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Conferences

Identifying Failure-Inducing Combinations in a Combinatorial Test Set

April 17, 2012

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

Slides, Filters and Mobile Oh My! (Demonstrations of HTML and Declarative 3D Integration)

April 17, 2012

Author(s)

Sanford P. Ressler

This paper describes a set of demonstrations that illustrate some of the advantages of declarative 3D. Putting descriptions of 3D geometry directly into the DOM...

Towards Modeling Effect of Packet-level TCP Dynamics on Internet Operations and Management

April 16, 2012

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

This paper reports on work in progress on modeling of the effect of packet-level TCP congestion avoidance dynamics on flow-level Internet performance and...

Systemic Risks/Benefits of Selfish Network Operations & Management in Dynamic Environment

April 16, 2012

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

Allowing selfish agents to acquire and exploit system information has both positive and negative effects on the overall performance of resource allocation...

Multi-Relationship Evaluation Design: Modeling an Automatic Test Plan Generator

April 11, 2012

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Linda C. Schmidt

Advanced and intelligent systems within the manufacturing, military, homeland security, and automotive fields are constantly emerging and progressing. Testing...

Battery Discharge Characteristics of Wireless Sensors in Building Applications

April 11, 2012

Author(s)

Wenqi Guo, William M. Healy, Mengchu Zhou

Sensor nodes in wireless networks often use batteries as their source of energy, but replacing or recharging exhausted batteries in a deployed network can be...

Residual Layer Thickness Control and Metrology in Jet and Flash Imprint Lithography

April 10, 2012

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, Shrawan Singhal, Sreenivasan S.V.

Jet-and-Flash Imprint Lithography (J-FIL) has demonstrated capability of high-resolution patterning at low costs. For accurate pattern transfer using J-FIL, it...

Patterned Defect & CD Metrology by TSOM Beyond the 22 nm Node

April 10, 2012

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, Abraham Arceo, Benjamin Bunday, Victor Vertanian

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) is a novel method [1-8] that allows conventional optical microscopes to collect dimensional information down to...

Contour Metrology using Critical Dimension Atomic Force Microscopy

April 9, 2012

Author(s)

Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, Andras Vladar, Bin Ming, Michael T. Postek

The critical dimension atomic force microscope (CD-AFM), which is used as a reference instrument in lithography metrology, has been proposed as a supplemental...

On CD-AFM bias related to probe bending

April 9, 2012

Author(s)

Vladimir A. Ukraintsev, Ndubuisi George Orji, Theodore V. Vorburger, Ronald G. Dixson, Joseph Fu, Richard M. Silver

Critical Dimension AFM (CD-AFM) is a widely used reference metrology. To characterize modern semiconductor devices, very small and flexible probes, often 15 nm...

Bilateral Comparison between NIST and PTB for Flows of High Pressure Natural Gas

April 6, 2012

Author(s)

Aaron N. Johnson, B Mickan, H. Toebben, Tom Kegel

In 2009 NIST developed a U.S. national flow standard to provide traceability for flow meters used for custody transfer of pipeline quality natural gas. NIST...

Scatterfield Microscopy of 22 nm Node Patterned Defects using Visible and DUV Light

April 4, 2012

Author(s)

Bryan M. Barnes, Martin Y. Sohn, Francois R. Goasmat, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver, Abraham Arceo

Smaller patterning dimensions and novel architectures are fostering research into improved methods of defect detection in semiconductor device manufacturing...

Phase sensitive parametric optical metrology: Exploring the limits of 3-dimensional optical metrology

April 4, 2012

Author(s)

Richard M. Silver, Jing Qin, Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Ronald G. Dixson, Francois R. Goasmat

There has been much recent work in developing advanced optical metrology applications that use imaging optics for critical dimension measurements, defect...

OVERVIEW OF THE TESTING PROGRAM ON FIBERS USED IN BALLISTIC APPLICATIONS

April 4, 2012

Author(s)

Amanda L. Forster, Haruki Kobayashi, Jae H. Kim, Michael A. Riley, Joy Dunkers, Scott Wight, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes

The goal of this paper and presentation is to give an overview of the research effort to date being conducted at the National Institute of Standards and...

Nonlinear Modal Analysis of Structures with Rigid-End Offsets

March 31, 2012

Author(s)

Kevin K. Wong

The nonlinear modal analysis (NMA) methodology for analyzing moment-resisting framed structures is here extended to include frame elements with rigid-end...

