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Conferences

A Novel Wafer-plane Dosimeter for EUV Lithography

November 1, 2009

Author(s)

Steven E. Grantham, Charles S. Tarrio

Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) incorporates 13.5 nm light for patterning wafers and requires in-situ wafer-plane dosimetry that can be tailored to the...

NIST High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Standard Reference Material: SRM 2000

October 30, 2009

Author(s)

Donald A. Windover, David L. Gil, Albert Henins, James P. Cline

NIST recently released a standard reference material (SRM) for the calibration of high resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) instruments. HRXRD is extensively...

Data Collection Test-bed for the Evaluation of Range Imaging Sensors for ANSI/ITSDF B56.5 Safety Standard for Guided Industrial Vehicles

October 29, 2009

Author(s)

William P. Shackleford, Roger V. Bostelman

In this paper, we describe the process by which we collected sensor data for the evaluation of 3D LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). Data was also collected...

Effects of Temperature and Humidity on the Photodegradation of TiO2-Filled Acrylic Urethane Films

October 28, 2009

Author(s)

Stephanie S. Watson, Tarek Marray, Yongyan Pang, Li Piin Sung

Metal oxide fillers, such as titanium dioxide (TiO2) are commonly used in building and construction applications and are added to increase the opacity and/or to...

Uncooled, Millimeter-Scale Atomic Magnetometers with Femtotesla Sensitivity

October 26, 2009

Author(s)

John E. Kitching, Svenja A. Knappe, William C. Griffith, Jan Preusser, V Gerginov, Peter D. Schwindt, Vishal Shah, Ricardo Jimenez Martinez

We summarize recent results at NIST to develop high-performance yet highly miniaturized magnetic sensors based on atomic vapors confined in microfabricated...

I Come Not To Bury Cranfield, but to Praise It

October 26, 2009

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

Modeling the Effects of Outdoor Use of Gasoline Powered Generators on Indoor Carbon Monoxide Levels

October 26, 2009

Author(s)

Liangzhu Wang, Steven Emmerich

Background The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that half of non-fatal CO poisoning incidents during the hurricane season in...

Artificial Intelligence Tools for Failure Event Data Management and Probability Risk Analysis for Failure Prevention

October 25, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Pedro V. Marcal

Over the last thirty years, much research has been done on the development of failure event databases and fatigue modeling of crack growth in pressure vessels...

Creating a web-scale video collection for research

October 23, 2009

Author(s)

Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Alan Smeaton, Colum Foley, James Lanagan

This paper begins by considering a number of important design questions for a web-scale, widely available, multimedia test collection intended to support long...

Towards a Global Interoperability Test Bed for eBusiness Systems

October 21, 2009

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Hyunbo Cho, Jungyub Woo, Jun H. Shin, Jaewook Kim, Mohammad Abidi, Asuman Dogac, Tuncay Namli, Christine Legner, Francois Fischer

We describe an initial effort to create a comprehensive and coherent framework for feasibility analysis of the Global Interoperability Test Bed for eBusiness...

Measuring the Utility/Path Diversity Tradeoff in Multipath Protocols

October 20, 2009

Author(s)

Fern Y. Hunt, Vladimir V. Marbukh

We derive a model of congestion control where the trade-off between utility and path diversity can be investigated. In a network where there can be multiple...

An Improved Fast I_d-V ^d g Measurement Technology With Expanded Application Range

October 19, 2009

Author(s)

Chen Wang, Liangchun (. Yu, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Yi Xuan, Peide Ye, John S. Suehle, David Zhang

Fast Id-Vg measurements on very high performance devices (very low channel ON-resistance) and larger area devices (therefore large gate capacitance) are subject...

Fire Spread and Growth on Flexible Polyurethane Foam

October 18, 2009

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Gregory Hasapis, Patrick Macatangga

A series of experiments designed to characterize fire spread and growth on flat samples of commercial non-fire-retarded flexible polyurethane foam have been...

Random vs. Combinatorial Methods for Discrete Event Simulation of a Grid Computer Network

October 16, 2009

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei

This study compared random and t-way combinatorial inputs of a network simulator, to determine if these two approaches produce significantly different deadlock...

THE ROLE OF SIMULATION IN TRACKING MOBILE ASSETS USING AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS

October 15, 2009

Author(s)

Swee K. Leong, Guodong Shao, Nils E. Bengtsson

A major aerospace company operates large factories that involve thousands of component parts, subassemblies, major sub-systems, tools, fixtures, and material...

