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MEMS Packaging - Current Issues and Approaches
The assembly and packaging of MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) devices raise a number of issues over and above those normally associated with the assembly of standard microelectronic circuits. MEMS components include a variety of sensors, microengines, optical components, and other devices. They often have exposed mechanical structures which during assembly require particulate control, space in the package, non-contact handling procedures, low-stress die attach, precision die placement, unique process schedules, hermetic sealing in controlled environments (including vacuum), and other special constraints. These constraints force changes in the techniques used to separate die on a wafer, in the types of packages which can be used in the assembly processes and materials, and in the sealing environment and process. This paper discusses a number of these issues and provides information on approaches being taken or proposed to address them.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
DRESSENDORFER,PAUL V.; PETERSON,DAVID W. & REBER,CATHLEEN ANN
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Weekly newspaper from Mercedes, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Modification of chemical and physical factors in steamflood to increase heavy oil recovery
This report covers the work performed in the various physicochemical factors for the improvement of oil recovery efficiency. In this context the following general areas were studied: (1) The understanding of vapor-liquid flows in porous media, including processes in steam injection; (2) The effect of reservoir heterogeneity in a variety of foams, from pore scale to macroscopic scale; (3) The flow properties of additives for improvement of recovery efficiency, particularly foams and other non-Newtonian fluids; and (4) The development of optimization methods to maximize various measures of oil recovery.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Yortsos, Yanis C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-frictionless carbon coatings for use in fuel injectors and pump systems operating with low-sulfur diesel fuels
While sulfur in diesel fuels helps reduce friction and prevents wear and galling in fuel pump and injector systems, it also creates environmental pollution in the form of hazardous particulates and SO{sub 2} emissions. The environmental concern is the driving force behind industry's efforts to come up with new alternative approaches to this problem. One such approach is to replace sulfur in diesel fuels with other chemicals that would maintain the antifriction and antiwear properties provided by sulfur in diesel fuels while at the same time reducing particulate emissions. A second alternative might be to surface-treat fuel injection parts (i.e., nitriding, carburizing, or coating the surfaces) to reduce or eliminate failures associated with the use of low-sulfur diesel fuels. This research explores the potential usefulness of a near-frictionless carbon (NFC) film developed at Argonne National Laboratory in alleviating the aforementioned problems. The lubricity of various diesel fuels (i.e., high-sulfur, 500 ppm; low sulfur, 140 ppm; ultra-clean, 3 ppm; and synthetic diesel or Fischer-Tropsch, zero sulfur) were tested by using both uncoated and NFC-coated 52100 steel specimens in a ball-on-three-disks and a high-frequency reciprocating wear-test rig. The test program was expanded to include some gasoline fuels as well (i.e., regular gasoline …
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Erdemir, A.; Ozturk, O.; Alzoubi, M.; Woodford, J.; Ajayi, L. & Fenske, G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Regulation: NRC Staff Have Not Fully Accepted Planned Changes
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) shift to a risk-informed regulation, focusing on the: (1) views of NRC's staff on the quality of the work that NRC performs, the management of and staff's involvement in changes occurring in the agency, and the move to a risk-informed regulatory approach; and (2) status of NRC's efforts to develop a strategy to implement a risk-informed regulatory approach."
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NWTC AWT-26 research and retrofit project-summary of AWT-26/27 turbine research and development
This report summarizes the AWT design, the testing and modeling completed on the design, the operating history of AWT turbines, and the additional work required to commercialize the design.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Poore, R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 86, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Wilmoth, Adam
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 30, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Tri-weekly student newspaper from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Semiweekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pawhuska Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Semiweekly newspaper from Pawhuska, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Gann, Sherry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Weekly newspaper from Bridge City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Brown, Gloria
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Plasma simulation studies using multilevel physics models
The question of how to proceed toward ever more realistic plasma simulation studies using ever increasing computing power is addressed. The answer presented here is the M3D (Multilevel 3D) project, which has developed a code package with a hierarchy of physics levels that resolve increasingly complete subsets of phase-spaces and are thus increasingly more realistic. The rationale for the multilevel physics models is given. Each physics level is described and examples of its application are given. The existing physics levels are fluid models (3D configuration space), namely magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and two-fluids; and hybrid models, namely gyrokinetic-energetic-particle/MHD (5D energetic particle phase-space), gyrokinetic-particle-ion/fluid-electron (5D ion phase-space), and full-kinetic-particle-ion/fluid-electron level (6D ion phase-space). Resolving electron phase-space (5D or 6D) remains a future project. Phase-space-fluid models are not used in favor of delta f particle models. A practical and accurate nonlinear fluid closure for noncollisional plasmas seems not likely in the near future.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Park, W.; Belova, E. V. & Fu, G. Y.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Radiolytic and electron-transfer reactions in supercritical CO{sub 2}
Using supercritical fluids as solvents is useful for both practical and theoretical reasons. It has been proposed to use supercritical CO{sub 2} as a solvent for synthesis because it eliminates the air pollution arising from other solvents. The properties of supercritical fluids can be easily varied with only modest changes in temperature and density, so they provide a way of testing theories of chemical reactions. It has also been proposed to use supercritical fluids for the treatment of hazardous mixed waste. For these reasons the authors have studied the production of radiolytic species in supercritical CO{sub 2} and have measured their reactivity as a function of density. They have shown that the C{sub 2}O{sub 4}{sup +} is formed. They also have shown that the electron transfer reactions of dimethylaniline to C{sub 2}O{sub 4}{sup +} and CO{sub 2}(e{sup {minus}}) to benzoquinone are diffusion controlled over a considerable density range.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Bartels, D. M.; Dimitrijevic, N. M.; Jonah, C. D. & Takahashi, K.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Renormalized dissipation in the nonconservatively forced Burgers equation
