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| Today's U.S. microelectronics and supporting infrastructure industries are in fierce international competition to design and produce new smaller, lighter, faster, more functional, and more reliable electronics products more quickly and economically than ever before. |  |
| Recognizing this trend, in 1994 the NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) began working very closely with the U.S. semiconductor, component and packaging, and assembly industries. These early efforts led to the development of an interdivisional MSEL program committed to addressing industry's most pressing materials measurement and standards issues central to the development and utilization of advanced materials and material processes within new product technologies, as outlined within leading industry roadmaps1. The vision that accompanies this program - to be the key resource within the Federal Government for materials metrology development for commercial microelectronics manufacturing - may be realized through the following objectives: | |
develop and deliver standard measurements and data; |
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develop and apply in situ measurements on materials and material assemblies
having micrometer- and submicrometer-scale dimensions; |
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quantify and document the divergence of material properties from their
bulk values as dimensions are reduced and interfaces contribute strongly
to properties; |
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develop fundamental understanding of materials needed in future microelectronics
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