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Novel technologies for solar fuel production are expected to increasingly contribute to meeting our nation's environmental and energy needs. Mimicking nature's
Advanced bonding and integration physically bring together components, devices, and materials that are produced separately. There are strong economic and
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are integrated devices with critical applications in sensing, timing, signal processing, and biomedical diagnostics, and
Light can interact with mechanical systems in interesting and useful ways, not only probing the mechanical motion with spectacular sensitivity, but also driving
Planar microresonators are fabricated in the NIST Nanofab, tested in our laboratory, and incorporated into a commercial 9 GHz or NIST-built 34 GHz electron
Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly. With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is increasing interest in
The natural world is a magnificent place with observable, via measurement and inference, physical structures spanning at least 43 orders of magnitude in space
Ninety percent of clinical trials fail because new drugs are often not effective or turn out to be more toxic than estimated with data from animal trials. We
One challenge of nanomanufacturing is to establish methods to assemble solution-based nanoparticles into organized structures with nanometer precision, with an
Metamaterials are tailor-made photonic composites--combinations of materials designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The properties stem from
Electrochemical systems containing nanostructured materials are increasingly being incorporated into devices for efficiently harvesting, storing, and converting
Single-particle tracking is a powerful tool for probing the transport behavior and local environmental properties of individual nanoparticles in liquid
This NIST-wide collaborative project aims to improve biotechnology and medical diagnostics by increasing the resolution and precision of measurements of cells
We explore the physics of the transfer of photon momentum to free electrons in thin metal films, including unexpected phenomena such as the counterintuitve sign
The behavior and properties of macroscale objects are stable and predictable because they are the result of the average behavior of very large numbers of atoms
Scanning-electron microscopy is a primary method of measuring nanostructure dimensions. The Nanostructure Fabrication and Measurement Group advances measurement
The transport of particles through a region of space acquires an imprint of local information that enables sensing, such as detecting the presence of a
The semiconductor industry's remarkable progress in making integrated circuits smaller, faster and cheaper relies on continual improvements in photolithography
Nanopores offer the potential to study a wide range of protein-related phenomena that includes unfolding kinetics, differences in unfolding pathways, protein
Observing and measuring the dynamic changes that take place at the nanometer scale during the synthesis and operation of active nanostructures is vital for
Super-resolution optical microscopy extends deep into the nanometer scale with high throughput. The Nanostructure Fabrication and Measurement Group is improving
We use physics theories to understand and simulate the interaction of electrons, light, and mechanical probes with nanometer-scale structures, devices and