Electron physics

News and Updates

Impeding the Impedance: Research Reveals How to Design a Better Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Battery

November 16, 2021

The newest generation of lithium-ion batteries now under development promises a revolution in powering cell phones, electric vehicles, laptops and myriad other

NIST, Collaborators Develop Sensitive New Way of Detecting Transistor Defects

October 7, 2021

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have devised and tested a new, highly sensitive method of detecting

A Smart Use for Doping: Implanted Atoms Create Unique Electrical IDs That Distinguish Bona Fide Devices From Forgeries

September 16, 2021

If someone sells you a luxury handbag from Paris, France, but it turns out be a forgery from Paris, Texas, the counterfeit item might cost you a thousand bucks

Projects and Programs

Extreme Ultraviolet Detector Calibration Service

Ongoing

The extreme ultraviolet detector (EUVD) calibration service disseminates the U.S. national scale of detector responsivity in the wavelength range from 5 nm to

Argon mini-arc meets its match: Use of a laser-driven plasma source in ultraviolet-detector calibrations

Ongoing

The National Institute of Standards and Technology operates two spectral comparator facilities, both of which are used to provide detector calibrations from the

Platforms for measuring properties of electrically addressable semiconductor nanocrystals

Ongoing

In measuring performance of submicron optoelectronic devices, such as lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs), conventional methods are limited to extrapolations

Image of the sun at 33.5 nm on 2011-09-06.

Intercomparison of satellite instrument calibrations at SURF III/NIST and MLS/PTB

Ongoing

A bilateral intercomparison of calibrations performed at the Metrology Light Source (MLS) of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Berlin, Germany

Publications

Intrinsic staggered spin-orbit torque for the electrical control of antiferromagnets: Application to CrI3

December 10, 2021

Author(s)

Paul M. Haney, Fei Xue

Current-induced torques in magnetic Weyl semimetal tunnel junctions

June 8, 2021

Author(s)

Paul M. Haney, Duarte de Sousa, Fei Xue, Jian-Ping Wang, Tony Low

Many-body physics in small systems: Observing the onset and saturation of correlation in linear atomic chains

May 20, 2021

Author(s)

Emily A. Townsend, Tom?a?s Neuman, Alex Debrecht, Javier Aizpurua, Garnett W. Bryant

The exact study of small systems can guide us toward relevant measures for extracting information about many-body physics as we move to larger and more complex

Charge-transfer satellites in the photoemission and x-ray absorption spectra of SrTiO3 and TiO2: Experiment and first-principles theory

March 10, 2021

Author(s)

Eric L. Shirley, Joseph Woicik, Cherno Jaye, Daniel A. Fischer, Abdul K. Rumaiz, Joshua J. Kas, John J. Rehr, Conan Weiland

Complete ab initio real-time cumulant and Bethe-Salpeter-equation calculations accurately capture the detailed satellite structure observed in both the

Software

HolograFREE

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

Electron physics

News and Updates

Impeding the Impedance: Research Reveals How to Design a Better Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Battery

NIST, Collaborators Develop Sensitive New Way of Detecting Transistor Defects

A Smart Use for Doping: Implanted Atoms Create Unique Electrical IDs That Distinguish Bona Fide Devices From Forgeries

Projects and Programs

Extreme Ultraviolet Detector Calibration Service

Argon mini-arc meets its match: Use of a laser-driven plasma source in ultraviolet-detector calibrations

Platforms for measuring properties of electrically addressable semiconductor nanocrystals

Intercomparison of satellite instrument calibrations at SURF III/NIST and MLS/PTB

Publications

Intrinsic staggered spin-orbit torque for the electrical control of antiferromagnets: Application to CrI3

Current-induced torques in magnetic Weyl semimetal tunnel junctions

Many-body physics in small systems: Observing the onset and saturation of correlation in linear atomic chains

Charge-transfer satellites in the photoemission and x-ray absorption spectra of SrTiO3 and TiO2: Experiment and first-principles theory

Software

HolograFREE

Tools and Instruments

Beamline 10: Quantitative Hyperspectral Infrared Microscopy

Beamline 5: New electron beam imaging system

Beamline 7: EUV reflectometry

Beamline 8: Surface chemistry & durability of EUV optics