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Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently appointed four new members to the Panel of Judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The new judges
In order to enable studies of a range of indoor air quality and ventilation issues, EL maintains a highly instrumented three-bedroom test house. Previous
The Bruker Dektak 6M contact profilometer measures the thickness of patterned thin films by sensing the deflections of a fine stylus riding over feature steps
The J. A. Woollam M-2000 DI spectroscopic ellipsometer provides fast and accurate thin film characterization over a wide spectroscopic range. The high speed CCD
The First Ten Angstroms FTA125 is a general purpose goniometer that can measure the contact angle and surface tension of liquid droplets on a substrate's
The Olympus SZH10 is a long working distance stereo microscope that supports both reflected light and transmitted light modes for inspecting substrates and
The Nikon SMZ1500 is a long working distance stereo microscope that supports both reflected light and transmitted light modes for inspecting substrates and
The Nikon L200 is a compound optical microscope that supports both reflected light and transmitted light modes for inspecting substrates and samples. The
The Keithley 4200 SCS parametric test system provides in-line electrical characterization capabilities, including the ability to measure capacitance at multiple
The Bruker Dektak XT contact profilometer measures the thin film thickness of patterned features by sensing the deflection of a fine stylus that is raster
Angela Hight Walker of PML's Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division and colleagues have succeeded in measuring a previously unknown but essential
The Toho Technology FLX-2320 stress measurement tool uses a laser interferometer to measure the curvature of a wafer before and after film deposition. It then
NIST's PV characterization laboratory is used to measure the electrical performance and opto-electronic properties of solar cells and modules. This facility
This gift from science just keeps on giving. Measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show why a material already known
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, have found that a
When the English author Sir Francis Bacon wrote "The world's a bubble" in 1629, it's a safe bet he wasn't thinking about microfluidics. However, for a research
Analysis of a manganese-based crystal by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists and engineers recently enhanced the capabilities of NIST's computer fire modeling software, a
Automated guided vehicles—or AGVs—are robotic versions of draft animals, hauling heavy loads and navigating their way in factories, distribution centers, ports
The Rigaku SmartLab X-ray diffraction system (XRD) is a fully automated, modular system for advanced x-ray diffraction measurements on a wide range of materials
The Bruker Dimension FastScan atomic force microscope (AFM) combines a high-speed scanning AFM, programmable stage control, and a user friendly interface to
The Zeiss Ultra 60 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) is a high resolution FE-SEM which provides nanoscale imaging and compositional analysis
The FEI Titan 80-300 scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is an advanced analytical field emission scanning transmission electron microscope capable
The theme of this year's World Metrology Day, " Measurements and the Global Energy Challenge," speaks to one of the defining issues of our time. One that is as
By employing a technique analogous to the operation of noise-canceling headphones, PML researchers have created an exquisitely sensitive, semiconductor-based
The NIST Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT) is a whole building emulator designed with enough flexibility to be capable of reproducibly simulating