NIST Workshop on Calibrations and Standards for Nanomechanical Measurements, June 16 – 17 2009
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a workshop on “Calibrations and Standards for Nanomechancical Measurements” on June 16-17, 2009 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD
This workshop will provide a forum for nanomechanical tool manufacturers, users, and NIST researchers to identify nanomechanical calibration and standards needs. Instrumented indentation (nanoindentation) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) are the primary techniques used to measure mechanical properties of materials at the micro- and nano-scale and will be the focus of the workshop.
However, the scope of the workshop will be to include all mechanical measurements that require the great spatial, force or displacement resolutions characteristic of the field of Nanomechanics.
Topics:
We welcome a wide variety of perspectives from tool manufacturers, research scientists, and process engineers – those people who make critical measurements, and think critically about those measurements.
- Technical areas will include, but are not limited to:
- Force, displacement, and stiffness calibration
- Adhesion, friction and mechanical property measurements
- Reference materials, devices and transducers
- Documentary standards
We encourage speakers and attendees to come prepared to discuss the barriers they face in nanomechanical measurements, and the calibration or standards solutions that will overcome those barriers.Invited Speakers for this Workshop represent some of the key researchers in this area and include:
·        Dr. Greg Blackman, Dupont Nanocomposite Technologies
·        Professor Rob Carpick, Director of the Nanotechnology Institute, University of Pennsylvania
·        Dr. Jason Cleveland, CEO, Asylum Research
·        Dr. Erik Herbert, Agilent Nano
·        Dr Robert Hocken, Director of the Center of Precision Metrology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
·        Dr. Jean-Luc Loubet, CEO of the Carnot Institute at Ecole Centrale de Lyon
·        Dr. Greg Meyers, Dow Chemical
·        Dr. Nicholas Randall of CSM Instruments
·        Professor John Sader, University of Melbourne
·        Dr. Chanmin Su, Director of Research, Veeco Instruments
·        Dr. Oden Warren, Hysitron
More information is available on the web at http://www.nist.gov/msel/ceramics/calibrations-and-standards.cfm
The flyer describing the workshop can be found at http://www.nist.gov/msel/ceramics/nanomechanical_properties/upload/NanoCalStd-Flyer.pdf
