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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Radiation Physics Division

Projects/Programs

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Imaging: Characterization of Porous Transport Media for Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Completed

Efficiently managing water transport in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is critical to the performance, cost, and durability in order for this

timeline of neutron detector image spatial resolution

Imaging: Evolution of Neutron Image Detector Spatial Resolution

Ongoing

Measuring the through-plane water content in a hydrogen fuel cell is critical to understanding this complicated heat and mass transport environment, where the

Imaging: Improving Lead Battery Efficiency with Neutron Imaging

Ongoing

As countries target rapid carbon reduction in the battle to halt climate change, battery energy storage is set to be one of the defining technologies of the

Imaging: M2FCT - The Million-Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium

Ongoing

Starting in October 2020 the Department of Energy (DOE) created a new laboratory consortium with a mission to “advance the efficiency and durability of proton

Imaging: Neutron Imaging for Advanced Catalyst Development and Durability Studies

Completed

Neutron imaging continues to play a key role in elucidating the role of water in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) as highlighted by two projects

Imaging: Neutron Imaging of Lithium and Alkaline Batteries

Completed

A common topic in energy systems is the need for in situ measurement of the mass transport of light ion species such as hydrogen or lithium. Neutron imaging has

Imaging: Neutron Tomography of Hydrogen Storage Bed

Completed

Future hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will require hydrogen storage vessels that efficiently store and quickly release the hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen uptake in

Imaging: The Neutron and X-ray Tomography (NeXT) System

Ongoing

The NIST NeXT detector is the first imaging system to combine the power of both neutron imaging and x-ray 3-D tomography into a powerful, single-pass probe for

Imaging: Toward a Neutron Microscope

Ongoing

A novel neutron lens based on reflection has recently been developed that could greatly benefit neutron imaging and other neutron scattering techniques.

Imaging: Using Neutron Imaging to Advance Low Temperature Hydrogen Electrolysis

Ongoing

Starting in October 2020 the Department of Energy (DOE) created a new laboratory consortium focused on researching and developing hydrogen electrolysis for fuel

Imaging: Using Neutron and X-ray Imaging to Improve Commercial off the Shelf Batteries

Ongoing

The NIST neutron imaging team is partnered with the Center for Research on Extreme Batteries to develop methods to understand both the function of and

Industrial: Enhanced X-Ray Imaging

Ongoing

This project pursues enhanced x-ray image acquisition and analysis methods that are applicable to, for example, security and medical applications of x-ray

Interferometry: Crystal Structure Factors Determined using Pendellösung Interference

Ongoing

We use neutron pendellösung interferometry to measure the (111), (220), (400) neutron-silicon structure factors.

Interferometry: INFER - Neutron Interferometric Microscopy of Small Forces and Hierarchical Structures

Ongoing

INFER is an NIST Innovations in Measurement Science (IMS) project that seeks to develop far field neutron interferometers to create multi-scale images (three

Interferometry: Neutron Interferometry with Polarized Neutrons as an Additional Degree of Freedom

Completed

The goal is to apply Quantum Information Processing techniques to improve the performance of perfect-crystal neutron interferometers by making the final

Interferometry: Precision Scattering Length Measurements of Low-Z Isotopes using Neutron Interferometry

Ongoing

The Neutron Interferometer and Optics Facility continues to provide high precision measurements of scattering lengths for the purpose of improving few-body

Interferometry: Quantum Error Coding in a 4-Blade Neutron Interferometer

Ongoing

We have designed a new type of neutron interferometer that will be less sensitive to slow vibrations. The design improves the interferometer sensitivity and

Interferometry: Studying Quantum Materials using Neutron Interferometry

Ongoing

The realization of Quantum 2.0 devices will require the development of new types of materials. Here we apply the techniques of neutron interferometry to study

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Isotope Metrology

Ongoing

Stable and radioactive isotope analysis is an important interdisciplinary tool used by numerous scientists. Therefore, achieving reliable metrology and

Medical (Archive): Calibration of Epoxy Based Ba-133 Standard Phantom Sources for Use in an International Comparison for Quantitative SPECT

Completed

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently initiated a Cooperative Research Project (CRP) entitled "Development of Quantitative Nuclear Medicine

Medical (Archive): Calibrations of Large-Volume, Solid Ge-68 Phantom Sources for Monitoring PET Scanner Performance in Clinical Trials

Completed

The interpretation of quantitative imaging data obtained from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) studies requires an understanding of the measurement

Radiation Physics Division

Projects/Programs

Imaging: Characterization of Porous Transport Media for Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Imaging: Evolution of Neutron Image Detector Spatial Resolution

Imaging: Improving Lead Battery Efficiency with Neutron Imaging

Imaging: M2FCT - The Million-Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium

Imaging: Neutron Imaging for Advanced Catalyst Development and Durability Studies

Imaging: Neutron Imaging of Lithium and Alkaline Batteries

Imaging: Neutron Tomography of Hydrogen Storage Bed

Imaging: The Neutron and X-ray Tomography (NeXT) System

Imaging: Toward a Neutron Microscope

Imaging: Using Neutron Imaging to Advance Low Temperature Hydrogen Electrolysis

Imaging: Using Neutron and X-ray Imaging to Improve Commercial off the Shelf Batteries

Industrial: Enhanced X-Ray Imaging

Interferometry: Crystal Structure Factors Determined using Pendellösung Interference

Interferometry: INFER - Neutron Interferometric Microscopy of Small Forces and Hierarchical Structures

Interferometry: Neutron Interferometry with Polarized Neutrons as an Additional Degree of Freedom

Interferometry: Precision Scattering Length Measurements of Low-Z Isotopes using Neutron Interferometry

Interferometry: Quantum Error Coding in a 4-Blade Neutron Interferometer

Interferometry: Studying Quantum Materials using Neutron Interferometry

Isotope Metrology

Medical (Archive): Calibration of Epoxy Based Ba-133 Standard Phantom Sources for Use in an International Comparison for Quantitative SPECT

Medical (Archive): Calibrations of Large-Volume, Solid Ge-68 Phantom Sources for Monitoring PET Scanner Performance in Clinical Trials

Medical (Archive): Small-field Therapy Dosimetry Studies Using Alanine/EPR

Medical (Archive): Workshop for Radiobiology Dosimetry Standardization

Medical: Calibrated Phantoms for Monitoring PET and SPECT Scanner Performance in Clinical Trials

Medical: Characterization of Dosimeters Used in Computed Tomography

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