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MEMS Device Platforms as Research Tools for Developing Improved Sensing Films

February 1, 2002

Author(s)

C J. Taylor, Richard E. Cavicchi, Stephen Semancik

Gas sensing characteristics of metal oxide films are dependent on the preparation method used in their fabrication. To optimize sensing film performance, one...

TEM Investigation of Nanoindentation Induced Deformation Structures in W/NbN Nanolaminates

February 1, 2002

Author(s)

M Savage, D E. Kramer, A Lin, Timothy J. Foecke, S A. Barnett

Understanding the deformation mechanisms in nanolaminated composites is an important step towards developing constitutive laws that describe their mechanical...

Two-Photon Spectroscopy of the 4S State of Atomic Lithium: Energy Levels, Hyperfine Structure, and Isotope Shifts

February 1, 2002

Author(s)

W DeGraffenreid, Craig J. Sansonetti

In recent years there have been rapid advances in theoretical models and calculational techniques for few-electron systems. Atomic structure calculations for...

Sol-Gel Materials for Gas Phase Sensing Using Microhotplate Arrays

February 1, 2002

Author(s)

N O. Savage, Richard E. Cavicchi, Michael J. Tarlov, Stephen Semancik, J Greg Gillen

Sol-gel chemistry is used to create suspensions (sols) of small particles of materials such as metal oxides. These suspensions can be dried to a gel or powder...

Mass Absorption Coefficient of Tungsten, 1600 eV to 2100 eV

January 24, 2002

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine, S Grantham, I McNulty

The transmission of soft x-rays with photon energies from 1606 eV to 2106 eV was measured for tungsten using thin film samples and a synchrotron source. This...

Cigarette and Match Igition Experiments on Materials From Seton Hall Fire, January 19, 2000

January 22, 2002

Author(s)

Daniel M. Madrzykowski

This letter describes a series of ignition experiments, which were designed to characterize the ignition propensity of materials involved in the investigation...

Saved Lives and Better Buildings: Technical Contributions That Make a Differences

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

J E. Snell

It is indeed an honor to have the opportunity to participate in this NIST Centennial Standards Symposium. I, like many of you, was engaged by Larry Eicher's war...

The Hilbert-Huang Transform in Time-Frequency Analysis: Implications for Machine Prognostics

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

Gary G. Leisk

The Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) is a relatively new entrant into the field of time-frequency analysis. Despite its youthfulness, HHT is quickly growing in...

Displacement Uncertainty in Interferometric Radius Measurements

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

William T. Estler, Tony L. Schmitz, Angela Davies, Christopher J. Evans

Interferometric radius measurements may be completed using a radius bench, where radius is defined as the displacement between the confocal and cat''s eye nulls...

External laser stabilization, ed. by H. Figger, D. Meschede, and C. Zimmermann

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

John L. Hall

Time-stamp service for the national information network

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

Judah Levine

Bose-Einstein Condensate in Optical Lattices

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

A Browaeys, James V. Porto, S P. Peil, B Laburthe, J Obrecht, C R. McKenzie

We will present some results from the two Bose-Einstein condensation experiments at NIST Gaithersburg (on sodium and rubidium). We investigate the behaviour of...

From Light Bulbs to LEDs: How to Measure What We See

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

K B. Gebbie

Bob Scace has just told us about the importance of global standards in the development of semiconductor technology-global standards not only as foundations, but...

From Bolts to Bytes: Paving the Way to Intelligent Manufacturing

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

Howard Bloom

Good Afternoon. The title of my talk basically reflects the trend in technology in manufacturing over the last 20 years. We at NIST have done our part to try to...

Development of a small and portable absolute gravimeter

January 1, 2002

Author(s)

A L. Vitouchkine, J E. Faller

Intelligent Systems Annotated Bibliography and Survey. Part II. Systems with Learning and Autonomy

December 31, 2001

Author(s)

A Meystel

Part II is concentrated upon the intelligent systems equipped with subsystems that provide for a comparatively highly sophisticated faculties of intelligence...

