Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology articles from November 2000

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology archives from November 2000

Opto-Mechanical and Electronic Design of a Tunnel-Trap Si Radiometer.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... A transmission-type light-trap silicon radiometer has been developed to hold the NIST spectral power and irradiance responsivity scales between 406 nm and 920 nm. The device is built from replaceable input apertures and tightly packed...

External-Field Shifts of the [[blank].sup.199][Hg.sup.+] Optical Frequency Standard.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Frequency shifts of thc [[blank].sup.199][Hg.sup+] [5d.sup.10]6s [[blank].sup.2][S.sub.1/2] (F = 0, [M.sub.F] = 0) to [5d.sup.9] [6s.sup.2] [[blank].sup.2][D.sub.5/2] (F = 2, [M.sub.F] = 0) elcctric-quadrupolc transition at 282 nm due to...

Round Robin for Optical Fiber Bragg Grating Metrology.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... NIST has administered the first round robin of measurements for optical fiber Bragg gratings. We compared the measurement of center wavelength, bandwidth, isolation, minimum relative transmittance, and relative group delay among several...

Calibration of High-Resolution X-Ray Tomography With Atomic Force Microscopy.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Andrew R. Kalukin [1] Barry Winn [2] Yuxin Wang [3] For two-dimensional x-ray imaging of thin films, the technique of scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) has achieved imagcs with feature sizes as small as 40 nm in recent...

Accelerating Scientific Discovery Through Computation and Visualization.
November 1, 2000... The rate of scientific discovery can be accelerated through computation and visualization. This acceleration results from the synergy of expertise, computing tools, and hardware for enabling high performance computation, information science,...

Experimental Manufacture of Paper for War Maps.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Merle B. Shaw [1] Early in World War II, a new map paper was developed that greatly improved the quality and performance of war maps. The National Bureau of Standards cooperated in the development and, subsequently, determined by...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2000... Erratum: Comparison of the NIST and NPL Air Kerma Standards Used for X-Ray Measurements Between 10 kV and 80 kV Correct versions of Tables 11, 12, and 13 are printed in this Errata. [J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Volume 105,...

FIELD TESTING OF A FAULT DETECTION TOOL FOR AIR-HANDLING UNITS PERFORMED AT A LOCAL COLLEGE.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Modern buildings are being designed with increasingly sophisticated energy management and control systems (EMCS) that have seemingly limitless capabilities for monitoring and controlling the conditions in buildings. Nonetheless, building...

BACnet TESTING STANDARD BASED ON NIST RESEARCH APPROVED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.(Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks; National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... For many years the building industry has struggled with the problem of integrating control devices made by different manufacturers in order to optimize operations, improve safety, and reduce maintenance costs. A key step toward overcoming these...

NIST ASSISTS THE U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST measurements of fish screens for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) Water Resources Research Laboratory were instrumental in a recent study of the hydraulic performance of self-cleaning, Coanda-effect screens. These screens are used on...

INTERNATIONAL INTERLABORATORY TESTING ADVANCES MASS DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR SYNTHETIC POLYMERS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The quality of mass spectrometric measurements of mass distribution in synthetic polymers was assessed in a recent NIST report that described the results of an international interlaboratory comparison involving 21 laboratories. MALDI-MS, a...

QUASIELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING PROBES PROTEIN DYNAMICS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The function of a protein depends critically on its ability to adopt a specific structure. Remarkably a protein can fold efficiently to this native state from the unfolded states on physiological time scales. Understanding how this process...

INCREASED ACCURACY FOR PARTICLE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST scientists have obtained emissivity data that make possible more accurate measurements of the temperature of rapidly moving incandescent particles in thermal spray plumes. Thermal spray is used for many purposes, including deposition...

NEW TEXTURE MEASUREMENT SOFTWARE NOW AVAILABLE ON WEB.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Many components and devices are fabricated from materials that have a preferred crystallographic orientation or texture. The properties and performance of these components and devices can be highly dependent upon the texture. For example,...

