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2024 WWVB Broadcast Outages

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Technology Demonstrations at 5x5

January 16, 2025

Do you have an innovative, cutting-edge, or emerging technology that has the potential to advance public safety communications? NIST Public Safety

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2024 PECASE - Adam Kaufman

Adam Kaufman is recognized for advances in quantum information science and precision measurement based on pioneering contributions to the

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Gregory Jaehnig, Dante Jones, Matthew Koc, Richard Lew, and Robinjeet Singh

Related to the Gold Medal “For developing the novel sensors that enable the most advanced cosmic microwave background observatory to unravel

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Linsey Rodenbach, Ngoc Thanh Mai Tran, Zachary Barcikowski, Frank Siefert, I-Fan Hu, Lorenz H. Keck, Shamith U. Payagala, Chieh-I Liu, and Dipanjan Saha

Related to the Gold Medal “For leveraging quantum physics to develop the world’s best standards for the ampere and kilogram, 2 of the 7

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Benedikt Hampel

Related to the Bronze Medal “For the realization of the first single-photon detector integrated with an ion trap for the high-fidelity state

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Anna Vaskuri

Related to the French Award “For reducing the uncertainty in calibration of the world network of gravitational wave observatories.”

Datasets of I/Q Captures from COTS Communication Devices

Field Captures of 4G FDD LTE Uplink Emissions through a Telemetry Antenna Data: https://doi.org/10.18434/mds2-2413 Documentation: NTIA...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Communications Technology Laboratory Celebrates its 52nd Annual Awards Ceremony Recipients

The Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) congratulates the award recipients of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the 52nd

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New Atom-Based Thermometer Measures Temperature More Accurately

January 23, 2025

This atomic thermometer provides accurate measurements “out of the box” because it relies on the basic principles of quantum physics.

Alejandra Collopy wears safety glasses as she works the lab. She is surrounded by various pieces of equipment and many hanging wires.

Spotlight: Alejandra Collopy and Atomic Clocks

January 13, 2025

NIST researcher Alejandra Collopy is working to add another piece of timely feedback to help our ensemble of clocks perform at their best 24/7.

Meet Dr. Midzor: Championing Innovation in Communications Technology

Dr. Midzor, newly appointed Director of the Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Building a Path Forward for Meaningful Cannabis Breathalyzer Realization

Wed, Sep 24 - Thu, Sep 25 2025

We are bringing together participants from government, forensic laboratories, industry, academia, law enforcement

2025 - Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award---Callie Higgins

The SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award recognizes manufacturing engineers, age 35 or younger, who have made exceptional

2025 IEEE Fellow - Hans Nembach

For contributions to the development of novel magnetodynamic measurements of thin films and nanostructures.

CTL Roadmapping

Overview The National Institute of Standards and Technology Communications Technology Laboratory (NIST CTL) is dedicated to advancing the...

Instruments by Category

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) has a variety of tools for AM. If you are interested in...

Instruments by Project

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) has a variety of tools for additive manufacturing. Click...

Instruments by Location

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) has a variety of tools for AM. If you are interested in...

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---Nada Golmie

Dr. Nada Golmie, a NIST Fellow and globally recognized expert in wireless communications, has made significant contributions advancing U.S

ACMD Seminar: nmrPype: Utilizing Linear Algebra to Decompose NMR Signal Data

Mykah Smith Post-baccalaureate Researcher, Delaglio Group, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, 3:00...

2024 Presidential Rank Award - John Lehman

John Lehman is a senior research scientist whose team leads the world in carbon-nanotube based coatings for detectors used in earth and

2024 Presidential Rank Award - John Kitching

Dr. John Kitching has pioneered the development of chip-scale atomic clocks and magnetometers. A NIST scientist since 2003, he holds several

Just for KICS!

December 2, 2024

Sensors capable of detecting individual photons of visible light have become essential for applications ranging from imaging faint galaxies to quantum computing

Nanometer-Scale Planar Reference Materials

Characterization and metrology of planar films is often the first step for integrating new materials into semiconductor production. Reference materials of

Material Jetting

Material jetting forms solid structures from liquid material. Similar to traditional inkjet printing, material jetting builds objects by...

New Horizon Innovations

Team name Team New Horizon Innovations Awards UAS 5.0: First Responder UAS 3D Mapping Challenge Stage 4 – Winner: $30,000 Total 5.0 Prizes:...

ResponseWing

Team name Team ResponseWing Awards UAS 5.0: First Responder UAS 3D Mapping Challenge Stage 3 – 1st Place: $100,000 Stage 4 – Winner: $30,000...

Binder Jetting

Binder jetting prints three-dimensional structures by fusing powdered material together with a binder. The technique can produce colorful...

Vat Photopolymerization

Vat photopolymerization forms structures by curing liquid photopolymer resin with ultraviolet light. The structure is submerged, raised, and...