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Conferences

Experimentally Based Methodology for Charge Pumping Bulk Defect Trapping Correction

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Chadwin Young, John S. Suehle

We develop a simple experimental approach to remove bulk trap contributions from charge pumping data collected on devices which suffer from large amounts of...

When Does a Circuit Really Fail?

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Lan Wei, Jason P. Campbell, Richard G. Southwick, Kin P. Cheung, Tony Oates, Phillip Wong, John S. Suehle

Thermodynamic analysis of suppressant-enhanced overpressure in the FAA Aerosol Can Simulator

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Harsha K. Chelliah

Halon 1301 has been banned for most applications but it is still used in come critical applications for which suitable replacements have not yet been found. One...

A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS USING SIMULATION

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Erik Lindskog, Linus Lundh, Jonatan K. Berglund, Yung-Tsun Lee, Anders Skoogh, Bjorn Johansson

Effective assessment and communication of environmental footprint is increasingly important to process development and marketing purposes. Traditionally, static...

Energy Efficiency Analysis for a Casting Production System

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Jonatan K. Berglund, John L. Michaloski, Swee K. Leong, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller

A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. A study by the National Association of Manufacturers...

Universal Low-rank Matrix Recovery from Pauli Measurements

December 12, 2011

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu

We study the problem of reconstructing an unknown matrix M of rank r and dimension d using O(rd poly log d) Pauli measurements. This has applications in quantum...

Extracting Hierarchies With Overlapping Structure From Network Data

December 11, 2011

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux

Relationships between entities in many complex systems, such as the Internet and social networks, have a natural hierarchical organization. Understanding these...

Linear Algebra and Sequential Importance Ssampling for Network Reliability

December 11, 2011

Author(s)

David G. Harris, Francis Sullivan, Isabel M. Beichl

The reliability polynomial of a graph gives the probability that a graph is connected as a function of the probability that each edge is connected. The...

Three-dimensional Nanometrology with TSOM Optical Method

December 10, 2011

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) is a new metrology method that achieves 3D nanoscale measurement sensitivity using conventional optical...

Graphene: Plane and Simple Electrical Metrology?

December 7, 2011

Author(s)

Randolph Elmquist, Felipe Hernandez-Marquez, Mariano Real, Tian T. Shen, David Newell, Colin J. Jacob, George R. Jones Jr.

The development of large-area graphene has direct application to electrical standards including the quantized Hall resistance because of unique characteristics...

Effects of Fire Suppressants on Ignition Characteristics of Propane-Air Mixtures

December 6, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Viswanath R. Katta, Fumiaki Takahashi, Harsha K. Chelliah, Oliver Meier

A numerical investigation is performed for understanding the ignition behaviors of CF3Br and R- 125 fire-suppressing agents in propane-air-agent mixtures. Two...

Determining Ignition Regime Maps of Building Materials Exposed to Continuous Wind-Driven Firebrand Showers

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki

Firebrands are a major cause of structural ignition in urban fires in Japan and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires in the USA, yet little research has been...

Versus: A Framework for General Content-Based Comparisons

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy, Antoine Vandecreme, Benjamin J. Long, Paul Khouri Saba, Joe Chalfoun, Luigi Marini, Devin Bonnie, Rob Kooper, Michal Ondrejcek, Kenton McHenry

AbstractWe present a framework for the execution and dissemination of customizable content-based file comparison methods. Given digital objects such as files...

A Software for Diffraction Stress Factor Calculations for Textured Materials

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold

A software for the calculation of diffraction elastic constants (DEC) for materials both with and without preferred orientation was developed. All grain...

Firebrand Generation Data Obtained from a Full Scale Structure Burn

December 5, 2011

Author(s)

Sayaka S. Suzuki, Samuel Manzello

A full-scale, proof-of-concept experiment was conducted to investigate firebrand production from a burning structure. In this experiment, NIST researchers were...

The New SI: The Role of CODATA

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

David B. Newell, Peter J. Mohr, Barry N. Taylor

The mission of the International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA ) is to strengthen international science for the...

