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Conferences

Advancing Factory-Wide Data Quality for APC Applications

November 30, 2006

Author(s)

Harvey Wohlwend, Gino Crispieri, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

Accurate clock synchronization and time stamping plays a significant role in ensuring data quality as the semiconductor industry faces an imminent data...

Synchronizing Multimodal Data Streams Acquired Using Commodity Hardware

November 27, 2006

Author(s)

Martial Michel, Vincent M. Stanford

We have developed tools and techniques that allow video frame level synchronization of multiple free-running commodity video cameras, microphones, and computer...

Real-Time Speaker Verification with a Microphone Array

November 27, 2006

Author(s)

G. Mei, R. Xu, R. Lao, C. Kwan, Vincent M. Stanford

Real-time speaker verification, with speech acquired using the NIST Mk-III microphone array and an autodirective beamforming algorithm, is demonstrated. The...

ECBCS Annex 47: Cost-Effective Commissioning Research

November 20, 2006

Author(s)

Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Hannah Friedman, Marti Frank

In 2005, the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency s (IEA) Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems (ECBCS) program approved the...

Development of a Motion Imagery Quality Metric

November 20, 2006

Author(s)

J Irvine, Charles D. Fenimore, D Cannon, Donna Haverkamp, John W. Roberts, S Israel, L Simon, J Miller, A Aviles, Michelle Brennan

The motion imagery community would benefit from the availability of standard measures for assessing image interpretability. The National Imagery...

The Influence of NH₃ Anneal on the Crystallization Kinetics of HfO₂ Gate Dielectric Films

November 17, 2006

Author(s)

Patrick S. Lysaght, Joseph Woicik, Brendan Foran, Joel Barnett, Gennadi Bersuker, B H. Lee

HfO2 gate dielectric thin films have been exposed to anneal processing in NH3 and N2 ambient in order to decouple the influence of N incorporation from that of...

Optimization of SiGe Graded Buffer Defectivity and Throughput by Means of High Growth Temperature and Pre-Threaded Substrates

November 16, 2006

Author(s)

M Erdtmann, M T. Currie, Joseph Woicik, David R. Black

Dislocation glide kinetics dictate in relaxed graded buffers a fundamental opposition between the defectivity and throughput. For state-of-the-art Si-based...

INTEGRATED BRIDGE PROJECT DELIVERY AND LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT

November 16, 2006

Author(s)

Krishna Verma Verma, Thomas A. Siewert, F. Beckmann

This paper highlights developments that led the FHWA¿s Office of Bridge Technology, working with State departments of transportation (DOT) and the concrete and...

Control of MEMS Nanopositioners With Nano-Scale Resolution

November 10, 2006

Author(s)

Jason J. Gorman, Yong Sik Kim, Nicholas Dagalakis

Several approaches for the precision control of micro-scale positioning mechanisms, or MEMS nanopositioners, are presented along with initial experimental...

Precise Characterization of Liposome Populations Formed in a 5-Channel Flow-Focused System

November 9, 2006

Author(s)

Andreas Jahn, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Don DeVoe, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan

Previously, we demonstrated liposome formation using hydrodynamic focusing in a microfluidic network which enables us to produce liposomes of a controlled size...

Microfluidic Method for Thermal Cycling by Microwave Dielectric Heating

November 9, 2006

Author(s)

Pierre-Alain Auroux, Jayna J. Shah, James Booth, Mulpuri Rao, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan

We report on temperature time domain and spectral measurements for on-chip microwave thermocycling. In particular we observe enhanced specificity of the heating...

Photopatterned Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Cell Culture

November 9, 2006

Author(s)

Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, J. Brian Hutchison, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan

Patterned two-dimensional cell cultures are increasingly important for constructing bioanalytical tools for cell and molecular biology to address questions...

System-Level Integration of a Chip-Scale Atomic Clock: Microwave Oscillator and Physics Package

November 7, 2006

Author(s)

Alan Brannon, Vladislav Gerginov, Svenja A. Knappe, Z Popovic, John E. Kitching

We report on our progress in developing a prototype Chip-Scale Atomic Clock with the integration of the local oscillator and the physics package. A discussion...

Perspectives on the quantum Zeno paradox

November 7, 2006

Author(s)

Wayne M. Itano

As of October 2006, there were approximately 535 citations to the seminal 1977 paper of Misra and Sudarshan which pointed out the quantum Zeno paradox (more...

