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

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

INTERNET-ASSISTED REMOTE CALIBRATION DEMONSTRATED.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST has demonstrated an Internet-assisted calibration of an electronic instrument located at the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). This is the first example of a so-called "e-calibration" in the electrical area on a remote programmable...

NIST WATT BALANCE LIVES.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A NIST research team has reassembled the NIST watt balance experiment inside its newly decorated home and the reborn apparatus is showing the first signs of life. The upgraded facility includes vibration isolation, rf shielding, and, perhaps...

NEW TECHNIQUE FOR A HIGHER VOLTAGE AC JOSEPHSON STANDARD.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Achieving practical output voltages is one of the greatest challenges for the ac Josephson voltage standard, also known as the Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer. Researchers recently have demonstrated an ac coupling technique that...

NEW OFF-SITE HIGH-POWER LASER CALIBRATION CAPABILITY.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Multi-kilowatt high-power lasers are being used today for a wide variety of industrial applications, including materials processing, cutting, and welding. Although detectors used with these laser systems need measurement traceability, the high...

WORKSHOP HELD ON MOISTURE SENSORS FOR BUILDING ENVELOPES.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A workshop to discuss moisture sensing in building envelopes was held at NIST in July 2000. Researchers and industry representatives met to discuss many of the problems that exist in determining the moisture content of building materials and to...

SURF CONTINUES TO GROW.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program, had 52 students participating this year, an increase of 18% over 1999. Twenty-nine institutes of higher education participated in 2000, compared to 21 in 1999. The SURF programs...

NIST STAFF MEMBER CO-CHAIRS WORKING GROUP OF THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A NIST staff member recently was selected as co-chair of the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IETF is a large open international community of network designers,...

NIST WELL REPRESENTED AT THE ISO TC213 MEETING.(conference in Berlin, Germany)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Two NIST scientists represented NIST at the meeting of ISO Technical Committee (TC) 213 on Dimensional and Geometrical Product Specifications (GPS) and Verification and its component Working Groups (WGs), held in June 2000, in Berlin. This...

BEST PAPER.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Three NIST researchers received the Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group (ARFTG) Best Paper Award at the 55th ARFTG Conference held this past June. They were given this award for their paper "Equivalent Circuit Models for Coaxial OSLT...

NIST'S PADE FEATURED IN NEW BOOK ON BUILDING LINUX CLUSTERS.(Review)
September 1, 2000... NIST's Parallel Application Development Environment (PADE), a tool for developing parallel applications on a computer network, is featured in the new book: Building Linux Clusters, published in July 2000, by O'Reilly and Associates...

NIST'S SOFTWARE USABILITY PROGRAM GAINING INDUSTRY ATTENTION.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Recent articles in several publications highlighted two software usability products developed at NIST--NIST WebMetrics and the Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test Reporting. This signifies industry understanding of the importance of...

NIST PUBLISHES SEVENTH EDITION OF NATIONAL TYPE EVALUATION PROGRAM PUBLICATION.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST has published the seventh edition of National Conference on Weights and Measures Publication 14, National Type Evaluation Program Technical Policy, Checklists, and Test Procedures. Since 1984 NIST has administered the National Type...

NIST NOMINATES CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT BODIES (CABs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... In July 2000, NIST nominated 22 testing laboratories to the Canadian government to serve as CABs. All of the nominees have been accepted and confirmed by Industry Canada (IC). These CABs will provide test data responding to Canadian...

POTENTIAL ANTI-CANCER AGENT INVESTIGATED AT NIST.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST researchers are investigating liposome-encapsulated, alpha-emitting radionuclides for potential use in combating liver cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that there are about 15 300 new cases of liver cancer each year in the...

NIST MEASURES AN OPTICAL FREQUENCY IN A SINGLE MERCURY ION.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST staff members recently have reduced the uncertainty in the measurement of the 282 nm optical-clock transition of a single positive mercury ion by a factor of 1000. This transition and optical transitions in other ions are extremely...

NIST PIONEERS THE USE OF IMAGE PLATES FOR FAR UV SPECTROSCOPY.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST scientists have demonstrated the effectiveness of photostimulable image plates for recording spectra in the far ultraviolet region (5 nm to 60 nm) of the electromagnetic spectrum. Although image plates have been used for higher energy...