PRECISION ION-BEAM CUTTING FOR SEM SAMPLES.(scanning electron microscopy)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... In cooperation with the Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science in Budapest, Hungary, the capabilities of a new, extremely low energy ion gun for precision ion-beam cutting or slope milling of scanning electron microscopy...

[M.sup.3] IMAGES CRYSTAL LATTICE.(Molecular Measuring Machine)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... For the first time, the Molecular Measuring Machine ([M.sup.3]) probe has successfully resolved the periodicity of a crystal lattice. The crystal that was imaged is an organic, electrically conductive crystal called (TEET)...

TECHNIQUE DEVELOPED FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF PHOTOSENSITIVE GLASS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Ultraviolet light can induce a permanent change in the refractive index of a glass material. While this UV photosensitivity has a detrimental effect on photolithography optics, it is very useful in fabricating integrated optic and fiber Bragg...

EmiT EXPERIMENT IMPROVES LIMIT ON TIME-REVERSAL VIOLATION.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A collaboration between NIST researchers and researchers from six other institutions performed an experiment that improved the limit on the time reversal violating coefficient "D" in neutron beta-decay. The Standard Model of particle physics...

OPTICAL THERMOMETRY MEASUREMENTS FOR IMPROVED "LASER RAZOR" TECHNIQUES.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Lasers have been used in cosmetic procedures for several years, with applications from dermatological resurfacing to hair removal procedures, with varying degrees of patient comfort. In an effort to improve cosmetic procedures, researchers from...

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY MODELS OF HYDROCARBON CHAINS TESTED.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Computational chemistry is increasingly being used to model complex molecular systems to aid the development of new pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and materials. The ability of computational chemistry to contribute to these design efforts is...

JOINT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-NIST PROJECT PROVIDES DETAILS ON EFFICIENCY OF LASER PLASMA EUV SOURCE.(extreme ultraviolet)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is a promising candidate as the next-generation patterning tool for microelectronics. A large effort to develop this tool has been under way for several years by a team at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore...

MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... In August 2000, NIST hosted a workshop aimed at defining the critical technical directions and challenges in measuring the performance of intelligent systems. Although the terms "intelligent systems" and "intelligent control" are used...

RAWCON2000 LEADS INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO WIRELESS.(Radio and Wireless Conference )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The 2000 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON2000), co-sponsored by NIST for the fifth time, again brought a large multinational crowd to Denver, CO in September 2000. RAWCON continued to forge new ground in the interdisciplinary...

WORKSHOP CONCLUDES THAT REFERENCE DATA AND REFERENCE MATERIALS ARE NEEDED FOR BIOMATERIALS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Needs for reference data and biomaterials were identified at a NIST organized workshop held in July 2000. The 65 registrants from industry, National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, and academia joined with NIST staff in six...

ELECTRIC FORCE MICROSCOPY WITH A SINGLE CARBON NANOTUBE PROBE TIP.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A NIST scientist and collaborators in Japan and Taiwan have realized significant improvements in the performance and sensitivity of electric force microscopy for nanoelectronic device characterization. These improvements were accomplished by...

STEP PART 28 WORKSHOP HELD AT NIST.(Standard for the Exchange of Product model data)(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Technical experts from the United States and Europe met at NIST in August 2000 to review the latest draft of Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP) Part 28, the XML (Extensible Markup Language) Representation of EXPRESS Schemas...

NIST HELPING THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY SPEAK A COMMON LANGUAGE.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... At industry's request, NIST hosted an implementers workshop on e-dictionaries for the electronics industry in September 2000. As the electronics industry moves to electronic commerce of components and larger subsystems (e.g., printed circuit...

NEW NIST MONOGRAPH OF SPECTRAL DATA FOR HIGHLY IONIZED ATOMS.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Comprehensive tables of the spectra of numerous highly ionized heavy atoms have been published as a new monograph associated with the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data. The monograph will be a valuable resource for fusion energy...

