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Conferences

Collision Dynamics of A Liquid Fire Suppressant Upon A Heated Wax Surface

July 18, 2003

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Jiann C. Yang

The impact of a distilled water droplet upon a heated wax surface was investigated experimentally using a high-speed digital camera at 1000 frames/s. Two...

Gigahertz Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Frequency Metrology

July 14, 2003

Author(s)

A Bartels

Cryogenic Electronics for Measurements and Standards

July 11, 2003

Author(s)

Richard E. Harris

A wide range of applications of cryogenic electronics to measurements and standards is described. Standards include those for voltage, capacitance and current...

Stacked SNS Josephson Junctions for Quantum Voltage Applications

July 11, 2003

Author(s)

Paul Dresselhaus, Yonuk Chong, Samuel Benz

NIST is using SNS Josephson junctions as the basis of quantum voltage metrology. Planar junction technology limits the voltage and bandwidth of these systems...

Nonlinear Microwave Response of MgB₂ Thin Films

July 11, 2003

Author(s)

James Booth, S. Y. Lee, Kenneth Leong, J. H. Lee, J. Lim, H. N. Lee, B. Oh, S. H. Moon

Thin films of the newly discovered superconductor MgB 2 show promise for a number of different electronic applications. In order to evaluate the suitability of...

A Superconducting Microwave Power Limiter for Protection of High-Performance Superconducting Electronics

July 11, 2003

Author(s)

James Booth, Kenneth Leong, Susan A. Schima

We report on the development of a microwave power limiter based on high temperature superconductor technology. The power limiter takes the form of a 50 Ω...

Kinetic Inductance Contributions to the Nonlinear Response of Superconductors at Microwave Frequencies

July 11, 2003

Author(s)

James Booth, Kenneth Leong, Susan A. Schima

We demonstrate how nonlinear effects in high temperature superconducting thin films can be quantified based on a current-dependent penetration depth λ(J). Using...

Calculating the Impact of Large Fires on the Environment.

July 9, 2003

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan

A Time-Domain SQUID Multiplexer System for Read-Out of Superconducting Transition-Edge-Sensor Arrays

July 7, 2003

Author(s)

Carl D. Reintsema, James A. Beall, Steven Deiker, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Sae Woo Nam, Leila R. Vale, Joel Ullom, Yizi Xu, Joern Beyer, Martin Huber

The development of time-domain SQUID multiplexers enables the integration of superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) into arrays of thousands of elements...

Broadband phase-coherent frequency synthesis with actively linked Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite femtosecond lasers

July 3, 2003

Author(s)

A Bartels, Nathan R. Newbury, Kristin L. Corwin, I Thomann, Leo W. Hollberg, Scott Diddams

We report a scheme to generate a phase-coherent optical frequency comb extending from 0.6 υm to 1.4 υm wavelength by actively linking the Ti:sapphire and Cr...

Temperature Uncertainties for Bare-Bead and Aspirated Thermocouple Measurements in Fire Environments

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, E Braun, Richard D. Peacock, Henri E. Mitler, Erik L. Johnsson, Paul A. Reneke, L G. Blevins

Temperature measurements have been made for natural-gas and heptane fires in a reduced-scale enclosure using a variety of bare-bead and aspirated thermocouples...

Physical Measurement of Flashing Lights - Now and Then

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno

This paper begins with a historical review of flashing lights and physical measurement of flashing lights since the time the Blondel-Rey equation was developed...

Combinatorial Edge Delamination Test for Thin Film Adhesion Concept, Procedure, Results

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Martin Y. Chiang, J He, R Song, Alamgir Karim, Wen-Li Wu, Eric J. Amis

A high-throughput combinatorial approach to edge delamination test is proposed to map the failure of adhesion as a function of both temperature and film...

