The Measurement Science and Systems Engineering (MSSE) Division, directed by Dr. Kenneth W. Tobin, has been established to perform R&D in measurement science associated with electronics, sensors, signals, patterns, informatics, and communications to develop methods, devices, instruments, and systems that interact with the world to interpret data, provide understanding, and impart control. MSSE has a significant and lengthy history of energy, engineering, and instrumentation R&D at ORNL. The Division provides ORNL and the nation with both the scientific and engineering research capabilities required to realize practical solutions to complex science and technology issues in energy, national security, biomedical engineering, U.S. competitiveness, and basic science.

MSSE is organized into nine technology-focused groups that specialize in R&D related to the creation, testing, integration, and application of science and technology that support measurements using appropriate modes of sensing at various spatial and temporal scales in a wide variety of physical environments. Areas of research include analog and digital electronics; NEMS, MEMS, photonics, microscopy, and sensor systems; real-time network and computation systems; wireless communications; signal processing, image and pattern analysis; robotics and energetic systems; RF and microwave measurement systems; nuclear instrumentation; energy and nuclear dynamic systems; modeling, analysis, and technical testing of advanced sensor systems.

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