DAMAGE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS BY 157 nm EXCIMER IRRADIATION STUDIED BY NIST SCIENTISTS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Researchers at NIST have evaluated the stability of semiconductor diodes under irradiation from an excimer laser operating at 157 nm. This study provides important information about the mechanism responsible for the degradation of photodiodes...

STABLE VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE METER DEVELOPED BY NIST.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST scientists have constructed and characterized a probe that is suitable for making accurate measurements of irradiance in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral region. Many industrial applications such as semiconductor chip fabrication,...

NIST MEASURES THE DUV RESPONSIVITY OF GaN AND AlGaN PHOTODIODES FOR SOLAR-BLIND DETECTORS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from private industry, and the University of Minnesota, recently have measured the deep ultraviolet (DUV) responsivity of GaN and AlGaN photodiodes for use as solar-blind photodetectors. A...

NIST MEASURES THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS WITH ULTRASOUND.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Surface coatings are used throughout industry to give ordinary materials extraordinary resistance to wear and corrosion as well as to provide specialized electrical or magnetic properties for device applications. Knowledge of the elastic...

NCNR PUTS INTO OPERATION NEW PERFECT CRYSTAL DIFFRACTOMETER FOR ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION SANS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A perfect crystal diffractometer (PCD) for ultra-high resolution small-angle neutron scattering (USANS) measurements is now operational at NIST's Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). The PCD increases the maximum size of features accessible with...

NIST DEVELOPS TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING ROLES OF ADDITIVES IN SUPERCONFORMAL ELECTRODEPOSITION OF COPPER.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A multidisciplinary effort is under way at NIST to develop an understanding of superconformal electrodeposition of copper, which recently has been implemented for on chip interconnects. Future demands for high density of interconnects with very...

RANDOMNESS TESTS FOR RANDOM AND PSEUDORANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS USED IN CRYPTOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST has developed a suite of 16 tests to check the randomness of binary sequences produced by random or pseudo-random number generators that may be used for many purposes, including cryptographic, modeling, and simulation applications. The...

NEW NIST LATENT FINGERPRINT DATABASE RELEASED.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST, in conjunction with the FBI, has developed a new database of grayscale fingerprint images and corresponding minutiae data. NIST Special Database 27, "Fingerprint Minutiae from Latent and Matching Tenprint Images," contains latent...

NEW PAPER EXPLAINS CALIBRATION SERVICE FOR EXCIMER LASERS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Last year, NIST announced it had developed a new service to calibrate argon-fluoride excimer lasers for power and energy (go to the NIST Update archives under "News" on the NIST World Wide Web site--www.nist.gov--and click on the Oct. 12, 1999,...

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT KEEPS PARTNERS TRUE TO THEIR MISSION.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... MISSION--an international research project to develop and test "modeling and simulation environments for design, planning and operation of globally distributed enterprises"--moved a step closer to success when the three participating regions...

NEW PUBLICATION DISCUSSES COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN WELDING.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Persons interested in the use of computer technology in welding will want to get a new publication from NIST. Included in Ninth International Conference on Computer Technology in Welding are 39 printed manuscripts that were submitted to the...

NIST, ROBOTICS INDUSTRY SEEK A MORE "OPEN" RELATIONSHIP.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... While the term "open architecture" may make most of us think of a blueprint for a retractable-roof baseball sta-dium, it actually refers to an information technology system (software, hardware or a combination of both) that can be connected...

PROPOSALS SOUGHT FOR PRECISION MEASUREMENT GRANTS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST is seeking project proposals for two research grants for fiscal year 2002 in the field of precision measurement and fundamental constants. NIST Precision Measurement Grants are awarded each year to faculty members of U.S. universities or...

SOFTWARE EVALUATION EXPEDITES INCREDIBLE SHRINKING OF TRANSISTORS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Somehow, a name like Silicon Dioxide Valley simply would not have the same catchiness as Silicon Valley. But people who work on semiconductors know that silicon alone is not enough to keep the computer revolution going. Chip makers grow or...

NIST, GERMAN COUNTERPART TEAM TO DEVELOP REFERENCE MATERIALS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST and its German counterpart, Bundesanstalt Fur Materialforschung und-Prilfung (also known as BAM), have agreed to work together on the development of reference materials. This collaboration is aimed at the global harmonization of material...

