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Noise Measurement May Boost Cell Phone Performance
Release Date: 06/22/2006 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and industry collaborators have developed improved methods for accurately … more
Circuit Board Materials May Like It Hot (or Not)
Release Date: 06/08/2006 Electrical circuits may act differently in Arizona than they do in Alaska—potentially affecting the performance of computers and other … more
Growing Glowing Nanowires to Light Up the Nanoworld
Release Date: 05/25/2006 NIST "grows" semiconductor nanowires that emit ultraviolet light as part of a project to make prototype nano-lasers and other … more
Simulation Program Predicts Resistivity in Nanodevices
Release Date: 01/17/2006 As nanoscale circuits continue to shrink, electrical resistivity increases in the wiring and limits the maximum circuit speed. A new simulation … more
Copper Ridges Nearly Double X-ray Sensor Performance
Release Date: 11/17/2005 Project leader Kent Irwin installs superconducting materials in an ultra-cold refrigerator for testing. These materials are used to make … more
Like Fireflies and Pendulum Clocks, Nano-oscillators Synchronize Their Behavior
Release Date: 09/14/2005 A simulation made with NIST micromagnetic software shows the interaction of "spin waves" emitted by two nano-oscillators that generate … more
Evaluation Gauges Results from Machine Translation
Release Date: 08/26/2005 The National Institute of Stanards and Technology has posted at www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt the results of the NIST 2005 Machine Translation … more
NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency
Release Date: 06/02/2005 Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at … more
NIST Demonstrates Key Step in Use of Quantum Computers for Code-Breaking
Release Date: 05/12/2005 Boulder, Colo.—A crucial step in a procedure that could enable future quantum computers to break today’s most commonly used … more
Chip-scale Refrigerators Cool Bulk Objects
Release Date: 04/21/2005 This colorized scanning electron micrograph shows a cube of germanium attached to a membrane. The four small light blue rectangles at the … more
Laser Applications Heat Up for Carbon Nanotubes
Release Date: 01/26/2005 Carbon nanotubes (left) are applied to a NIST-developed pyroelectric detector (right) that may improve thermal conductivity and resistance to … more
Chip-Scale Magnetic Sensor Draws on Mini Clock Design
Release Date: 12/29/2004 Photo of the NIST chip-scale magnetometer. The sensor is about as tall as a grain of rice. The widest block near the top of the device is an … more
NIST Demonstrates Data ‘Repair Kit’ for Quantum Computers
Release Date: 12/01/2004 NIST physicists Dietrich Leibfried and David Wineland in the laboratory where they have developed a method for correcting data handling errors for … more
A Quantum Mechanical ‘Tune Up’ for Better Measurement
Release Date: 06/04/2004 By exploiting the weird quantum behavior of atoms, physicists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and … more
Novel Zigzag Shape Gives Sensors Magnetic Appeal
Release Date: 08/27/2003 The graphic aboves shows how the direction of magnetization within a NIST zigzag magnetic sensor follows the shape of the device. The green and … more |
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