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FY 2005 Programs and Accomplishments
 

The Ceramics Division's technical activities in fiscal year 2005 were focused on cutting-edge metrology and standards efforts, particularly in nanometrology and materials for electronics. This report reviews those efforts and presents progress reports on our mission-oriented projects on advanced measurement capabilities, evaluated data, and standards. To learn more about these research activities, please see the Ceramics Division FY 2005 Programs and AccomplishmentsCeramics Division Annual Report in pdf format.


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Dr. Andrew Allen, Physicist, Ceramics Division, published a featured paper, entitled "Characterization of Ceramics by X-ray and Neutron Small-Angle Scattering" Journal of the American Ceramics Society, 88[6], 1367-1381 (2005). 

This paper reviews some recent advances in small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering methods and their application to address complex issues in ceramic systems of technological importance.  It is shown how small-angle scattering (SAS) can be applied to ceramic systems in order to extract statistically representative microstructure information (e.g., void volume fraction size distributions, internal surface areas, pore morphologies) that complements the information obtained from diffraction methods, X-ray microtomography, or electron microscopy.  It is demonstrated how SAS studies provide insights, not obtainable by other means, on the processing-microstructure-property relationships that frequently govern technological performance. 
  

 

 

   
 


 

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