Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Conferences

The Effects of Integration Time and Size-of-Source on the Temperature Measurement of Segmented Chip Formation Using Infrared Thermography

October 7, 2009

Author(s)

Jarred C. Heigel, Eric P. Whitenton

This paper illustrates the errors due to integration time and size-of-source effects when measuring the temperature of segmented chip formation using infrared...

Ontology Formalisms: What is Appropriate for Different Applications?

October 6, 2009

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff

Ontologies can take many forms. There are ontologies that are extremely formal (e.g., using first order logic), and there are ontologies that are much less...

Advanced Capacitance Metrology for Nanoelectronic Device Characterization

October 5, 2009

Author(s)

Curt A. Richter, Joseph J. Kopanski, Yicheng Wang, Muhammad Y. Afridi, Xiaoxiao Zhu, D. E. Ioannou, Qiliang Li, Chong Jiang

We designed and fabricated a test chip (consisting of an array of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors and metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors ranging...

Temperature-Programmed Gas-Sensing With Microhotplates: An Opportunity to Enhance Microelectronic Gas Sensor Metrology

October 5, 2009

Author(s)

Jon C. Geist, Muhammad Y. Afridi

It is only recently that the ITRS (International Technical Roadmap for Semiconductors) has identified functional diversification through heterogeneous...

Enhanced Spatial Resolution Scanning Kelvin Force Microscopy Using Conductive Carbon Nanotube Tips

October 5, 2009

Author(s)

Joseph J. Kopanski, Paul McClure, Vladimir Mancevski

The response of a scanning Kelvin force microscope (SKFM) was measured with conventional micromachined silicon tips coated with Au and with advanced tips...

Measuring the EUV-induced contamination rates of TiO2-capped multilayer optics by anticipated production-environment hydrocarbons

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Shannon B. Hill, Nadir S. Faradzhev, Charles S. Tarrio, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Robert A. Bartynski, B. V. Yakshinskiy, T. E. Madey

The primary, publicly reported cause of optic degradation in pre-production extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems is carbon deposition. This results...

Development of Domain-Specific Scenarios for Training and Evaluation of Two-Way, Free Form, Spoken Language Translation Devices

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Marnie Menzel

To create effective and accurate two-way, free form, spoken language translation devices, they must be supplied with appropriate training data. The goal of the...

Virtual Testing of Concrete Transport Properties

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Edward J. Garboczi, Nicos Martys, Kenneth A. Snyder, W. S. Guthrie, Konstantinos Kyritsis, Narayanan Neithalath

The transport properties of concrete are critical to its field performance. Commonly encountered degradation mechanisms are dependent on ionic diffusivity...

Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory for Quality Testing and Sustainability of Concrete

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Bullard, Paul E. Stutzman, Luis M. Ordonez-Belloc, Edward J. Garboczi, Dale P. Bentz

The NIST-Industry Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL) Consortium has developed an integrated software package for performing simulations of a...

Correction of Hysteresis in SPM Image by a Moving Window Correlation Method

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Joseph Fu

Many scanning probe microscopes (SPMs), such as the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and atomic force microscope (AFM), use piezoelectric actuators operating...

An Improved Digital Image Correlation Method Applied to Scanning Probe Microscope Images

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Wei Chu, Joseph Fu, Theodore V. Vorburger

Digital image correlation (DIC) is a method for measuring the surface displacements and displacement gradients in materials under deformation. During the...

Development of an infrared optical scattering instrument from 1 um to 5 um

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Jinan Zeng, Leonard M. Hanssen

The wavelength coverage of the IR optical scattering instrument developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been extended to cover the...

Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Floods, Every Day Failures and 1500 Miles of Levee - Risk Analysis Experiences and Lessons

October 1, 2009

Author(s)

Martin W. McCann , Said Salah-Mars, Jerry L. Foster, Gregory B. Baecher, Robert C. Patev, Harvey W. Jones, Therese P. McAllister

By the first quarter of 2006, two risk studies of major levee systems (over 1500 miles of levee) in the U.S. were underway. The IPET Risk and Reliability...

Assessment of Performance Metrics for Use of Wireless Sensor Networks in Buildings

September 30, 2009

Author(s)

Won Suk Jang, William M. Healy

This paper is part of an effort to develop measurement systems and methods to better predict the performance of wireless sensor and control networks in building...

Evaluating Speech Translation Systems: Applying SCORE to TRANSTAC Technologies

September 29, 2009

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Brian A. Weiss, Michelle P. Steves, Gregory A. Sanders, Frederick M. Proctor, Ann M. Virts

The Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use (TRANSTAC) program is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) advanced...

Improving Data Quality in Embedded Sensor Systems for APC

September 28, 2009

Author(s)

Julien M. Amelot, YaShian Li-Baboud

Achieving next-generation factory (NGF) goals has been an industry challenge for APC applications to acquire a sufficient level of data quality to maximize the...

