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2024 Bronze Medal Award

AWARD CITATION

The group is honored for the development of a non-contact thermal imaging technology capable of precise temperature measurement at any point within the bulk of a material. They synthesized magnetic nanoparticles and used them in novel three-dimensional magnetic imaging to achieve a precision of 25 millikelvin at a spatial resolution of (100μm)^3, exceeding all known thermal three-dimensional imaging capabilities. This technology has applications in thermal sensing of biological environments, advanced packaging for semiconductors, ballistic impact of materials, and additive manufacturing.

GROUP AWARD

Adam Biacchi

Research Chemist
Physical Measurement Laboratory, Nanoscale Device Characterization Division

Thinh Bui

Research Chemist
Physical Measurement Laboratory, Sensor Science Division

Cindi Dennis

Physicist
Material Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division

Michael Donahue

Mathematician
Information Technology Laboratory, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division

Angela Hight Walker

Research Chemist
Physical Measurement Laboratory, Quantum Measurement Division

Thomas Moffat

Metallurgist
Material Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division

Eric Rus

Research Chemist
Material Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division

Weston Tew

Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory, Sensor Science Division

Solomon Woods

Physicist
Physical Measurement Laboratory, Sensor Science Division