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NIST-Designed Photonic Chip Transforms a Single Beam of Light Into Multiple Beams, Each With a Panoply of Different Properties

June 30, 2023

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a photonic circuit on a chip that transforms a single incoming beam of

white matter mimic in the bottom half of the artificial cranium

Lessons from an Experimental Brain Phantom

July 12, 2023

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and colleagues have developed a novel, anatomically accurate reference model of the

Jun Ye: A Timely Profile

June 26, 2023

Physicist Jun Ye has a knack for making every second count—literally. At JILA, a joint research institute of the University of Colorado and the National

A blue-tinged drawing shows a schematic of the two qubits and resonator above a white rectangle, which represents the SQUID device that controls the connections and relationships among the qubits and resonator elements.

NIST ‘Toggle Switch’ Can Help Quantum Computers Cut Through the Noise

June 26, 2023

The novel device could lead to more versatile quantum processors with clearer outputs.

Training and optimization of hardware neural networks

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have advanced so rapidly that they can now outperform humans at many (or even most) tasks. However, the large

New Tiny Atomic Beam Clock Could Bring Stable Timing to Places GPS Can’t Reach

June 21, 2023

A new type of miniature atomic clock could provide better timing over the span of weeks and months compared with current systems.

PSCR Staff Spotlight: Mission Critical Voice Portfolio Lead

June 21, 2023

Sam Ray is the Mission Critical Voice (MCV) Research Portfolio Lead for NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division . Sam actively contributes

Top 5 at 5x5: What researchers won’t want to miss at the summit

June 14, 2023

By: The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research

Top 5 at 5x5: Essential guide to public safety “don’t miss” sessions to boost your agency’s communications

June 7, 2023

By: The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research

A satellite connects two locations on the earth’s surface by means of signals that use the same technology as an experiment that beamed laser light between two mountaintops in Hawaii'.

NIST Lays Groundwork for Future Ultra-Precise Timing Links to Geosynchronous Satellites

June 21, 2023

Between mountains in Hawai‘i, innovative scientists show precision timing at the quantum limit.

ACMD Seminar: Uncertainty aggregation through model development and assessment towards prediction

Andrew White Thermal Fluid Systems, Rolls-Royce Corporation Tuesday, July 11, 2023, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) A video of this talk...

Top 5 at 5x5: Unleashing industry’s power of collaboration and innovation

May 31, 2023

By: The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research

Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

NIST Increases the Speed of Superconducting Circuits by Advancing Josephson Junction Barrier Technology

May 1, 2023

On May 1, 2023, NIST researchers published a paper titled: “ Nb/a-Si/Nb Josephson junctions for high-density superconducting circuits” by David Olaya, John

ACMD Seminar: Practical Diffraction Corrections in Radiometry using Special Functions and the DLMF

Eric Shirley Sensor Science Division, PML, NIST Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) A video of this talk will be made...

NIST Team Demonstrates Novel Way to Convert Heat to Electricity

May 19, 2023

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have fabricated a novel device that could dramatically boost the conversion of heat

Photonics and Chip Scale Devices

Time and frequency division has a variety of research and development activities with hardware ranging from the size of an optical table to...

Spin Electronics Group Publications (2004-2000)

2023 - 2020 publications | 2019 - 2015 publications | 2014 - 2010 publications | 2009 - 2005 publications Current-Driven Microwave Dynamics...

Trapped Sr+ ion clock; a secondary realization of the SI second

NIST is constructing a high-uptime optical frequency reference based on a single trapped Sr + ion. The goal of this project is to provide long-term ≤1x10 -16

Chip-scale ultraprecise laser technologies

Our research focuses on miniaturized laser sources with narrow linewidth that can operate in ambient environments. Lasers with high spectral purity can enable a

Nonlinear nanophotonic control of light

Nonlinear optics enables transformation of optical fields through light-matter interactions. These transformations strictly conserve energy and phase-matching

Laser-wavelength conversion with nonlinear photonics

Versatile laser sources enable much of modern science, and many emerging applications require coherent sources that are unavailable or underdeveloped. Nonlinear

Compact strontium optical clock with integrated photonics

We are developing a scalable infrastructure for strontium optical-lattice clocks based on integrated photonics. This research results in new technologies to

Semiconductor Integration of Electronics and Photonics

We are developing advanced-packaging techniques to combine photonics and electronics in support of continued scaling in digital systems. Our research focuses on

Precision metrology with integrated photonics

This project focuses on the development of integrated photonics for quantum sensing and information and nonlinear science applications. We combine advanced

An Overview of the Budget Proposal for the National Institute of Standards and Technology for Fiscal Year 2024

May 10, 2023

The purpose of the hearing was to review the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget request for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Microresonator frequency combs for the NIST-on-a-Chip Program

Optical-frequency combs are versatile laser sources for precision, ultrabroadband measurements, including with time, frequency, chemicals, digital information

Spin Electronics Group Publications (2009-2005)

2023 - 2020 publications | 2019 - 2015 publications | 2014 - 2010 publications | 2009 - 2005 publications | 2004 - 2000 publications...

Spin Electronics Group Publications (2014-2010)

2023 - 2020 publications | 2019 - 2015 publications | 2014 - 2010 publications | 2009 - 2005 publications | 2004 - 2000 publications...

Spin Electronics Group Publications (2019-2015)

2023 - 2020 publications | 2014 - 2010 publications | 2009 - 2005 publications | 2004 - 2000 publications Characterization of junction...

Researchers Analyze THC in Breath of Cannabis Smokers

May 22, 2023

Distinguishing between recent use and past use remains an elusive goal.

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