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Method to Determine Collection Efficiency of Particles by Swipe Sampling

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Jennifer R. Verkouteren, Jessica L. Staymates, Robert A. Fletcher, Wayne Smith, George A. Klouda, John G. Gillen
A methodology was developed to evaluate particle collection efficiencies from swipe sampling of trace residues. Swipe sampling is used for many applications where trace residues must be collected, including the evaluation of radioactive particle

Modeling of Photochemical Reactions in a Focused Laser Beam, II

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Adolfas K. Gaigalas, Fern Y. Hunt, Lili Wang
A method is described for obtaining rate constants of photodegradation process of fluorophores illuminated by a focused laser beam. The explicit kinetic equations, describing the population dynamics of excited singlet and triplet states, are averaged over

Modeling the Effect of Finite Size Gratings on Scatterometry Measurements

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Elizabeth Kenyon, Michael W. Cresswell, Heather Patrick, Thomas Germer
The interpretation of scatterometry measurements generally assumes that the grating extends over an area large enough to intercept all the illumination provided by an incident beam. However, in practice, the gratings used in scatterometry are relatively

New Insight into NBTI Transient Behavior Observed from Fast-GM Measurements

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, John S. Suehle
Fast-IDVG measurements have become an increasingly important tool to examine MOSFET transient degradation. The threshold voltage (VTH) extracted from fast-IDVG measurements is often used to infer the transient behavior of trapped charged in the gate

NIST Tests of the Wireless Environment in Automobile Manufacturing Facilities

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley, Galen H. Koepke, Chriss A. Grosvenor, John M. Ladbury, Dennis G. Camell, Jason B. Coder, Robert Johnk
This report describes tests carried out by members of the NIST Electromagnetics Division to study the wireless environment in automotive manufacturing facilities. Testing was performed at three facilities during 2006 and 2007. We studied an assembly plant

Quantification of Hydroxyl Content in Ceramic Oxides: A PGAA Study of BaTiO3

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Rick L. Paul, Vahit Atakan, Chun-Wei Chen, Richard E. Riman
Thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) techniques for water content determination were compared with a neutron characterization technique, Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA). Residual H content of the

Refining the In-Parameter-Order Strategy for Constructing Covering Arrrays

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Michael Forbes, James F. Lawrence, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn
Covering arrays are structures for well-representing extremely large input spaces and are used to efficiently implement blackbox testing for software and hardware. This paper proposes refinements over the In-Parameter-Order strategy (for arbitrary $t$)

Status of NIST Thermal Insulation Reference Materials

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Robert R. Zarr
The current status of thermal insulation reference materials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is presented. This paper describes an ongoing thermal insulation measurement program that provides the public with Calibrated Transfer

Through-focus Scanning and Scatterfield Optical Methods for Advanced Overlay Target Analysis

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Ravikiran Attota, Michael T. Stocker, Richard M. Silver, Nathanael A. Heckert, Hui Zhou, Richard J. Kasica, Lei Chen, Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Bryan M. Barnes, Peter Lipscomb
In this paper we present overlay measurement techniques that use small overlay targets for advanced semiconductor applications. We employ two different optical methods to measure overlay using modified conventional optical microscope platforms. They are

Calibration of a Force Feedback Joystick

August 29, 2008
Author(s)
J H. Daruwalla, Nicholas Dagalakis
The objective of this project was to calibrate a commercially available force feedback joystick that could be used for the control of a laser beam optical tweezers test-bed. A calibration box was built to hold the joystick and the load-cell. The joystick

Delocalized Correlations in Twin Light Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum

August 29, 2008
Author(s)
Alberto M. Marino, Vincent Boyer, Raphael C. Pooser, Paul D. Lett, Kristin Lemons, Kevin Jones
We generate intensity-difference-squeezed Laguerre-Gauss twin beams carrying orbital angular momentum using 4-wave mixing (4WM) in a hot atomic vapor. The conservation of orbital angular momentum in the 4WM process is studied as well as the spatial

On the shortest linear straight-line program for computing linear forms

August 29, 2008
Author(s)
Joan Boyar, Philip Matthews, Rene Peralta
We study the complexity of the Shortest Linear Program (SLP) problem, which is to the number of linear operations necessary to compute a set of linear forms. SLP is shown to be NP-hard. Furthermore, a special case of the corresponding decision problem is

Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic Gates Based on Oscillating Magnetic Fields

August 29, 2008
Author(s)
Christian Ospelkaus, Christopher Langer, Jason Amini, Kenton R. Brown, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Oscillating magnetic fields and field gradients can be used to implement single-qubit rotations and entangling multi-qubit quantum gates for trapped-ion quantum information processing (QIP). With fields generated by currents in microfabricated surface

VAST 2008 Challenge: Introducing Mini-Challenges

August 29, 2008
Author(s)
Georges Grinstein, Catherine Plaisant, Sharon J. Laskowski, Theresa O'Connell, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting
Visual analytics experts realize that one effective way to push the field forward and to develop metrics for measuring the performance of various visual analytics components is to hold an annual competition. In its third year, we restructured the contest
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