About NIST Materials Reliability Division

Technical Activities

2004 Highlights

Research Programs:

• Micrometer-Scale Reliability

• Electronic Packaging and Components

• Solder Reliability

• Metrology for Nanoscale Properties

• Physical Properties of Thin Films and Nanostructures

• Infrastructure Reliability

• Biomaterials Metrology

Division Staff/Organization Chart

Annual Reports:

• FY2002 (16.2 Mb pdf file)

• FY2003 (2.2 Mb pdf file)

• FY2004 (4.0 Mb pdf file) (New!)

Employment:

• Postdoctoral Research for U.S. Citizens

2005 deadline: 1 February 2005

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2005 deadline expected in February

• Other Employment Opportunities

Publications

Presentations

Database for Solder Properties

Charpy Verification Program

The Materials Reliability Division (MRD) is one of five divisions in the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). MRD is the sole MSEL Division at the NIST Boulder Laboratories site. The Materials Reliability Division develops and demonstrates measurement technologies and standards which enable the producers and users of materials to improve the quality and reliability of their products. Measurement technologies are developed for process control to improve the quality and consistency of materials, nondestructive evaluation to assure quality of finished materials and products, and materials evaluation to assure reliable performance. Within these broad areas of measurement technology, the Division has focused its resources on these research themes:

Biomaterials Metrology

Infrastructure

Materials for Micro- and Optoelectronics

Nanocharacterization

Events

Completed:

Thirteenth International Conference on Computerization of Welding (June 2003)

Interagency NNI Grand Challenge Workshop on Nanoscale Instrumentation and Metrology (27-29 January, 2004)

Workshop on Computational Tools for Modeling Acoustic Propagation in Real-World Materials (CTAP 2004) (9-10 August, 2004)

Workshop on Reliability Issues in Nanomaterials (17-19 August, 2004)

Upcoming:

ASTM Symposium on Charpy Impact Testing (8-9 November, 2004)

Non-NIST Events

Division Inquiries:

Materials Reliability Division, 853

NIST

325 Broadway

Boulder, CO 80305-3328

Phone: (303) 497-3268

FAX: (303) 497-5030

NIST Boulder Laboratories Inquiries:

NIST Boulder

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Boulder, CO 80305-3328

Email: brunner<at>boulder.nist.gov

Phone: (303) 497-5507

TTY (303) 497-3665

NIST Inquiries:

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NIST

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