Nanostructure electronics
Its purpose is to implement novel computational approaches to understanding the electronic properties of materials and the interaction of light and charged particles with matter.
Its primary customers are NIST laboratory programs that develop measurement methods needed for advancing electronic and optical technologies, in areas such as surface magnetism, soft x-ray optics, laser manipulation of atomic beams, and absolute radiometry.
We also work directly with commercial software developers, with the general goal of enhancing the reliability and efficiency of materials modelling applications.
Our principal technical focus is the use of computational parallelism on networked workstations, the environment that is of greatest relevance to most of our customers. The development of applications for such "virtual machines" has involved us in generic tool development in collaboration with colleagues in the NIST Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory.
Here is some information concerning ongoing projects:
Nanostructure electronics
Strong-field laser-matter interaction
NIST Parallel Applications Development Environment
Optical manipulation of atomic beams
Electronic structure of large systems
NIST Physics Laboratory Home Page
Author: Charles Clarkclark@bruce.nist.gov