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WWVB 2023 Antenna Configuration and Power Outages

Date MJD Began (UTC) Ended (UTC) Antenna Configuration Radiated Power (kW) 15 November 2023 60263 1752 2209 North 30 kW 21 - 23 October 2023...

2023 WWVB Broadcast Outages

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NIST Researchers Use Cellphone Compass to Measure Tiny Concentrations of Compounds Important for Human Health

April 1, 2024

Nearly every modern cellphone has a built-in compass, or magnetometer, that detects the direction of Earth’s magnetic field, providing critical information for

Overcoming Barriers: Nanoscale Interface Metrology and Electrical Characterization for Advanced Electronics

As devices become smaller, more complex, and more highly integrated, interfaces are increasingly important and limiting. The ability to accurately predict

Images depicting an advanced analysis of HR-EBSD data

Strain Measurement for Semiconductor Devices and Packages

Mechanical strain impacts the performance of semiconductor devices. Manufacturing processes must be carefully controlled for strain to achieve high-yield and

Electron-Solid Interactions

Fundamental understanding of electron-solid interactions is key to interpreting electron microscopy images for quantitative metrology. Scanning electron

Mapping of Thermal Properties at the Nanoscale

Precise measurements of thermal properties at the nanoscale are needed to engineer advanced and heterogeneously integrated devices, but measurements at this

Advanced Metrology to Enable Next Generation EUV Photoresists

The semiconductor industry continues to push for smaller features, more integration, and increased yield. New photoresist chemistries and advances in extreme

Diagram of the CDSAXS method, shows an x-ray beam going through a sample and onto an e-ray detector.

Critical Dimension Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (CDSAXS) for Next Generation in-line Metrology

The semiconductor industry is in need of new, high throughput in-line dimensional metrology methods to characterize next generation 3D nanostructures. The

Job Opportunity: Research Associate Position, Long Wavelength Sensors and Applications

LOCATION: NIST (Boulder, Colorado), Quantum Sensors Division (687), Long Wavelength Sensors and Applications Group (13) The Quantum Sensors...

Job Opportunity: Research Associate Position, Scientific Software and Firmware Development

LOCATION: NIST (Boulder, Colorado), Quantum Sensors Division (687), Quantum Electronics Group (14) The Quantum Sensors Division of NIST...

Job Opportunity: Research Associate Position, Boulder Cryogenic Quantum Testbed

LOCATION: NIST (Boulder, Colorado), Quantum Sensors Division (687), Quantum Electronics Group (14) The Quantum Sensors Division of NIST...

Job Opportunity: Research Associate Position, Design and Fabricate Micro- and Nano-Electronics

LOCATION: NIST (Boulder, Colorado), Quantum Sensors Division (687), Device Fabrication Group (11) SUMMARY OF THE POSITION: The successful...

Job Opportunity: Research Associate Position, Development of Quantum Calorimeters

LOCATION: NIST (Boulder, Colorado), Quantum Sensors Division (687), Quantum Calorimeters Group (12) SUMMARY OF THE POSITION: The Quantum...

Quantum Sensors Division Staffing Opportunities

The Quantum Sensors Division is staffed through several mechanisms: NRC Post-doctoral Fellowships (U.S. citizens only). There are two...

Detector Readout Project

The Sensor Readout Project within the Quantum Electronics Group leverages the sensitivity of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), low-noise

Metrology Program

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CTL Collaborates with Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science on Quantum Computing

January 30, 2024

On January 29, 2024, representatives of NIST and the Republic of Korea's government metrology agency – the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science

Summer High School Internships with the Communications Technology Laboratory

Internships with the Communications Technology Laboratory The 2024 Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP) program for CTL is designed...

ACMD Seminar: Representing and Classifying Data with Optimal Transport

Gustavo Kunde Rohde Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Virginia Tuesday, February 20...

Microwave Detectors and Multiplexing: NIST Researchers Help Astronomers Examine the Early Universe

January 24, 2024

Perched atop a high plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a long-awaited observatory is beginning to take shape: the largest suite of ground-based telescopes

ACMD Seminar: Missing Data and Likelihood Geometry

John Cobb Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) In...

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