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Conferences

Instrumented Indentation Contact with Sharp Probes of Varying Acuity

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Dylan Morris

Effect of topography and multi-asperity contacts on nano-scale elastic property measurements by atomic force acoustic microscopy,

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Gheorghe Stan, Robert F. Cook

JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARD INTERCOMPARISON

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Yi-hua Tang

The majority of Josephson Voltage Standard (JVS) intercomparisons have been performed by using Zener voltage transfer standards and a protocol based on the...

Issues with Imaging Drives Containing Faulty Sectors

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

James R. Lyle, Mark R. Wozar

In the ideal situation when imaging a hard drive, all sectors are completely and accurately acquired and saved to an image file. In reality, occasionally drives...

An Evaluation Mechanism for Defining Gaps and Overlaps of Product Information Exchange Standards

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Ram D. Sriram, Mehmet Sarigecili, Mehmet M. Baysal, Utpal Roy, Sudarsan Rachuri

The need to exchange information between organizations or departments of the same corporation is hampered by interoperability problems that mostly originate...

Hydrosomes: Femtoliter Containers for Fluorescence Spectroscopy Studies

August 30, 2007

Author(s)

Ana Jofre, Jianyong Tang, M E. Greene, G M. Lowman, N Hodas, Rani B. Kishore, Kristian Helmerson, Lori S. Goldner

We report on improvements and innovations in the use of hydrosomes to encapsulate and study single molecules. Hydrosomes are optically-trappable aqueous...

Absolute Flux Calibrations of Stars

August 30, 2007

Author(s)

Gerald T. Fraser, Steven W. Brown, Howard W. Yoon, Bettye C. Johnson, Keith R. Lykke

Absolute stellar photometry is based on 1970s terrestrial measurements of the star Vega referenced against the Cu fixed-point blackbody. Significant advances in...

Distinguishing Between Nonlinear Channel Transport and Contact Effects in Organic FETs

August 30, 2007

Author(s)

Behrang Hamadani, Jeremy LeBoeuf, R J. Kline, Iain McCulloch, Martin Heeney, Curt A. Richter, Lee J. Richter, David J. Gundlach

We investigate charge injection and transport in organic field-effect transistors fabricated by using poly(2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophene-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b...

A Comparison of Pooled and Sampled Relevance Judgments

August 29, 2007

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff

Test collections are most useful when they are reusable, that is, when they can be reliably used to rank systems that did not contribute to the pools. Pooled...

Simulating the Performance of Building Are Networks as a Communication Bridge to Emergency Responders

August 28, 2007

Author(s)

Stephen J. Treado, David G. Holmberg, S Cook

Standardizing Measurements of Autonomy in the Artificially Intelligent

August 28, 2007

Author(s)

Amy Hudson, Larry H. Reeker

The amount of control that an intelligent system has over their actions, whether they are able to act independently from their creator, plays a major factor in...

Measuring Chip Segmentation by High-Speed Microvideography and Comparison to Finite-Element Modeling Simulations

August 27, 2007

Author(s)

Robert W. Ivester, Eric P. Whitenton, Jarred C. Heigel, T Marusich, C Arthur

This paper presents comparisons between finite element modeling and experimental measurement of chip segmentation in American Iron and Steel Institute 1045...

The TREC 2005 Terabyte Track

August 27, 2007

Author(s)

Charles L. Clarke, Falk Scholer, Ian Soboroff

The Terabyte Track explores how retrieval and evaluation techniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections, examining both efficiency and effectiveness issues...

Coherent fiber-based frequency combs and cw lasers at 1550 nm

August 26, 2007

Author(s)

Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Paul A. Williams

Coherent optical sources in the 1550 nm region of the spectrum have a number of applications in frequency metrology, stable frequency transfer, precision...

Round-robin testing of carbon nanotubes using Novel and traditional nanometrology tools

August 26, 2007

Author(s)

John H. Lehman, Tom Campbell, Anne Dillon, Roop Mahajan

Quantitative, systematic and reproducible metrology of carbon nanotubes is paramount to the fundamental understanding of these promising nanomaterials. Moreover...

