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The CHIPS for America funding opportunity will support critical research, prototyping and commercial solutions that advance microelectronics technology in the...
After powering five decades of innovation, Moore’s Law is faltering. Here’s how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping the...
The winning projects were competitively selected following a call for innovative proposals that address technical needs related to NIST’s research areas.
Using an electron beam to image the tiniest of defects and patterns on microchips, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) has long been a mainstay of the...
The awards will fund research and development of new products relating to cybersecurity, quantum computing, health care, semiconductor manufacturing and other...
CHIPS Metrology Program The CHIPS Metrology Program leverages NIST’s proven measurement science expertise to conduct research on measurements that are accurate...
Devices that capture the brilliant light from millions of quantum dots, including chip-scale lasers and optical amplifiers, have made the transition from...
Chip-based devices known as frequency combs, which measure the frequency of light waves with unparalleled precision, have revolutionized time keeping, the...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have fabricated a novel device that could dramatically boost the conversion of heat...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed chip-scale devices for simultaneously manipulating the color, focus...
In the Lilliputian world of nanofabrication, where billions of microscopic circuit elements are sculpted or imprinted on a fingernail-sized silicon chip...
In two new studies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have greatly improved the efficiency and power output of a series...
The biosensor, developed by researchers at NIST, Brown University and the French research institute CEA-Leti, identifies biomarkers by measuring how binding...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have begun an ambitious project to attack a vexing problem in the semiconductor...
Defective computer chips are the bane of the semiconductor industry. Even a seemingly minor flaw in a chip packed with billions of electrical connections might...
Trapped in a microscopic cage made of strands of DNA, molecules of a life-saving drug course through the bloodstream of a cancer patient. Only when receptors on...
Today, CD-SAXS (critical dimension small angle X-ray scattering) is an industry-wide measurement technique for next-generation semiconductor fabrication...
Cutting intricate patterns as small as several billionths of a meter deep and wide, the focused ion beam (FIB) is an essential tool for deconstructing and...
To continue making smartphones, laptops, and other devices more powerful and energy efficient, industry is intensely focused on identifying promising next...
Transistors are the building blocks of modern electronics, used in everything from televisions to laptops. As transistors have gotten smaller and more compact...