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Journals

A Buckling-Based Metrology for Measuring the Elastic Moduli of Polymeric Thin Films

Author(s)
Christopher Stafford, Eva Simonyi, C Harrison, Kathryn Beers, Alamgir Karim, Eric J. Amis, Mark R. VanLandingham, H C. Kim, W Volksen, R D. Miller
As technology continues towards smaller, thinner and lighter devices, more stringent demands are placed on thin polymer films as diffusion barriers, dielectric...

In-Situ Soft X-Ray Studies of CO Oxidation on the Pt(111) Surface

Author(s)
D J. Burnett, A T. Capitano, A M. Gabelnick, A L. Marsh, Daniel A. Fischer, J L. Gland
Temperature programmed and isothermal fluorescence yield measurements have been used to characterize carbon monoxide oxidation on the Pt(111) surface for oxygen...

10 kV, 123 m Ω}-cm2 4H-SiC Power DMOSFETs

Author(s)
Sei-Hyung Ryu, Sumi Krishnaswami, Michael O'Loughlin, James Richmond, Anant Agarwal, John W. Palmour, Allen R. Hefner Jr.
10 kV, 123 mΩ}-cm 2 Power DMOSFETs in 4H-SiC are demonstrated. A 42% reduction in R on,sp, compared to previously reported value, was achieved by using an 8 x...

Improving CNC Machining Accuracy Through Thermal Model-Based Control

Author(s)
John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor, Johannes A. Soons, R King, W Bakula, H Dominguez, N Frampton
The United States Army has a requirement to machine munitions to strict tolerances so that the munitions will launch properly and the explosives will detonate...

Knowledge representation and planning for on-road driving

Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Christopher J. Scrapper Jr
This paper presents a cost-based adaptive planning agent and knowledge layers that is operating at one level of a deliberative hierarchical planning system for...

Simulating the Fires in the World Trade Center

Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, C P. Bouldin
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a two year investigation of the World Trade Center disaster. Among numerous tasks...

Urban/Widlland Fires: Ignition by Embers

Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Thomas G. Cleary, Jiann C. Yang
Urban-wildland fires have plagued the United States for centuries. Embers are produced as trees and other objects burn in urban-wildland fires. These embers are...

The Basis for Egress Provisions in U.S. Building Codes

Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, Erica D. Kuligowski
Some of the earliest public safety-from-fire regulations in the US are requirements for egress stairs adopted by New York City in 1860 . One of the first model...

Physics-Based Modeling of Community Fires

Author(s)
D D. Evans, Ronald G. Rehm, Elisa S. Baker, E G. McPherson, Jeffrey B. Wallace
Physics-based modeling of fires in the wildland urban interface (WUI) is used to develop practical tools for fire hazard evaluation of landscaped properties...

Micropatterning Neuronal Cells on Polyelectrolyte Multilayers

Author(s)
Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, Elizabeth M. Perruccio, Patricia Becerra, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan
This paper describes an approach to adhere retinal cells on micropatterned polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) lines adsorbed on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)...

Superconducting transition edge sensor using dilute AlMn alloys

Author(s)
Steven Deiker, William B. Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, William H. Rippard, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Steve T. Ruggiero, Anthony Williams, B. Young
We have fabricated a bolometer using a transition-edge sensor (TES) made of Al doped with Mn to suppress the superconducting critical temperature !Tc" of Al...
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