Correlation of Chemisorption and Electronic Effects for Metal/Oxide Interfaces: Transducing Principles for Temperature-Programmed Gas Microsensors

December 21, 2001

Author(s)

Stephen Semancik, Richard E. Cavicchi, T. J. McAvoy

This presentation describes a research project whose objective is to produce, and demonstrate the utility of, a scientific database for oxide conductometric...

Upholstered Chair Fire Tests Using a California Technical Bulletin 133 Burner Ignition Source. REPORT OF TEST FR 4012

December 15, 2001

Author(s)

D W. Stroup, Laurean A. DeLauter, J Lee, G Roadarmel

A series of fire tests were conducted to characterize the potential hazard from ignition of an upholstered chair. The particular chair was selected as part of a...

Fire Tests of Men's Suits on Racks. Report of Test (FR 4013)

December 15, 2001

Author(s)

D W. Stroup, Laurean A. DeLauter, J Lee, G Roadarmel

A series of fire tests were conducted to characterize the potential hazard from ignition of men's suits hanging on racks. The fire test scenario was selected as...

SCATMECH: Polarized Light Scattering C++ Class Library (Version 2.00)

December 1, 2001

Author(s)

Thomas A. Germer

A C++ object class library has been developed to distribute models for polarized light scattering from surfaces. It is the intent of this library to allow...

Computers Forensics Guidance

November 30, 2001

Author(s)

G E. Fisher

This ITL Bulletin describes two projects in the computer forensics arena and provides guidance on the use of the products developed from them. The first project...

Overview of the TREC 2001 Question Answering Track

November 26, 2001

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

The TREC question answering track is an effort to bring the benefits of large-scale evaluation to bear on the question answering problem. In its third year, the...

The TREC-9 Interactive Track Report

November 19, 2001

Author(s)

William Hersh, Paul D. Over

The TREC-9 Interactive Track has the goal of investigating interactive information retrieval by examining the process as well as the results. In TREC-9, six...

AutoBid: System for Police Patrol Selection.

November 1, 2001

Author(s)

S F. Weber, Amy S. Rushing

AutoBid is designed to help police fleet administrators select the patrol vehicle that is best suited to the needs of their department. The system is based on...

Modeling of Superelastic Adaptive Composites

November 1, 2001

Author(s)

Julia Slutsker, Alexander L. Roytburd

An adaptive composite containing a shape memory alloy as an active component is the subject of this research. These composites utilize the unique properties of...

Trial Shape-Sensitive Linewidth Measurement System

November 1, 2001

Author(s)

John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, Michael T. Postek

This is a report for a project to develop a scanning electron microscope (SEM) based shape-sensitive linewidth measurement system by improving the method by...

Using the Substitution Method with a Monitor Detector will Improve the Accuracy of Absolute Spectral Power Responsivity Measurements

November 1, 2001

Author(s)

Sally Bruce, Thomas C. Larason

Many radiometric, photometric, and colorimetric applications require the determination of the absolute spectral power responsivity of photodetectors. The...

Progress Report: 157 nm Excimer Laser Calorimeter Development

October 24, 2001

Author(s)

Marla L. Dowell

Progress report for sponsors. Progress on 157 nm calorimeter project is summarized. Data from prototype calorimeters is presented.

Chapter 19 Shock and Vibration Standards

October 22, 2001

Author(s)

Christopher J. Evans, H C. Pusey

Chapter 19 is concerned with shock and vibration standards covering: terminology; use and calibration of transducers and instrumentation; shock and vibration...

Query Expansion Seen Through Return Order of Relevant Documents

October 10, 2001

Author(s)

Walter S. Liggett Jr

There is a reservoir of knowledge in data from the TREC evaluations that analysis of precision and recall leaves untapped. This knowledge leads to better...

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