An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories Fiscal Years 2004-2005 (2005) / Chapter Skim
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7 Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
7 Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
Pages 69-78
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The laboratory is organized in four divisions, as shown in Appendix A: · Ceramics Division, · Materials Reliability Division, · Polymers Division, and · Metallurgy Division. The MSEL also includes the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
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Examples of programs with outstanding technical quality and merit include the following: · The program on Synchrotron Materials Science in the Ceramics Division has particular technical merit. This program includes mapping surface chemistry and molecular orientation with combinatorial Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectroscopy and chemistry and structure of nanomaterials.
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· The program on Quantitative Nanomechanical Properties in the Materials Reliability Division is particularly worthy of praise. This program focuses on atomic force microscopy (AFM)
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By using Brillouin scattering as the "gold" reference, the AFAM work becomes a practical secondary technique for mapping elastic properties across a nanoscale surface. Challenges and opportunities with respect to technical quality and merit at MSEL include the following: · For the very impressive Ceramics Division program on Mechanical Metrology for Small-Scale Structures, MSEL should find collaborators from universities that can help sustain this work.
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Its most recent achievements are the introduction of a springback cup test (or the Demeri Cup Test) to the ASTM at its national meeting to explore the standardization of this test, and improvements in the new X-ray stress measuring system for the direct in situ characterization of the stress in a given direction while the sheet is under multiaxial stretching.
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The program encompasses the NIST missions of metrology and technology transfer. · The Biomaterials Metrology Program in the Materials Reliability Division has been successful in its mechanical measurements.
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Intel was bringing to the table other than relevance. The mission and management structure of the Materials Reliability Division at the Boulder campus are very unclear.
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. It may also reflect the equipment now available in the Advanced Measurement Laboratory.
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In addition to disseminating results through technical publications, the staff actively participate in summer schools, both at NCNR and elsewhere, to teach neutron scattering techniques to scientists in other fields. New Web-based applications to help experimentalists with experimental planning, data analysis, and fitting are being used effectively.
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78 AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NIST MEASUREMENT AND STANDARDS LABORATORIES: FY 2004-2005 other facilities. It is significant that NCNR has managed to decommission instruments (i.e., NG-1 and the 8 m SANS)
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