NIST CO-SPONSORS THIRD ANNUAL ELECTRONIC BOOK CONFERENCE.
November 1, 2000... In September 2000, NIST and the National Information Standards Organization co-sponsored the Electronic Book 2000 Conference in Washington, DC. Attended by more than 850 representatives of all segments of the emerging e-book industry, the...

NIST HOSTS BIOMETRIC CONFERENCE.
November 1, 2000... In September 2000, NIST hosted the Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference (BC2000). With an attendance of more than 600 people, the conference brought together executives of private industry and government officials as well as users and...

NIST HOSTS MICROMAGNETIC SOFTWARE WORKSHOP.(national Institute of Standards and Technology)
November 1, 2000... In August 2000, more than a dozen users of micromagnetic software developed at NIST gathered at the computing facilities of NIST's Center for Computational and Theoretical Materials Science for a 1 day workshop. NIST researchers led the...

NIST HELPS MANUFACTURERS PREPARE FOR CONVERSION TO LEAD-FREE SOLDER.(national Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... U.S. electronics companies are facing the challenge of using an alternative to lead-tin solder in manufacturing. Japan and the European Union have issued a ban on lead in electronic equipment, which is scheduled to take effect in the next few...

COLLABORATION TO YIELD BIG DIVIDENDS TO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Research contributions to the construction industry's high-tech drive to reduce delivery time and life-cycle costs for industrial facilities are expected to pay big dividends in 2005. According to a study by NIST economists, the past,...

NEW MEASUREMENT SERVICE FOR RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE OF LASERS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... The demand for greater bandwidth in optical fiber communications has led to the development of laser transmitters and optical amplifiers with very low intensity noise. Transmitter noise is often specified by its relative intensity noise, which...

NATIONAL STANDARDS STRATEGY APPROVED.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A newly minted National Standards Strategy aims to strengthen U.S. participation in global standards-setting activities that influence access to export markets and to ensure that domestic health, safety, environmental and consumer needs...

ARE YOU KEEPING PACE WITH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY?(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Globalization is a fact of life. Succeeding in the global economy is not such a sure bet. A survey confirmed that a majority of American chief executive officers recognize that they must strengthen their international strategies and...

AERONAUTICS FIRM GETS IN STEP WITH STREAMLINED DATA EXCHANGE.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... STEP (also known as ISO 10303), the global Standard for the Exchange of Product model data, got another rousing endorsement from an industry leader when it initiated full production use of the standard for technical data exchange with its...

IMPROVED "VISION USING SOUND" SYSTEM WINS R&D 100 HONOR.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... An inexpensive acoustic wave transducer developed by NIST mechanical engineers has been selected as one of the top 100 technologies for the year 2000 by Research and Development Magazine. The device, known as the lensless line-focus broadband...

NIST PIONEERS THE USE OF IMAGE PLATES FOR FAR UV SPECTROSCOPY.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Researchers at NIST have demonstrated the effectiveness of photostimulable image plates for recording spectra in the far ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Although image plates have been used for higher energy applications...

NEW STANDARD FOR STAB-RESISTANT BODY ARMOR.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST recently completed a performance standard for stab-resistant body armor. This work was the culmination of a multiyear collaborative effort with the Police Scientific Development Branch in the United Kingdom. The standard was delivered to...

NIST DISPLAY METROLOGY HELPS MAYO CLINIC SCOTTSDALE SAVE $1.5 MILLION PER YEAR.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST has developed the measurement technology required to characterize flat-panel displays, including such properties as contrast ratio, reflection, and colorimetry, and is extending these techniques to emerging display technologies. Many of...

NIST AUTHORS CONTRIBUTE TO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPUTER SCIENCE.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The recently published Fourth Edition of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science contains articles by three NIST contributors. The encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work on computers, computing, and computer science. The article on...

