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NIST to Cosponsor Conference in France on Nanoelectronics Metrology
Release Date: 03/15/2011 Registration is now open for the eighth international Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics conference, cosponsored by … more
NIST Electromechanical Circuit Sets Record Beating Microscopic 'Drum'
Release Date: 03/09/2011 Device May Help Process Information and Measure Motion at Quantum Scale BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at the National Institute of Standards … more
NIST Technique Controls Sizes of Nanoparticle Clusters for EHS Studies
Release Date: 02/02/2011 The same properties that make engineered nanoparticles attractive for numerous applications—small as a virus, biologically and … more
Real-World Graphene Devices May Have a Bumpy Ride
Release Date: 01/19/2011 Electronics researchers love graphene. A two-dimensional sheet of carbon one atom thick, graphene is like a superhighway for electrons, which … more
NIST Puts a New Twist on the Electron Beam
Release Date: 01/13/2011 'Electron Vortices' Have the Potential to Increase Conventional Microscopes' Capabilities Electron microscopes are among the most widely used … more
NIST Announces $22 Million in Funding for Advanced Manufacturing Research in Electronics, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
Release Date: 12/15/2010 The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a total of more than $22 million in funding … more
NIST’s New Scanning Probe Microscope is Supercool
Release Date: 12/08/2010 The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at … more
Quartz Crystal Microbalances Enable New Microscale Analytic Technique
Release Date: 11/24/2010 A new chemical analysis technique developed by a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses the shifting … more
NIST, Harvard Researchers Share 2010 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics
Release Date: 10/26/2010 NIST physical scientist Henri Lezec (above), along with Federico Capasso of Harvard, won the 2010 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics. Henri … more
This Little Light of Mine: Changing the Color of Single Photons Emitted by Quantum Dots
Release Date: 10/13/2010 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated* for the first time the conversion of near-infrared … more
Growing Nanowires Horizontally Yields New Benefit: 'Nano-LEDs'
Release Date: 09/28/2010 While refining their novel method for making nanoscale wires, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) discovered an … more
Micro Rheometer is Latest Lab On a Chip Device
Release Date: 08/31/2010 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a microminiaturized device that can make complex … more
The Perfect Nanocube: Precise Control of Size, Shape, and Composition
Release Date: 08/31/2010 With growing interest in using nanoparticles for everything from antibacterial socks to medical imaging to electronic devices, the need to … more
Nano 'Pin Art': NIST Arrays Are Step Toward Mass Production of Nanowires
Release Date: 07/21/2010 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cultivated many thousands of nanocrystals in what looks like a … more
Some Like It Hot: How to Heat a 'Nano Bathtub' the JILA Way
Release Date: 07/21/2010 Researchers at JILA have demonstrated the use of infrared laser light to quickly and precisely heat the water in "nano … more |
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