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µMAG: Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group

Micromagnetics concerns the patterns of magnetization that arise in materials on the scale of nanometers. Understanding these structures is key to technologies...

3D Strain Mapping: Transmission Bragg Edge Strain Tensor Tomography (TBESTT)

Imagine an MRI or CT technique that can peer inside structural materials (e.g., steels) and visualize the strain experienced by structures as they support...

A Comparison of WD-EPMA Heterogeneity Testing Procedures

The heterogeneity of the four elements in a TiAl(NbW) SRM 2061 alloy were determined from five specimens with WD-EPMA (wavelength dispersive – electron probe...

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

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

Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture

This project aims to enable use of metal additive manufacturing (AM) in fatigue and fracture critical applications via two main thrusts: Investigation of...

Advanced Ambient Mass Spectrometry, Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry

The Surface and Trace Chemical Analysis Group (STCAG) conducts both applied and fundamental research into the development, characterization, and analysis of...

Advanced Composites Pilot for the Materials Genome Initiative

The development of new materials for diverse applications relating to the development of new energy sources, more efficient homes, autos, and aircraft, and the...

Advanced Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials

High-accuracy linear and nonlinear optical properties of materials used for leading-edge optical technologies are measured and characterized to enable these...

Advanced Materials Metrology

In this project we measure the fundamental electrical properties of materials from bulk to nanoscale from 1 MHz to 0.3 THz. Understanding the interaction of...

Advanced Materials: Elemental and Chemical Analysis of Microstructured Materials

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

Advanced Materials: X-ray Science for Standards and Analysis

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

Cross section of a SAC solder joint in a BGA, with sketches of potential micro specimens

Advanced Mechanical Characterization of Mesoscale Materials

Conventional mechanical test methods face limitations when specimens are smaller than a few millimeters in length, but information at this scale is needed for...

Advanced Microscopy for Trace and Bulk Particle Characterization

Advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques are used in this project to study the chemical and physical properties of particles contained in complex...

Amplifiers

To process quantum information it is important to have amplifiers with wide bandwidth, high dynamic range, and low noise.

Analysis of Copper Incorporation Into Zinc Oxide Nanowires

ZnO nanowires (NWs) are grown on bulk copper by chemical vapor deposition. Photoluminescence (PL) microscopy revealed band gap emission at 380 nm and a more...

t-SEM images of single wall carbon nanotube bundles with metal catalyst particles. Image width = 1 μm.

Analytical Transmission SEM for Nanomaterials

This project develops low-energy transmission electron diffraction, imaging, and spectroscopy in the scanning electron microscope, to enable determinations of...

Assessing the Internal Structure and Composition of Climatically-Relevant Atmospheric Particles

Atmospheric particles with long atmospheric lifetimes affect Earth's radiative balance. These particles typically consist of multiple chemical species. The...

Atomistic Potentials and the Future of Nanomaterials Metrology

As part of NIST's response to the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), this project provides resources to address some of the challenges to the wider use of...

Bioimaging

Our goal is to develop methods and materials for imaging-based characterization of molecular signatures that occur during cellular proliferation,...

Biomaterials for Oral Health

Our goal is to enable the development and manufacturing of biomaterials for oral health moving forward in 21st century by providing critical measurement...

Calibration of the Extreme UV/X-ray Irradiance Sensor (EXIS) for the Geostationary Operations Environment Satellite R-Series Program (GOES-R)

Calibrations of the The Extreme ultraviolet/X-ray Irradiance Sensor (EXIS), which will be installed on the Geostationary Operations Environment Satellite R-...

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