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Projects/Programs

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Basic Metrology: Recent Primary SRM Standardizations

Ongoing

Following is a tabulation of the primary standardizations of Radioactivity SRMs performed over the past decade.

Basic Metrology: Remote Sensing Methods for Imaging Dose to Water

Ongoing

Calorimetry based upon remote sensing of the temperature field in an irradiated volume would offer distinct advantages for the dosimetry of nonstandard beams

photon attenuation cross section measurements

Basic Metrology: Standard Reference Data on Radiation Interactions

Ongoing

NIST is in its eighth decade of providing critically evaluated, comprehensive databases of cross-section information for ionizing photons (x and gamma rays)

Basic Metrology: Theoretical Dosimetry and Radiation-Transport Calculations

Ongoing

The fundamental photon and charged particle interaction data and the radiation transport methods, pioneered and developed at NIST to calculate the penetration

Basic Metrology: True Becquerel - A New Paradigm for 21st Century Radioactivity Measurements

Ongoing

Expanding applications of radioactivity in medicine, energy, and national security demand quantification of complex radionuclide mixtures at uncertainty levels

BIB-trap detector

Ongoing

The goal of the BIB-Trap Detector project is to develop a detector composed of solid-state devices that can be used as a reference detector for calibrations in

Bilateral Comparison of Spectral Responsivity in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet

Completed

To compare the calibration capabilities for the spectral responsivity in the vacuum-ultraviolet spectral region between 135 nm and 250 nm, PTB and NIST agreed

Bioelectronic Sensors for Tissue/Organ-on-a-Chip Systems

Ongoing

The use of tissue/organ-on-a-chip systems is limited to endpoint and destructive measurements. Integration of electronic elements in these systems have proven

Biomolecular assembly

Ongoing

Biomolecular assembly allows the integration of nanoscale components into functional nanostructures. The Nanostructure Fabrication and Measurement Group

Birefringence Properties of Optical Materials (0.12 μm – 2 μm)

Ongoing

This program is directed towards characterizing the birefringence properties of optical materials for the wavelength range 0.12 μm – 15 μm. The birefringence

Boulder Microfabrication Facility

Ongoing

Central to fulfilling many of the Division’s programmatic goals, and those of other divisions at NIST-Boulder, the Quantum Electromagnetics Division is

Bringing the SI to Global Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Measurement

Ongoing

We are developing a comprehensive next-generation greenhouse gas (GHG) calibration system capable of extending SI traceability to global satellite remote

Building the next generation reference reflectometer

Ongoing

ROSI (Robotic Optical Scattering Instrument) is a new facility for measuring reflectance and scattering of materials in the ultraviolet to short-wave infrared

Calculation of optical constants and dielectric response

Ongoing

We maintain a suite of programs that can help calculate the optical properties of many solids throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.

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

Ongoing

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