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Projects/Programs

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Electron-Beam Irradiation of Solar Cells

Ongoing
NIST irradiates solar cells that are manufactured by leading developers of high-efficiency solar photovoltaic cells for space applications. As part of the space-qualification process, the performance of these cells in a space environment must be validated. This validation process includes the

Hydrogen Storage Optimization in Thin Film Combinatorial Alloys

Ongoing
Infrared emission imaging and FTIR reflection spectroscopy is applied as a means to monitor thin-film hydrogenation reactions in temperature-controlled high pressure reaction chambers. Candidate alloyed and doped thin metallic films (<500 nm) are grown in-house on epi-alumina or silicon substrates

Multiscale structure and dynamics in advanced technological materials

Ongoing
New technologies increasingly harness materials phenomena that operate across many length-scales: e.g., in selective gas adsorption, additive manufacturing, new alloy designs, or advanced concretes. To overcome technology barriers, it is no longer sufficient just to characterize the materials

Portable Field Test Standard for Evaluation of Hydrogen Gas Dispensers

Completed
This project provides a metrological tool and standards supporting the fair trade of hydrogen gas as a vehicle fuel of the future. Objective(s): The Fluid Metrology Group (FMG) and the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) collaborated in designing, constructing, and testing a hydrogen gas dispenser

Power Conditioning Systems for Renewables, Storage, and Microgrids

Ongoing
Objective: To establish standards and measurement methods, and test for smart grid and microgrid Power Conditioning Systems needed to transition from today’s low penetration of nondispatchable intermittent renewable energy sources to flexible grid operations that can actively adjust to varying grid

Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed Facility

Ongoing
Objective - To develop and progress an advanced multi-mode interacting measurement testbed that leverage cross-OU expertise to facilitate implementation, validation, and full characterization of smart grid interoperability standards and smart grid performance, with a particular emphasis on DER

Smart Grid Program

Completed
Objective: To develop and demonstrate advances in measurement science to enable integration of interoperable and secure real-time sensing, control, communications, information and power technologies, in order to increase the system efficiency, reliability, resiliency and sustainability of the nation

Smart Grid System Testbed Facility

Completed
Objective: To develop an advanced multi-mode interacting measurement testbed to facilitate implementation, validation, and full characterization of smart grid interoperability standards and smart grid performance. What is the technical idea? An interacting multi-mode measurement and characterization

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

Theory and Modeling of Materials for Renewable Energy

Ongoing
Nanostructured materials offer potential benefits for a range of renewable energy applications that rely critically on interfaces for separating charges, including photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and electrochemical energy storage. The use of nanostructures allows scientists and engineers to

Transport Property Measurements for Semiconductors and Energy Materials

Ongoing
The properties of materials and interfaces that govern reliability, performance, and thermal transport in advanced microelectronic packages are not fully characterized or understood, especially at device length scales wherein properties may differ significantly from bulk or literature values