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5 Nanoscale Device Characterization Division
Pages 24-27

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From page 24...
... The division's researchers need to better define their current complementary or competitive role, vis a vis external research efforts, and where their research needs to be in the future, so that leadership can strategically align resources and laboratory mandates to position the researchers for success in these new initiatives. The division needs to develop clearer metrics and strategic planning to define and accomplish success and growth goals.
From page 25...
... Other national laboratories, such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, however, point to their onsite supercomputer as being a fundamental required resource for analytics and modeling and argue that continuing development of even more capable supercomputers is essential to scientific progress at all levels, including basic research. In that context, the division's apparently modest computing resources appear minimal by comparison.
From page 26...
... For example, standards and reliable technique development for tunnel barrier characterization, charge noise, defect identification, as well as valley splitting (e.g., spatial uniformity) are all areas where groups report results from various methods without any authoritative understanding of the comparisons of accuracy and precision.
From page 27...
... RECOMMENDATION: The Nanoscale Device Characterization Division should conduct an analysis to ascertain whether the capabilities of the computing systems available to the division's researchers reflects an effective balance of cost of acquisition, cost of use, and utility to the researchers. The division should calibrate the results of such an analysis against the capabilities provided to researchers by other national laboratories.


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