The facility provides nanofabrication, analytical instrumentation, materials characterization and process-development laboratories for students, faculty and industrial researchers.

The timing of the introduction coincided with a number of important trends, including increased emphasis on materials characterization, the outsourcing of R&D applications to service laboratories, and the "quality revolution" of the 1990s.

ACL maintains and operates extensive facilities for optical measurements specializing in laser and white light scatterometry, electromagnetic materials characterization, radar cross section measurements, antenna characterization, and computational electromagnetics.

Rayleigh waves are widely used for materials characterization, to discover the mechanical and structural properties of the object being testing - like the presence of cracking, and the related shear modulus.

It is a non-contact technique used to measure materials thickness, detect flaws and materials characterization.

The ICDD is a nonprofit scientific organization, founded by, and dedicated to scientists working in the field of X-ray analysis and materials characterization.

The Health Systems Division conducted research and development in the areas of diagnostic sensors, biomarkers, vision enhancement, materials characterization and delivery, and advanced prosthetics.

The variation of storage and loss moduli with increasing stress can be used for materials characterization, and to determine the upper bound of the material's linear stress-strain regime.

The increasing sophistication of pharmaceutical materials has necessitated the use for more sensitive, thermodynamic based techniques for materials characterization.

This gives laboratories around the world the ability to quickly analyze unknown materials and perform materials characterization in such fields as metallurgy, mineralogy, forensic science, archeology, condensed matter physics, and the biological and pharmaceutical sciences.