SHIP Research Projects

Click on one of the links below to see research projects that have been done in one of NIST's laboratories or offices.

Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
Engineering Laboratory (EL)
Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)
Material Measurement Laboratory (MML)
NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML)

CNST SHIP Projects:

(1) Domain wall motion in perpendicular media

(2) Quantum transport in graphene

(3) Spectro-electrochemistry with Plasmonic Elelectrodes

(4) Research in Nanophotonics

(5) Laser-Atom manipulation for novel ion beam sources

EL SHIP Projects:

(1) Additive Manufacturing: Effect of Modifying Process Parameters on Part Quality

(2) ASME Machine Tool Metrology Toolbox

(3) Conditioning Monitoring Tests for Aged Polymeric Insulation in Electrical Cables

(4) Investigation of Cure State and Crosslinking of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA)

(5) Smart Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things

(6) Test method Development for the Thermodynamic Properties of PV Encapsulants

(7) Z-axis Accuracy of the EOSINT M270 Additive Manufacturing System

ITL SHIP Projects:

(1) An Analysis of Cases of SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in the National Vulnerability Database

(2) Analysis and Visualization of Cases of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) from the National Vulnerability Database

(3) Data Quality for High Content Screening

(4) Different Approaches to Accelerating Fourier-Based Image Stitching

(5) Dynamic Geodesic Measurements Using Kinect Cameras

MML SHIP Projects:

(1) Arsenic and Dietary Supplements

(2) Investigation of Atom Probe for Isotopic Analysis

(3) Kolsky Bar Metrology for Dynamic Material Properties

(4) Optimization and Review of Structures in a Chemistry Database

(5) Self Diffusion in Chromium and Titanium

(6) Strategies to Automatically Align and Display Ontologies from Federated Databases

NCNR SHIP Projects:

(1) Bayesian Uncertainty

(2) Magnetic Properties of Defect Dicubane Lanthanide Clusters as Single Molecule Magnet Candidates

(3) Modeling Shielding for a Short Baseline Neutrino Experiment

(4) Niceweb: A Live Web Display of Instrument Status

(5) Optimizing Sputtering Parameters to Minimize the Roughness of Permalloy Thin Films

(6) Web Reduction for Reflectometry Data

(7) WebRefine: Calculating Neutron Structure Factors on the Web

PML SHIP Projects:

(1) A Comparison of Ultrasonic and Optical Interferometric Techniques for Measuring sub-Millikelvin Temperature Changes in Radiation Dosimetry

(2) Broadband Phase-Matching in Second Harmonic Generation

(3) Calibrating Nanopore-based Single-molecule Mass Spectrometers

(4) Calibration of High Precision Electrical Instruments

(5) Data Processing and Automation for Faster and Better Reporting of Aperture Measurements

(6) Evaluation and improvement of a microcalorimeter intended for radioactivity measurements

(7) Finite Element Analysis Simulation of Thermal Energy from Single and Clustered Gold Nanoparticles

(8) General Characteristics of Next-Generation Non-Volatile RRAM

(9) Modeling Electrostatic Optics of Ion Beam Deposition Systems

(10) Nanoscale three-dimensional analysis of TSVs using through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM)

(11) Raman Spectroscopy of Graphene and Graphite

(12) Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Sulfur-like and Aluminum-like Xenon