Simultaneous Measurement of Up-Welling Spectral Radiance Using a Fiber-Coupled CCD Spectrograph

August 26, 2007

Author(s)

M Yarbrough, S Flora, M Feinholz, Terrance Houlihan, Yong S. Kim, Steven W. Brown, B. Carol Johnson, Kenneth Voss, Dennis Clark

Determination of the water-leaving spectral radiance using in-water instrumentation requires measurements of the up-welling spectral radiance (Lu) at several...

Validation of Radiometric Standards for the Laboratory Calibration of Reflected-Solar Earth Observing Satellite Instruments

August 26, 2007

Author(s)

James J. Butler, B. Carol Johnson, Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, R Barnes

Historically, the traceability of the laboratory calibration of Earth-observing satellite instruments to a primary radiometric reference scale (SI units) is the...

Validation of the Infrared Emissivity Characterization of Materials Through Intercomparison of Direct and Indirect Methods

August 24, 2007

Author(s)

Leonard M. Hanssen, Sergey Mekhontsev, V B. Khromchenko

A comparison of the spectral directional emissivity of samples as a function of wavelength was performed at the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometry...

Engineering Ligands for Characterizing Biomaterials Using Combinatorial Phage Display

August 22, 2007

Author(s)

Marc Roy, Eric J. Amis, Matthew Becker

Recently, combinatorial phage display has emerged as a powerful method to design peptides capable of selective and enhanced binding affinity to organic...

Longitudinal Heat Conduction in Finned-Tube Evaporators

August 21, 2007

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski, William V. Payne, J M. Choi

The paper evaluates performance of finned-tube evaporators at different refrigerant exit superheats to assess the impact of longitudinal heat conduction on...

Mapping Cell Distribution in Amorphous Scaffolds using Confocal Microscopy

August 19, 2007

Author(s)

Jirun Sun, Nancy Lin, Marcus T. Cicerone, Sheng Lin-Gibson

One common method for probing cell-material interactions is direct visualization via confocal laser scanning microscopy, a technique widely used for studying...

Design and Fabrication of an Operating Room Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Hip Surgery Artifact

August 17, 2007

Author(s)

Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Yong Sik Kim, Daniel S. Sawyer, Craig M. Shakarji

Hundreds of thousands of joint arthroplasty operations are performed throughout the world every year providing life saving relief from pain and return of...

Where EAP Security Claims Fail

August 14, 2007

Author(s)

Katrin Hoeper, Lei Chen

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is widely used as an authentication framework to control the access to wireless networks, e.g. in IEEE 802.11 and...

Ti K-XANES Analysis of the Cation Distribution in the CaTi_1-xZr_xO₃ Solid Solutions

August 14, 2007

Author(s)

Victor L. Krayzman, Igor Levin, Joseph C. Woicik

Abstract. The effects of local B-cation distribution and octahedral tilting on the pre-edge structure in the Ti X-ray absorption K-spectra of the CaTi1-xZrxO3...

Data Modeling to Support Environmental Information Exchange Throughout the Supply Chain

August 11, 2007

Author(s)

John V. Messina, Eric D. Simmon

With an ever-increasing awareness of the environmental impact of manufacturing, more and more political organizations (countries, states, and unions) are...

Microstructure of 100 nm damascene copper overburden and lines studied by electron backscatter diffraction

August 6, 2007

Author(s)

Roy H. Geiss, David T. Read

A detailed understanding of the crystallography of metallic conductors in modern interconnect systems is essential if we are to understand the influence of...

Nanowire Electromechanical Logic Switch

August 5, 2007

Author(s)

Qiliang Li, Curt A. Richter, Hao Xiong, John S. Suehle

Random Telegraph Signals and 1/f Noise in ZnO Nanowire Field Effect Transistors

August 5, 2007

Author(s)

Hao Xiong, Wenyong Wang, Qiliang Li, Curt A. Richter, John S. Suehle, Woong-Ki Hong, Takhee Lee, Daniel M. Fleetwood

The Realization of the SI Second and Generation of UTC(NIST) at the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

August 2, 2007

Author(s)

Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts

The Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the laser-cooled Cesium primary fountain frequency...

Wireless Sensor Network Based on IEEE 1451.0 and IEEE 1451.5-802.11

August 1, 2007

Author(s)

Kang B. Lee, Yuyin Song

This paper describes a wireless sensor network (WSN) based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) s 1451.0, 1451.5, and 802.11...

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