Absolute Alignment of the Reference Retroreflectometer at NIST

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, T Heimer, E A. Early

Development of LED Photometric Standards at NIST

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, T Heimer, Yuqin Zong, Yoshihiro Ohno, G Dezsi

Improved Accuracy Photometric and Tristimulus-Color Scales Based On Spectral Irradiance Responsivity

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Steven W. Brown, Carl C. Miller, Keith R. Lykke

Ceramics Lubrication

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Stephen M. Hsu, Richard S. Gates, D E. Deckman

ramics are hard, brittle, and chemically inert under most environments. They wear by abrasion and fracture. Since brittle fracture is very sensitive to stress...

Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties of Heterofullerene C₄₈B₁₂

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Rui-Hua Xie, L Jensen, Garnett W. Bryant, J Zhao, V H. Smith

Bonding, electric (hyper) polarizability; vibrational and magnetic properties of heterofullerene C 48B 12 are studied by first-principles calculations. Infrared...

Polysilane Production in RF SiH₄ and H₂ - SiH₄ Plasmas

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

P Horvath

Stable gases produced in SiH 4 and H 2-SiH 4, capacitively-coupled RF discharges, operated at typical device-production conditions, were investigated by...

Applications of Image Diagnostics to Metrology Quality Assurance and Process Control

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

et al Starikov

The purpose of this paper is to define standard methods for effective and efficient image-based dimensional metrology for microlithography applications in the...

Frequency metrology for wavelength division multiplexed optical fiber communications

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Sarah L. Gilbert

Wavelength calibration is essential to ensure channel stability and characterize optical components for wavelength division multiplexed optical fiber...

Noninvasive Detection of Weapons of Mass Destruction Using Terahertz Radiation

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

M B. Campbell, Edwin J. Heilweil

The growing and immediate threat of biological and chemical weapons has placed urgency on the development of chemical and biological warfare agent (CWA/BWA) and...

Integration of Airflow and Energy Simulation Using CONTAM and TRNSYS

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Timothy P. McDowell, Steven Emmerich, J B. Thornton, George Walton

The impact of infiltration and ventilation flows on the energy use in commercial buildings has received little attention. One of the reasons for this lack of...

A Hurricane Damage Prediction Model for Residential Structures

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

A Cope, K Gurley, James J. Filliben, Emil Simiu, J P. Pinelli, C Subramanian, L. Zhang, S Hamid

The focus of this paper is the development of a probabilistic model for the prediction of structural damage due to hurricane winds in the state of Florida. This...

IEEE 1451 Smart Wireless Machinery Monitoring and Control for Naval Vessels

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

T Brooks, S Chen, Kang B. Lee

The IEEE 1451 family of standards makes it easy to create solutions using existing networking technologies, standardized connections to smart devices, and a...

Building a Filtering Tst Collection for TREC 2002

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Ian Soboroff, S E. Robertson

Test collections for the filtering track in TREC have typically used either past sets of relevance judgments, or categorized collections such as Reuters Corpus...

Network Transfer of Control Data: An Application of the NIST Smart Data Flow

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Martial Michel, Vincent M. Stanford, O P. Galibert

Pervasive Computing environments range from basic mobile point of sale terminal systems, to rich Smart Spaces with many devices and sensors such as lapel...

GMAW Wire Feedability: A Friction Model

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

A Padilla, D. R. Munoz, Timothy P. Quinn, R. A. Rorrer

A Hertzian-based contact model of the friction between the welding wire and the wire liner has been developed to predict the wire pulling force for gas metal...

A Mathematical Model of Wire Feeding Mechanisms in GMAW

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

T M. Padilla, D. R. Munoz, Timothy P. Quinn, R. A. Rorrer

A Hertzian based contact model of the friction between the welding wire and the wire liner has been developed to predict the wire pulling force for gas metal...

Laboratory Studies of Oxygen Continuun Absorption

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Y I. Baranov, Gerald T. Fraser, Walter J. Lafferty, B Mate, A A. Vigasin

Laboratory studies of the mid and near infrared collision-induced absorption bands of O 2 are reviewed, with an emphasis on the 6.4 m and 1.27 m bands and on Ar...

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