Flexible electronics

News and Updates

Getting a closer look at living cells and batteries: a little bit of graphene goes a long way

March 6, 2020

Researchers at NIST have devised a way to eliminate a long-standing problem affecting our understanding of both living cells and batteries. When a solid and an

Opposite sides of a quartz crystal resonator

Universe in the Balance

February 12, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to link measurements made by a device integral to microchip

STM image of electrons in two coupled quantum dots

What a Pair! Coupled Quantum Dots May Offer a New Way to Store Quantum Information

January 29, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum

Projects and Programs

Sub-nanoscale electron microscopy of complex nanostructures

Ongoing

The aim of this project is to develop robust, quantitative measurement methods utilizing transmission electron microscopy methods for complex, nanostructured

Electronic Material Characterization

Ongoing

To provide the necessary information for electronic material manufacturers to predict how and when failures will occur and enable lifetime analysis appropriate

Advanced Materials: Elemental and Chemical Analysis of Microstructured Materials

Ongoing

Electron, ion and photon-based microanalysis methods, instrumentation and protocols are developed to advance measurement science towards the elemental and

Ab initio theoretical modeling for predicting structure and properties in advanced materials

Ongoing

We develop first-principles-based methods for prediction of atomic arrangements and properties in advanced materials and develop tools for the prediction and

Publications

All-Printed Ultrahigh-Responsivity MoS2 Nanosheet Photodetectors Enabled by Megasonic Exfoliation

July 5, 2022

Author(s)

Lee J. Richter, Lidia Kuo, Vinod Sangwan, Sonal Rangnekar, Ting-Ching Chu, David Lam, Shehao Zhu, Ruipeng Li, Julia Downing, Benjamin Luijten, Lincoln Lauhon, Mark Hersam

Printed two-dimensional materials, derived from solution-processed inks, offer scalable and cost-effective routes to mechanically flexible optoelectronics. With

Fast Near-Infrared Photodetection using III-V Colloidal Quantum Dots

June 29, 2022

Author(s)

Lee J. Richter, Bin Sun, Amin M. Najarian, Chao Zheng, Laxmi K. Sagar, Min-Jae Choi, Xiyan Li, Larissa Levina, Se-Woong Baek, Seungjin Lee, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Jehad Abed, Mengxia Liu, Peicheng Li, Oleksandr Voznyy, Zheng H. Lu, F. Pelayo G. de Arquer, Edward H. Sargent

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising materials for IR light detection due to their tunable bandgap and their solution processing; however, to date, the

In-situ studies of the swelling by electrolyte in the electrochemical doping of an ethylene glycol substituted polythiophene

June 13, 2022

Author(s)

Lee J. Richter, Lucas Flagg, Lauren Asselta, Nicholas D'Antona, Natalie Stingelin, Tommaso Nicolini, Jonathan Onorato, Christine Luscombe, Ruipeng Li

Organic mixed ionic electronic conductors (OMIECs) have the potential to enable diverse new technologies, ranging from biosensors to flexible energy storage

Organic single crystals of charge-transfer complexes: model systems for the study of donor/acceptor interactions

October 15, 2021

Author(s)

Katelyn Goetz, Hamna Iqbal, Emily Bittle, Christina Hacker, Sujitra Pookpanratana, Oana Jurchescu

The charge-transfer (CT) state arising as a hybrid electronic state at the interface between charge donor and charge acceptor molecular units is important to a

Tools and Instruments

Nanocalorimeter Measurement System

This Nanocalorimeter Measurement System is used for nanocalorimetry measurements at fast heating rates (100 °C/s to 100,000 °C/s) and measurements of samples

Material Analysis Using Neutron Depth Profiling

Light elements such as helium, lithium, boron, and nitrogen are essential constituents in materials that enable energy technologies; lithium ion batteries