STUDY OF VIDEO CAMERA-BASED METROLOGY WILL DETERMINE NATURE OF MEASUREMENT ERRORS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST researchers are carrying out a study of video camera geometry effects that limit the accuracy of video-based dimensional measurements. These effects are investigated by scanning a small, 5 [micro]m diameter spot of light across the camera...

SHORT NAMES REGISTRY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SUCCESS STORY.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST has turned over maintenance of the ISO TC184/SC4 Short Names Registry to a vendor of software tools based on the ISO STEP standard (ISO 10303). The Registry is a software environment for maintaining a database of short names for each of...

SURF ATTAINS RECORD OPERATING ENERGY AND BEAM CURRENTS.(Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... The NIST Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility, SURF III, is an electron storage ring that provides the Nations primary standard for source-based optical radiometry. SURF uses a relativistic electron beam, confined by a magnetic field to a...

COLD CESIUM MYSTERIES SOLVED BY NIST.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Researchers at NIST have solved a long-standing problem by constructing a quantitative model of collisions of ultracold cesium atoms. Atomic cesium is an important species that has been utilized in numerous cooling and trapping experiments; for...

NANOSCALE PHYSICS LABORATORY COMES ONLINE.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A new nanoscale physics laboratory was recently commissioned by NIST researchers to support the development of new measurement methods for future nanotechnologies. This laboratory establishes a new state-of-the-art for nanostructure fabrication...

IMPROVED SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE SCALE OFFERED BY NIST.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Researchers at NIST recently achieved realization of the NIST detector-based spectral irradiance scale using a high-temperature blackbody (HTBB) operated at 2950 K, with the temperature determined using absolute detectors calibrated for...

FIRST MEASUREMENTS OF AC-COUPLED JOSEPHSON WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... NIST researchers have completed preliminary rms voltage measurements of the Josephson waveform synthesizer when it is biased using a new ac-coupled technique. AC coupling allows us to use distributed arrays of more than 4000 junctions that have...

NIST COLLABORATION USES MICROGRAVITY TO IMPROVE PROTEIN CRYSTAL GROWTH.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... NIST scientists are collaborating with a private company in the growth of ribonuclease crystals in space. X-ray diffraction topography, which has only recently been applied to protein crystals, was used to probe the differences between crystals...

DATABASE ON LEAD-FREE SOLDERS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST is working with the Colorado School of Mines and the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI) to expand a database on the properties of lead-free solders. With product cycle time being slashed to keep up with consumer demand...

REFERENCE BIOMATERIAL FOR ORTHOPEDIC RESEARCH.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Reference Material (RM) 8456, an orthopedic grade Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE), became available in October 2000. RM 8456 is intended primarily for use in mechanical characterization of material properties and...

NIST CO-SPONSORED EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REFERENCE MATERIALS (BERM-8).
November 1, 2000... NIST co-sponsored the "Eighth Symposium on Biological and Environmental Reference Materials" held in September 2000, at the Natcher Conference Center, NIH in Bethesda, MD. The symposium theme was "Reference Materials for the 21st Century" and...

NTEP TRANSFERRED TO NCWM, INC.(National Type Evaluation Program; National Conference on Weights and Measures)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... On Oct. 1, 2000, NIST transferred the administration and management of the National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP) to NCWM, Inc., the organization that manages the National Conference on Weights and Measures. The transfer was smooth with...

IUPAC SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES MEETING AT NIST (BOULDER).
November 1, 2000... The Subcommittee on Transport Properties of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) held its annual meeting in June 2000, at NIST (Boulder, CO). Several standard reference projects were declared completed during the...

THIRD ANNUAL NIST ELECTRONIC BOOK 2000 CONFERENCE OPENS NEW CHAPTER TO DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) STANDARDS.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A host of new reading devices, new publishing technologies, new business models, and new interest over electronic book file security made their appearance at the NIST/NISO "Electronic Book 2000: Changing the Fundamentals of Reading,"...