A previous calculation of the renormalized dissipation in the nonconservatively forced one-dimensional Burgers equation, which encountered a catastrophic long-wavelength divergence approximately [k min]-3, is reconsidered. In the absence of velocity shear, analysis of the eddy-damped quasi-normal Markovian closure predicts only a benign logarithmic dependence on kmin. The original divergence is traced to an inconsistent resonance-broadening type of diffusive approximation, which fails in the present problem. Ballistic scaling of renormalized pulses is retained, but such scaling does not, by itself, imply a paradigm of self-organized criticality. An improved scaling formula for a model with velocity shear is also given.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Krommes, John A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Resistor Printing on Dielectric
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Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Barner, G. E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Review of Astrophysics Experiments on Intense Lasers
Astrophysics has traditionally been pursued at astronomical observatories and on theorists' computers. Observations record images from space, and theoretical models are developed to explain the observations. A component often missing has been the ability to test theories and models in an experimental setting where the initial and final states are well characterized. Intense lasers are now being used to recreate aspects of astrophysical phenomena in the laboratory, allowing the creation of experimental testbeds where theory and modeling can be quantitatively tested against data. We describe here several areas of astrophysics--supernovae, supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts, and giant planets--where laser experiments are under development to test our understanding of these phenomena.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Remington, B. A.; Drake, R. P.; Takabe, H. & Arnett, D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 109, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Selection Intensity in Genetic Algorithms with Generation Gaps
This paper presents calculations of the selection intensity of common selection and replacement methods used in genetic algorithms (GAs) with generation gaps. The selection intensity measures the increase of the average fitness of the population after selection, and it can be used to predict the average fitness of the population at each iteration as well as the number of steps until the population converges to a unique solution. In addition, the theory explains the fast convergence of some algorithms with small generation gaps. The accuracy of the calculations was verified experimentally with a simple test function. The results of this study facilitate comparisons between different algorithms, and provide a tool to adjust the selection pressure, which is indispensable to obtain robust algorithms.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Cantu-Paz, E.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Semiweekly newspaper from Seminole, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Single-mode operation of a coiled multimode fiber amplifier
The authors report a new approach to obtain single-transverse-mode operation of a multimode fiber amplifier, in which the gain fiber is coiled to induce significant bend loss for all but the lowest-order mode. They have demonstrated this method by constructing a coiled amplifier using Yb-doped, double-clad fiber with a core diameter of 25 {micro}m and NA of {minus}0.1 (V {approx} 7.4). When operated as an ASE source, the output beam had an M{sup 2} value of 1.09 {+-} 0.09; when seeded at 1,064 nm, the slope efficiency was similar to that of an uncoiled amplifier. This technique does not require exotic fiber designs or increase system complexity and is inexpensive to implement. It will allow scaling of pulsed fiber lasers and amplifiers to significantly higher pulse energies and peak powers and cw fiber sources to higher average powers while maintaining excellent beam quality.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Koplow, Jeffrey P.; Kliner, Dahv A. V. & Goldberg, Lew
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Information on the Archer-Shaw Proposal
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Archer-Shaw Social Security reform proposal, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the proposal achieves sustainable solvency and how it would affect the U.S. economy and the federal budget; (2) the balance struck between the twin goals of income adequacy (level and certainty of benefits) and individual equity (rates of return on individual contributions); and (3) how readily such changes could be implemented, administered, and explained to the public."
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Suspended Solids Profiler Shop Test Report
The Suspended Solids Profiler (SSP) Instrument is planned to be installed in the AZ-101 tank to measure suspended solids concentrations during mixer pump testing. The SSP sensor uses a reflectance measurement principle to determine the suspended solids concentrations. The purpose of this test is to provide a documented means of verifying that the functional components of the SSP operate properly.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
STAEHR, T.W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of diamondlike carbon films with superlow friction and wear properties
In this study, the authors introduce a new diamondlike carbon (DLC) film providing a friction coefficient of 0.001 and wear rates of 10{sup {minus}9} to 10{sup {minus}10} mm{sup 3}/N.m in inert-gas environments (e.g., dry nitrogen and argon). The film was grown on steel and sapphire substrates in a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system that uses using a hydrogen-rich plasma. Employing a combination of surface and structure analytical techniques, they explored the structural chemistry of the resultant DLC films and correlated these findings with the friction and wear mechanisms of the films. The results of tribological tests under a 10-N load (creating initial peak Hertz pressures of 1 and 2.2 GPa on steel and sapphire test pairs, respectively) and at 0.2 to 0.5 m/s sliding velocities indicated that a close correlation exists between the friction and wear coefficients of DLC films and the source gas chemistry. Specifically, films grown in source gases with higher hydrogen-to-carbon ratios had the lowest fiction coefficients and the highest wear resistance. The lowest friction coefficient (0.001) was achieved with a film on sapphire substrates produced in a gas discharge plasma consisting of 25% methane and 75% hydrogen.
Date:
January 19, 2000
Creator:
Erdemir, A.; Eryilmaz, O. L. & Fenske, G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library