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Maria Munoz poses in the lab, wearing safety goggles and heavy gloves.

Spotlight: Maria Munoz’s Journey Into Spectroscopy Took Her Around the World

November 1, 2022

To reach this point, NIST postdoctoral researcher Maria Munoz journeyed across borders and seas. Take a trip with us as we trace her career path from elementary

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Spotlight: Examining Solar Panel Materials at the Microscale

September 12, 2022

Before making the investment in an array of solar panels, potential buyers may wonder: How long will the technology last before it breaks down? That’s just what

NIST Develops Interoperability Profile for Distributed Energy Resources and Grid Integration

July 1, 2022

With the increasing use of distributed energy resources (DER) – solar, wind, and more – to generate power, organizations have developed standards for their

Projects and Programs

Portable Field Test Standard for Evaluation of Hydrogen Gas Dispensers

Completed

Today, hydrogen-powered demonstration vehicles are refueled from dispensers in 3 to 5 minutes using sequential gas releases from a bank of pressurized cylinders

Smart Grid System Testbed Facility

Ongoing

The Smart Grid Testbed Facility is a unique set of interconnected modules on the NIST Gaithersburg site. Designed as a platform to measure and characterize

Theory and Modeling of Materials for Renewable Energy

Ongoing

Renewable energy sources such as solar energy are attractive alternatives to fossil fuels because of their abundant supply and pollution-free power generation

Sub-nanoscale electron microscopy of complex nanostructures

Ongoing

The aim of this project is to develop robust, quantitative measurement methods utilizing transmission electron microscopy methods for complex, nanostructured

Publications

A Preliminary Thermal-hydraulics Analysis for the NIST Neutron Source

November 13, 2022

Author(s)

Idan Baroukh, Anil Gurgen, Joy Shen, Abdullah Weiss

Preliminary CFD Investigations for the NIST Neutron Source

November 13, 2022

Author(s)

Idan Baroukh, Anil Gurgen, Joy Shen, Abdullah Weiss

Highlights of Neutronics Analyses for the Pre-conceptual NIST Neutron Source Design

November 13, 2022

Author(s)

Osman Celikten, Dagistan Sahin, Abdullah Weiss

Visualizing Localized, Radiative Defects in GaAs Solar Cells

September 1, 2022

Author(s)

Behrang Hamadani, Margaret Stevens, Brianna Conrad, Matthew Lumb, Kenneth Schmieder

We have used a calibrated, wide-field hyperspectral imaging instrument to obtain absolute spectrally and spatially resolved photoluminescence images in high

Software

AFUEBF Program

October 15, 2015

CALCULATION OF ANNUAL FUEL UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY OF RESIDENTIAL CENTRAL FURNACES AND BOILERSThe AFUEBF program available at this website can be used to

LoopDA

March 13, 2012

LoopDA is a natural ventilation design tool developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Version 3.0 is an update to the original version 1

Tools and Instruments

Apparatus for the Measurement of High Temperature Thermoelectric Transport Properties

The Seebeck coefficient is a physical parameter routinely measured to identify the potential thermoelectric performance of a material. However, researchers

Material Analysis Using Neutron Depth Profiling

Light elements such as helium, lithium, boron, and nitrogen are essential constituents in materials that enable energy technologies; lithium ion batteries