Nanometer-Scale Planar Reference Materials | NIST To help integrate new materials into semiconductor production, members of the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem need reference materials for nanoscale dimensional and materials characterization These standards are essential for materials discovery, process optimization, and metrology tool validation
Rare Crystal Shape Found to Increase the Strength of 3D-Printed Metal Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, discovered quasicrystals while on sabbatical at NIST in the 1980s Many scientists at the time thought his research was flawed because the new crystal shapes he found weren’t possible under the normal rules for crystals
Materials | NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology Plastics, carbon nanotubes, high-strength alloys, artificial bone and joint replacements are just some of the emerging materials for which NIST develops testbeds, defines benchmarks, and develops formability measurements and models
Applied Materials | NIST Expected Outcomes Along with a team of 10 collaborators, Applied Materials silicon-core substrate technology has the potential to advance America’s leadership in advanced packaging and help catalyze an ecosystem to develop and build next-generation energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the US
NIST’s Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry This achievement could enhance neutron-based techniques for investigating the properties of materials that are difficult to explore by other means For example, the beams can probe characteristics of molecules such as chirality, which is important in biotechnology, chemical manufacturing, quantum computing and other fields
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Materials Modeling Software and Tools | NIST Materials Resource Registry software provides an open source registry tool that makes content available via both a web-based user interface and a RESTful API Metadata harvesting between data providers and service providers is made possible using the OAI-PMH version 2 0 protocol
Additive Manufacturing of Materials | NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) is uniquely suited to study and measure the fundamental behaviors of materials such as metals, polymers, ceramics, and advanced materials Explore the following material categories to learn about our additive manufacturing efforts in each area
Standard Reference Materials | NIST NIST supports accurate and compatible measurements by certifying and providing over 1200 Standard Reference Materials® with well-characterized composition or properties, or both
Materials characterization - NIST 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