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News and Updates

Detecting mid-infrared light, one photon at a time

June 1, 2021

For some 30 years, scientists have used superconducting materials to record the tiniest specks of light imaginable — individual photons, or single particles of

Red fire extinguisher is attached to pipes and hoses inside a vehicle.

NIST Tool Will Help Military Vehicles Fight Fires Using Less Harmful Chemicals

March 2, 2021

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new, interactive spreadsheet that will help the U.S. military

Alloy mapping shows areas in red, blue, and and other colors.

Spotlight: Unique Alloy for the Automotive Industry

January 25, 2021

Hypothetical scenario: A car hurtles toward a tree and swerves to avoid it when the passenger door meets timber and deforms around it. As the driver, you don't

Industry Impacts

Fare Standards for Rideshare Services

To calculate fares, app-based ride services such as Lyft and Uber don’t use traditional taxi meters, but instead combine data from GPS and cellular networks to

Projects and Programs

Completed - Energy Storage & Delivery

The goal of the project is to develop measurement methods to characterize the nanoscale structure and dynamics of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) to enable

Metrology for Multi-Physics AM Model Validation

Multi-physics models are necessary to simulate, study, and optimize metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion (PBF) and directed

Precursor Material Qualification

The lack of repeatable process outcomes from additive manufacturing (AM) has been broadly acknowledged as an impediment to widespread implementation. While most

Hierarchical Materials

Nature utilizes a hierarchy of length scales and tiered structure to build lightweight, strong, and tough materials. Engineers look to exploit the advantage of

Publications

Symposium on Federally Funded Research on Cybersecurity of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE)

April 29, 2020

Author(s)

Suzanne Lightman, Tanya L. Brewer

Electric vehicles are becoming common on the Nation's roads, and the electric vehicle supply equipment infrastructure (EVSE) is being created to support that

Investigation of the Interlaminar Shear Properties of Fiber Reinforced Polymers via Flexural Testing using Digital Image Correlation

December 2, 2019

Author(s)

Matthias J. Merzkirch, Timothy J. Foecke

Determination of the interlaminar properties of laminate composites to date have included a few direct measurement techniques: the standardized short beam test

Using Statistical Methods and Co-Simulation to Evaluate ADS-Equipped Vehicle Trustworthiness

November 11, 2019

Author(s)

Khalid Halba, Edward Griffor, Thomas P. Roth, Patrick Kamongi

With the increasing interest in studying Automated Driving System (ADS)-equipped vehicles through simulation, there is a growing need for comprehensive and

Spectral and Energy Efficiencies of Millimeter Wave MIMO with Configurable Hybrid Precoding.

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

Hybrid precoding architectures are widely studied for millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO systems. A major challenge in designing hybrid precoders is the

Awards

OFPM Facilities Support Division Receives 2019 Department of Commerce Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award

OFPM Facilities Support Division’s Kevin Redman and Vivian Shirley won the 2019 Department of Commerce’s Energy and Environmental