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Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Joseph Fu, Michael W. Cresswell, Richard A. Allen, William F. Guthrie
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a multifaceted program in atomic force microscope (AFM) dimensional metrology. There are two major
We describe a collision-finding attack on 16 rounds of the Tiger hash function requiring the time for about 244 compression function invocations. This extends
In this work we introduce surface-initiated polymerization inside a microchannel as an alternate method to pattern surfaces with polymer brushes. Instead of
Our investigation concerns measuring broadband dielectric permittivity and loss tangent of thin film high dielectric constant (high-k) dielectric materials at
B D. Vogt, Shuhui Kang, Vivek Prabhu, Ashwin Rao, Eric K. Lin, Sushil K. Satija, Karen Turnquest, Wen-Li Wu
An understanding of acid diffusion-reaction in chemically amplified photoresists during the post-exposure bake (PEB) is critical for both critical dimension (CD
Kristopher Lavery, George Thompson, Hai Deng, D S. Fryer, Kwang-Woo Choi, B D. Vogt, Vivek Prabhu, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Sushil K. Satija, Michael Leeson, Heidi B. Cao
More demanding requirements are being made of photoresist materials for fabrication of nanostructures as the feature critical dimensions (CD) decrease. For EUV
Nearly all of the radiometric standards for laser power and energy measurements at NIST and elsewhere in the world are based on thermal detectors. These
John H. Lehman, Christopher L. Cromer, Marla L. Dowell
High accuracy laser radiometry is on the verge of significant improvements just as new laser technologies are evolving. Our present tasks are directed toward
Many new applications are emerging for piezoelectric ceramics including adaptive structures, active-flow-control devices, and vibration and noise suppression
Improved measurement of neural signals is needed for research into Alzheimer¿s, Parkinson¿s, epilepsy, strokes, and spinal cord injuries. At the heart of such
John W. Roberts, Edward A. Fanning, Hassan A. Sahibzada
High performance video places severe demands on playback system and display device resources. Motion playback errors such as irregular motion playback and image
Jae Hyun Kim, Martin Y. Chiang, D Kawaguchi, Gareth Royston, Christopher M. Stafford
At the NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC), we have designed, developed, and demonstrated a combinatorial approach to the edge delamination test to char
Kar T. Tan, David J. Benatti, Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston
The degradation of styrene-butadiene-styrene triblock copolymer has been characterized using DMTA, FTIR-transmission and UV-Vis spectroscopies. From FTIR
Ashwin Rao, Shuhui Kang, B D. Vogt, Vivek Prabhu, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Karen Turnquest, W D. Hinsberg
The dissolution of partially deprotected chemically amplified photoresists is the final step in printing lithographic features. Since this process step can be
Shuhui Kang, Vivek Prabhu, B D. Vogt, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Karen Turnquest
A correlation between polymer molecular structure and acid catalyzed kinetics is demonstrated by a binary copolymer photoresists system which includes an acid
For more than 15 years, the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has worked closely with the Army Research
We describe a novel class of millimeter-wave and terahertz monochrometers based on adiabatically tuned frequency-selective surfaces. They are analogous to the
Charles Dietlein, A. Luukanen, Francois Meyer, Zoya Popovic, Erich N. Grossman
Images acquired by a 105-mK noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) scanned single-pixel broadband 0.1-1 THz passive system are analyzed with two
In this paper, an error analysis based on boundary error popularity including semantic boundary categorization is applied in the context of the news story
The performance of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), including efficiency, flux level, lifetime, and the variation of color, is advancing at a remarkable pace. LEDs
In recent years, heightened security concerns have prompted increased interest in radiation portal monitors, instruments capable of detecting, and in some cases
A new metric for evaluating the color quality of light sources is being developed at NIST, in close contact with the lighting industry and the CIE. The current
This Paper describes an implementation of the proposed IEEE 1451.0 and 1451.5 Standards. The implemented systsem was developed based on the object-oriented
The importance of developing better tools for observing the status of the North American Power Grid is described. Focus is on the performance of the Phase
Seong-Eun Park, Nhan V. Nguyen, Joseph J. Kopanski, John S. Suehle, Eric M. Vogel
Two-dimensional (2-D) doping profiles of differently doped Si homostructures were investigated by scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM) and scanning Kelvin
The methods used to critically evaluate and compile the data on energy levels, wavelengths, and ionization potentials of multiply ionized tungsten and other
This report provides a broad overview of the progress in procedural improvements for impact testing. It includes a short summary of early developments, a
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors have been shown to be a good means of non-destructive monitoring of the stress and/or strain of the materials in which they
Craig I. Schlenoff, Brian A. Weiss, Michelle P. Steves, Ann M. Virts, Michael O. Shneier, Michael Linegang
ASSIST (Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems Technology) is a DARPA-funded effort whose goal is to exploit soldier-worn sensors to augment the soldier s
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Christopher J. Scrapper Jr, Stefano Carpin, M L. Lewis
Research efforts in urban search and rescue robotics have grown substantially in recent years. Two important robotic competitions (a robot physical league and a