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Conferences

Boundary/Contour Fitted Grid Generation for Effective Visualizations in a Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

March 1, 2007

Author(s)

Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang

Effective visualizations can help researchers obtain a more complete understanding of high level mathematical functions that arise in mathematics, statistics...

Development of an Evaluation Method for Acceptable Usability

February 27, 2007

Author(s)

Brian C. Stanton, Brian Antonishek, Jean C. Scholtz

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted three workshops with First Responders to determine requirements for robots used in Urban...

Enhancement of Engine Oil Wear and Friction Control Performance Through Titanium Additive Chemistry

February 27, 2007

Author(s)

J M. Guevremont, G H. Guinther, D Szemenyei, Mark Devlin, T-C Jao, Cherno Jaye, Joseph Woicik, Daniel A. Fischer

Traditionally, wear protection and friction modification by engine oil are provided by zinc dithiophosphate (ZDDP) or other phosphorus compounds. These...

Accuracy in Optical Image Modeling

February 26, 2007

Author(s)

James E. Potzick, Egon Marx, M P. Davidson

Wafer exposure process simulation and optical photomask feature metrology both rely on optical image modeling for accurate results. The best way to gauge the...

Standards Development for Wireless Communications for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

February 26, 2007

Author(s)

Kate Remley, Galen H. Koepke, Elena R. Messina, Adam S. Jacoff, George Hough

To gather data in support of standards development for urban search and rescue robots, NIST is conducting a series of field tests to quantify the functionality...

Long-Term Stability Test System for High-Voltage, High-Frequency SiC Power Devices

February 25, 2007

Author(s)

Tam H. Duong, David Berning, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Keyue M. Smedley

This paper presents test system developed for long-term stability characterization of 10 kV Silicon Carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs and SiC diodes under 20 kHz hard...

Evaluation of the 3D Compositional Fluctuation Effect on Line-Edge-Roughness

February 25, 2007

Author(s)

Shuhui Kang, Wen-Li Wu, B D. Vogt, Vivek Prabhu, Eric K. Lin, Karen Turnquest

Line-edge-roughness (LER) and the relationship to resist processing and materials design is a critical problem for sub-65 nm photolithography. In this work we...

Effect of Photoacid Generator Concentration and Developer Strength on the Patterning Capabilities of a Model EUV Photoresist

February 25, 2007

Author(s)

Kwang-Woo Choi, Vivek Prabhu, Kristopher Lavery, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, John T. Woodward IV, Michael Leeson, H Cao, Manish Chandhok, George Thompson

Current extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist materials do not yet meet requirements on exposure-dose sensitivity, line-width roughness (LWR), and resolution...

Identifying Materials Limits of Chemically Amplified Photoresists

February 25, 2007

Author(s)

Wen-Li Wu, Vivek Prabhu, Eric K. Lin

Chemically amplified photoresists are likely to remain the primary imaging materials for the semiconductor industry. As feature sizes decrease to dimensions...

FTIR measurements of compositional heterogeneities

February 25, 2007

Author(s)

Shuhui Kang, B D. Vogt, Wen-Li Wu, Vivek Prabhu, David L. VanderHart, Ashwin Rao, Eric K. Lin, Karen Turnquest

A general approach to characterize compositional heterogeneity in polymer thin films using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been demonstrated...

Does Habituation Affect Fingerprint Quality?

February 20, 2007

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos, R J. Michaels, Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse, Peter May

Interest in the environmental factors that affect biometric image quality is increasing as biometric technologies are currently being implemented in various...

Accurate color measurement methods for medical displays

February 15, 2007

Author(s)

Anindita Saha, Hongye Liang, Aldo Badano, Edward F. Kelley

We report on the characterization of two novel probes for measuring display color without contamination from other screen areas or off-normal emissions. The...

The use of thermo-electric cooled short-wave infrared detectors in heat-seeking systems

February 14, 2007

Author(s)

Howard W. Yoon, George P. Eppeldauer

Osteocyte Enhancement of Angiogenesis In Vitro

February 14, 2007

Author(s)

Erica Takai, Juan M. Taboas, Rocky Tuan, Steven D. Hudson

It is well known that an intimate relationship exists between vascularization and bone formation during development and fracture healing, where new bone...

Maturation Stage Dependent Interaction of Mature Osteoblasts and Osteoprogenitor Cells with Microvascular Endothelial Cells

February 14, 2007

Author(s)

Erica Takai, Rocky Tuan, Steven D. Hudson

Angiogenesis is essential to the development, maintenance, and repair of bone tissue, as well as the survival of engineered tissues. Also, since osteoblasts (OB...

