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The increasing focus on design for manufacturability (DFM) in research in concurrent engineering design is expanding the scope of traditional design activities...
Theodore V. Vorburger, K Yee, Brian R. Scace, F Rudder
The automated control of machine-tool accuracy is discussed based on a quality architecture containing three control loops: real-time, process-intermittent, and...
T Mcwaid, Theodore V. Vorburger, Joseph Fu, Jun-Feng Song, Eric P. Whitenton
Measurements of micrometer and sub-micrometer surface features have been made using a stylus profiler, an STM, an AFM, and a phase-measuring interferometric...
Michael T. Postek, J R. Lowney, Andras Vladar, William J. Keery, Egon Marx, Robert D. Larrabee
This work provides an approach to improved x?ray mask linewidth metrology and a more precise edge location algorithm for measurement of feature sizes on x?ray...
Steven D. Phillips, Bruce R. Borchardt, Gregory W. Caskey, David E. Ward, Bryon S. Faust, Daniel S. Sawyer
NIST is currently developing equipment and techniques to rapidly access the performance of Coordinate Measuring machines (CMMs). This will allow the frequent...
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) is an efficient, sensitive method for characterizing semiconductor surfaces. In addition, TOF-SIMS can...
Stephen A. Wise, Michele M. Schantz, Bruce A. Benner Jr, Reenie M. Parris, R. E. Rebbert, Lane C. Sander, Barbara J. Porter, S. N. Chesler, Willie E. May
Fixed reservoir helium permeation leaks are frequently used to generate known flows for calibration of leak detectors. Determination of the flow from helium...
Absolutely unstable jet flows are known to produce vigorous and intermittent lateral ejections of fluid, or 'sidejets'. Sidejet generation has been attributed...
G Hanne, Jabez J. McClelland, R E. Scholten, Robert Celotta
Superelastic scattering of polarized electrons from laser-excited polarized chromium atoms (4 7P o 4 rarr} 4 7S 3 transition, energy gain 2.92 eV) has been...