Instrument manufacturers depend on NIST/CSTL for data, and physical and chemical standards data for instrument calibration, and to provide traceability to national standards to the end users of their products and instruments. CSTL work supports both mature analytical applications, as well as the newest technologies such as high-throughput screening, and cutting edge research for next-generation semiconductor manufacturing.

Projects in this Area:

       FY 2006

• Standard Artifacts to Correct for Inherent Fluorometer Instrument-Associated Signal Detection Fluctuation
• Analytical Information Markup Language (AnIML): A Tool to Insure the Usability of Multiple Format Scientific Data Over Time
• High Pressure Standards Based on Compact Piston Gauges
• Reference Values of Gas Viscosity
• Gas Standards Based on Optical Spectroscopies
• High Performance Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Advanced Solid State Chemical Microsensors
• Metrological Shortcomings of Teflon-Based Helium Permeation Leak Artifacts
• Producing and Processing Microsensor Signals to Meet Critical Chemical Monitoring Needs
• Relative Intensity Standards for Raman Spectroscopy
• Development of a New NIST Calibration Service Using the Comparison Method for Vacuum Gauges Spanning the Range 0.65 Pa to 133 kPa
• Atomic Standard of Pressure
• NIST Uses Inkjet Printing Technology to Produce Standards for Trace Level Explosive Analysis
• Large Angular Convergence Scanned Beam Illumination (LACSBI): Incoherent Imaging for Conventional TEM
• NIST Develops a Transition Edge Sensor Microcalorimeter for Quantitative Analysis
• Innovations in Proteomics: Reference Library of Peptide Ion Fragmentation Spectra for MS Users
• Automatic Mass Spectral Deconvolution and Identification Software (AMDIS)
• Upgrades for Cold Neutron Beam Facilities

       FY 2005

• Anomalies in Polymer-Based Helium Leak Standards
• High Performance Oxide and Polymer Nanostructures for Advanced Solid-State Chemical Microsensors
• Quantitative Fluorescence Measurements: An International Comparison Study
• Photoacoustic Spectroscopy for Quantitation of Trace Gases in Air
• Measurements of the Bulk Viscosity of Xenon (BVX)
• High-Stability Transfer Standard for the Barometric Pressure Range of 100 Pa to 130 kPa
• Gas Standards Based on Optical Spectroscopies
• Sonic Nozzles as Primary Standards
• Upgrades for Cold Neutron Beam Facilities
• Development of a New Multi-Nutrient Fertilizer Standard Reference Material
• Automatic Mass Spectral Deconvolution and Identification Software (AMDIS)
• Detection of Hazardous Chemicals Using Temperature-Programmed Sensing in Solid-State Gas Microsensor Arrays
• Properties of Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometers
• Atomic Standard of Pressure
• Calculations of Electron Stopping Powers for Electron Energies Between 100 eV and 30 keV
• Progress Toward Realizing Pressure with Dimensionally-Characterized Piston Gauges
• Reference Libraries of Mass Spectra for Health and Environmental Science
• Johnson Noise Thermometry (JNT)
• Investigation of Arsenic Oxidation State Speciation in Primary Calibration Solutions and Effects on ICP-OES Measurements
• Development of the First Natural-Matrix SRM for Solid-Sampling Analytical Instruments
• High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy by Microcalorimetry
• Monte Carlo Simulation of Microelectronics for 3D Chemical Imaging