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Thin Film X-Ray Reflectometry
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012 Our goal is to develop Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) and quantitative, reproducible X-ray reflectometry (XRR) data analysis methods to … more
Measurements for Hydrogen Storage Materials
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 The goal of this project is to develop the metrology necessary for rapid, high-throughput measurement of the hydrogen content of novel materials … more
Microscopy Methods
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 This project is developing means of quantitatively measuring chemical distributions in three dimensions at the nanometer scale in materials with … more
COMPLETED: Nanoscale Thermal Properties Project
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to develop measurement techniques to characterize the changes in thermal transport and thermal transition temperatures in polymeric … more
COMPLETED: Combinatorial Approaches to Thin Film Nanomaterials
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to develop combinatorial library approaches for measuring and optimizing the effect of substrate chemical functionalization on the … more
COMPLETED: NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC)
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to enable industrial acquisition of combinatorial and high-throughput measurement approaches for polymeric materials research and … more
Magnetic Nanostructures for post-CMOS Electronics
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to address the metrology of magnetic effects at the nanoscale level. Nanomagnet arrays form the basis for major data storage … more
Fatigue in Silicon
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our objective is to evaluate mechanisms of fatigue in bulk silicon, a material that has been traditionally considered to be immune to degradation … more
Magnetic Imaging
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our goal is to develop a real-time magnetic domain imaging system and apply it to technologically important systems, including data-storage and … more
Nanoparticle Assembly
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our goal is to develop a platform for in situ measurements of the directed assembly of complex solutions of nanoscale building blocks (NBB)s into … more
SWCNT Reference Materials
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Single-wall carbon nanotubes are an important class of carbon nanomaterials with significant potential for commercial applications. The National … more
Theory and Modeling of Materials for Renewable Energy
Last Updated Date: 07/12/2012 Renewable energy sources such as solar energy are attractive alternatives to fossil fuels because of their abundant supply and pollution-free power … more
Light-matter Interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 The quantum optics of light interacting with semiconductor-based nanostructures is being studied to extend concepts of entanglement and coherence … more
Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructures, Nanodevices, and Nanooptics
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 Nanoscale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, devices and their dynamical operation and the … more
Fabrication and Metrology of Novel Magnetic Tunnel Junctions in the Ultra-thin Barrier Limit
Last Updated Date: 10/20/2010 Magnetic tunnel junctions, nanostructured by highly charged ions, are being probed and characterized to establish the foundation for novel … more |
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