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Gaithersburg

President Requests 22 Percent Budget Increase for NIST Core Programs to Advance Innovation and Competitiveness

February 4, 2008

Budget table Washington, D.C.— President George W. Bush's fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget proposal submitted today to Congress for the Commerce Department's...

Nanotribology for Nanomanufacturing (Archived)

Tribology is the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion and includes studies of friction, adhesion, lubrication, and wear

Authorized Release

You are required to advise the Center regularly where you, or a responsible adult (emergency contact person), can be reached while your...

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

August 20, 2009

Dr. Craig Brown, an instrument scientist for the Disk Chopper Spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, will receive a PECASE award for showing...

NanoFab Staff Listing

Management B. Robert Ilic, NanoFab Manager B. Robert Ilic is the Acting NanoFab Manager and a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research...

A current (white arrow) flowing through a tantalum film generates a current of spins (dark blue arrows) that impinges on the ferromagnetic cobalt iron boron layer and causes the magnetization (gold arrow) to charge directions (light blue arrow).

Theory of Spin-Orbit Torque

The working of countless electronic devices involves electric and magnetic effects interacting within nanostructured materials. In the phenomenon known as spin

Modeling and Simulation of Nanofabrication (Archived)

Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly. With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is increasing interest in

Manipulating the Position and Orientation of Nanoparticles using Feedback Control (Archived)

To advance the development of miniaturized systems, there is a need to place nanostructured materials in very precise locations. Only then can practical

Nanoparticle Tracking for Fluidic Self Assembly (Archived)

One challenge of nanomanufacturing is to establish methods to assemble solution-based nanoparticles into organized structures with nanometer precision, with an

Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers (Archived)

One of the major obstacles to incorporating nanotechnology into everyday products is the difficulty of making nanoscale structures inexpensively over large

Nanoplasmonics and Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Metamaterials

Metamaterials are tailor-made photonic composites--combinations of materials designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The properties stem from

Measuring Light-Matter Interactions in Chip-Based Optical Cavities

Measuring interactions between light and matter has both fundamental and practical importance. For example, lasers have had a profound influence on science and

SIRCUS facility and uncertainties

The basic SIRCUS calibration setup is shown at the right. The output from a tunable laser is sent through an intensity stabilizer, then through a 'speckle

Spectrally tunable lighting facility

Solid-state lighting (SSL) is increasingly being introduced into the market and it is expected that many of the light sources currently used for general

Bidirectional optical scattering facility

Goniometric optical scatter instrument (GOSI) The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) quantifies the angular distribution of radiation

NIST Launches Initiative to Take Pulse Of U.S. Measurement Capabilities, Infrastructure

May 11, 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C—An initiative to "roadmap" the nation's future measurement needs was announced today by the Commerce Department's National Institute of...

Oklahoma School District Is 1,000th Award Applicant

June 15, 2005

Gaithersburg, Md.—Jenks School District, Jenks, Okla., is the 1,000th applicant for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Managed by the Commerce...

Information Technology Security Day, Gaithersburg

Tue, Apr 14 2015

The NIST Information Technology Security Day is hosted annually as a means to heighten DOC and NIST user awareness of

Multi-Laboratory Study Sizes Up Nanoparticle Sizing

August 11, 2009

As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for...

Novel Temperature Calibration Improves NIST Microhotplate Technology

August 11, 2009

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and...

Optical scattering from surfaces

We study how material properties, surface topography, and contaminants affect the distribution of light scattered from surfaces. Our aim is to support industry

NIST Selects New Chief of National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program

June 10, 2003

Warren Merkel, a laboratory-testing and accreditation authority with public and private-sector experience, has been chosen to lead the National Voluntary...

Debasis Basak and Michael Kennedy set up a new NIST instrument

NIST Puts New Testing Device to Work on Recovered WTC Steel Shows How Steel Responds to High Stress, High Temperature

June 25, 2003

A new instrument at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that operates like an air-powered battering ram has been pressed into service to study...

Optical grating scatterometry

This program aims to develop standards, methods, and modeling for assessing the periodic structures using optical reflectance and transmittance measurements.

Spectrum of Th-Ar Hollow Cathode Lamps, Version History

Example of how to reference this online database: (Replace year, month day with database access date.) G. Nave, C.J. Sansonetti, F. Kerber...

Memorandum of Understanding Between The National Institute of Standards and Technology and The University of Maryland, College Park, MD for Cooperative Research

July 16, 2003

This Memorandum of Understanding, effective upon the date of execution by the last party to sign ("Effective Date"), is entered into by and between the...

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