Frequency Tuning and Spurious Signal Generation at Microwave Frequencies in Ferroelectric Thin-film Transmission Lines

February 14, 2007

Author(s)

Jordi Mateu, James Booth, S. A. Schima

This work evaluates the RF tuning and the microwave nonlinear response of SrTiO 3u thin-films by measuring the third harmonic and third order intermodulation...

Quantum Computing with Very Noisy Devices

February 13, 2007

Author(s)

Emanuel H. Knill

This lecture was presented at the Workshop on Trapped Ion Quantum Computing hosted by NIST, February 21 - 24, 2006. It discussed the basic principles of fault...

Compact Anamorphic Imaging Spectrometer

February 9, 2007

Author(s)

P Maciejewski, K Barnard, Rand Swanson, Michael Kehoe, C Smith, Thomas Moon, Robert R. Bousquet, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke

Deployment of compact hyperspectral imaging sensors on small UAVs has the potential of providing a cost-effective solution for rapid-response target detection...

Nanocrystal-Based Biomimetic System for Quantitative Flow Cytometry

February 6, 2007

Author(s)

Marina Dobrovolskaia, Hyeong G. Kang, Matthew L. Clarke, Anil Patri, Jeeseong Hwang

Flow cytometry has been instrumental in rapid analysis of single cells since the 1970s. One of the common approaches is the immunofluorescence study involving...

On Capturing Information Requirements in Process Specifications

February 1, 2007

Author(s)

Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Peter O. Denno

Historically, business process models refer only to large information sets, and database models and messaging standards provide models of all information about...

Computational Models of the Nana Probe Tip for Static Behaviors (Abstract Only)

February 1, 2007

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Theodore V. Vorburger, Che B. Joung, Joseph Fu, Ronald G. Dixson, Li Ma

As integrated circuits become smaller and faster, the measurement of line width must have less uncertainty and more versatility. The common requirement for...

The use of thermo-electric cooled short-wave infrared detectors in heat-seeking systems

February 1, 2007

Author(s)

Howard W. Yoon

Covalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes With Diisocyanate for Polyurethane Nanocomposites

February 1, 2007

Author(s)

Aline Granier, Tinh Nguyen, Naomi Eidelman, Jonathan W. Martin

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have a wide range of potential applications due to their unique mechanical properties, high aspect ratios, and electronics structures...

A Case Study in Enterprise Modelling for Interoperable Cross-Enterprise Data Exchange

February 1, 2007

Author(s)

Marija Jankovic, Nenad Ivezic, T Knothe, Zuran Marjanovic, Pat Snack

In this paper, we describe an approach to validate the capability of the ATHENA-enhanced enterprise modelling solutions to capture necessary cross...

Enabling Semantic Mediation for Business Applications: XML-RDF, RDF-XML and XSD-RDFS Transformations

February 1, 2007

Author(s)

I Miletic, Marko Vujasinovic, Nenad Ivezic, Zuran Marjanovic

In this paper, we describe results of our work in developing transformation tools that enable use of RDF-based Semantic Mediation tools for integration of...

Performance Analysis of Symbolic Road Recognition for On-Road Driving

January 31, 2007

Author(s)

Mike Foedisch, Craig I. Schlenoff, Rajmohan Madhavan

Previous approaches to road sensing, namely road detection were based on segmenting the sensor data, i.e. color camera image, into road and non-road areas...

Traversability Metrics for Urban Search and Rescue Robots on Rough Terrain

January 31, 2007

Author(s)

V Molino, Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, Anthony J. Downs, Adam S. Jacoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky

Rough terrain, such as the rubble that we would expect to find in urban disaster areas, will likely impede robot mobility. The goal of this paper is to find...

Performance Evaluation of a Terrain Traversability Learning Algorithm in The DARPA LAGR Program

January 31, 2007

Author(s)

Michael O. Shneier, William P. Shackleford, Tsai Hong Hong, Tommy Chang

The Defense Applied Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Learning Applied to Ground Vehicles (LAGR) program aims to develop algorithms for autonomous vehicle...

Performance Evaluation of Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems

January 31, 2007

Author(s)

Jack J. Ference, Sandor S. Szabo, Wassim G. Najm

This paper describes a program to develop and test an integrated crash warning system that addresses rear-end, lane change, and roadway departure crashes for...

Technology Evaluations and Performance Metrics for Soldier-Worn Sensors for ASSIST

January 31, 2007

Author(s)

Brian Weiss, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael O. Shneier, Ann Virts

The DARPA-funded Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems and Technology (ASSIST) project is aimed at developing soldier-worn sensors to increase a soldier s...

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