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Eric D. Simmon, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, John V. Messina
The semiconductor industry continues to strive for improvements in the fabrication process. The Advanced Process Control (APC) systems supporting the...
Streamlining and Bulletproofing the Standards Development Process In the increasingly complex semiconductor fabrication environment capturing and transferring...
William C. Swann, Sarah L. Gilbert, Brian Washburn, Nathan R. Newbury
NIST research on near infrared frequency and wavelength references is presented. A new high accuracy wavelength calibration transfer standard, SRM 2519a, based...
In 1998, Persily published a review of commercial and institutional building airtightness data that found significant levels of air leakage and debunked the...
Samuel Benz, Charles J. Burroughs, Paul Dresselhaus, Nicolas Hadacek, Yonuk Chong
For the past 10 years NIST has been developing the next generation of voltage standard systems based on arrays of normal-metal barrier Josephson junctions. We...
Eyal Gerecht, Dazhen Gu, Sigfrid Yngvesson, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Ric Zannoni, John Nicholson
We have demonstrated a low-noise heterodyne three-element focal plane array (FPA) at 1.6 THz consisting of NbN Hot Electron Bolometric (HEB) detectors...
Zhixin Hu, Arnaud Trouve, Y Utiskul, J G. Quintiere
This study is aimed at characterizing the dynamics of compartment fires under poorly ventilated conditions. The study considers four cases that correspond to...
Anthony P. Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, Kuldeep R. Prasad, Alexander Maranghides, Therese P. McAllister
A large-scale fire experiment was conducted to assess the accuracy of a combination of gas and solid-phase models designed to predict the temperatures of...
Anthony P. Hamins, Erik L. Johnsson, Michelle K. Donnelly
The experiments described here were part of an international collaborative project to assess and validate fire computer codes for nuclear power plant...
The purpose of this lecture is to assess the current state of our ability to simulate the consequences of a fire in a large building, and suggest some areas...
John E. Kitching, Svenja A. Knappe, Li-Anne Liew, P Schwindt, Vladislav Gerginov, V Shah, John Moreland, Alan Brannon, J Breitbarth, Z Popovic, Leo W. Hollberg
We describe recent efforts at NIST to develop microfabricated, chip-scale atomic frequency references based on microfabrication techniques commonly used in...
We present a novel measure of fingerprint image quality, which can be used to estimate fingerprint match performance. This means presenting the matcher with...
We consider the problem of computing the Hamming weight of an n-bit vector using a circuit with gates for addition and multiplication modulo 2 (alternatively...
A procedure is presented that makes use of measured pressures to predict peak static responses of low buildings, for cases in which no wind tunnel model is...
A procedure is described for the design of rigid buildings for wind loading. The procedure, based on the database-assisted design (DAD) approach, uses measured...
Arvind K. Balijepalli, Thomas W. LeBrun, Cedric V. Gagnon, Yong-Gu Lee, Nicholas G. Dagalakis
In order to realize the flexibility optical trapping offers as a nanoassembly tool, we need to develop natural and intuitiveinterfaces to assemble large...
With wireless capable devices becoming more and more accessible, there is an increasing need for standardization of wireless networking. One of the most...
In semiconductor electronics applications, line edge and linewidth roughness are generally measured using a root mean square (RMS) metric. The true value of RMS...
A committee of industry and government technology experts has completed a three-year effort to develop a set of specifications that consist of a unifying set of...
We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the...
Paul Dresselhaus, Yonuk Chong, Nicolas Hadacek, Burm Baek, Michio Watanabe, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel Benz
We have used MoSi2 barrier superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor (SNS) double stacked junctions to generate audio frequency ac waveforms with metrological...
We have investigated arrays of bicrystal Josephson junctions for possible application in a quantized voltage noise source. In order to reduce the intrinsically...
The EPA BASE study involved indoor environmental measurements in 100 U.S. office buildings. This paper presents an analysis of the measured outdoor air...
The amount of outdoor air provided to occupied spaces is one of the most important determinants of indoor air quality, but many critical questions and...