Materials Science Advanced Materials Programs and Projects

The transmission of information in today’s electronics requires the movement of electrical charge, which expends energy and generates … more

The semiconductor industry’s remarkable progress in making integrated circuits smaller, faster and cheaper relies on continual … more

The Magnetics Group's program in superconductor electromechanics has moved to the University of Colorado. Contact principal investigators … more

The Thin Film Electronics Project enables the commercialization of emerging and future semiconductor electronic device technologies, such as … more

The Nanotube Metrology project is dedicated to improving the measurement methods for, and fundamental understanding of, single-wall carbon … more

Our goal is to develop novel, combinatorially-compatible measurement methods and metrologies, as well as comprehensive and consistent data sets, … more

The goal of this project is to identify and develop standards and measurement methods currently needed by the energy industry to enable the … more

In this project we measure the fundamental electrical properties of materials from bulk to nanoscale from 1 MHz to 0.3 THz. Understanding the … more

Over the past decade nanoscale science has produced varied and fascinating nanostructures with an extraordinary range of interesting and useful … more

Our goal is to develop advanced measurement tools and standards for measuring polymer scaffold properties and their impact on biological … more

This project develops low-energy transmission electron diffraction, imaging, and spectroscopy in the scanning electron microscope, to enable … more

This project provides a resource to address some of the challenges to the wider use of quantitative classical atomistic simulations (e.g. … more

We are developing best practice metrology for characterization of magnetic nanoparticle systems (e.g. blocking temperature, anisotropy, property … more

The Chemical Sciences Division supports the characterization of new, diverse, and technological critical materials. The constant evolution of … more

In an inertial fusion energy (IFE) reactor, the plasma-facing surface of the chamber, the first wall, is subjected to high doses of light ions and … more