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NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF): Version 2.0

February 7, 2024
Author(s)
Robert Hanisch, Debra L. Kaiser, Alda Yuan, Andrea Medina-Smith, Bonnie C Carroll, Eva Campo
The NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF) is a multifaceted and customizable tool that aims to help shape the future of open data access and research data management (RDM). The RDaF will allow organizations and individual researchers to develop their own RDM

NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF): Version 1.5

May 18, 2023
Author(s)
Robert Hanisch, Debra L. Kaiser, Alda Yuan, Andrea Medina-Smith, Bonnie C Carroll, Eva Campo
The NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF) is a multifaceted and customizable tool that aims to help shape the future of open data access and research data management (RDM). The RDaF will allow organizations and individual researchers to customize an RDM

Near-Field Second Harmonic Microscopy of Thin Ferroelectric Films

October 12, 2021
Author(s)
V Smolyaninova, H Y. Liang, C H. Lee, C C. Davis, L D. Rotter, Debra Kaiser
Near-field second harmonic microscopy is ideally suited for studies of local nonlinearity and poling of ferroelectric materials at the microscopic level. Its main advantages in comparison with other scanning probe techniques are the possibility of fast

Stoichiometry and Phase Composition of MOCVD Barium Titanate Films

October 12, 2021
Author(s)
Charles E. Bouldin, Joseph Woicik, Bruce Ravel, Debra Kaiser, Mark D. Vaudin
X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) have been used to study the stoichiometry and phase composition of thin (approximately equal to} 1 micron) films deposited on MgO substrates. Deposition

An Open Combinatorial Diffraction Dataset Including Consensus Human and Machine Learning Labels with Quantified Uncertainty for Training New Machine Learning Models

June 9, 2021
Author(s)
Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Brian DeCost, Aaron Gilad Kusne, Howard Joress, Winnie Wong-Ng, Debra Kaiser, Andriy Zakutayev, Caleb Phillips, Tonio Buonassisi, Shijing Sun, Janak Thapa
Modern machine learning and autonomous experimentation schemes in materials science rely on accurate analysis of the data ingested by these models. Unfortunately, accurate analysis of the underlying data can be difficult, even for domain experts

NIST Nanotechnology Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Program: 20092016

November 27, 2018
Author(s)
Debra L. Kaiser, Vincent A. Hackley
In response to needs of a government-wide initiative in nanotechnology led by a subcommittee within the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, NIST established a nanotechnology environmental, health, and safety (nano-EHS) research program

Standard Reference Data Workshop Report

June 12, 2018
Author(s)
Debra L. Kaiser, Neil Alderoty, Richard R. Cavanagh, Barbara Guttman, Robert J. Hanisch, Adam G. Morey, Jeanita Pritchett, Yuri Ralchenko, Stacy S. Schuur, William E. Wallace
On October 17, 2017, the ODI sponsored a day-long Standard Reference Data Workshop. More than 120 NIST staff members and associates from four NIST laboratories and three offices registered for this workshop. The workshop format consisted of presentations

Technical Review of NISTs Free Standard Reference Data Products

April 9, 2018
Author(s)
Debra L. Kaiser, Robert J. Hanisch
Over the past two years, the ODI has undertaken an ambitious effort to modernize the SRD Program. This report covers one aspect of this modernization effort, a comprehensive internal technical review of the 75 free data products currently carrying the SRD

Combinatorial Tools for Inorganic Thin Films

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Peter K. Schenck, Debra L. Kaiser
We report the deveopment of a novel dual beam - dual target pulsed laser deposition (PLD) system for the production of compositionally-graded library films for combinatorial thin film materials research. In-situ process monitoring, including high-speed

Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry of (Ba 1-x Sr x )2TiO 4

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Winnie Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Debra L. Kaiser, Julia Frank
This paper reports an investigation of the homogeneity range, crystal chemistry and crystallography of a technologically-important (Ba2-xSrx)TiO4 solid solution series. Since the end members of the series - Ba2TiO4 (Pnma (No.62)) and Sr2TiO4 (I4/mmm (No

