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Conferences

An Electrically-Detected Magnetic Resonance Study of the Atomic-Scale Effects of Fluorine on the Negative Bias Temperature Instability

January 5, 2009

Author(s)

J.T. Ryan, Patrick M. Lenahan, A.T. Krishnan, S. Krishnan, Jason Campbell

It has been shown that the negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) may be significantly suppressed through the incorporation of fluorine in the gate oxide...

Stairwell Evacuation from Buildings: What We Know We Don't Know

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Erica D. Kuligowski

Occupant descent down stairwells during building evacuations is typically described by measurable engineering variables such as stairwell geometry, speed...

Micrometer-width damascene copper conductors at e10 MA/cm2

January 1, 2009

Author(s)

David T. Read, Roy H. Geiss

We have applied high amplitude (~10 MA/cm2) alternating current (AC) at 100 Hz and direct current (DC) to copper interconnect lines with widths in the few...

Droplet Formation at Microfluidic T-junctions

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

David A. LaVan, Xiang Xu

Analysis of droplet formation in microfluidic systems is important to understand the operation of these devices, and to permit optimal design and process...

Stepfield Pallets: Repeatable Terrain for Evaluating Robot Mobility

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

Adam S. Jacoff, Anthony J. Downs, Ann M. Virts, Elena R. Messina

Stepfield pallets are a fabricated and repeatable terrain for evaluating robot mobility. They were developed to provide emergency responders and robot...

Downwelling Surface Spectral Irradiance Measurements with the Marine Optical BuoY

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, M Feinholz, S Flora, M Yarbrough, Terrance Houlihan, D Peters, Dennis Clark

The Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY), off the coast of Lanai, Hawaii, has made in situ, in-water up-welling spectral radiance and downwelling surface spectral...

Facility Interface to the Smart Grid

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg

Homes, commercial buildings and the industrial sector together represent 100 percent of the load on the electric grid. Beyond load, these facilities provide a...

The Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY) Radiometric Calibration and Uncertainty Budget for Ocean Color Satellite Sensor Vicarious Calibration

December 31, 2008

Author(s)

M Feinholz, B. Carol Johnson, Steven W. Brown, S Flora, M Yarbrough, Terrance Houlihan, D Peters, Yong S. Kim, J Mueller, Dennis Clark

For the past decade, the Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY), an autonomous radiometric buoy stationed in the waters off Lanai, Hawaii, has been the primary in-water...

A Standard Method for Measuring Wafer Bond Strength for MEMS Applications

December 23, 2008

Author(s)

Richard A. Allen, Janet M. Cassard, Winthrop A. Baylies, David T. Read, George D. Quinn, Frank W. DelRio, Kevin T. Turner, Michael Bernasch, Joerg Bagdahn

A round robin, to provide precision and bias data for SEMI standard MS5-1107, Test Method for Wafer Bond Strength Measurements Using Micro-Chevron Test...

Property Verification for Generic Access Control Models

December 20, 2008

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, David R. Kuhn, Tao Xie

To formally and precisely capture the security properties that access control should adhere to, access control models are usually written to bridge the rather...

Technique for Monitoring Environmentally Induced Changes in Polymeric Sealants

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

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

A new procedure was developed to utilize stress relaxation tests to monitor damage induced in sealant materials exposed to environmental variables and changing...

Two New Efficient CCA-Secure Online Ciphers : MHCBC and MCBC

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

Mridul Nandi

Online ciphers are those ciphers whose ciphertexts can be computed in an online manner. HCBC1 and HCBC2 are two known examples of Hash Cipher Block Chaining...

Impact of Adhesive Modulus on Humidity Induced Failure

December 17, 2008

Author(s)

Kar T. Tan, Christopher C. White, Kristen Hamilton, Nicholas Wagman, Joshua E. Goldman, Alper Karul, Jessica M. Torres, Sushil K. Satija, Cyril Clerici, Donald L. Hunston, Bryan D. Vogt

Harmonizing Environmental Data Exchange Standards: Lessons Learned from the electronics Industry

December 15, 2008

Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon, John V. Messina

In meeting the challenges of sustainable design, information must flow through the manufacturing supply chain. Examples of this information include; product...

