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MEMS Measurement Science and Standards
Last Updated Date: 05/09/2013 Our goal is to provide technical leadership in R&D for the MEMS measurement infrastructure essential to improving U.S. economic … more
Nanotribology for Nanomanufacturing
Last Updated Date: 03/20/2013 Tribology is the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion and includes studies of friction, adhesion, lubrication, and … more
Scanning Probe Microscopy Measurements and Standards
Last Updated Date: 03/15/2013 Our goal is to develop standard reference materials and quantitative, reproducible, measurement methods and protocols for scanning probe … more
Nanoscale Stress Measurements and Standards
Last Updated Date: 03/15/2013 Our objective is to develop accurate measurement methods for the nanoscale stress distributions and surface defects that control device … more
Nanoscale Strength Measurements and Standards
Last Updated Date: 03/15/2013 To develop new mechanical test structures and methodologies based on microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) … more
Membranes for Clean Water
Last Updated Date: 02/02/2013 This project provides measurement solutions that probe the surface and internal structure of polymer membranes used in water purification, and … more
AFM-Based Nanomechanics
Last Updated Date: 01/31/2013 Local mechanical-property information is essential to evaluate emerging micro- and nanoscale materials, which many manufacturers would like to … more
Control of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Nanoscale Manipulation of Fluids and Materials
Last Updated Date: 10/12/2012 Scientists and engineers currently have a growing library of synthetic microscale and nanoscale swimmers which affect the hydrodynamics of their … more
Fundamentals of Deformation
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 This project provides new measurement methods, property data and simulations for areas critical to US manufacturing, describing the mechanisms … more
Micro- and Nano-Mechanical Systems
Last Updated Date: 07/25/2012 Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems are being investigated experimentally to bring these systems toward the quantum limit, study quantum … more
Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructures, Nanodevices, and Nanooptics
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 Nanoscale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, devices and their dynamical operation and the … more
Super-resolution Optical Microscopy
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2010 As the electronics and data storage industries build devices on ever decreasing scales, they need advanced imaging techniques that allow them to … more
Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Metamaterials
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2010 Metamaterials are tailor-made photonic composites--combinations of materials designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The … more |
 Mechanical engineer Jon Pratt makes an adjustment to the prototype NIST Electrostatic Force Balance designed to measure nanoscale forces. Copyright Robert Rathe Contact
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