Flexible electronics

News and Updates

Getting a closer look at living cells and batteries: a little bit of graphene goes a long way

March 6, 2020

Researchers at NIST have devised a way to eliminate a long-standing problem affecting our understanding of both living cells and batteries. When a solid and an

Opposite sides of a quartz crystal resonator

Universe in the Balance

February 12, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to link measurements made by a device integral to microchip

STM image of electrons in two coupled quantum dots

What a Pair! Coupled Quantum Dots May Offer a New Way to Store Quantum Information

January 29, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum

Events

Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) Workshop

Wed, Jul 9 - Thu, Jul 10 2025

As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the 6th Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) workshop will be

Projects and Programs

Ab initio theoretical modeling for predicting structure and properties in advanced materials

Ongoing

Project activities include: Electronic structure of semiconductor-oxide interfaces. Thermodynamics of flexible microporous materials for gas storage Gas adsorption in microporous materials Analysis of topological materials, including magnetic topological insulators High-throughput screening of

Advanced Materials: Elemental and Chemical Analysis of Microstructured Materials

Ongoing

Projects: DTSA-II – Pushing the Limits of Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry Multimodal Superresolution Microscopy Forensic Trace Evidence

Electronic Material Characterization

Ongoing

Manufacturing optimized devices that incorporate newly-emerging materials requires predictable performance throughout device lifetimes. Unexpected degradation in device performance, sometimes leading to failure, is often traceable to poor material reliability. Reliability is rooted in the stability

Sub-nanoscale electron microscopy of complex nanostructures

Ongoing

The properties of advance materials are becoming ever more reliant on the ability to manipulate their chemistry and structure at very fine length scales. For example, the relevant feature sizes in state-of-the-art transistors continue to decrease, even as the complexity of the architectures employed

Publications

Multiscale Green's functions for modeling graphene and other Xenes

January 27, 2023

Author(s)

Vinod Tewary, Edward Garboczi

We give a review of the multiscale Green's function method for modeling modern two-dimensional nanomaterials such as graphene and other Xenes. The method is

All-Printed Ultrahigh-Responsivity MoS2 Nanosheet Photodetectors Enabled by Megasonic Exfoliation

July 5, 2022

Author(s)

Lee J. Richter, Lidia Kuo, Vinod Sangwan, Sonal Rangnekar, Ting-Ching Chu, David Lam, Shehao Zhu, Ruipeng Li, Julia Downing, Benjamin Luijten, Lincoln Lauhon, Mark Hersam

Printed two-dimensional materials, derived from solution-processed inks, offer scalable and cost-effective routes to mechanically flexible optoelectronics. With

Fast Near-Infrared Photodetection using III-V Colloidal Quantum Dots

June 29, 2022

Author(s)

Lee J. Richter, Bin Sun, Amin M. Najarian, Chao Zheng, Laxmi K. Sagar, Min-Jae Choi, Xiyan Li, Larissa Levina, Se-Woong Baek, Seungjin Lee, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Jehad Abed, Mengxia Liu, Peicheng Li, Oleksandr Voznyy, Zheng H. Lu, F. Pelayo G. de Arquer, Edward H. Sargent

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising materials for IR light detection due to their tunable bandgap and their solution processing; however, to date, the

In-situ studies of the swelling by electrolyte in the electrochemical doping of an ethylene glycol substituted polythiophene

June 13, 2022

Author(s)

Lee J. Richter, Lucas Flagg, Lauren Asselta, Nicholas D'Antona, Natalie Stingelin, Tommaso Nicolini, Jonathan Onorato, Christine Luscombe, Ruipeng Li

Organic mixed ionic electronic conductors (OMIECs) have the potential to enable diverse new technologies, ranging from biosensors to flexible energy storage

Tools and Instruments

Nanocalorimeter Measurement System

This Nanocalorimeter Measurement System is used for nanocalorimetry measurements at fast heating rates (100 °C/s to 100,000 °C/s) and measurements of samples

Material Analysis Using Neutron Depth Profiling

Light elements such as helium, lithium, boron, and nitrogen are essential constituents in materials that enable energy technologies; lithium ion batteries