NIST CO-SPONSORS 23RD NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY CONFERENCE.
November 1, 2000... In October 2000, NIST and the National Security Agency (NSA) co-sponsored the annual National Information System Security Conference (NISSC) in Baltimore, MD. As a leading global forum on computer and information systems security, the...

NIST SPONSORS MODES OF OPERATION WORKSHOP.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... In October 2000, NIST sponsored a workshop to discuss modes of operation for the proposed Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The workshop, held in Baltimore, MD, followed the 23rd National Information Systems Security Conference. A...

SEALANT DURABILITY WORKSHOP.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... In September 2000, a Sealant Durability workshop was held as part of the Partnership in Advancing Technologies for Housing (PATH) activities at NIST. Nineteen sealant companies, representing over 90 % of the sealant manufacturers, along with...

SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICAL FIBER MEASUREMENTS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Attendance at the 11th biennial Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements (SOFM), held in September 2000 at the Boulder Laboratories, was over 300, up 65 % from the previous symposium. Eighteen countries were represented. The symposium is one of...

BELGIAN FORMULA WINS COMPETITION TO BECOME ENCRYPTION STANDARD.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST has named the Rijndael (pronounced Rhine-doll) data encryption formula as its choice for the nation's proposed new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The selection caps a 3 year international competition organized to develop a strong...

NEW READER SOON MAY GIVE THE BLIND ACCESS TO E-BOOKS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST recently unveiled the second generation of a device that soon may bring the benefits of electronic books to the blind. The NIST Braille reader, which transforms the text of e-books into the patterns of raised dots used by sightless...

STATE-OF-THE-ART LAB UNDER CONSTRUCTION.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... NIST has awarded the $174 million contract to construct one of the most technologically advanced buildings in the world, the NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory, in Gaithersburg, MD. When it is ready for occupancy in 2004, the 47 480...

NEW CALIBRATION SERVICE FOR HIGH-POWER LASER DETECTORS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Who says NIST doesn't make house calls? In an innovative way to calibrate high-power laser detectors, NIST has devised a measurement system that can utilize a company's laser on location at the work site. Multi-kilowatt high-power lasers...

SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICAL FIBER MEASUREMENTS CHRONICLED.
November 1, 2000... Persons interested in metrology for fiber-optic telecommunication will want to get a copy of the Technical Digest, Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements, 2000. The 20th annual symposium was held in September 2000, at the NIST Laboratories in...

DEBUT SET FOR COMPLEX COMPUTING "ALL FOR ONE" STANDARD.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Scientists and engineers who have to make extremely complex calculations favor a computing approach known as parallel processing. Parallel processing is a way to break up a computing problem into pieces that various processors--the "brains"...

COOL SITE YIELDS HOT DATA ON HEAT TRANSMISSION.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... For what purpose would NIST researchers use a 1 m diameter hot plate? If you guessed, "to heat up a mighty big pot of coffee," you're wrong. However, data derived from this device and previous hot plates have helped make the daily life of...

REFINED PROCEDURES IMPROVE REFRIGERATION PROPERTIES RESEARCH.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Damage to the Earth's ozone layer caused by use of chiorofluorocarbons has prompted an international effort to measure and correlate the thermophysical properties of alternative refrigerant fluids such as hydrochloro-fluorocarbons and...

ATOMIC CLOCK AMONG POPULAR SCIENCE'S "BEST OF WHAT'S NEW".
November 1, 2000... The editors of Popular Science reviewed thousands of recent products and technology developments before selecting 100 of them for inclusion in their 13th annual "Best of What's New" list in the December 2000 issue. One of the awards goes to the...

"FULL OF HOT AIR" TAKES ON NEW MEANING AT NIST.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Atmospheric air is a mixture of fluids including nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other trace elements. That's more than most of us need to know, but for others--including researchers and staff at liquefaction...

