Graphics cards based topography artefacts simulations in Scanning Thermal Microscopy

Topography-free sample for thermal spatial response measurement of scanning thermal microscopy

Accelerating Missile Threat Simulations Using Personal Computer Graphics Cards

The authors use inexpensive personal computer graphics cards to perform the intensive image-processing computations done in a heat-seeking missile's tracking systems and thereby dramatically reduce the execution time of missile threat simulations used by military mission planners. Using an innovative processing algorithm, these calculations are accomplished up to 3.5 times faster in graphic car...

Calibration-free quantitative surface topography reconstruction in scanning electron microscopy.

This work presents a new approach to obtain reliable surface topography reconstructions from 2D Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images. In this method a set of images taken at different tilt angles are compared by means of digital image correlation (DIC). It is argued that the strength of the method lies in the fact that precise knowledge about the nature of the rotation (vector and/or magni...

Micro-thermal analysis: scanning thermal microscopy and localised thermal analysis.

Micro-thermal analysis combines the imaging capabilities of atomic force microscopy with the ability to characterise, with high spatial resolution, the thermal behaviour of materials. The conventional AFM tip is replaced by a miniature heater/thermometer which enables a surface to be visualised according to its response to the input of heat (in addition to measuring its topography). Areas of in...

ECM on Graphics Cards

This paper reports record-setting performance for the ellipticcurve method of integer factorization: for example, 604.99 curves/second for ECM stage 1 with B1 = 8192 for 280-bit integers on a single PC. The state-of-the-art GMP-ECM software handles 171.42 curves/second for ECM stage 1 with B1 = 8192 for 280-bit integers using all four cores of a 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600. The extra speed takes a...