Methods for the Measurement of Release of MWCNTs from MWCNT-Polymer Composites

September 18, 2014
Author(s)
Debra L. Kaiser, Aleksandr B. Stefaniak, Keana C. Scott, Tinh Nguyen, Jurg Schutz
Multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/polymer composites hold great promise as advanced materials for consumer and industrial applications. Throughout the life cycle of these composites, there is opportunity for release of particles that may contain MWCNT and

Measurement Science and Technology for Ceramics Innovations

July 31, 2007
Author(s)
Debra L. Kaiser, Robert F. Cook
Innovations in ceramic technologies are often driven by the discovery and introduction of a material with novel or improved behavior that enables realization of a superior component, device or system. Over the past few decades, advanced ceramic materials

Combinatorial Chemistry

October 13, 2003
Author(s)
J D. Hewes, Debra L. Kaiser, Alamgir Karim, Eric J. Amis
In 1995, the rapid fabrication of tens, hundreds, and, eventually, tens of thousands of samples in two-dimensional arrays of discrete microscaled samples (pixels) using lithography methods developed for the electronics industry was reported. Importantly

Growth of superconducting single crystals

June 1, 2003
Author(s)
Debra L. Kaiser, L.F. Schneemeyer
This manuscript is a review of single crystal growth of high temperature superconducting materials. The introductory sections cover fundamentals of crystal growth with emphasis on special considerations for superconducting compounds, and the growth

Blazing a Trail

May 1, 2003
Author(s)
Peter K. Schenck, Debra L. Kaiser
In this paper we discuss the application of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to combinatorial materials research on inorganic thin films. The modifications to an existing PLD apparatus converting it to a dual beam dual target PLD system for the production of

Challenges of High-[kappa] Gate Dielectrics for Future MOS Devices

May 13, 2001
Author(s)
John S. Suehle, Eric M. Vogel, Monica D. Edelstein, Curt A. Richter, Nhan Van Nguyen, Igor Levin, Debra Kaiser, Hanchang F. Wu, J B. Bernstein
As the feature sizes of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices are scaled downward, the gate dielectric thickness must also decrease to maintain a value of capacitance to reduce short-channel effects and to keep device drive current at an

Workshop on Texture in Electronic Applications

May 1, 2001
Author(s)
Mark D. Vaudin, Debra L. Kaiser
A two day workshop on Texture in Electronic Applications was held on October 10-11,2000 at NIST, Gaithersburg. The workshop presented an excellent forum for discussion of a broad spectrum of texture-related issues of interest to academic,government and

Ceramic Thin Film Measurements and Standards Program Web Page

February 1, 2001
Author(s)
Charles E. Bouldin, Debra Kaiser, Peter K. Schenck
Ceramic materials are increasingly being used in thin film form in electronic, optical, optoelectronic, and magnetic devices. Our program addresses measurements, standards and data needs for a wide variety of application areas, including III-V andIII

Fabrication and Electron Microprobe Characterization of Barium-Strontium-Titanate (BST) Films

February 1, 2001
Author(s)
Ryna B. Marinenko, J T. Armstrong, Debra L. Kaiser, Joseph J. Ritter, Peter K. Schenck, C P. Bouldin, J Blendell, Igor Levin
Barium strontium titanate (BST) thin films of varying composition and thickness (5nm to 400nm) on (100)Si or Pt/(100)Si substrates were measured using an electron microprobe analyzer with wavelength dispersive x-ray spectrometers. Most of the films were

Vortex Pinning in Microindented Yba 2 Cu 3 O 7-x Single Crystals

August 1, 2000
Author(s)
Marina Turchinskaya, Douglas T. Smith, Alexander L. Roytburd, Debra L. Kaiser
A high resolution magneto-optical technique with a magnetic indicator film was used to study the effect of a regular array of micrometer-sized mechanical indentations on magnetization dynamics at the surface of a twinned single crystal of Yba 2Cu 3O 7-δ as
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