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Conferences

Surface Chemical Transformations of UV irradiated Silica-Epoxy Nanocomposites

May 15, 2013

Author(s)

Justin M. Gorham, Tinh Nguyen, Deborah S. Jacobs, Coralie Bernard, Richard D. Holbrook

Silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) incorporated into a polymeric matrix, or silica nanocomposites (SiNCs), are used in a wide variety of commercially available...

Development of Standard Reference Materials for Cement-Based Materials

May 13, 2013

Author(s)

Chiara F. Ferraris, Nicos Martys, William L. George

Rheometers are used to determine the rheological properties of materials ranging from mayonnaise to concrete. While rotational rheometers are routinely used for...

Oxidatively Induced Damage to DNA: Potential Role of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes at the Molecular Level

May 13, 2013

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Xiaomin X. Tu, M Miral Dizdar, Ming Zheng, Bryant C. Nelson

Ultrasonication is a physical process known to generate abundant levels of oxygen-derived species such as hydroxyl radicals, hydrogen atoms, and hydrogen...

High Accuracy Measurements Using a Scanning System with a Single Point Triangulation Sensor

May 13, 2013

Author(s)

Theodore D. Doiron, Wei Ren, Eric S. Stanfield, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Christopher J. Blackburn

The capabilities of non-contact laser spot triangulation sensors for high accuracy measurements have slowly increased over the past decade, and now have usable...

Uncertainty of Calibration of Instruments, a Simple Example in Dimensional Metrology

May 13, 2013

Author(s)

Theodore D. Doiron

How is the calibration of a micrometer using gage blocks different from using a micrometer to calibrate gage blocks? In the measurement community there seems to...

Tools and Approaches for the Assessment of Nanomaterial Induced Oxidative DNA Damage

May 13, 2013

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Bryce Marquis, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar, Bryant C. Nelson

Hyphenated mass spectrometry techniques have been employed as one of the primary analytical tools for investigating the effects of ionizing radiation, chemical...

A focused super-continuum solar simulator for illuminated solar cell microscopy

May 12, 2013

Author(s)

Tasshi Dennis

The design and application of a novel, focused solar simulator based on a high-power, super-continuum laser is described. We used the simulator to create...

Metrology for Lab-on-a-Chip Final-Product Devices

May 12, 2013

Author(s)

Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez, Michael W. Halter, Jeeseong Hwang

New metrology tools to measure the critical parameters of internal structures in lab on a chip devices are greatly needed in order to develop standard tests for...

Precision metrology with coherent dual frequency combs

May 12, 2013

Author(s)

Nathan R. Newbury, Esther Baumann, Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Greg B. Rieker, Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Alexander M. Zolot

Frequency combs have enabled a wide range of applications because of their unique combination of coherence and broad bandwidth. The comb provides 100,000's of...

Microfluidic Synthesis of Nano-Liposomal Anesthetics

May 12, 2013

Author(s)

Wyatt N. Vreeland, Renee R. Hood, Eric Kendall, Mariana Junqueira, Julia Finkel, Don L. DeVoe

Topical anesthesia has the ability to provide painless application of pain management medications for minor procedures such as venipuncture, particularly in the...

Effects of fiber gripping methods on single fiber tensile tests: Parametric statistical analyses of tensile strengths and failure strains

May 9, 2013

Author(s)

Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes

The Kolsky bar test has been widely used in measuring material response under high strain rate conditions. Initial experiments in the literature applying this...

Metrological Traceability for Guarded-Hot-Plate Apparatus

May 9, 2013

Author(s)

Robert R. Zarr

An approach for establishing metrological traceability for measurement results from guarded-hot-plate apparatus consistent with policy at the National Institute...

Initial Measurement Results of the NIST 500 mm Guarded-Hot-Plate Apparatus Using Automated Computer Control

May 9, 2013

Author(s)

Robert R. Zarr

The initial thermal conductivity measurements from a guarded hot plate apparatus using multiple line-heat sources are presented for specimens of high-density...

The NIST Quality System for Measurement Services: A Look at its Past Decade and a Gaze toward its Future

May 8, 2013

Author(s)

Sally S. Bruce

As the National Metrology Institute (NMI) for the United States, NIST, formerly the National Bureau of Standards, has provided measurement services, both...

