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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory Fiscal Year 2007 (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Surface and Microanalysis Science Division
Pages 26-28

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... This work directly supports Presidential Directive HSPD-19 on homeland security and will directly impact airport operations. The SIMS program allows quantitative verification based on the analysis of very small samples of whether or not an inspected facility is producing highly enriched uranium.
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... SMSD is well known for its past work in X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and has ongoing research activities using sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy; this work is an important support for research in the field of spectroscopy. The SIMS project involving the analysis of organic depth profiles using cluster ion bombardment is very important work, but it would profit quite a bit from stronger attempts to understand the theoretical basis for the excitation process and why some organic layers deviate from the norm.
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... The large number of projects sponsored by the ion mobility spectrometry work attests to the liveliness and timeliness of its research activities. Collaboration with other CSTL divisions is the norm and a signature of this division.
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