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Conferences

A Reference Tristimulus Colorimeter

June 25, 2001

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer

The accuracy of tristimulus colorimeters can be increased by using detector standards instead of traditional lamp standards for calibration. After high accuracy...

Security - Revenue Generator and Mission Enabler

June 21, 2001

Author(s)

G Stoneburner

We need to facilitate a change in user perception of security from a hindrance to an essential revenue generator and mission enabler. The Common Criteria...

Codes and Regulations.

June 18, 2001

Author(s)

J J. Beitel

Armstrong World Industries: Application of Fire Tests

June 18, 2001

Author(s)

T W. Fritz

Combustion of Mixtures of Weathered Alaskan Crude Oils and Water Under External Heat Flux.

June 12, 2001

Author(s)

A Y. Walavalkar, A K. Kulkarni

High Temperature Characteristics of 5kV, 20 A 4H-SiC PiN Rectifiers

June 7, 2001

Author(s)

Ranbir Singh, Allen R. Hefner Jr., David W. Berning, M. Palmer

This paper reports in detail, the design, a manufactuable fabrication process, and high temperature characteristics of a 4H-SiC rectifier with a 5 kV, 20 A...

Interferometric Figure Metrology; Enabling In-House Traceability

June 6, 2001

Author(s)

Christopher J. Evans, Angela Davies, Tony L. Schmitz, R E. Parks

The basic goal of the Advanced Optics Metrology program at NIST''s Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory is to help industry ensure that their measurement...

MEMS Test Structures for Mechanical Characterization of VLSI Thin Films

June 6, 2001

Author(s)

David L. Herman, Michael Gaitan, Don DeVoe

Flat-Panel-Display Measurements and Standards

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Edward F. Kelley

100 Years of Optical Science and Metrology at NIST

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

William R. Ott

The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was formed by Congress 100 years ago. The early Bureau was a small organization, founded at the beginning of the age of...

Transient Application, Recirculating Pool Fire, Agent Effectiveness Screen. Final Report.

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

William L. Grosshandler, Anthony P. Hamins, Jiann C. Yang, Kevin B. McGrattan, Cary Presser

A three-year research effort has been conducted as part of the Next Generation Program (NGP) to develop a laboratory screening device suitable for predicting...

The History of NIST's Refrigerants Program: 1. Zeotropic Mixture Cycles and Heat Transfer

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

David Didion

The NIST Refrigerants Program was initiated in 1981 under the sponsorship of the Electric Power Research Institute with the intent to determine if a zeotropic...

Finite Element Stress Computations Applied to Images of Damaged Concrete: A Possible New Diagnostic Tool for Concrete Petrography

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Paul E. Stutzman, David S. Bright, Edward J. Garboczi

Concrete petrography is used to assess damaged concrete in order to determine the probable mechanism of damage. However, using traditional petographic analyses...

Variations in the Thermoelectric Behavior of Palladium Following Heat Treatment

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Dean C. Ripple, G W. Burns

In order to identify limitations on the use of Pt/Pd thermocouples as high-accuracy thermometers, we have studied the change in thermocouple emf at the Al and...

New NIST Mercury Triple-Point Cells

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Gregory F. Strouse, J Lippiatt

Six new Hg triple-point (TP) cells (234.3156 K) were manufactured in the NIST PRT Laboratory for use in the realization of the International Temperature Scale...

Small Fixed-Point Cells for Use in Dry Well Block Calibrators

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Gregory F. Strouse

As part of a research project for the Combined Calibration Group (CCG) of the U.S. Armed Forces, three rugged fixed-point cells were developed for use in dry...

ITS-90 Calibration of Radiation Thermometers for RTP Using Wire/Thin-Film Thermocouples on a Wafer

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Christopher W. Meyer, D P. DeWitt, Kenneth G. Kreider, Francis J. Lovas, Benjamin K. Tsai

Light-pipe radiation thermometers (LPRTs) are the sensor system of choice in RTP tools. They can be calibrated against blackbodies with an uncertainty (k=1)...

Uncertainty of the NIST Low Frost-Point Humidity Generator

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Gregory E. Scace, Joseph T. Hodges

The NIST Low Frost-point Humidity Generator (LFPG) produces water vapor gas mixtures with mole fractions from approximately 5 nmol/mol to 4 mmol/mol for...

Investigation of the Non-Uniqueness of the ITS-90 in the Range 660 C to 962 C

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

G T. Furukawa, Gregory F. Strouse

Preliminary results are reported on the non-uniqueness of the ITS-90 using high temperature SPRTs (HTSPRTs) in the range 660 C to 962 C. To achieve temperature...

Should (T₁ - T₂) Have Larger Uncertainty Than T₁?

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Lee Y. G

In interlaboratory comparisons, laboratories sometimes use a transfer instrument to realize the value of a laboratory standard to compare the relative biases of...

Taming Active Content

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen

The private and public sectors depend heavily upon information technology (IT) systems to perform essential, mission-critical functions. As technology improves...

Standard Reference Material 2100: Fracture Toughness of Ceramics

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

George D. Quinn, K Xu, R J. Gettings, J A. Salem, J Swab

New Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2100 is the first reference material in the world for the property fracture toughness for any class material. The SRM is...

Towards Multiscale Simulations of Filled and Nanofilled Polymers

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

S C. Glotzer, Francis W. Starr

We perform simulations of filled and nanofilled polymers using a combination of molecular and mesoscale simulation techniques. Molecular dynamics simulations...

Validation of Scanning Probe Moire Technique With the CTE of Gold

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Elizabeth S. Drexler, T A. Winningham

Low expansion materials used in electronic devices require a tool that has a commensurate resolution for measuring deformation, such as the atomic force or...

Flow Visualization of Polymer Processing Additive Effects

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Kalman D. Migler, C Lavallee, M P. Dillon, S S. Woods, C L. Gettinger

Flow visualization was used to understand how polymer-processing additives (PPA) eliminate sharkskin in linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE). A sapphire...

Fourier Transform System for Characterization of Infrared Spectral Emittance of Materials

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Leonard M. Hanssen, Simon G. Kaplan, Sergey Mekhontsev

To meet the existing demand for measurements of emittance of opaque and semi-transparent materials, a new facility is being built at NIST around a bench-top...

Methods Used at NIST to Characterize and Callibrate Lightpipe Radiation Thermometers

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Benjamin K. Tsai, D P. DeWitt

Lightpipe radiation thermometers (LPRTs) are the sensors of choice for high temperature thermal processing of sillicon wafers. At temperatures above 800 K...

100 Years of Photometry and Radiometry Harnessing Light

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Jonathan E. Hardis

Measurement of light is an old subject, though the past 100 years have seen significant advances. 100 years ago, photometry the art and science of measuring...

NIST Activities in Support of Space-Based Radiometric Remote Sensing

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice, B C. Johnson

This paper provides an overview of NIST research and development in optical radiometry in the field of space-based remote sensing. The applications in this...

Characterizing Interfacial Roughness by Light Scattering Ellipsometry

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Thomas A. Germer

The polarization of light scattered by oxide films thermally grown on photolithographically-generated microrough silicon surfaces was measured as functions of...

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