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Conferences

Comparative Study of Pore Size of Low-Dielectric-Constant Porous Spin-On-Glass Films With Different Methods of Nondestructive Instrumentation

April 1, 2001

Author(s)

E Kondoh, M R. Baklanov, Eric K. Lin, D Gidley, A Nakashima

Porosity and pore size of siloxane-based porous spin-on-glass (SOG) thin films are comparatively studied with different non-destructive methods and also with...

A New Critical Review of Experimental Stark Widths and Shifts

April 1, 2001

Author(s)

N Konjevic, A Lesage, Jeffrey R. Fuhr, Wolfgang L. Wiese

We have undertaken, and almost completed, a new critical review of experimental data on Stark widths and shifts for spectral lines of non-hydrogenic neutral...

Sublethal Effects of Smoke on Survival and Health

March 26, 2001

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, Kathryn M. Butler, Walter W. Jones, George W. Mulholland, J L. Neviaser, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, J R. Hall

Dielectric Properties of Materials for Packaging from 1 to 60 GHz

March 26, 2001

Author(s)

Y. Kantor, Michael D. Janezic, Pavel Kabos, Billy F. Riddle, James R. Baker-Jarvis

Measurements of the complex permittivity of commonly used packaging materials, as a function of temperature, in the frequency range of 1-60 GHz are presented...

Concepts for the Test of Volumetric Fire Detectors.

March 25, 2001

Author(s)

I Willms

Characterization of Spectral Radiation Intensities From Standard Test Fires for Fire Detection.

March 25, 2001

Author(s)

W C. Kim, Y R. Sivathanu, J P. Gore

Cargo Fire Monitoring System (CFMS) for the Visualisation of Fire Events in Aircraft Cargo Holds.

March 25, 2001

Author(s)

T Wittkopp, C Hecker, D Opitz

Apparatus for Light Scattering Studies of Smoke Particles

March 25, 2001

Author(s)

George W. Mulholland, D W. Weinert

A facility for measuring the light scattered by smokes as a function of the scattering angle and linear polarization has been developed. By using monosize...

Thermal Agent Extinguishment of Two Types of Diffusion Flames

March 25, 2001

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Rodney A. Bryant, Jiann C. Yang

The extinguishment of diffusion flames on two types of burners-an opposed-flow Tsuji burner and an axisymmetric burner with a surrounding coflow-by thermal...

Role of Particles in Counterflow Diffusion Flames Inhibited by Iron Pentacarbonyl

March 25, 2001

Author(s)

M D. Rumminger, Gregory T. Linteris

Laser light scattering and thermophoretic sampling have been used to investigate particle formation in a methane-air counterflow diffusion flames inhibited by...

Particle Image Velocimetry in Flickering Methane/Air Diffusion Flames

March 25, 2001

Author(s)

G Papadopoulos, Rodney A. Bryant, William M. Pitts

Phase-resolved measurements of the velocity field in acoustically forced, flickering laminar co-flowing methane/air diffusion flames have been made. Identical...

Sub-Dekahertz Spectroscopy of ¹⁹⁹Hg⁺

March 13, 2001

Author(s)

James C. Bergquist, R J. Rafac, B C. Young, J Beall, Wayne M. Itano, David J. Wineland

Nanomechanical Measurements of Polymeric Systems

March 13, 2001

Author(s)

Mark R. VanLandingham, Christopher C. White, Xiaohong Gu, Tinh Nguyen

Durability, in terms of service life, is often related to the failure due to service conditions of an unacceptable percentage of a product population. In many...

Benefits of Innovative, Less Flammable Products in an Era of Performance-Based Building and Fire Codes.

March 11, 2001

Author(s)

Richard W. Bukowski

Within the next decade, there will be great opportunities for the marketing of products whose fire performance exceeds current prescriptive standards...

Toward Next-Generation Construction Machines

March 4, 2001

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, James S. Albus, William C. Stone

Construction equipment is typically massive and operated manually with minimal use of sensors or computers for measurement or control. Research in the...

