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Conferences

Evaluation of Low-Ohmic Resistance Measurement Capabilities Between VSL and NIST

September 1, 2012

Author(s)

Marlin E. Kraft, Jan van der Beek, Gert Rietveld

The low-ohmic resistance measurement capa¬bilities of VSL and NIST were compared using a set of resistors with values 100 mOhm, 10 mOhm, 1 mOhm, and 100 mOhm...

Measurement Techniques for Evaluating Current Range Extenders from 1 Amp to 3000 Amps

September 1, 2012

Author(s)

Marlin E. Kraft

When measuring standard resistors at different ratios with a Direct Current Comparator (DCC) incorporating Current Range Extenders (CREs) how do you know the...

Simulating Quantum Magnetism with Correlated Non-Neutral Ion Plasmas

August 27, 2012

Author(s)

John J. Bollinger, Joseph W. Britton, Brian C. Sawyer

By employing forces which depend on the internal atomic state (or spin) of an atomic ion, the Coulomb potential energy of a strongly coupled array of ions can...

Service Life Prediction for Sealants

August 27, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan

Previous industry consensus postulated that four elements of the weather: Temperature, Humidity, Ultraviolet Radiation, and Mechanical loading were responsible...

The TriTon Transformation

August 27, 2012

Author(s)

Daniel C. Smith-Tone

Many new systems have been proposed which hide an easily invertible multivariate quadratic map in a larger structure by adding more variables and introducing...

3D Precision Imaging with a Terahertz-bandwidth, Comb-calibrated Swept Laser

August 26, 2012

Author(s)

Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Kevin O. Knabe, Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

A frequency-comb and MEMS-based external-cavity laser are integrated into a THz-bandwidth LIDAR system. Range to a diffuse target is measured at sub-msec update...

Metrology for Nanosystems and Nanoelectronics Reliability Assessments

August 20, 2012

Author(s)

Yaw S. Obeng, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Joseph J. Kopanski

The traditional models and techniques for studying reliability in integrated circuits may not be appropriate for nanoelectronics and nanosystems. In this paper...

Transient Convection-Diffusion Modelling of Peak Temperature in Orthogonal Cutting

August 19, 2012

Author(s)

Timothy J. Burns, Steven P. Mates, Richard L. Rhorer, Eric P. Whitenton, Debasis Basak

Numerical finite-difference simulations of a two-dimensional transient fast convection-slow diffusion model of the temperature field in orthogonal cutting, due...

INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISM OF ENZYME-CATALYZED RING-OPENING COPOLYMERIZATIONS

August 19, 2012

Author(s)

Matthew T. Hunley, Fahriye N. Sari, Kathryn L. Beers

As the research interest in degradable polymers has risen, an ever increasing number of manuscripts report the synthesis of copolymers through ring-opening...

Security Control Variations Between In-House and Cloud-Based Virtualized Infrastructures

August 19, 2012

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Virtualization-related components (such as Hypervisor, Virtual Network and Virtual Machines (VMs)) in a virtualized data center infrastructure need effective...

CHARACTERIZING SUSTAINABILITY FOR MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

August 17, 2012

Author(s)

Mahesh Mani, Jatinder Madan, Jae H. Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Satyandra K. Gupta

Manufacturing industries lack the measurement science and the needed information base to measure and effectively compare performances of manufacturing processes...

Performance Evaluation of Consumer-Grade 3D Sensors for Static 6DOF Pose Estimation Systems

August 16, 2012

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Marvel, Marek Franaszek, Jessica Wilson, Tsai Hong Hong

Low-cost 3D depth and range sensors are steadily becoming more widely available, affordable, and thus popular for robotics enthusiasts. As basic research tools...

An overview of sustainability indicators and metrics for discrete part manufacturing

August 16, 2012

Author(s)

Duck B. Kim, Swee K. Leong, Chin-Sheng Chen

Sustainable manufacturing (SM) has become an emerging environmental, economic, societal, and technological challenge to the industry, the academia, and the...

Spectral responsivity calibrations of two type pyroelectric radiometers using three different methods

August 15, 2012

Author(s)

Jinan Zeng, George P. Eppeldauer, Leonard M. Hanssen, Vyacheslav B. Podobedov

Spectral responsivity calibrations of two different type pyroelectric radiometers have been made in infrared region up to 14 μm in power mode using three...

Design and Fabrication of a Three-DoF MEMS Stage Based on Nested Structures

August 15, 2012

Author(s)

Yong Sik Kim, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Satyandra K. Gupta

This paper presents the design, fabrication and testing of a Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) based positioning stage which is capable of generating...