Energy Efficient Millimeter Wave Radio Link Establishment with Smart Array Antenna

November 6, 2006

Author(s)

Behnam Neekzad, John Baras, Kamran Sayrafian

Consider a system of two millimeter wave transceiver nodes A and B. We assume that each node is equipped with a circular array antenna that has beamforming...

A Versatile Gradient Substrate for Biofunctionalization

November 5, 2006

Author(s)

Nathan D. Gallant, Matthew Becker, Eric J. Amis

NIST has developed numerous platforms for characterizing the physical properties of sample libraries with orthogonal gradients using combinatorial methodologies...

Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Based Nanoknives

November 5, 2006

Author(s)

Gurpreet Singh, Paul Rice, Richard J. McIntosh, Roop L. Mahajan

A prototype microtome knife for cutting 100 nm thick slices of frozen-hydrated biological samples has been constructed using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT...

Design of an On-Chip Micro-Scale Nanoassembly System

November 3, 2006

Author(s)

Jason J. Gorman, Yong Sik Kim, Andras Vladar, Nicholas Dagalakis

In this paper, the design and proposed operation of a MEMS-based nanoassembly system is presented. The nanoassembly system is comprised of four nanomanipulators...

VAST 2006 Contest - A tale of Alderwood

November 2, 2006

Author(s)

Georges Grinstein, Theresa O'Connell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Catherine Plaisant, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting

Visual analytics experts realize that one effective way to push the field forward and to develop metrics for measuring the performance of various visual...

Work Function Characterization of TaSiN and TaCN Electrodes Using CV, IV, IPE and SKPM

November 1, 2006

Author(s)

Hao Xiong, Nhan V. Nguyen, Joseph J. Kopanski, John S. Suehle, Eric M. Vogel

Work function of TaSiN (TaCN) films on HfO2 or SiO2 gate dielectrics is investigated for the first time using a combination of Capacitance?Voltage, Fowler...

Long-Term Monitoring Strategy for Concrete-Based Structures Using Nonlinear Kalman Filtering

November 1, 2006

Author(s)

Kenneth A. Snyder, Z Q. Lu, J Philip

Kalman filtering is introduced as a rational means for developing a monitoring strategy for concrete structures. The mathematics and utility of linear Kalman...

Development of Hyperspectral Image Projectors

November 1, 2006

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, Jorge E. Neira

We present design concepts for calibrated hyperspectral image projectors (HIP) and related sources intended for system-level testing of instruments ranging from...

Development of a NIST Trace Particulate Explosives Reference Material to Evaluate IMS Detectors

November 1, 2006

Author(s)

William A. MacCrehan

Measurement of Hydrogen in Advanced Materials by Cold Neutron Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis

November 1, 2006

Author(s)

Rick L. Paul

Quantum dot single photon sources studied with superconducting single photon detectors

November 1, 2006

Author(s)

Martin Stevens, Robert Hadfield, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin

We report the observation of photon antibunching from a single, self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot (QD) at temperatures up to 135 K. The second-order intensity...

RF Vector Measurement Test-Bench For Evaluation of Behavioral Model Accuracy Under Realistic Excitation

November 1, 2006

Author(s)

M. Myslinski, Kate Remley, Dominique Schreurs, Bart Nauwelaers

This paper presents a simple test-bench providing RF vector measurements of typical wireless communication system building blocks under realistic signal...

RFID Security: A Taxonomy of Risk

October 27, 2006

Author(s)

A Karygiannis, T. Phillips, A. Tsibertzopoulos

Radio Frequency Indentification (RFID) and other automated identification technologies (AIT) are being used by government and industry to replace barcodes and...

Support of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to Industry The Semiconductor Industry

October 27, 2006

Author(s)

Joaquin (. Martinez, Stephen Knight

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is a United States Government Agency that develops metrology for the use and advancement of industry...

Review of ultraviolet and high power laser measurement standards at NIST

October 25, 2006

Author(s)

John H. Lehman, Christopher L. Cromer, Shao Yang, Marla L. Dowell

High accuracy laser radiometry is on the verge of growth and improvements just as new laser technologies are evolving. Our present tasks are directed toward...

High Accuracy Calibration of Photon-Counting Detectors

October 25, 2006

Author(s)

Sergey V. Polyakov, Michael Ware, Alan L. Migdall

We discuss a practical implementation of a photon-counting detector calibration using correlated photon pairs produced by parametric down-conversion. In this...

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