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Physics

Condensed matter

News and Updates

skyrmions

Imaging the Elusive Skyrmion

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm

Events

Projects and Programs

Catalyst Testbed

X-ray Testbed for Breakthrough Catalyst Measurements

Ongoing
Interested in collaborating? See below What does this project do for industry? Current measurement techniques are unable to follow the reaction pathways during catalysis and are limited to observing only the end products or looking at catalysts outside of realistic reaction conditions. Our new
membrane

Measurement Techniques for Membranes and Membrane Proteins

Ongoing
Use of synthetic cell membrane mimics allow simplification and complete control of a complicated system, and incorporation of selected elements under physiological conditions. We are furthering a technology originally developed at NIST using model lipid membranes supported on surfaces for

Nanotribology for Nanomanufacturing (Archived)

Completed
Friction and wear are major causes of mechanical failures and dissipative energy losses. These shortfalls account for a significant portion of the annual gross domestic product in the United States, amounting to approximately $800 billion in 2010. It is estimated that tens of billions of U.S

Publications

Absence of a Bulk Signature of a Charge Density Wave in Hard X-ray Measurements of UTe2

Author(s)
Caitlin Kengle, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Xuefei Guo, Thomas Johnson, Simon Bettler, Wolfgang Simeth, Matthew Krogstad, Zahir Islam, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan, Peter Abbamonte
The long-sought pair density wave (PDW) is an exotic phase of matter in which charge density wave (CDW) order is intertwined with the amplitude or phase of

Software

The measured and calculated RIXS maps at the oxygen K edge of lithium peroxide

OCEAN

OCEAN is a versatile package for calculating both optical/UV and core-edge spectroscopy. It is a first-principles code based on both ground-state density

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

Tools and Instruments