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Eyal Gerecht, Carl D. Reintsema, Erich N. Grossman, A. L. Betz, R. T. Boreiko
We are reporting a noise temperature measured on a diffusion-cooled hot electron bolometeric (DHEB) mixer designed for a heterodyne focal plane array to study
Eyal Gerecht, V. A. Bhupathiraju, Erich N. Grossman, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Dazhen Gu, Sigfrid Yngvesson
We have developed a process for fabricating a thin NbN film at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO. A two-fold approach can be
We have previously developed a distributed routing algorithm which minimizes the number of overhead messages necessary to maintain the minimum-power multi-hop
D H. Chen, D P. DeWitt, Benjamin K. Tsai, Kenneth G. Kreider, William A. Kimes
Lightpipe radiation thermometers (LPRTs) are widely used to measure wafer temperatures in rapid thermal processing (RTP) tools. Using blackbody-calibrated LPRTs
Intelligent agents can enable the integration of preliminary design with manufacturing planning software systems. These agents execute in a computer-based
Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Susan M. Ballou, M Ols
The NIST RM (Reference Material) 8240/8250 Standard Bullets and Casings Project aims to support the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN)
We present a novel four-state method for measuring the polarization dependent wavelength shift (PDW) of a fiber Bragg grating. We show that measurement of the
Todd E. Harvey, Kristine A. Bertness, Chih-Ming Wang, Jolene Splett
Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) oscillations are widely used in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) as a technique to calibrate material growth
Shellee D. Dyer, Robert J. Espejo, Paul A. Williams
We demonstrate interferometric measurements of the relative group delay of a hydrogen cyanide gas cell with group-delay resolution of 0.3 ps at a wavelength
Chih-chiang Fu, Kristine A. Bertness, Chih-Ming Wang
We discuss the combination of noise level and scaling factor accuracy needed in optical reflectance spectroscopy data in order to obtain accurate parameters by
Chriss A. Grosvenor, David R. Novotny, Robert T. Johnk, Seturnino Canales, Jason Veneman
In this paper we discuss the direct illumination and reverberation chamber techniques for measuring shielding effectiveness. using the reverberation chamber as
This paper discusses the effects that finite conductors have on the propagation characteristics of planar transmission lines structures. Closed form expressions
Donna Beals, Christopher L. Holloway, Paul McKenna
In this paper we discuss the use of a field mapping approach for determining chamber quality. Both measurements and simulation results are used to illustrate
We show that the coupling between a sensor in an electrically large cavity and the outside world is a very complicated problem, with small changes inside the
A pseudo-isotropic source is presented. The source consists of an electrically-large cavity with internal excitation (horn antenna), a variable internal
Perry F. Wilson, Marco Candidi, Christopher L. Holloway
The emission patterns from electrically large objects are complex and require time consuming spherical scans to determine the emissions maximum. A planar cut
Terrence J. Jach, S. Kim, S M. Durbin, J. A. Aust, David S. Bright
We report on an improved method of visualizing domains in congruent ferroelectric crystals such as LiNbO^d3 with Bragg x-ray topography. Using monochromatic
James R. Baker-Jarvis, Raian K. Kaiser, Michael D. Janezic
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the characterization of materials that mimic the electromagnetic characteristics of the human body from low frequencies
It is difficult to characterize many antenna systems in a laboratory environment. Size is the major consideration, but an increasing number of sophisticated
Michael D. Janezic, Edward Kuester, James R. Baker-Jarvis
In this paper we present a new theoretical model, based on the mode-matching method, for making nondestructive permittivity and loss tangent measurements using
Claude Weil, Dennis G. Camell, David R. Novotny, Robert T. Johnk, Arthur Ondrejka
We discuss simulator units for calibrating across-the-road Doppler traffic radars used in highway speed enforcement. Two units of essentially the same design
In this paper we investigate a simple, robust and general method to determine the characteristic impedance of planar transmission lines based on calibration
In this paper we discuss several applications of calibration comparison in on-wafer measurement. This technique can be understood as an abstraction of the well
In the last two decades considerable Progress has been made in numerical modeling of isothermal and non-isothermal cavities by the Monte Carlo method, in
Metrics and measures for physical phenomena are precisely defined and widely accepted. However, metrics and measures for intelligent systems are as yet vaguely
A method is presented for measuring the uncertainty of a vehicle pose measurement system (e.g., GPS, inertial sensors, etc.). The method supports evaluations of
As robotic technologies mature, we are moving from simple systems that roam our laboratories to heterogeneous groups of systems that operate in complex non