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BABAR-ERI: Black Array of Broadband Absolute Radiometers - Earth Radiation Imager

September 22, 2023
Author(s)
Chris Yung, Cameron Straatsma, Nathan Tomlin, David Harber, Odele Coddington, John H. Lehman, Michelle Stephens
BABAR-ERI is being developed for a CubeSat capable of imaging the Earth's outgoing longwave radiation with a 1 km ground sample distance (GSD) using a push-broom imager. The detector is a silicon micromachined 32-pixel linear array of electrical

National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan 2023: Societal and Technology Landscape to Inform Science and Technology Research

August 23, 2023
Author(s)
Ashley Boggs-Russell, Kerrianne Buchanan, David W. Griffith, Heather Evans, Dimitrios Meritis, Lisa Ng, Anna Sberegaeva, Michelle Stephens
The 2023 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan provides an analysis of key external factors that could impact NIST and the fulfillment of its mission in coming years. The analyses were conducted through three separate lenses

Enhancement of Optical Absorption by Oxygen Plasma Treatment in Carbon Nanotube-based Black Paint Coating

July 5, 2023
Author(s)
Atasi Dan, Joel Rutkowski, Patrick McArdle, Erica Freire Antunes, Nathan Tomlin, Malcolm White, Michelle Stephens, John H. Lehman
Effect of oxygen (O2) plasma treatment on reflectance properties and surface morphology of CNT-based paint was investigated. We demonstrate a specular reflectance less than 0.10% and hemispherical reflectance less than 2.5% throughout the UV-Vis-NIR range.

Single Photon Detectors and Metrology

October 26, 2022
Author(s)
Sonia Buckley, Michelle Stephens, John H. Lehman
For quantum applications, it is important to generate quantum states of light and detect them with extremely high efficiency. For future applications, it also important to do this at scale. This presents many engineering and metrology challenges. This

Extremely broadband calibrated bolometers and microbolometer arrays for Earth radiation budget measurements

September 30, 2022
Author(s)
Michelle Stephens, Chris Yung, Nathan Tomlin, Dave Harber, Cameron Straatsma, Atasi Dan, Erica Freire Antunes, Peter Pilewskie, Odele Coddington, John H. Lehman
The Earth radiation budget, a 40-year data record of the balance between solar radiation reaching the Earth and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted from the Earth, is a key climate record for determining whether the Earth is warming or cooling. The

Generalized Electrical Substitution Methods and Detectors for Absolute Optical Power Measurements

June 17, 2022
Author(s)
Solomon I. Woods, Jorge Neira, James E. Proctor, Joseph P. Rice, Nathan Tomlin, Malcolm White, Michelle Stephens, John H. Lehman
We have developed generalized methods for electrical substitution optical measurements, as well as cryogenic detectors which can be used to implement them. The new methods enable measurement of arbitrary periodic waveforms by an electrical substitution

Development and Evaluation of Bluetooth Low-Energy Device for Electronic Encounter Metrics

January 20, 2022
Author(s)
Katy Keenan, Joe Aumentado, Harold Booth, Kimberly Briggman, Mikail Kraft-Molleda, Michele Martin, Rene Peralta, Angela Robinson, Krister Shalm, Michelle Stephens, Emily Townsend, Sae Woo Nam
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the need for tracking of physical contacts and potential exposure to disease. Traditional contact tracing can be augmented by electronic tools called "electronic contact tracing" or "exposure

High-accuracy room temperature planar absolute radiometer based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

July 1, 2021
Author(s)
Anna Vaskuri, Michelle Stephens, Nathan Tomlin, Matthew Spidell, Chris Yung, Andrew Walowitz, Cameron Straatsma, David Harber, John H. Lehman
We have developed a Planar Absolute Radiometer for Room Temperature (PARRoT) that will replace the legacy C-series calorimeter as the free-space continuous-wave laser power detector standard at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Workshop Report: Challenges for Digital Proximity Detection in Pandemics: Privacy, Accuracy, and Impact

May 24, 2021
Author(s)
Michelle Stephens, Gregory (Greg) C. Cala, Kristen K. Greene, Katy Keenan, Angela Robinson, Donald Ufford, Zachary Valdez, Lu Shi
NIST held a three-day workshop, "Challenges for Digital Proximity Detection in Pandemics: Privacy, Accuracy, and Impact" Jan. 26th – 28th, 2021. Members of industry, academia, non-profits, state, and federal government were brought together to discuss

Room temperature Laser Power Standard Using a Microfabricated, Electrical Substitution Bolometer

February 18, 2021
Author(s)

Michelle Stephens, Christopher Yung, Nathan Tomlin, Anna Vaskuri, Ivan Ryger, Matthew Spidell, Malcolm G. White, Thomas Jenkins, Jennifer Landry, Tesfatsion Sereke, John Lehman

The design and performance of a room temperature electrical substitution radiometer for use as an absolute standard for measuring continuous-wave laser power over a wide range of wavelengths, beam diameters and powers is described. The standard achieves an

Space Commerce Workshop Report

May 13, 2020
Author(s)
Michelle S. Stephens, Nicholas Barbosa, Leah R. Kauffman, Rebecca Dorch, Marcus Holzinger
The Department of Commerce (DOC) Boulder Laboratories (consisting of the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration); the DOC

Microfabricated carbon nanotube bolometers

May 7, 2020
Author(s)
Nathan Tomlin, Chris Yung, Michelle Stephens, Igor Vayshenker, Zach Castleman, Matthiew Denoual, Ginger Drake, Nat Farber, David Harber, Karl Heuerman, Greg Kopp, Heather Passe, Erik Richard, Joel Rutkowski, Jacob Sprunck, Samuel Van Dreser, Wengang Zheng
Multi-wall vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) are nearly ideal absorbers due to their exceptionally low reflectance over a broad wavelength range. Integrating VACNTs as bolometer absorbers, however, can be difficult due to their high growth

Microfabricated bolometer based on a vertically aligned carbon nanotube absorber

March 2, 2020
Author(s)
Anna K. Vaskuri, Michelle S. Stephens, Nathan A. Tomlin, Christopher S. Yung, Andrew J. Walowitz, Cameron Straatsma, Dave Harber, John H. Lehman
We have designed a microfabricated planar absolute radiometer based on a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) absorber and an electrical power substitution method. The radiometer is designed to operate at room temperature and to be capable of