Modeling for Optimal Ambulance Patient Compartment Layout

March 30, 2012

Author(s)

Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun Lee, Mehdi Dadfarnia

This paper describes how modeling and simulation can play a major role in developing standards recommendations for patient compartment layout of automotive...

Criteria Towards Metrics for Benchmarking Template Protection Algorithms

March 30, 2012

Author(s)

Eddy Simoens, Bian Yang, Xuebing Zhou, Filipe Beato, Christoph Busch, Elaine M. Newton, Bart Preneel

Traditional criteria used in biometric performance evaluation do not cover all the performance aspects of biometric template protection (BTP) and the lack of...

SEM imaging of ultra-high aspect ratio hole features

March 29, 2012

Author(s)

John S. Villarrubia, Aron Cepler, Benjamin D. Bunday, Bradley Thiel

In-line, non-destructive process control metrology of high aspect ratio (HAR) holes and trenches has long been a known gap in metrology. Imaging the bottoms of...

Modeling for Optimal Ambulance Patient Compartment Layout

March 29, 2012

Author(s)

Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Mehdi Dadfarnia

This paper describes how modeling and simulation can play a major role in developing standards recommendations for patient compartment layout of automotive...

Modeling Cement Hydration Kinetics Using the Equivalent Age Concept

March 29, 2012

Author(s)

Xueyu Pang, Dale P. Bentz, Christian Meyer

In this study the hydration kinetics of four different types of cements during early ages were investigated by both chemical shrinkage and isothermal...

Evaluation of Fusion Methods for Latent Fingerprint Matchers

March 29, 2012

Author(s)

Vladimir N. Dvornychenko

Matcher fusion is a recognized approach for improving biometric system performance. Our interest in fusion was largely to determine how much performance...

Ground Truth for Evaluating 6 Degrees of Freedom Pose Estimation Systems

March 28, 2012

Author(s)

Jeremy Marvel, Joseph Falco, Tsai H. Hong

Systems developed to estimate poses of objects in 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) Cartesian space (X, Y, and Z coordinates plus roll, pitch, and yaw) are reliant on...

Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of an [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Model Compound

March 26, 2012

Author(s)

Edwin J. Heilweil

Naturally occurring hydrogenases catalyze the reaction of H+ to form H2 gas. To develop a hydrogen source that is not reliant on fossil fuels, synthetic [FeFe]...

In Situ Raman Monitoring of Ring-Opening Copolymerizations

March 25, 2012

Author(s)

Matthew T. Hunley, Santanu S. Kundu, Peter M. Johnson, Kathryn Beers

Recent advances in enzyme, metal, and organic catalysts have enabled the development of advanced functional polymers from cyclic ester and cyclic carbonate...

Flexible polyurethane foam with well characterized and reproducible smoldering

March 24, 2012

Author(s)

Mauro Zammarano, Szabolcs Matko, Rick D. Davis, Roland H. Kraemer

Smoldering is a self-sustaining heterogeneous oxidation reaction that induces a slow, low temperature, flameless combustion.1 Flexible polyurethane foams (PUF)...

Durable nanoparticle coatings to reduce polyurethane foam flammability

March 24, 2012

Author(s)

Yeon S. Kim, Rick D. Davis

Self-extinguishable of Non-toxic Layer-by-Layer Coating on Flexible Polyurethane Foam

March 24, 2012

Author(s)

Yu-Chin Li, Rick D. Davis

Modeling the effects of acid amplifiers on photoresist stochastics

March 23, 2012

Author(s)

Gregg M. Gallatin, Patrick Naulleau, Robert Brainard

The tradeoff between Resolution, Line Edge Roughness (LER) and Sensitivity, the so called RLS tradeoff, continues to be a difficult challenge, especially for...

An IEEE 1588 Performance Testing Dashboard for Power Industry Requirements

March 22, 2012

Author(s)

Julien M. Amelot, YaShian Li-Baboud, Clement Vasseur, Jeffrey Fletcher, Dhananjay Anand, James Moyne

The numerous time synchronization performance requirements in the Smart Grid entails the need for a set of common metrics and test methods to verify the ability...

Performance Evaluation of Robotic Knowledge Representation (PERK)

March 22, 2012

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Sebti Foufou, Stephen B. Balakirsky

In this paper, we explore some ways in which symbolic knowledge representations have been evaluated in the past and provide some thoughts on what should be...

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