Web-enabled Real-time Quality Feedback for Factory Systems using MTConnect

August 15, 2012

Author(s)

John L. Michaloski, Byeong Eon Lee, Frederick M. Proctor, Sid Venkatesh

Quality is a key element to success for any manufacturer, and the fundamental prerequisite for quality is measurement. In the discrete parts industry, quality...

Proposal for a standardized test artifact for additive manufacturing machines and processes

August 15, 2012

Author(s)

Shawn P. Moylan, John A. Slotwinski, April L. Cooke, Kevin K. Jurrens, M A. Donmez

Historically, standardized test parts are used to quantitatively evaluate the performance of a machine or process. While several different additive...

Thermogravimetric Analysis with a Heated Quartz Crystal Microbalance

August 11, 2012

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Elisabeth Mansfield

Thermogravimetric analysis with an SC-cut quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) were demonstrated at temperatures in the range from 20 C to 450 C. A measurement...

On Lower Bound Antenna Efficiency Measurements in a Reverberation Chamber

August 6, 2012

Author(s)

Jason B. Coder, John M. Ladbury

This paper addresses a few specific aspects of measuring the lower bound of antenna efficiency in a reverberation chamber. While the initial method for...

Characterizing Reverberation Chambers by Measurements of the Enhanced Backscatter Coefficient

August 6, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway

Reverberation chambers (RC) are becoming a popular alternative testing facility for a wide range of electromagnetic applications. In order for these tests to...

Validation of a one-antenna reverberation-chamber technique for estimating the total and radiation efficiency of an antenna

August 6, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway

Because of the statistical environment created inside a reverberation chamber, they offer a unique test facility. In particular, these chambers are ideally...

Nanocrystalline Zinc Oxide Powder for X-ray Diffraction Metrology

August 6, 2012

Author(s)

David R. Black, Joseph J. Ritter, John E. Bonevich, Albert Henins, James P. Cline

Nano scale zinc oxide powder has been produced using a precise thermal decomposition process from a zinc oxalate precursor powder. The size of the crystallites...

An Investigation of the Accuracy of Diffraction Stress Evaluation of Textured Materials

August 4, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaupel-Herold, Adam A. Creuziger, Mark A. Iadicola

The determination of residual or applied stress through X-ray or neutron diffraction is generally regarded as a mature method. Most x-ray diffractometers can be...

Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector at 1300 nm

August 3, 2012

Author(s)

Paulina Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Martin M. Fejer, Xiao Tang

We show a dual-channel, upconversion detector at 1.3-m-wavelength based on phasemodulated periodically poled LiNbO3, and use it for wavelength- to time...

Ionic Liquid Facilitated Introduction of Functional Materials into Biopolymer Polymer Substrates

August 2, 2012

Author(s)

Shonali Nazare, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Mauro Zammarano, Luke Haverhals, W.Matthew Reichert, Hugh De Long, Paul C. Trulove

In addition to being efficient solvents for biopolymers, several ionic liquids (ILs) have been shown to be effective solvents for synthetic polymers such as...

Does Your SEM Really Tell the Truth?

August 1, 2012

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has gone through a tremendous evolution to become a critical tool for many, diverse scientific and industrial...

Performance Measures Framework for Unmanned Systems (PerMFUS): Models for Contextual Metrics

July 31, 2012

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, Elena R. Messina, Adam S. Jacoff, Robert Wade, Micheal McNail

In the development of the Performance Measures Framework for Unmanned Systems (PerMFUS), we have established a multiple-axis performance metrics model for the...

Mobile Application Device Power Usage Measurements

July 31, 2012

Author(s)

Rahul Murmuria, Jeffrey Medsger, Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas

Reducing power consumption has become a crucial design tenet for both mobile and other small computing devices that are not constantly connected to a power...

Towards One-electron Ions in Rydberg States for Laser Spectroscopy

July 30, 2012

Author(s)

Joseph Tan, Samuel Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise

Simple quantum systems play important roles in the determination of fundamental constants. Very recently at NIST, bare nuclei created in an EBIT were extracted...

Effect of Thermal Cycling on the Signal Integrity and Morphology of TSV Isolation Liner-SiO2

July 30, 2012

Author(s)

Chukwudi A. Okoro, Yaw S. Obeng

This study is focused on understanding the effect of thermal cycling on the signal integrity characteristics of TSV isolation liner (SiO2). The use of radio...

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