Over the last five decades, interest has grown in the use of thermomechanical technologies for characterising materials in different fields of science and engineering.

It is commonly used to characterize materials made by semiconductor doping, metal deposition, resistive paste printing, and glass coating.

Graphene shows properties that enable it to be used as a reference material for characterizing electroconductive and transparent materials.

Another example is the use of FTIR to characterize artistic materials in old-master paintings.

I-V curves are used to characterize devices and materials through DC source-measure testing.

His research also involves using electron-microscopy-based methods to characterize advanced materials such as semiconductor heterostructures, magnetic thin films and multilayers, and nanostructures.

Characterizing low viscous materials come at a disadvantage of short time responses that are limited by inertia.

In order to utilize DMA to characterize materials, the fact that small dimensional changes can also lead to large inaccuracies in certain tests needs to be addressed.

Scientists can also characterize materials destined for long-term storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.

In solid-state physics, spontaneous Raman spectroscopy is used to, among other things, characterize materials, measure temperature, and find the crystallographic orientation of a sample.