Cooperative Self-Deployment Strategies in a Mobile Sensor Network with Prioritized Coverage Plan

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian

Efficient deployment strategies are proposed for a mobile sensor network, where the coverage priority of different points in the field is specified by a...

Distributed Application of the Traffic Scheduling Technique for Smart Grid Advanced Metering Applications Using Multi-Gate Mesh Networks

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

In this paper, we present a multi-gate mesh network architecture that has been developed to ensure high performance and reliability under emergency conditions...

A Genetic Algorithm for Generating RF Circuit Models from Calibrated Broadband Measurements

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas M. Wallis

A genetic algorithm has been developed to generate circuit models from calibrated broadband measurements of coaxial and on-wafer devices under test (DUTs). The...

Objective Evaluation of Imager Performance

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Francine K. Amon, Dennis D. Leber, Nicholas Paulter

We describe a method by which the evaluation and characterization of the performance of an imager can be done objectively and scientifically, that is, without...

Comparing VM-Placement Algorithms for On-Demand Clouds

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Kevin L. Mills, James J. Filliben, Christopher E. Dabrowski

Much recent research has been devoted to investigating algorithms for allocating virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) in infrastructure clouds...

On the Differential Security of Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Daniel C. Smith-Tone

Since the discovery of an algorithm for factoring and computing discrete logarithms in polynomial time on a quantum computer, the cryptographic community has...

VM Leakage and Orphan Control in Open-Source Clouds

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher E. Dabrowski, Kevin L. Mills

Computer systems often exhibit degraded performance due to resource leakage caused by erroneous programming or malicious attacks, and computers can even crash...

Enhanced Spatial Resolution Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopy By Using Carbon Nanotube Terminated Tips

November 18, 2011

Author(s)

Joseph J. Kopanski, Ilona Sitnitsky, Victor H. Vartanian, Paul McClure, Vladimir Mancevski

Electrical scanning probe microscopes, such as the scanning capacitance microscope (SCM) for two dimensional dopant profiling, scanning Kelvin force microscope...

Evaluation of Proposed Test Artifacts for Five-Axis Machine Tools

November 18, 2011

Author(s)

Shawn P. Moylan, David Blumenfeld, Michael L. McGlauflin, Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., M A. Donmez

Machining of a test artifact is an attractive method of evaluating the performance of a machine tool because the tests are often quick and do not require...

Ultra-Precision Linear Motion Metrology of a Commerically Available Linear Translation Stage

November 18, 2011

Author(s)

Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., M A. Donmez, Shawn P. Moylan

Many new compact ultra-precision linear translation stages with exceptionally long ranges of motion on the order of tens of millimeters and positioning...

TSOM Method for Nanoelectronics Dimensional Metrology

November 18, 2011

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) is a relatively new method that transforms conventional optical microscopes into truly three-dimensional...

DEMONSTRATION OF AN INTEGRATED MICRO CRYOGENIC COOLER AND MINIATURE COMPRESSOR FOR COOLING TO 200 K

November 17, 2011

Author(s)

Ryan J. Lewis, Mu Hong Lin, Yunda Wang, Jill Cooper, Peter E. Bradley, Ray Radebaugh, Marcia L. Huber, Yung-Cheng Lee

Joule-Thompson (J-T) based micro cryogenic coolers (MCCs) are attractive because they can provide the cryogenic temperatures needed for small electronic devices...

The Development of an Aerodynamic Shoe Sampling System

November 15, 2011

Author(s)

Matthew E. Staymates, Jessica M. Grandner, John G. Gillen, Stefan Lukow

In collaboration with the Transportation Security Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been developing a prototype shoe sampling...

Optimality Conditions for a Hierarchical Control Problem Governed by a PDE

November 15, 2011

Author(s)

Anthony J. Kearsley

We consider the approximate pointwise control of a linear parabolic system with multiple targets. Assuming a hierarchy among the objectives, we derive...

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