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News and Updates

NIST’s Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry

In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for English scientist George Airy), which the team created using a custom-built device, could enhance neutrons’ ability to reveal useful information about materials ranging from pharmaceuticals to

Twisted Science: NIST Researchers Find a New Quantum Ruler to Explore Exotic Matter

Imaging the Elusive Skyrmion

NIST Team Demonstrates Novel Way to Convert Heat to Electricity

Software

OCEAN

OCEAN is a versatile package for calculating both optical/UV and core-edge spectroscopy. It is a first-principles code based on both ground-state density

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

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