WR-22 NOISE-TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SERVICE OPENED.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... NIST has completed construction and verification of a new radiometer system for measuring the noise temperature of sources with WR-22 waveguide flanges. The system offers continuous frequency coverage of the 40 GHz to 50 GHz portion of the...

NIST TRANSFERS NEW POLYMER STRUCTURE ANALYSIS METHOD TO INDUSTRY.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A new method, developed by NIST for determining the molecular architecture of polymers was transferred successfully to a private company. The transfer was facilitated by a recently completed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement...

FEDERAL CIO COUNCIL PROMOTES NIST GUIDELINES TO FEDERAL AGENCIES.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council recently issued a memorandum to federal agency CIOs encouraging agencies to take advantage of a new guidance document published by NIST. NIST Special Publication 800-23, Guidelines to Federal...

NIST'S CRYPTOGRAPHIC MODULE VALIDATION PROGRAM ADDS FIFTH TESTING LABORATORY.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) achieved another milestone by adding a fifth National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) accredited laboratory. The five CMVP laboratories test cryptographic modules to the...

LIMITATIONS DETERMINED IN "NOSE-TO-NOSE" IMPULSE RESPONSE METHOD.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST researchers have determined certain limitations on the nose-to-nose technique for characterizing the impulse response of diode-bridge type, high-frequency samplers used in certain commercial 20 GHz and 50 GHz (3 dB bandwidth)...

RARE-EARTH DOPING USED TO CONTROL HIGH-SPEED DYNAMICS OF MAGNETIC DATA STORAGE COMPONENTS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST staff have explored the use of rare-earth dopants to control the high-speed dynamics in magnetic thin films used in magnetic recording heads and magnetic random access memory (MRAM). They discovered that a few percent of Tb dopants in...

NIJ GUIDE 100-00 "GUIDE FOR THE SELECTION OF CHEMICAL AGENT AND TOXIC INDUSTRIAL MATERIAL DETECTION EQUIPMENT FOR EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDERS".(National Institute of Justice)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST developed this guide through an interagency agreement with the Chemical and Biological Information Analysis Center of the Department of Defense. The guide, which was released in October 2000 by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is...

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPES.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A prototype Java-based tool has been developed for authoring and browsing taxonomies and ontologies of information. The tool has been developed as part of the NIST Design Repository Project, but functions in a completely stand-alone mode. The...

NEW NIST MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES FOR SUBMILLIMETER HOLES.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Dimensions of small holes play a critical role in a wide range of technologies, from fiber-optic connectors to fuel injectors. In the past, researchers have been unable to measure small features such as the inner diameter of a submillimeter...

SUCCESSFUL ISEMATECH/NIST EXPERIMENT WITH "SHARP-TIP" EMITTERS USED IN CD-SEM.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The value of nano-tips as replacement electron sources in production field emission critical dimension scanning electron microscopes (CD-SEMs) is being explored in a two-part study for ISEMATECH. In the first part of the work, an intermediate...

NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF CABLES.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Cables formed by twisting steel wires together to form a flexible rope with high-strength properties are found throughout industry. However, the nondestructive detection of internal flaws such as cracks or corrosion in the innermost wires is...

NEW X-RAY IMAGING TECHNIQUE REVEALS CRYSTAL DEFECTS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The deformation of metals takes place primarily by the motion and interaction of defects in the crystal structure known as dislocations. Quantitative understanding of this deformation, needed for modeling of metal-forming processes, has been...

NCNR SETS THE STANDARD FOR QUANTITATIVE PHASE ANALYSIS.(National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Personnel from the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) recently participated in an international round-robin on the use of diffraction techniques for the quantification of phase abundance in multiphase mixtures. This type of analysis is...

NIST MAPS ENERGY LEVELS OF FIRST ION OF MERCURY.(Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NIST scientists have succeeded in creating an extensive map of the electronic energy levels of the singly-ionized mercury atom, [Hg.sup.+]. The wavelengths and levels determined in this work are important for many applications, including space...