Nonaqueous Solvatochromic Behavior of Nile Blue A Perchlorate in Imidazolium Exchanged Clays and its Implication Toward Exfoliation in Polymeric Composites

September 28, 2009

Author(s)

Douglas M. Fox, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Paul H. Maupin

UV/VIS absorption and emission spectroscopy is a powerful tool for probing solute-solvent interactions. Recently, we have identified the use of Nile Blue as a...

A Time Synchronization Testbed to Define and Standardize Real-Time Model-Based Control Capabilities in Semiconductor Manufacturing

September 28, 2009

Author(s)

Deepak Sharma, Dhananjay Anand, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, James Moyne

Shrinking process tolerances due to decreasing device sizes and increasing chip complexity in semiconductor manufacturing are motivating efforts to improve...

The Impact of Scenario Development on the Performance of Speech Translation Systems Prescribed by the SCORE Framework

September 25, 2009

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Craig I. Schlenoff

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Spoken Language Communication and Translation for Tactical Use (TRANSTAC) program is a focused advanced...

Measurement Traceability and Quality Assurance in a Nanomanufacturing Environment

September 25, 2009

Author(s)

Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, Aaron Cordes, Benjamin Bunday, John Allgair

A key requirement for nano-manufacturing is maintaining acceptable traceability of measurements performed to determine size. Given that properties and...

High-Voltage Capacitance Measurement System for SiC Power MOSFETs

September 24, 2009

Author(s)

Parrish Ralston, Tam H. Duong, Nanying Yang, David W. Berning, Colleen E. Hood, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Kathleen Meehan

Adequate modeling of a power MOSFET is dependent on accurate characterization of the inter-electrode capacitances. With the advent of high voltage silicon...

MEASUREMENTS FOR MECHANICAL RELIABILITY OF THIN FILMS

September 23, 2009

Author(s)

David T. Read, Alex Volinsky

This paper reviews techniques for measurement of basic mechanical properties of thin films. Emphasis is placed on the adaptations needed to prepare, handle, and...

Unified Model for Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators Nonlinear Effects

September 20, 2009

Author(s)

Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, James C. Booth, Enrique Iborra, Robert Aigner

We present a nonlinear model for Bulk Acoustic Wave resonators that combines different sources of nonlinearity, using device-independent material specific...

Optical performance monitoring of PSK Data Channels using artificial neural networks trained with parameters derived from delay-tap asynchronous diagrams via balanced detection

September 20, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Jargon, Xiaoxia Wu, Zhensheng Jia, Loukas Paraschis, Ronald Skoog, Alan Willner

We demonstrate a technique of using artificial neural networks for optical performance monitoring of PSK data signals. Parameters for training are derived from...

A Combinatorial Approach to Building Navigation Graphs for Dynamic Web Applications

September 20, 2009

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker, David R. Kuhn, James F. Lawrence, Wenhua Wang, Yu Lei, Sreedevi Sampath

Modeling the navigation structure of a dynamic web application is a challenging task because of the presence of dynamic pages. In particular, there are two...

Nanoindentation of Si Nanostructures: Buckling and Friction at Nanoscales

September 18, 2009

Author(s)

Huai Huang, Bin Li, Qiu Zhao, Zhiquan Luo, Jay Im, Min Kang, Richard A. Allen, Michael W. Cresswell, Rui Huang, Paul S. Ho

A nanoindentation system was employed to characterize mechanical properties of silicon nanolines (SiNLs), which were fabricated by an anisotropic wet etching...

Considering Discourse References in Textual Entailment Annotation

September 17, 2009

Author(s)

Luisa Bentivogli, Ido Dagan, Hoa T. Dang, Danilo Giampiccolo, Medea L. Leggio, Bernardo Magnini

In the 2009 Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) challenge, a Search Pilot task has been introduced, aimed at finding all the sentences in a corpus which entail...

Message-Independent Test Harness for Content-Level Test of B2B Standards: An Application Information Mapping Test Case Study

September 16, 2009

Author(s)

Jun H. Shin, Jaewook Kim, Nenad Ivezic

NIST has developed B2B interoperability testbeds to assist the assessment of interoperability among the B2B applications. One of the capabilities provided by...

A Statistical Path Loss Model for Medical Implant Communication Channels

September 16, 2009

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Wen-Bin Yang, John G. Hagedorn, Judith E. Terrill, Kamya Yazdandoost

Knowledge of the propagation media is a key step toward a successful transceiver design. Such information is typically gathered by conducting physical...

PEG-HYDROGELS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND CELL ENCAPSULATION

September 15, 2009

Author(s)

Sheng Lin-Gibson, Kaushik Chatterjee, James A. Cooper, William E. Wallace, Matthew Becker, Carl G. Simon Jr., Ferenc Horkay

A simple reaction to prepare controlled molecular mass (MM) poly(ethylene glycol) dimethacrylates (PEGDMs) of high purity and low polydispersity is outlined...

Was this page helpful?