NIST Data Resources for Surface Analysis by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Auger Electron Spectroscopy

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, Aleksander Jablonski, A Naumkin, A Kraut-Vass, Joseph M. Conny, J R. Rumble

A description is given of data resources that are available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy...

Laser Scanning for Construction Metrology

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok, William C. Stone, Robert R. Lipman, Christoph J. Witzgall, Javier Bernal

This paper summarizes work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Non-Intrusive Scanning Technologies for Construction Assessment...

Computer-Based Wind Design of Low-Rise Buildings: Peak Estimation of Non-Gaussian Wind Effects

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Fahim Sadek, Emil Simiu

This paper is a condensed version of G2001-1853, Peak Non-Gaussian Wind Effects for Database-Assisted Low-Rise Building Design, for publication in the Journal...

Laser-Ultrasonic Methods for Thin-Film Property Measurements Using High-Frequency Surface Acoustic Waves

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Donna C. Hurley, A J. Richards

Laser-ultrasonic methods to measure thin-film elastic properties have been developed. Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) were generated by a 0.2 ns pulsed laser and...

Noncontact Thermometry in the Optical Technology Division at NIST

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Charles E. Gibson, Howard W. Yoon, Benjamin K. Tsai, Bettye C. Johnson, Robert D. Saunders

The Optical Technology Division (OTD) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the thermodynamic temperature scale above the...

In Situ Gas Phase Optical Measurements of Silane Decomposition in a Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

James E. Maslar, R W. Davis, Elizabeth F. Moore, Donald R. Burgess Jr., D M. Kremer, S H. Ehrman

Gas phase processes occurring during silicon chemical vapor deposition via silane thermal decomposition were investigated. Raman spectroscopy was utilized to...

Some Issues in Quantitative X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Auger-Electron Spectroscopy

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, Joseph M. Conny, Aleksander Jablonski

We give an overview of two issues that are important in quantitative X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Auger-electron spectroscopy (AES). First, we...

Implications and Ramifications of Model-Driven Architecture

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

David W. Flater

The Object Management Group (the consortium that issues the Common Object Request Broker Architecture and Unified Modeling Language standards) is making the...

Telepresence Applications in Manufacturing Research and Measurement Services at NIST

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

David C. Stieren

This paper describes applications of and infrastructural technologies for telepresence capabilities within the context of the Information-Based Manufacturing...

Frequency Response Metrology for High-Speed Optical Receivers

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Paul D. Hale, Tracy S. Clement, Dylan F. Williams

There are two types of optical sources whose modulation can be measured or calculated from fundamental principles: the hererodyne beat between two single-...

Total Hadamard Variance: Application to Clock Steering by Kalman Filtering

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

David A. Howe, Ron Beard, Chuck Greenhall, Francois Vernotte, Bill Riley

The Total variance approach has been developed for increasing the conﬁdence of the estimation of the classical Allan variance, particularly for large...

Precision Measurements of Transport Properties for an Energy Level Fan Diagram of GaAs/AlGaAs in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

J. Matthews, Marvin E. Cage

We present temperature and current dependent measurements of sigma xx} and sigma xy} in the integer quantum Hall effect regime, with a GaAs/AlGaAs...

Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises - A Workshop Report

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Robert Allen, Michelle P. Steves

As part of the WETICE 2001 conference, the workshop on Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises continued from its debut last year exploring the issues surrounding...

Fast and Accurate Measurement of the Dispersion of Cascaded Components

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Shellee D. Dyer, Allen Rose, Kent B. Rochford

We show that the dispersion of multiple cascaded components can be determined from a single low-coherence interferometric measurement. This measurement is not...

Wavelength References for 1300 nm and L-Band WDM

March 1, 2001

Author(s)

Tasshi Dennis, William C. Swann, Sarah L. Gilbert

We have surveyed potential references for 1300 nm and L-band wavelength calibration. We have developed a 1314 nm methane reference for our internal calibration...

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