HYDRATED PHASES IN BLENDED CEMENTITIOUS SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE

October 15, 2009

Author(s)

Kenneth A. Snyder, Paul E. Stutzman, Jacob Philip, David W. Esh

The hydration products of varying proportions of portland cement, fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag, and silica fume in blended systems were...

Spectral irradiance responsivity calibration of InSb radiometers using the improved IR-SIRCUS at NIST

October 15, 2009

Author(s)

Jinan Zeng, Howard W. Yoon, George P. Eppeldauer, Leonard M. Hanssen, Joseph P. Rice

The spectral irradiance responsivity calibrations of InSb radiometers measured on the tunable-laser based Infrared Spectral Irradiance and Radiance Responsivity...

Ground Truth Data Using 3D Imaging for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

October 14, 2009

Author(s)

Nicholas A. Scott, Alan M. Lytle

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is leading an effort to develop performance standards for ur- ban search and rescue robots (US&R). An...

Mapping Heterogeneity in NanoTiO2/Polymer Coatings Using Confocal Microscopy and Depth Sensing Indentation

October 14, 2009

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung

The purpose of this study is to develop relevant metrology to measure the appropriate structure-property relationship at a proper length scale to understand the...

An Analysis of CVSS Version 2 Vulnerability Scoring

October 14, 2009

Author(s)

Karen A. Scarfone, Peter M. Mell

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a specification that is used to measure the relative severity of software vulnerabilities. CVSS version 2...

Adhesion, Copper Voiding, and Debonding Kinetics of Copper/Dielectric Diffusion Barrier Films

October 13, 2009

Author(s)

Ryan P. Birringer, Roey Shaviv, Thomas Mountsier, Jon Reid, Jian Zhou, Roy H. Geiss, David T. Read, Reinhold Dauskardt

Effects of the chemistry of electroplated copper films on stress-induced voiding and adhesion between the films and a SiN barrier layer are reported. The void...

NIST SRM (Standard Reference Material) 2460/2461 Standard Bullets and Casings Project

October 13, 2009

Author(s)

Jun-Feng Song, Thomas Brian Renegar, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Robert M. Thompson, Richard M. Silver, Martin M. Ols, Ted T. Vorburger

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has developed the...

An efficient, optical fiber-based waveguide interface to a single quantum dipole

October 12, 2009

Author(s)

Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik A. Srinivasan

We theoretically investigate a single emitter embedded in a hybrid optical waveguide that proves highly efficient, optical fiber access to the dipole transition...

Gate Oxide Long-Term Reliability of 4H-SiC MOS Devices

October 11, 2009

Author(s)

Liangchun (. Yu, Kin P. Cheung, Greg Dunne, Kevin Matocha, John S. Suehle, Kuang Sheng

Correlated Photon Pair Generation by Dual-Element PPKTP Waveguide over GHz repetition rate

October 11, 2009

Author(s)

Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery

A compact scheme for high-speed frequency doubling and down-conversion on a single dual-element PPKTP waveguide is investigated. Optimal temperature selection...

Wafer-level Hall Measurement on SiC MOSFET

October 11, 2009

Author(s)

Liangchun (. Yu, Kin P. Cheung, Vinayak Tilak, Greg Dunne, Kevin Matocha, Jason P. Campbell, John S. Suehle, Kuang Sheng

Volume Estimation of Molded Artifacts by B-Splines

October 9, 2009

Author(s)

David E. Gilsinn, Bruce R. Borchardt, Amelia Tebbe

The volumes of two industrially molded non-metallic artifacts were estimated using surface data obtained by a coordinate measuring machine. A tensor product of...

Results of an international photomask linewidth comparison of NIST and PTB

October 9, 2009

Author(s)

Bernd Bodermann, Detleff Bergmann, Egbert Buhr, Wolfgang Haebler-Grohne, Harald Bosse, James E. Potzick, Ronald G. Dixson, Richard Quintanilha, Michael T. Stocker, Andras Vladar, Ndubuisi George Orji

In preparation of the international Nano1 linewidth comparison on photomasks between 9 national metrology institutes, NIST and PTB have started a bilateral...

Quantifying the Performance of MT-Connect in a Distributed Manufacturing Environment

October 8, 2009

Author(s)

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

In the CNC manufacturing world, the continuing pressure to reduce costs and improve time to market places a premium on smarter ways of manufacturing and...

Mathematical Metrology for Evaluating a 6DOF Visual Servoing System

October 8, 2009

Author(s)

Tommy Chang, Tsai H. Hong, Milli Shah, Roger D. Eastman

In this paper we develop the best homogeneous matrix trans- formation to fit two streams of dynamic six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) data for evaluating perception...

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