An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Programs Fiscal Year 1997 (1997) / Chapter Skim
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2 Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
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Chapter 2 Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory .;
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Wehrmeyer, Eastman Kodak Company Submitted for the panel by its Chair, V Thomas Rhyne, this assessment of the fiscal year 1996 activities of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory is based on site visits by individual panel members, a formal meeting ofthe panel February 12-14, 1997, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and on documents provided by the laboratory.
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and reference data. These are realized through development of measurement methods, support theory, measurement reference standards (including the national primary standards for electricity)
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10.3 10.5 Calibration Services 2.0 2.2 Other 2.7 2.71 Total 44.9 47.2 The KEEL has a paid staff of 324, of which 213 are technical professionals and 115 hold a PhD degree. In general, the KEEL is well staffed with highly professional people.
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Of greater concern is the adequacy of basic building services such as electrical power and air temperature, humidity, and cleanliness at both Gaithersburg and Boulder. An internal study of the power quality at the NIST Gaithersburg site was conducted in the late l980s.
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The division realizes the electrical units in terms of the ST and determines fundamental constants relating to electrical units. The division is responsible for providing calibration services and developing and improving the measurement methods and services needed to support electrical materials, components, instruments and systems used for conducted electrical power, industrial electronics, and electronic-related products and services.
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The staff of the Automated Electronics Manufacturing project was working on issues of significant importance to this emerging field of international standardization. Their work is closely aligned with a number of external standardization efforts, thereby increasing the effect of their limited projects.
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The Automated Electronics Manufacturing project, by working closely with related external efforts, has obtained significant leverage for its focused efforts. As a result, the impact oftheir work appears quite significant considering the size ofthis group.
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NIST-STRS 7.0 7.7 ATP 0.3 0.4 Other Agency (OA) 1.9 1.9 Calibration Services 0.9 1.1 Other 0.5 0.4 Total 10.1 1 1.1 The division has a paid staff of 76, of which 49 are technical professionals and 21 hold a PhD degree.
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Careful analysis of needs and weighing of priorities are performed, as well as follow-up to measure effectiveness. Semiconductor Electronics Division Mission The Semiconductor Electronics Division stated its mission as follows: The Semiconductor Electronics Division provides leadership in developing the semiconductor measurement infrastructure essential to improving U.S.
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These efforts are in keeping with the division mission. The activities of the Scanning Probe Microscopy Metrology project are all mission appropriate and are critical to development of future gigabit CMOS devices.
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The contributions of the Optical Characterization Metrology project to industry through oxygen-in-silicon Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) is well known.
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0.5 0.5 Other 0.35 0.33 Total 8.3 8. ~ The division has a paid staff of 52, of which 35 are technical professionals ant!
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The division clearly understands that the best planning process is one that is continually improved yet flexible enough to chance when necessary. Mission O Electromagnetic Fields Division The Electromagnetic Fields Division stated its mission as follows: The Electromagnetic Fields Division provides the United States with a quality metrology and standards infrastructure that will improve industrial competitiveness in domestic and international commerce, and meet the critical needs of government by insuring that the testing and measurement of the highfrequency electromagnetic properties of materials, devices, systems, and products is on a firm foundation.
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This project also includes measurements of properties of DNA solutions, in support of an ATP consortium and in cooperation with the Of lice of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES)
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NIST-STRS 5.2 5.2 ATE 0.2 0.2 Other Agency (OA) 2.6 2.8 Calibration Services l.3 0.8 Other 0.26 0.34 Total 8.9 9.0 The division has a paid staff of 70, of which 45 are technical professionals and ~ 9 hold a PhD degree.
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The panel supports development of a long-term metrology roadmap indicating key metrology milestones, which would demonstrate that the planning process is effective. , .^ ~ ~ ~ ~ .^ ~ Electromagnetic Technology Division Mission The Electromagnetic Technology Division stated its mission as follows: The Electromagnetic Technology Division develops and promotes advanced physical standards and measurement methods for the magnetics, electronics, superconductor industries and their related scientific communities, employs phenomena based on magnetics, superconductivity, and cryoelectronics to create new measurement technology and associated standards and apparatus; advances the state-of-the-art through basic research and development of requisite materials, fabrication techniques, instrumentation, underlying theory, and data for metrology; uses unique properties of superconductors and cryogenic electronics to invent and improve measurement methods for electromagnetic signals ranging from static voltages and magnetic fields, through audio, microwave, infrared, visible, and x-ray frequencies; leads the international community in _ _ _ 29
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~. ~ ~· =, Infrastructure neectect tor the Industrial development ot superconductors for both large and smallscale applications; provides new measurement methods, instrumentation, imaging and characterization tools, and standards in support of the magnetics industry; develops measurement technology to determine basic properties of magnetic materials and structures with support from theoretical studies and modeling; and collaborates with the magnetic recording industry in development of metrology to support future recording heads and media with a rapidly increasing storage density.
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Both the magnetic switching time measurements and the magnetic imaging reference standard projects have produced important new results since the panel's previous assessment, and they will likely continue to improve the division's visibility and impact. Ongoing projects on magnetics modeling, slow scan recording, and advanced magnetic probe microscopy will also enable the division to set fundamental and operational standards needed by the magnetics technology industry.
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NIST-STRS 5.2 4.8 ATP 0.4 0.4 Other Agency (OA) 1.9 2.6 Other 1.2 1.6 Total 7.5 7.8 The division has a paid staff of 53, of which 3 1 are technical professionals and 23 hold a PhD degree.
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Optoelectronics Division Mission The Optoelectronics Division stated its mission as follows: The mission of the Optoelectronics Division is to provide the optoelectronics industry and its suppliers and customers with comprehensive and technically advanced measurement capabilities, starboards, and traceability to those starboards. The division mission is well stated arid succinct, and it fits logically and completely within the overall NTST and KEEL missions.
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The capability and program output of the Optical Fiber Metrology project are world class. SRMs for optical-fiber coating diameter, fiber cladding diameter, pin gauge standard for ferrules, optical fiber ferrule geometry, polarization mode dispersion, and chromatic dispersion standards are providing critical tools for the ongoing expansion of the fiber optics industry.
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Areas where the division shows world-class effectiveness include optical fiber metrology, Maker fringe work on lithium niobate, and magnetic sensor work. Other notably effective areas include wavelength standards for lone wavelength optical communications and the polarization ~, -- - -- -- -an -- - -.r -- -- -- ~~~~ - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ -I r~~~~~~~~~~~ dependent loss technique.
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NIST-STRS 5.3 5.6 ATP 0.23 0.05 Other Agency (OA) 1.5 1.5 Calibration Services 0.15 0.16 Other 0.35 0.3 Total 7.1 7.3 The division has a paid staff of 43, of which 38 are technical professionals and 22 hold a PhD degree.
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No major capital expenditures are expected. The of lice has a paid staff of four, three of whom are technical professionals and two with a PhD degree.
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The of lice has a paid staff of eight, of whom four are technical professionals and three hold a PhD degree. OLES provides needed standards services to its customer community and has been quite successful in obtaining OA funding from those agencies to support expansion of these services.
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Physical facilities require upgrading for air temperature and humidity control, air filtration, vibration, and electrical power quality and reliability, to prevent these factors from significantly degrading measurements made in the laboratories. There is no workable plan for additional clean-room space, and no functional overall strategy for integrated project and facilities planning that can proceed independent of broader NIST facilities issues, policies, and actions.
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