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We have used an optical fiber sensor for in-situ monitoring of product shrinkage during injection molding. The sensor, consisting of a bundle of optical fibers...
Carl D. Reintsema, Erich N. Grossman, Jonathan A. Koch
We have investigated the performance of VO 2 microbolometers biased on the semiconducting-metal phase transition with negative electrothermal feedback. We...
S D. Bergeson, A Balakrishnan, G H. Baldwin, Thomas B. Lucatorto, J P. Marangos, T J. McIlrath, Thomas R. O'Brian, S L. Rolston, Craig J. Sansonetti, J Wen, N Westbrook, C H. Cheng, E E. Eyler
S D. Bergeson, A Balakrishnan, K G. Baldwin, Thomas B. Lucatorto, J P. Marangos, T J. Mcilrath, Thomas R. O'Brian, Steven L. Rolston, Craig J. Sansonetti, J Wen, N Westbrook
Prior work in this laboratory [Niemiec, et al, J. Rheology, 40, 323-334 (1996)] showed that anomalous normal forces could arise in rotary shear measurements...
The NIST Torsional Dilatometer measures simultaneously the torque, axial normal force and volume change in response to a torsional deformation. In stress...
H Chen, J Demeter, E Manias, E P. Giannelis, N Hadjichristidis, Alamgir Karim
The mobility of polymer inside organically modifieed 2nm slits depends strongly on the intercalation between the polymer and the surface inside the galleries...
Bidirectional ellipsometry has been developed as a technique for distinguishing among various scattering features near surfaces.Employi Employing incident light...
J F. Widmann, S R. Charagundla, Cary Presser, Grace L. Yang, Stefan D. Leigh
A phase Doppler interferometer (PDI) was used to measure the intensity (i.e., the expected number of droplets measured per unit time) of a swirling methanol...
Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael Gruninger, Mihai Ciocoiu, Donald E. Libes
In all types of communication, the ability to share information is often hindered because the meanig of information can be drastically affected by the context...
G. Ulu, M. Gvkkavas, M. S. {Umlat}nl{umlat}, N. Biyikli, E. {Omlat}zbay, Richard Mirin, David H. Christensen
We designed, fabricated and characterized Al xGa 1-xAs/GaAs p-i-n resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) photodetectors with near-unit quantum efficiency. The peak...
The significance of interconnect parasitics of power electronics system is their affects on converters' EMI-related performances, such as voltage/current spikes...
Huibin Zhu, Yi-hua Tang, Jih-Sheng Lai, Allen R. Hefner Jr.
For the purpose of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) performance investigation and prediction, accurate modeling and analysis are performed on IGBT PWM...
Two reliability test patterns, NIST 33 and NIST 34, are being designed, and a third, NIST 36, is being planned to be used in a number of inter-laboratory...
The reliability of gate oxides is becoming a critical concern as oxide thickness is scaled below 4 mm in advanced CMOS technologies. Traditional reliability...
Michael W. Cresswell, Nadine Guillaume, Richard A. Allen, William F. Guthrie, Rathindra Ghoshtagore, James C. OwenI II, Z. Osborne, N. Sullivan, Loren W. Linholm
This paper describes methods for the extraction of sheet resistance from V/I measurements made on four-terminal sheet resistors incorporated into electrical...
Chien-Chung Shen, Allen R. Hefner Jr., David W. Berning, J B. Bernstein
The internal failure dynamics of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IBGT) for unclamped inductive switching (UIS) conditions are studied using simulations...
S. A. Smee, Michael Gaitan, Yogendra K. Joshi, David L. Blackburn
As Integrated Circuit (IC) device sizes shrink, intrinsic and thermo-mechanical stress in interconnects is an ever increasing reliability concern. Increasing...