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Conferences

Oxide Reliability of SiC MOS Devices

Author(s)
Liangchun (. Yu, Kin P. Cheung, Jason P. Campbell, John S. Suehle, Kuang Sheng
Silicon carbide possesses excellent material properties for high temperature, high frequency and high power applications. Among all the device structures

Contactless Differential Conductivity Detection

Author(s)
Gordon A. Shaw, David J. Ross, Steven E. Fick, Wyatt N. Vreeland
We propose a new technique, contactless differential conductivity detection (CDCD,) to improve the detection limit of contactless conductivity detection for

Calibration of a Radiance Standard for the NPP/OMPS Instrument

Author(s)
Bettye C. Johnson, James J. Butler, Scott J. Janz, Robert D. Saunders, John W. Cooper, Matthew G. Kowalewski, R Barnes
In June 2007, a spherical integrating source was calibrated in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC)

Chip-scale atomic devices: precision atomic instruments based on MEMS

Author(s)
John E. Kitching, Svenja A. Knappe, Vladislav Gerginov, Vishal Shah, Peter D. Schwindt, Brad Lindseth, Elizabeth A. Donley, Ying-ju Wang, Eleanor Hodby, Matt Eardley, Ricardo Jimenez Martinez, William C. Griffith, Andrew Geraci, Jan Preusser, Tara C. Liebisch, Hugh Robinson, Leo Hollberg
We describe recent work at NIST to develop compact, low-power instruments based on a combination of precision atomic spectroscopy, advanced diode lasers and

Alpha-Dot or Not: Comparison of Two Single Atom Optical Clocks

Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, David Hume, Chin-Wen Chou, J.C. Koelemeij, A. Brusch, Sarah Bickman, Windell Oskay, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann, Wayne M. Itano, David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist
Repeated measurements of the frequency ratio of Hg + and Al + single-atom optical clocks over the course of a year yield a constraint on the possible temporal

NIST F1 and F2

Author(s)
Thomas P. Heavner, Tom Parker, Jon H. Shirley, Steven R. Jefferts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology operates a cesium fountain primary frequency standard, NIST-F1, which has been contributing to International

CTOA Measurements of Welds in X100 Pipeline Steel

Author(s)
Elizabeth S. Drexler, Philippe P. Darcis, Christopher N. McCowan, John M. Treinen, Avigdor Shtechman, Roni Reuven, Thomas A. Siewert, Robert Smith, J. Merritt, Joseph D. McColskey
A suite of tests characterizing X100 pipeline steels was initiated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder. Part of the test

Using uncalibrated lasers as wavelength standards

Author(s)
Jack A. Stone Jr.
The fundamental atomic physics of a gas laser transition is such that the transition frequency, or equivalently, the vacuum wavelength of the laser, cannot vary
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