NIST FORM-BASED HANDPRINT RECOGNITION SYSTEM.(Evaluation)
September 1, 2000... NIST has been distributing public-domain handprint recognition software since 1994. Release 2 of the NIST Form-Based Handprint Recognition System was made available in 1997, and since that time, over 700 copies have been shipped all around the...

NIST DEVELOPS MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES TO VALIDATE PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-PRECISION OPTICAL CURRENT TRANSFORMER (OCT).(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The use of OCTs by the electric power industry is growing as deregulation requires the industry to install increasing numbers of bulk metering equipment. OCTs are advantageous because of their lower price and significantly reduced insulation...

NIST EVALUATES RADIATION ACCIDENT BIODOSIMETRY.(National Institute of Standards and Technology will help in study of radiation health hazards coming a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST will assist in validating a dosimetric study of a large-scale radiation accident in the former Soviet Union. This study aims to better define the health effects of radiation exposure. From 1949 to 1956, the first Russian industrial...

NIST-DOE CALIBRATION COOPERATION LOWERS UNCERTAINTY FOR STEP GAGE CALIBRATION.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A NIST scientist, and the staff of the Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge Metrology Center have analyzed 5 years of measurements of their check standards and customer step gages and revised the error budget for the calibration. The...

NIST ANNOUNCES ACCREDITATION OF FOUR NIAP COMMON CRITERIA TESTING LABORATORIES (CCTLs) FOR IT SECURITY TESTING.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Under the auspices of the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), NIST and the National Security Agency announced the approval of the first four accredited IT security testing laboratories under the Common Criteria Evaluation and...

NIST AND S12 DEMO SOFTWARE FOR INTERNET-BASED QUICKVC IP EXCHANGE AT DAC.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST staff, along with the Silicon Integration Initiative (S12), demonstrated a new software tool NIST helped to develop at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2000 in Los Angeles, Calif. The QuickVC (Virtual Component) IP (Intellectual...

IMPROVED NIST WIDEBAND SAMPLING VOLTMETER TO CHARACTERIZE FAST PULSES.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The NIST wideband sampling voltmeter is a precision equivalent-time waveform digitizing instrument for making accurate measurements of repetitive signals ranging in frequency from 10 Hz to 200 MHz. A previous version is used to determine the...

IMPROVED OPTICAL FIBER POWER MEASUREMENT SERVICES AT NIST.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The optical fiber power measurement services provided by NIST have recently undergone substantial enhancement to better support the needs of the optical telecommunications industry and other users of optical fiber power meters. Absolute...

NEW MEASUREMENT SERVICES FOR RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE (RIN) OF LASERS.(Brief Article)
September 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 noise. The noise of a transmitter is often specified by its relative intensity noise, or RIN....

DETAILED SIMULATION OF SINGLE ELECTRON PUMP SUGGESTS A PATH TO FEWER ERRORS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A NIST researcher recently completed a theoretical analysis of errors in a seven-junction electron pump in the presence of a source of high-frequency photons. The electron pump is a critical component of the new SET-based capacitance standard...

SEMICONDUCTOR CHARACTERIZATION AND METROLOGY CONFERENCE AT NIST.
September 1, 2000... The 2000 International Conference on Characterization and Metrology for Ultra Large Scale Integration (ULSI) Technology was hosted by NIST in June 2000. The conference is the third in a series; the first was held at NIST in 1995 and the second...

NIST FIRE RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING FEATURED AT NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... In June 2000, Fire on the Web was demonstrated for more than 100 attendees at the Second Annual Fire & Emergency Services Higher Education conference held at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD. Conference attendees included educators...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING (ITEM 2000) CONFERENCE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST hosted the ITEM 2000 conference in June 2000, at NIST. Experts from industry and NIST were featured in six sessions and panel discussions designed to examine integration and interoperability problems facing manufacturers as they deploy...

NIST ADDRESSES NEED FOR SECURITY METRICS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... In June 2000, NIST and the Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board convened a workshop to discuss security metrics, the means by which IT security programs are measured. Focusing on unclassified systems, the workshop surveyed...

