Process measurement & control

News and Updates

Reliable Flow for Chip Makers

December 13, 2022

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have begun an ambitious project to attack a vexing problem in the semiconductor

Are Condition Monitoring Systems Worth It? NIST Researchers Offer Way to Evaluate

December 1, 2022

Industries may use "condition monitoring systems" (CMS) to monitor machines and enterprises – like production lines – for detrimental or unexpected changes in

On the Road to Tiny Transistors, How Flat is Flat?

June 21, 2022

Transistors are the building blocks of modern electronics, used in everything from televisions to laptops. As transistors have gotten smaller and more compact

Projects and Programs

Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program

Completed

The Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program will develop and deploy advances in measurement science that enable performance, quality

Crystallographic Databases

Ongoing

Components and devices used in a broad spectrum of technology sectors such as health care, communications, energy and electronics are manufactured from

Materials Extrusion Additive Manufacturing

Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology

Ongoing

The manufacture of polymeric materials from their raw form into their final useful product occurs under highly non-equilibrium conditions where temperature and

Multiscale structure and dynamics in advanced technological materials

Ongoing

This project develops and applies metrologies and standards for characterizing microstructure and dynamics in advanced functional materials of technological

Publications

Comparison of saturator designs for low volatility liquid precursor delivery

April 1, 2023

Author(s)

James E. Maslar, William A. Kimes, Vladimir B. Khromchenko, Brent Sperling, Ravindra Kanjolia

Low volatility precursors are widely utilized in chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition processes. Such precursors are often delivered from one

Solidification modes during additive manufacturing of steel revealed by high-speed X-ray diffraction

March 1, 2023

Author(s)

Hans-Henrik König, Niklas Holländer Pettersson, A Durga, Steven Van Petegem, Daniel Grolimund, Qilin Guo, Chihpin Chuang, lianyi Chen, Christos Oikonomou, Fan Zhang, Greta Lindwall

Solidification during fusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) is characterized by high solidification velocities and high thermal gradients, two factors that

Digital Twin-Based Cyber-Attack Detection Framework for Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Systems

February 23, 2023

Author(s)

Efe Balta, Michael Pease, James Moyne, Kira Barton, Dawn Tilbury

Smart manufacturing (SM) systems utilize run-time data to improve productivity via intelligent decision-making and analysis mechanisms on both machine and

Sensor Technologies for Quality Control in Engineered Tissue Manufacturing

October 27, 2022

Author(s)

Mary Clare McCorry, Marcie Black, Chrysanthi Williams, Greta Babakhanova, Sumona Sarkar, Nathan Swami, Katherine A. Mirica, Sarah Boermeester, Abbie Underhill

The use of engineered cells, tissues, and organs has the opportunity to change the way injuries and diseases are treated. Commercialization of these

Software

Simantha - Simulation for Manufacturing

Simantha is a discrete event simulation package written in Python that is designed to model the behavior of discrete manufacturing systems. Specifically, it