Major Research Facilities

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  • Controlled Background Radiometric Facility - provides the calibration of large-area, vacuum-operational, infrared blackbody sources for space-based civilian, defense, and industrial applications.

  • Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) - a facility for study of the properties and applications of highly charged ions.

  • Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Facility - provides a non-destructive probe for measuring the structure and concentration of absorbed dose by ionizing radiation.

  • EUV Optics Fabrication and Characterization Facility - measures the reflectance or transmittance of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) multilayer optics such as mirrors, filters, and gratings as a function of wavelength, angle of incidence, and position of the optic.

  • High-Resolution UV and Optical Spectroscopy Facility - houses the most powerful spectrometers in the world for observation of emission and absorption spectra in the soft X-ray to near infrared regions.

  • W.M. Keck Optical Measurement Laboratory - a central facility currently at JILA that provides a suite of general purpose optical measurement and characterization instruments to the researchers at JILA including nanofabrication facilities.

  • Low-Background Infrared Radiation Facility - measures total radiant power from sources such as cryogenic blackbodies in a large vacuum chamber with radiant background noise levels less than a few nanowatts.

  • Magnetic Microstructure Measurement Facility - provides the capability for imaging surface magnetic microstructures with very high spatial resolution by a variety of methods.

  • Medical-Industrial Radiation Facility (MIRF) - houses an electron accelerator in a user facility for the medical and industrial radiation communities to address issues in radiation metrology, radiation effects, and the uses of electron and high-energy photon beams.

  • Neutron Imaging Facility (NIF) - one of the world's premier user facilities for neutron imaging and related neutron optical measurements. Neutron imaging is an essential tool for hydrogen fuel cell research.

  • Neutron Interferometer Facility (NIOF) - one of the world's premier user facilities for neutron interferometry and related neutron optical measurements.

  • Radiopharmaceutical Standardization Laboratory - provides calibration services for the gamma-ray-emitting radionuclides used for diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine.

  • Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF III) - a 405 MeV electron storage ring producing radiation from the soft X-ray region to the infrared is the source for a user facility for studies in radiometry; atomic, molecular, biomolecular, and solid-state physics; surface and materials science; electro-optics; and surface chemistry and radiation effects on matter.
Some of the above material was originally prepared for the Physics Laboratory section in the Guide to NIST.

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