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Janet M. Cassard, David L. Herman, Paul T. Vernier, Don DeVoe, Michael Gaitan
This letter presents a method to measure the Young?s moduli of the individual thin film layers in a commercial integrated circuit (IC) foundry process. The...
Donald Alexander, Cornelius Ejimofor, David Holmberg
The Van Leer building at Georgia Tech was selected for a pilot project to study the feasibility of using an RTP-based temperature setback approach to energy...
James P. Sumner, Richard Conroy, Eric Shapiro, John M. Moreland, Alan P. Koretsky
Iron oxide particles are becoming an important contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cell tracking studies. Simultaneous delivery of fluorescence...
James Clarke, Martin Schmidt, Ndubuisi George Orji
Imaging of photoresist cross sections in a focused ion beam (FIB)-scanning electron microscope (SEM) is demonstrated with negligible damage. An in situ chromium...
Stephen W. Banovic, Timothy J. Foecke, William E. Luecke, Joseph D. McColskey, Christopher N. McCowan, Thomas A. Siewert, Frank W. Gayle
On August 21, 2002, on the direction of the U.S. Congress, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated an investigation into the...
Philip Pong, John E. Bonevich, William F. Egelhoff Jr.
The discovery of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) has enhanced the magnetoresistance (MR) ratio from the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) regime of around 10% to...
Lawrence T. Hudson, Stephen M. Seltzer, Paul M. Bergstrom, Frank Cerra
A suite of technical performance standards is nearing completion that encompasses all the nation s security systems that screen using x-rays or gamma-rays...
Regis J. Kline, Dean DeLongchamp, Daniel A. Fischer, Eric K. Lin, Lee J. Richter, Michael L. Chabinyc, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch
High performance, solution processable semiconductors are critical to the realization of low cost, large area electronics. We show that a signature molecular...
J Mallett, Erik B. Svedberg, John E. Bonevich, Alexander J. Shapiro, William F. Egelhoff Jr., Thomas P. Moffat
Electrochemical co-deposition of a series of fcc Ni(subscript x)PT(subscript 1-x) alloys is demonstrated. The alloy composition is a monotonic function of...
A P. Smith, Jack F. Douglas, Eric J. Amis, Alamgir Karim
Hole formation and size evolution on the surface of thin films of symmetric diblock copolymers is simultaneously investigated as a function of time, t...
M W. Lufaso, W A. Schulze, L Misture, Terrell A. Vanderah
Bi3Fe0.5Nb1.5O9 was synthesized using conventional solid state techniques and its crystal structure refined by the Rietveld method using neutron powder...
Joseph C. Woicik, M A. Sahiner, Timothy Kurp, Jeffrey Serfass, Marc Aranguren
The continuous downward scaling of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices has enabled the Si-based semiconductor industry to meet the...
Hae-Jeong Lee, Christopher L. Soles, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu, Yiping Liu
The microelectronics industry critically needs non-destructive methodologies capable of profiling the porosity characteristics as a function of depth in the...
Vijay Tirumala, R A. Pai, Sumit Agarwal, Curran Chandler, Gaurav Bhatnagar, Alvin Omang, Eric K. Lin, J J. Watkins
Well ordered mesoporous silica films were prepared by infusion and selective condensation of Si alkoxides within pre-organized block copolymer/homopolymer blend...
Philippe P. Darcis, John M. Treinen, Joseph D. McColskey
This study presents fatigue data for two different ferrite-pearlite pipeline steels. A fatigue crack growth test for full thickness curved pipeline samples was...
Ionization cross sections by electron impact of atoms are important quantities needed for modeling of low temperature plasmas and gas discharges. Although...
Taiki Tominaga, Vijay Tirumala, Eric K. Lin, Jian P. Gong, Hidemitsu Furukawa, Yoshihito Osada, Wen-Li Wu
The long-standing pursuit of a synthetic equivalent to tissue cartilage has seen significant new activity with the development of a new materials strategy...
We demonstrate the design and calibration of a novel individual carbon nanotube (CNT) based mechanical force sensor for measuring cell wall compliance. The...
An apparatus for the automated measurement of compressed liquid densities over the temperature range of 270 K to 470 K and pressures to 50 MPa is described. The...
Jeetain Mittal, Vincent K. Shen, Jeffrey R. Errington, Thomas M. Truskett
We use discontinuous molecular dynamics and grand-canonical transition-matrix Monte Carlo simulations to explore how confinement between parallel hard walls...
Philippe P. Darcis, H. Katsumoto, M C. Payares-Asprino, S. Liu, Thomas A. Siewert
Arc welding typically generates residual tensile stresses in welded joints, leading to deteriorated fatigue performance of these joints. Volume expansion of the...
Lawrence P. Cook, Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Z Yang, Peter K. Schenck, Igor Levin, Julia Frank
Interfacial reactions between the Ba2YCu3O6+x superconductor and the CeO2 buffer layer employed in coated conductors have been modeled experimentally by...
Philippe P. Darcis, Christopher N. McCowan, H. Windhoff, Joseph D. McColskey, Thomas A. Siewert
Crack tip opening angle (CTOA) is becoming one of the more widely accepted properties for characterizing fully plastic fracture. In fact, it has been recognized...
Nathan R. Newbury, Paul A. Williams, William C. Swann
We transfer of an optical frequency over 251 km of optical fiber with a residual instability of 6×10 -19 at 100 s. This instability and the associated timing...
The NIST high-pressure multi-pass White absorption cell has been modified for use in high temperature studies. The temperature range of this cell is now -90o C...
Yuri Ralchenko, Joseph Reader, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Joseph N. Tan, John D. Gillaspy
We observed spectra of highly ionized tungsten in the extreme ultraviolet with an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) and a grazing incidence spectrometer at the...
Chiara F. Ferraris, Nicos Martys, M R. Geiker, N V. Muzzatti
The flow in traditional rotational rheometers is well known and rheological parameters such as viscosity can be calculated relatively easily. On the other hand...
Allan H. Harvey, J S. Gallagher, H J. Kretzschmar, J R. Cooper, K Knobloch, Radim Mares, K Miyagawa, N Okita, Roland Span, I. Stocker, Wolfgang Wagner, I Weber
In modeling advanced steam power cycles, thermodynamic properties as functions of enthalpy and entropy are required in the critical and supercritical regions...