Condensed matter

News and Updates

NIST Team Demonstrates Novel Way to Convert Heat to Electricity

May 19, 2023

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have fabricated a novel device that could dramatically boost the conversion of heat

This Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks

November 2, 2022

An easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere.

Scientists Discover Crystal Exhibiting Exotic Spiral Magnetism

August 19, 2021

An exotic form of magnetism has been discovered and linked to an equally exotic type of electrons, according to scientists who analyzed a new crystal in which

Events

Quantum Matters in Materials Science Workshop

Wed, Feb 21 - Thu, Feb 22 2024

As a part of the JARVIS workshops series, NIST is organizing the 3rd Quantum Matters in Materials Science (QMMS)

Projects and Programs

X-ray Testbed for Breakthrough Catalyst Measurements

Ongoing

NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory and Physical Measurement Laboratory are developing a first-of-kind X-ray testbed for operando monitoring of catalytic

PTIR combines the spatial resolution of AFM with the specificity of absorption spectroscopy

Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)

Ongoing

Conventional techniques for analyzing chemical composition, such as infrared (IR) microscopy often miss critically important nanoscale details. To overcome this

Advanced Materials: X-ray Science for Standards and Analysis

Ongoing

Advanced experimental and theoretical methods are developed to increase the accuracy and precision of X-ray line energies and information derived from X-ray

Machine Learning to Predict Multicomponent Colloidal Crystals

Ongoing

We use machine learning and other computational techniques to predict the self-assembly characteristics of multicomponent colloidal materials. This is a

Publications

Structural Origin of Recovered Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 Nanoparticles

August 24, 2023

Author(s)

Bruce D. Ravel, Trevor Tyson, Han Zhang, Sizhan Liu, SANJIT GHOSE, U.J. Idehenre, Yury Barnakov, S.A. Basun, D.R. Evans

Nanoscale BaTiO3 particles (10 nm) prepared by ball-milling a mixture of oleic acid and heptane have been reported to have an electric polarization several

Report from the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Lithography Working Group Meeting: Current State, Needs, and Path Forward

August 22, 2023

Author(s)

Elizabeth Rasmussen, Boris Wilthan, Brian Simonds

This is the report of a hybrid working group meeting held on April 25, 2023, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO. The

Three-Dimensional Neutron Far-Field Tomography of a Bulk Skyrmion Lattice

August 14, 2023

Author(s)

Michael G. Huber, Benjamin Heacock, Markus Bleuel, David Cory, Melissa Henderson, Colin Heikes, Jeffery Krzywon, Olivier Nahman-Lévesque, Graeme Luke, M Pula, Dusan Sarenac, Kirill Zhernenkov, Dmitry Pushin

Magnetic skyrmions are localized non-collinear spin textures, characterized by an integer topo-logical charge. Their nanometric size and topological protection

Hofstadter moiré butterfly in twisted trilayer graphene

August 10, 2023

Author(s)

Muhammad Imram, Paul M. Haney, Yafis Barlas

Software

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

OCEAN

February 3, 2023

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

hotograph of the custom high temperature (>300 K) scanning instrument that measures electrical resistivity and Seebeck coefficient

High Throughput (Combinatorial) Screening Tool for Characterization of Thin Film Thermoelectrics as a Function Temperature

Description High-throughput (combinatorial) metrologies have evolved as a useful approach to rapidly determine the composition-structure-property relationships