber lasers. Gas phase water, methane and acetylene spectra were measured and characterized toward establishing new frequency standards.

Dual-comb based measurement of frequency agile lasers.

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
Properly stabilized, frequency combs form high accuracy references across much of the optical spectrum. Here we employ dual frequency combs to harness this accuracy for fast and high resolution measurements of swept CW sources.

Evaluation of Bias for Two Charpy Impact Machines Using the Same Instrumented Striker

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Christopher N. McCowan, Enrico Lucon, Raymond L. Santoyo
Two Charpy machines were used to test NIST verification specimens at three energy levels: low energy (≈ 15 J at -40°C), high energy (≈ 100 J at -40°C) and super-high energy (≈ 240 J at room temperature). The study evaluates the differences observed for the

Flexible Memristors Fabricated through Sol-Gel Hydrolysis

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Joseph L. Tedesco, Nadine Gergel-Hackett, Laurie Stephey, Andrew A. Herzing, Madelaine H. Hernandez, Joseph J. Kopanski, Christina A. Hacker, Curt A. Richter
Memristors were fabricated on flexible polyethylene terephthalate substrates consisting of an oxide film generated through hydrolysis of a spun-on sol-gel. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, spectroscopic ellipsometry, transmission electron microscopy, and

Multi-wavelength Pumping Technique for Up-conversion Single-photon Detectors

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Joshua Bienfang, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
We propose a multi-wavelength pumping technique to improve temporal resolution of up-conversion single-photon detectors. By using two-wavelength pumping we doubled the date rate of a quantum system beyond its original limitation.

Multigate Mesh Routing for Smart Grid Last Mile Communications

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi, Bin Hu
One of the most important issues in Smart Grid is to provide consumers with the knowledge of their energy usage, as well as allowing the utility to monitor and control the electric system components with real time status. This would require the design of a

Parahydrogen-enhanced zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance

May 1, 2011
Author(s)
Svenja A. Knappe, T. Theis, P. Ganssle, G Kervem, M Ledbetter, D Budker, A Pines, John E. Kitching
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful analytical tool for determination of molecular structure and function, with broad impact in biology, medicine, materials science, and fundamental research. Conventionally, NMR is performed in multiTesla
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