Spectroscopy Programs & Projects

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

Far-infrared (or terahertz/THz, ca. 25 to 300 micron wavelength) femtosecond pulsed laser and Fourier-transform infrared methods are employed to … more

The NIST Chemistry WebBook is a site on the Internet ( http://webbook.nist.gov/ ) that provides convenient access to a variety of physical and … more

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is responsible for an evaluated, tandem mass spectral library as an extension of the … more

Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) and NIST Traceable Reference Materials (NTRMs) for UV/visible/NIR spectrophotometry are certified transfer … more

The optical properties of cryogenic water ices in the vacuum-ultraviolet spectral range are studied.

Calibrations of the The Extreme ultraviolet/X-ray Irradiance Sensor (EXIS), which will be installed on the Geostationary Operations Environment … more

The Chemical Sciences Division serves as the Nation’s reference laboratory for chemical compositional measurements and standards to … more

Sensitive and fully state resolved spectroscopic methods in the terahertz (THz) and ultraviolet (UV) regions are being developed to investigate … more

Synthetic cell membrane constructs allow the simplification and complete control of a more complicated cellular system, … more

Research activities in separation science continue to focus on investigations of the fundamental physical and chemical processes that influence … more

Our goal is to develop combinatorial and high-throughput measurement approaches for rapid characterization of the structure and phase behavior of … more

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) is a high sensitivity alternative to conventional Raman spectroscopy. Ultrafast lasers are used to … more

A wide range of technologies are impacted by the performance of thin (<100 nm) layers of advanced materials. This is particularly true in … more

Light microscopy is a widely used analytical tool because it provides non-destructive, real-time, three-dimensional imaging with chemical and … more