NIST SPONSORS 2000 NIST SPEAKER RECOGNITION EVALUATION WORKSHOP.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST organized and hosted the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Workshop in June 2000, in Linthicum, MD. The purpose of the workshop was to review performance of systems in the evaluation, to discuss trends in text-independent speaker...

NIST HOSTS XSL CONFORMANCE TESTING MEETING.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST hosted the first XSL Conformance Technical Committee meeting in June 2000, at NIST. XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) is a W3C recommendation (www.w3c.org/TR/XSL) for expressing stylesheets, which enables the transformation and...

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ACTIVITY IN POLYMER MASS SPECTROMETRY.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST will lead a new technical working area in quantitative mass spectroscopy of synthetic polymers recently formed under the auspices of VAMAS, the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards. The objective is to develop mass...

READ ALL ABOUT IT! CONFERENCE TO SHOWCASE E-BOOKS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Electronic books have made history during the past year as titles from major authors became overnight sensations on the Internet. The industry has matured a great deal since NIST sponsored the world's first e-book conference in 1998. ...

NEW VAMAS GROUP SEEKS MEASUREMENT SPECIFICATIONS FOR CERAMIC POWDERS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A new technical working area on characterization methods for ceramic powders and porous materials has been formed within the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (known by the acronym VAMAS) to develop technical data on the...

SEPTEMBER SYMPOSIUM PLANS (OPTICAL) FIBER-RICH MENU.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A Symposium on Optical Fiber Measure-ments was held in September 2000, in Boulder, CO, devoted to measurements on fibers, integrated optics, components and systems. This biennial symposium is sponsored by NIST in cooperation with the IEEE...

NEW SOFTWARE MAINSTREAMS AIR QUALITY DESIGN INNOVATION.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A recent Department of Energy study links poor indoor environmental conditions to significant rates of respiratory disease, sick building symptoms and reduced worker productivity. Estimates of potential annual savings and productivity...

BIOMETRIC CONFERENCE TO ID MAJOR ISSUES, ADVANCES.
September 1, 2000... Biometrics are automated methods of recognizing a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics. Law enforcement agencies have used traditional biometrics such as fingerprints for decades. Modern biometrics offer an expanding set...

TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING (RTP) SYSTEMS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... How hot is it? Like weather watchers, semiconductor manufacturers want to know the answer to this question, especially for their rapid thermal processing systems. To reach the quality and device-performance requirements set for next-generation...

MEASUREMENT GAPS MAY "UNDERCHARGE" DEREGULATION BENEFITS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The deregulation of the electric power industry promises to bring lower prices and other benefits of competition to consumers. However, a recent economic study conducted for NIST shows that a lack of sophisticated measurement techniques and...

COMMERCIALIZATION OF NIST-DEVELOPED FORTRAN GRAPHICS STANDARD.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... f90gl, the FORTRAN interface for OpenGL graphics, is now emerging in commercial products. Private companies are including precompiled f90gl libraries with their LF95 FORTRAN compilers, and have included f90gl in their graphics product. Several...

NIST-DEVELOPED PROCESS USED IN GMR MANUFACTURING.(giant magnetoresistance thin films)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The present generation of computer hard-disk drives uses a read-head based on giant magnetoresistance (GMR) thin films. The manufacturing process used in these systems incorporates key improvements developed at NIST's Magnetic Engineering...

NIST'S CRYPTOGRAPHIC MODULE VALIDATION PROGRAM VALIDATES 100TH CRYPTOGRAPHIC MODULE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... On June 22,2000, the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) of the U.S. and Canadian governments achieved a significant milestone by issuing the programs 100th certificate. The module was validated successfully as meeting the Level 2...

EDGE DETECTION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE PROVIDES NEW INSIGHT TO OVERLAY METROLOGY.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... New image recognition and quantitative image analysis software has been developed by a NIST researcher for the Overlay Metrology Project. This comprehensive software package is based on the Matlab programming language and tool set and allows...

SUCCESSFUL KICKOFF OF NATIONAL COMPARISON OF MASS STANDARDS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The National Comparison of Mass Standards piloted by NIST began in June 2000. This comparison involves the states' Weights and Measures Laboratories and Puerto Rico. Six sets of mass standards each consisting of 10 kg, two 1 kg, 200 g, 100 g,...

