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Books

Part B Measurement Methods for Composition and Structure

December 16, 2006

Author(s)

Willie E. May

Measurement Methods for Composition and Structure

Corrosion and Tarnish of Dental Alloys

December 1, 2006

Author(s)

Spiro Megremis, Clifton M. Carey

DENTAL ALLOY DEVICES serve to restore or align lost or misaligned teeth so that normal biting function and aesthetics can prevail. Alloys are used for direct...

Experimental Techniques for Low-Temperature Measurements

October 1, 2006

Author(s)

John (Jack) W. Ekin

This textbook is written for the experimentalist starting in the laboratory -- beginning graduate students, industry measurement engineers, and materials...

Measurement of Materials Dielectric Properties

September 4, 2006

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut

Dielectric materials are the building blocks of functional electronic circuits, capacitors, gate dielectrics, transmission lines, and are essential as...

Smart Transducer Interface Standards for Condition Monitoring and Control of Machines

August 2, 2006

Author(s)

Kang B. Lee

This chapter presents a summary

The Evaluation of Ontologies

August 1, 2006

Author(s)

Leo Obrst, Benjamin Ashpole, Werner Ceusters, Mahesh Mani, Steven R. Ray, Bradford Smith

Recent years have seen rapid progress in the development of ontologies as semantic models intended to capture and represent aspects of the real world. There is...

WirelessMAN: Inside the IEEE 802.16 Standard for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

July 27, 2006

Author(s)

Roger Marks, Carl Eklund, Subbu Ponnuswamy, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Nico J. van Waes

This book serves as a companion to IEEE Std 802.16, which defines the IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN Standard for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks. It provides an...

Recovering Circles and Spheres from Point Data

July 1, 2006

Author(s)

Christoph J. Witzgall, Geraldine Cheok, Anthony J. Kearsley

Methods for fitting circles and spheres to point sets are discussed. LADAR (LAser Detection And Ranging) scanners, in particular, are capable of generating...

Characterization of the silicon dioxide-silicon interface with the scanning capacitance microscope

July 1, 2006

Author(s)

Joseph Kopanski, W. R. Thurber, Melissa Chun

The scanning capacitance microscope (SCM) was used to characterize the capacitance-voltage (C-V) properties of silicon dioxide (SiO2) on silicon (Si). The...

Intelligent Vehicle Systems: A 4D/RCS Approach

June 14, 2006

Author(s)

Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, James S. Albus

See attached Preface.

NIST Recommended Practice Guide: DTA and Heat-Flux DSC Measurements of Alloy Melting and Freezing

April 30, 2006

Author(s)

William J. Boettinger, Ursula R. Kattner, Kil-Won Moon, John Perepezko

This document is focused on differential thermal analysis (DTA) and heat-flux differential scanning calorimetry (HF-DSC) of metals and alloys. A thermal...

Fabrication of Polymer Microfluidic Systems by Hot Embossing and Laser Ablation

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

Laurie E. Locascio, David J. Ross, Marc C. Howell, Michael Gaitan

TREC: An Overview

February 17, 2006

Author(s)

Donna K. Harman, Ellen M. Voorhees

The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a workshop series designed to build the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval technology...

Standard Measurement Methods for Materials Properties: Plasticity

January 2, 2006

Author(s)

Richard J. Fields, Sheldon M. Wiederhorn

Plasticity, or permanent deformation, is one of the most useful mechanical properties of materials. It permits forming of parts, and provides a significant...

Charge Transport and Morphology in Conjugated Polymers

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

Regis J. Kline, Michael D. McGehee

Polymer semiconductors (conjugated polymers) open up new opportunities for devices and applications that could not be imagined with conventional silicon...

EUV Sources for Lithography, ed. by V. Bakshi

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

John D. Gillaspy

Potential Energy Sputtering of EUVL Materials, ed. by V. Bakshi

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

Joshua M. Pomeroy, L P. Ratliff, John D. Gillaspy, Sasa Bajt

Improving laser coherence, ed. by E. Hinds, A. Ferguson and E. Riis

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

John L. Hall, M Notcutt, Jun Ye

Precision measurement meets ultrafast control,ed. by E. Hinds, A. Ferguson and E. Riis

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

Jun Ye, S Blatt, M M. Boyd, S M. Foreman, T Ido, R J. Jones, Andrew D. Ludlow, A Marian, K D. Moll, M Notcutt, M C. Stowe, M Thorpe, T Zelevinsky

Metrology for EUVL Sources and Tools,ed. by V. Bakshi

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

S Grantham, Charles Tarrio, Robert E. Vest, Thomas B. Lucatorto

Novel chemical detection strategies for trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene, ed. by P.W. Wang and T. Zachry

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

A C. Pipino, J P. Hoefnagles, John T. Woodward IV, C W. Meuse, V Silin

Intrinsic Electronic Conduction Mechanisms in Self-Assembled Monolayers

December 21, 2005

Author(s)

Wenyong Wang, Takhee Lee

A review on the mechanisms and characterization methods of molecu- lar electronic transport is presented. Using self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkanethiols...

The History of IDF and its Influences on IR and Other Fields

December 21, 2005

Author(s)

Donna K. Harman

The surprisingly simple IDF measure developed in 1972 by Karen Sparck Jones has continued to dominate the term weighting metrics used in information retrieval...

Coupled Fire Dynamics and Thermal Response of Complex Building Structures.

December 1, 2005

Author(s)

Kuldeep R. Prasad, Howard R. Baum

Simulating Fire Effects on Complex Building Structures.

December 1, 2005

Author(s)

Howard R. Baum

The purpose of this lecture is to assess the current state of our ability to simulate the consequences of a fire in a large building, and suggest some areas...