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Samuel N. Jones, Robert D. Larrabee, Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Nien F. Zhang
Fully automated or semi-automated scanning electron microscopes (SEM) are now commonly used in semiconductor production and other forms of manufacturing...
F Perez-murano, K Birkelund, K Morimoto, John A. Dagata
Scanned probe microscope (SPM) oxidation with voltage modulation leads to a significant enhancement of the oxide growth rate, improvement of the aspect ratio of...
J. G. Harnett, M. E. Tobar, A. G. Mann, E. N. Invanov, Jerzy Krupka, Richard G. Geyer
A new method of compensating the frequency temperature dependence of high-Q monolithic sapphire di-electric resonators near liquid nitrogen temperature is...
We report ion energy distributions, relative ion intensities, and absolute total ion current densities at the grounded electrode of an inductively coupled...
A new Standard Reference Material (SRM) has been prepared for ceramic fracture toughness. It is the first reference material in the world for the property...
James A. Chervenak, Kent D. Irwin, Erich N. Grossman, John M. Martinis, Carl D. Reintsema, Martin Huber
We report the design and testing of an analog superconducting time-division multiplexer to instrument large format arrays of low-temperature bolometers and...
Shear induced adsorption/desorption of a highly entangled polymer melt from an attractive interface was directly observed using neutron reflectometry. The...
A portable integrating sphere source has been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of a National Aeronautics and Space...
The National Institute of Standards and Technololgy (NIST) offers a variety of hundreds of measurement services to its customers as a part of it's core mission...
Redox enzyme mediated biocatalysis has the potential to regio - and stereo-specificity oxidive hydrocarbons producing valuable products with minimal by-product...
The first Medium Access Control (MAC) interface specifications for Hybrid Fiber/Coax networks to be completed are the Data Over Cable Service Interface...
Our research involves identifying factors that affect the usability of web sites. In particular, given that many web sites are accessed by substantial numbers...
M. Kenyon, J. L. Cobb, A. Amar, D. Song, C. J. Lobb, Neil M. Zimmerman, F. C. Wellstood
We have studied the behavior of a charged two-level fluctuator in an Al-AlO x -Al single-electron transistor (SET) in the normal state over a temperature range...
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Richard W. Bukowski, Vyto Babrauskas
As the use of performance-based methods for evaluating the fire behavior of materials and systems becomes more widespread, objective criteria to judge fire...
A protocol has been developed to characterize the potential of size exclusion chromatography gels for the separation of DNA fragments at a preparative scale. A...
A model for drag forces in the crevice of pneumatic piston gages is presented. The model uses an interpolation function for momentum transfer between the piston...
James W. Schmidt, Y Q. Cen, Robert G. Driver, Walter J. Bowers Jr., J C. Houck, S A. Tison, Charles D. Ehrlich
Primary pressure standards in the atmospheric pressure range are often established using mercury manometers. To a lesser extent controlled-clearance dead-weight...
Christopher W. Meyer, Gregory F. Strouse, Weston L. Tew
The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is defined in the region 3.0 K to 24.5561 K by an interpolating constant volume gas thermometer (ICVGT)...
A fast and accurate method that uses a conventional powder x-ray diffractometer has been developed for measuring crystalline texture. A θ - 2θscan of a Bragg...
IComputer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) holds great importance and promise for modern society. This paper provides an overview of seventeen papers...
Mudumbai Ranganathan, L S. Andrey, V Schaal, J Favreau
A large class of distributed testing, control and collaborative applications are reactive or event driven in nature. Such applications can be structured as a...
An alternative method of analysis was developed to estimate characteristic parameters of a published grain-bridging model for crack-extension resistance (R...
The electrochemical behavior of silver (100) and (111) single crystal surfaces was examined in aqueous NaOH solution. The first step of silver oxidation is the...
An earlier paper co-authored by the present author contains a major assumption in the analytical method that not be valid in a general class of structural...
Failure of thin-film interconnects poses a great concern in semiconductor devices. Due to the high electric current density in interconnects, electromigration...
F Eichmiller, Anthony A. Giuseppetti, Kathleen M. Hoffman, D R. Brajdic, V Miksch, J A. Delorey-Lytle
Microleakage of an experimental direct filling materisl comprised of a chemically precipitated silver powder that had been surface treated with a dilute acid to...
To enhance thermal efficiency of a system in high temperature structural applications, thermal barrier coatings (TBC) are often applied on the metallic...