NIST DIGITAL VIDEO 1 NOW PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST researchers have collected several video clips in a single collection called NIST Digital Video 1. This is a public-domain collection of digital video created to encourage more researchers to address real-world problems and support the...

NIST DEVELOPS AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORK.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST scientists have developed an Information Retrieval Framework (IRF), which is a freely available, object-oriented framework for information retrieval (IR) applications. The framework is software that defines the architecture of a group of...

NEW NEUTRON SPECTROMETER COMMISSIONED AT NCNR.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The first experiment, a study of the molecular dynamics of alpha-lactalbumin, has recently been performed on the disk chopper time-of-flight spectrometer (DCS) at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). This instrument, which provides U.S....

Improved Near-Infrared Spectral Responsivity Scale.
September 1, 2000... A cryogenic radiometer-based system was constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for absolute radiometrie measurements to improve detector spectral power responsivity scales in the wavelength range from 900 nm to 1800...

Comparison of the NIST and NPL Air Kerma Standards Used for X-Ray Measurements Between 10 kV and 80 kV.
September 1, 2000... A direct comparison was made between the air kerma primary standards used for the measurements of low-energy x rays at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). The comparison was...

Material Properties of Titanium Diboride.
September 1, 2000... The physical, mechanical, and thermal properties of polycrystalline [TiB.sub.2] are examined with an emphasis on the significant dependence of the properties on the density and grain size of the material specimens. Using trend analysis,...

Coding and Modulation for LMDS and Analysis of the LMDS Channel.
September 1, 2000... Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) has the potential to become a viable alternative to coaxial cable, fiber and other wired and wireless technologies providing "last mile" communication services. A major obstacle, however, is the high...

Treasure of the Past: IV.
September 1, 2000... This paper from the Bureau of Standards Journal of Research, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1933, pp. 211-231, is reprinted to commemorate the NIST Centennial on March 3, 2001. Ten papers have been selected from the Journal and its predecessors for this...

Erratum: The NIST Length Scale Interferometer.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2000... National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001 [J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Volume 104, Number 3, May-June 1999, P. 225] The caption for Fig. 13 on p. 243 should be Fig. 13. Effect of...

Erratum: Possible Advantages of a Robust Evaluation of Comparisons.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2000... Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, F-92312 Sevres, France [J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Volume 105, Number 4, July-August 2000, p. 551] On p. 554, the sixth line down in the right-hand column should be as follows: ...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING Gaithersburg, MD June 12-13, 2000.
September 1, 2000... 1. Introduction This paper summarizes material presented at the Information Technology for Engineering and Manufacturing conference. NIST's Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications (SIMA) program office organized the conference...

BURNING MATTRESSES YIELD A SAFER NIGHT'S SLEEP FOR ALL.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Bedroom fires typically begin with the flaming ignition, not of the bed, but of the bed coverings. Fatalities occur after flashover, when all combustibles in a room burst into flames and the fire spreads rapidly. NIST engineers have...

NIST CAN HELP YOUR COMPUTER SPEAK FLUENT XML.(National Institute of Standars and Technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... An Internet language called XML is rapidly becoming one of the most popular languages in the world. Incorporated into many Internet web pages--particularly those involved in electronic commerce-XML is a language that describes information...

WORKSHOP SEEKS MORE OPEN EUROPEAN MARKET FOR LAB, DIAGNOSTIC TESTS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NIST hosted a workshop in November 2000, to address a potential non-tariff trade barrier for U.S. medical diagnostic devices in the European Union. The workshop, "Measurement Traceability for Clinical Laboratory Testing and In Vitro Diagnostic...

WHAT'S THE BUZZ? NEW BEES BUILD BETTER BUILDINGS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) 2.0, an updated, expanded version of the powerful NIST software designed to help the construction industry select cost-effective "green" building products, is available for free...

USING FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS FOR MICROWAVE ELECTRONICS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Thin-film ferroelectric materials have received considerable attention because of their growing use in electronic, electro-optic, optical and acoustic devices. Potential applications include random access memories, pyroelectric detectors,...

Ab Initio Values of the Thermophysical Properties of Helium as Standards.
September 1, 2000... Recent quantum mechanical calculations of the interaction energy of pairs of helium atoms are accurate and some include reliable estimates of their uncertainty. We combined these ab initio results with earlier published results to obtain a...