Firebrand Generation from a Full-Scale Structure

May 6, 2013

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Yoshihiko Hayashi

Firebrands are a critical mechanism of fire spread in large outdoor fires, such as urban fires in Japan and WUI fires in Australia, Southern Europe, and the USA...

Firebrand Generation from Building Components with Cedar Siding

May 6, 2013

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Yoshihiko Hayashi

Fires in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) have been a large problem not only in the USA, but all over the world. From a pragmatic point of view, the WUI fire...

Vulnerability of Decking Assemblies to Continuous Firebrand Shower

May 6, 2013

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

In WUI fires, decking assemblies have been observed to be an ignition vulnerability based on post-fire damage surveys. The Office of the State Fire Marshall...

Microwave Conductance of Semicontinuous Metallic Films from Coplanar Waveguide Scattering Parameters

May 6, 2013

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Oleg A. Kirillov

Conductance of thin semicontinuous metallic films is measured in coplanar waveguide configuration at frequencies of 100 MHz to 20 GHz. The presented model of...

Development and Characterization of Continuous Feed Firebrand Generator

May 6, 2013

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Evidence suggests that wind driven firebrand showers are a major cause of structural ignition in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. While firebrands have...

Structural design for fire conditions: reliability-based resistance criteria

May 4, 2013

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister, Bruce Ellingwood

The new paradigm of performance-based fire engineering (PBFE), with its systematic approach to identifying building performance objectives, quantitative...

Development of Standard Test Methods for Unmanned and Manned Industrial Vehicles Used Near Humans

May 3, 2013

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Richard J. Norcross, Joseph A. Falco, Jeremy A. Marvel

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been researching human-robot/vehicle collaborative environments for automated guided vehicles...

Robustness of Prototype Steel Frame Buildings against Column Loss: Assessment and Comparisons

May 2, 2013

Author(s)

Joseph A. Main, Judy Liu

This paper considers the robustness of prototype 10-story steel moment-frame and braced-frame buildings. Reduced modeling approaches are presented for steel...

Towards Demand Response Measurement and Verification Standards

May 1, 2013

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg, David Hardin, Ed Koch

The value and impact of demand response (DR) at grid-scale depends upon the widespread and active participation of a diverse customer base. The level of...

TSV Reveal height and bump dimension metrology by the TSOM method

April 30, 2013

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, Haesung Park, Victor H. Vartanian, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Richard A. Allen

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) transforms conventional optical microscopes into truly 3D metrology tools for nanoscale- to- microscale...

Use of TSOM for sub-11 nm node pattern defect detection and HAR features

April 30, 2013

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, Abraham Arceo, Bunday Benjamin

In-line metrologies currently used in the semiconductor industry are being challenged by the aggressive pace of device scaling and the adoption of novel device...

Limits in Modeling Power Grid Topology

April 29, 2013

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux

Because of their importance to infrastructure, a number of studies have examined the structural properties of power grids and have proposed random topological...

Tunable up-conversion detector for single photon and bi-photon near-infrared spectroscopic applications

April 29, 2013

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Paulina Kuo, Yong-Su Kim, Xiao Tang

A tunable waveguide-based frequency up-conversion detector is used for single photon level near infrared (IR) spectroscopic measurements. Applications include...

Video-based Face Recognition via Joint Sparse Representation

April 26, 2013

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Yi-Chen Chen, Vishal M. Patel, Sumit Shekar, Rama Chellappa

In video-based face recognition, a key challenge is in exploiting the extra information available in a video; e.g., face, body, and motion identity cues. In...

The Series Resistance Component of Hot Carrier Degradation in Ultra-Short Channel Devices

April 22, 2013

Author(s)

Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Anthony Oates

Our measurements reveal that, similar to much larger power device geometries, hot carrier degradation in ultra-short channel devices involves (1) presumably...

Effect of Surface Chemistry on Stem Cell Response in 2-D vs. 3-D Cell Culture Niches

April 19, 2013

Author(s)

Sumona Sarkar, Carl G. Simon Jr., Roberta I. Lock, Joy P. Dunkers

To develop tissue engineered devices for regenerative medicine strategies, key scaffold properties for directing stem cell response must be identified. As focus...

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