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Display metrology is discussed as applied to flat panel displays (FPDs). Particular attention is given to display reflection measurements and how display...
Thomas J. Ohlemiller, John R. Shields, Kathryn M. Butler, Belinda L. Collins, Momar D. Seck
Thermoplastic polymers are widely used in roles where molding facilitates cost effective, high volume applications. Such polymers exhibit uniquely complex...
This is a report on the status of a Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Ad Hoc Group charged with creating a master set of images for...
Most mobile agent systems use internal data structures within an agent to control and specify its security requirements and properties. These structures...
Great progress has been made in the last quarter century in fire safety engineering (FSE) and consequently further limiting the burden of uncontrolled fire. Yet...
Li Piin Sung, Maria E. Nadal, M E. McKnight, J V. Nguyen, C -. Lin
A series of experiments was carried out to investigate the relationship between the microstructure and the appearance of coated materials using confocal laser...
Geraldine S. Cheok, Robert R. Lipman, Christoph J. Witzgall, Javier Bernal, William C. Stone
The use of a scanning laser to measure terrain changes due to excavation at a construction site is described. The objective at this phase of the project is to...
Uwe Arz, Dylan F. Williams, Dave K. Walker, Hartmut Grabinski
In this paper we apply a measurement method designed for asymmetric coupled lines to determine the broadband propagation characteristics of symmetric coupled...
The machine tool industry is moving toward using linear motors for both conventional and high speed machine tools due to many advantages: low maintenance...
Chris A. Michaels, Lee J. Richter, Richard R. Cavanagh, Stephan J. Stranick
The development of a scanning near-field microscope that utilizes infrared absorption as the optical contrast mechanism is described. This instrument couples...
David Coombs, Karl Murphy, Alberto Lacaze, Steven Legowik
A robotic HMMWV (a.k.a. "humvee") drives autonomously offroad at speeds up to 35 km/h (10 m/s, 20 mph). Key features of the implementation that enable driving...
Gabrielle G. Long, Andrew J. Allen, J Ilavsky, P R. Jemian, P Zchack
A new ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering (USAXS) instrument has been commissioned as part of the UNICAT facility on the 33-ID line at the Advanced Photon Source...
Several peak determination algorithms are described and compared using the spectra of a NIST wavelength / wavenumber standard reference material (SRM). These...
Simon G. Kaplan, Leonard M. Hanssen, E A. Early, Maria E. Nadal
We have performed regular spectral transmittance and reflectance measurements over the 1 mm to 2.5 mm wavelength region on several different types of materials...
A goniometric system is used in conjuction with an FT-IR (Fourier-Transform Infrared) spectrophotometer to perform reflectance and transmittance measurements as...
The upgrade of the SURF electron storage ring has provided an opportunity to make several improvements to the detector radiometry beamline (BL-9). A new control...
Bettye C. Johnson, Steven W. Brown, Howard W. Yoon
In 1996, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the support of the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA), designed and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is conducting a study to advance the science of characterizing and modeling the appearance characteristics of...
Bettye C. Johnson, Howard W. Yoon, M Feinholz, D K. Clark
The Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) and its related optical system the Marine Optical Sensor (MOS) consist of dual CCD-based spectrographs. MOBY, MOS, and other...
For white LEDs to be used for general lighting, they should have appropriate white color and good color rendering performance for illuminated objects. Color...
In January of 1992 the ISO Council announced the acceptance of resolution 50/1991 establishing TC202 Microbeam Analysis. The China State Bureau of Technology...
Creating a database version of a journal by extracting data from the articles, storing those data in a database management system, and building a user interface...
Dylan Williams, A. C. Byers, V. C. Tyree, Dave K. Walker, J. J. Ou, X. Jin, M. Piket-Moy, C. Hu
We measure and compare the electrical parasitics of contact pads of different designs fabricated on silicon integrated circuits and develop a strategy for...
We present a preliminary evaluation of a microwave measurement system that has been designed to determine electromagnetic fields in the quiet-zone of an antenna...
David R. Novotny, Robert T. Johnk, Arthur Ondrejka
We present a method for evaluating broadband absorber in a non-ideal testing environment. Using broadband, short impulse TEM horns, a frequency-rich spectrum...
Robert T. Johnk, David R. Novotny, Claude Weil, Marlene Taylor, T. J. O'Hara
This paper summarizes a joint NIST-Industry measurement effort. The purpose of this effort was to use a NIST-developed altrawide band measurement system to...
E Balizer, Fred B. Bateman, A S. DeReggi, Dan A. Neumann
The time-resolved optical measurement of the electrostrictive strain of an electron-irradiated copolymer of vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene produced...
This is a report on work in progress to understand the wide variations in sphere calibration data observed on dynamic radar cross section measurement ranges...
C Habauzit, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke, B. Carol Johnson, M Yarbrough, M Feinholz, D K. Clark
The scientific objective of the Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) project is to measure the downwelling spectral irradiance, E d, and the upwelling spectral radiance...