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Taking Measure

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Samuel Stavis

Samuel Stavis is a physical scientist and group leader at NIST. He received a B.S.E. in engineering physics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University.

The Virtuous Cycle of Making and Measuring Nanostructures

October 9, 2020

In his 1959 lecture “ There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” Richard Feynman invited us to enter a new field of physics. He envisioned, with remarkable

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