Statistical Measurement Techniques for Equivalent Source Mismatch of 1.85 mn Power Splitter

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Thomas M. Wallis, Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski

The equivalent source mismatch (GG) of a 1.85 mm coaxial power splitter was characterized using two statistical measurement techniques. The first technique...

Wideband measurement of extreme impedance with a multistate reflectometer

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Denis X. LeGolvan, Ronald A. Ginley, Thomas M. Wallis, Atif A. Imtiaz, Pavel Kabos

Abstract: We present a technique for accurate wideband measurements of one-port devices with extreme impedances. Our technique uses a reflectometer with...

Design and testing of a software feedback loop for RF power leveling

December 12, 2008

Author(s)

Xiaohai Cui, Thomas P. Crowley

We have developed a software feedback loop that stabilizes the RF power input in calorimetric measurements to better than 30 ppm. In this system, a bolometric...

HCI Reduced Barriers in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

December 7, 2008

Author(s)

Joshua M. Pomeroy, Holger Grube

In this paper, the use of tunnel junctions as sensors for determining the interaction strength between highly charged ions (HCIs) and ultra-thin insulating...

Measuring the Effectiveness of the s-Metric to Produce Better Network Models

December 7, 2008

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl, Brian D. Cloteaux

Recent research has shown that while many complex networks follow a power-law distribution for their vertex degrees, it is not sufficient to model these...

A New Shape Benchmark for 3D Object Retrieval

December 3, 2008

Author(s)

Rui Fang, Afzal A. Godil, Xiaolan Li, Asim Wagan

Recently, content based 3D shape retrieval has drawn more and more attention by researchers. How to properly evaluate the result of shape searching algorithms...

Spatially Enhanced Bags of Words for 3D Shape Retrieval

December 3, 2008

Author(s)

Xiaolan Li, Afzal A. Godil, Asim Wagan

This paper presents a new method for 3D shape retrieval based on the bags-of-words model along with a weak spatial constraint. First, a two-pass sampling...

Bio-Imaging Toolkit for Indexing, Searching, Navigation, Discovery and Annotation

December 3, 2008

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Chun Pan (Benny) Cheung, Asim Wagan, Xiaolan Li

Bio-imaging toolkit is an application for biological imaging community that will bring in the latest efforts in indexing, searching, navigation, discovery...

An Interaction-based Test Sequence Generation Approach for Testing Web Applications

December 3, 2008

Author(s)

Wenhua Wang, Sreedevi Sampath, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker

Web applications often use dynamic pages that interact with each other by accessing shared objects, e.g., session objects. Interactions between dynamic pages...

Steering a Time Scale

December 1, 2008

Author(s)

Judah Levine

A time scale is a procedure for combining the data from an ensemble of clocks or frequency standards. The input data to the ensemble algorithm are generally the...

GPS Changes Before and After Implementation of the Architecture Evolution Plan

December 1, 2008

Author(s)

Marc A. Weiss

We characterize the performance of GPS signals before, and after Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP) implementation. We use the period from May 20 through...

Time and Frequency Transfer Activities at NIST

December 1, 2008

Author(s)

Victor S. Zhang, Michael A. Lombardi

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains one of the world s most accurate and stable time scales, and also developed and maintains...

Progress on a portable rubidium fountain frequency standard

December 1, 2008

Author(s)

Paul D. Kunz, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts

We are developing a simple and transportable laser-cooled rubidium (Rb) atomic fountain frequency standard. The optical package for this system uses DFB...

Locking a Rubidium Oscillator to a Remote Time Scale Using Real-Time Common-View GPS Measurements

December 1, 2008

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi, A.P. Dahlem

This paper introduces a new device, a prototype common-view disciplined oscillator (CVDO) that can be locked to a remote time scale through the use of real-time...

Vibration-induced PM Noise of A Rigid Optical Fiber Spool

December 1, 2008

Author(s)

Jennifer A. Taylor, Craig W. Nelson, Archita Hati, Neil Ashby, David A. Howe

Oscillators operating in field applications are subject to much more strenuous environmental effects than those in the laboratory. These environmental effects...

PTTI Capabilities of the Modernized LORAN System

December 1, 2008

Author(s)

Kirk Montgomery, Michael A. Lombardi

This paper covers the current status and future plans of the modernized LORAN systems in North America, the European Union, Asia, & Saudi Arabia. Special focus...

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