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Gaithersburg

CNST's Nano-fare Draws a Crowd at the Maker Faire

June 21, 2016

At last weekend's National Maker Faire in Washington, D.C., tech-savvy tinkerers, crafters and educators gave the public the chance to interact with a

NIST's Newest Watt Balance Brings World One Step Closer to New Kilogram

June 21, 2016

A high-tech version of an old-fashioned balance scale at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just brought scientists a critical step

The Role of Standards in Preventing & Mitigating Health IT Patient Safety Risks

Wed, Sep 7 2016

Health IT Community Technical Workshop for all Stakeholders: Learn and Share Industry Best Practices. Objectives: Bring

Calculation of optical constants and dielectric response

We maintain a suite of programs that can help calculate the optical properties of many solids throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.

Programs/Projects

Computer Security Health IT Mathematics Multimodal Information Networking Software Statistics

Commerce Secretary Appoints Avi Bender as NTIS Head, Unveils New Joint Venture Opportunities in Data Sharing/Services

June 20, 2016

WASHINGTON – The Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service (NTIS) has reached a turning point. The agency published a Federal Register notice

NSCI: High-Performance Computing Security Workshop

Thu, Sep 29 - Fri, Sep 30 2016

In July of 2015, the President of the United States issued Executive Order 13702 to create a National Strategic

NSCI Seminar: Spintronics as an Enabler for a New Paradigm in Computational Technology

Tue, Jul 19 2016

Since the emergence of "Moore's Law" scaling for semiconductor transistors 50 years ago, it has been recognized that the

5454: State Laboratory Annual Submission Process

Thu, Sep 14 2017

This 2 hour webinar is for State Laboratory weights and measures staff to review annual submission requirements for OWM

Department of Justice and National Institute of Standards and Technology Name Two Experts as New Members of National Commission on Forensic Science

June 16, 2016

DOJ Contact: Office of Public Affairs, 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of

NISTIR 6969 SOP 8 - Part 1 and 2

Wed, Jun 22 - Thu, Jun 23 2016

Part 1: This 2 hour webinar will examine calibrating large tolerance weights using the Modified Substitution Mass

NIST Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop IX

Tue, Sep 13 - Thu, Sep 15 2016

The world that we live in today is significantly different than it was just a few years ago. The ability to create

A Call for Developing—and Using—Consensus Standards to Ensure the Quality of Cell Lines

June 14, 2016

Mainstays of biomedical research, permanent lines of cloned cells are used to study the biology of health and disease and to test prospective medical therapies

The Untold (and Wobbly) History of Measurement Science in Gaithersburg

June 13, 2016

It may come as a surprise that Gaithersburg was a locus for international cooperation in measurement science for more than 60 years before NIST came to the town

Spectrum Coordination R&D Topics

The NIST CTL’s spectrum coordination research and development efforts focus on enabling, and ultimately maximizing, spectrum sharing. We do...

Spectrum Sensing and Monitoring R&D Topics

The NIST CTL’s spectrum sensing and monitoring research and development efforts focus in three areas: sensor technology, monitoring...

Test and Evaluation R&D Topics

The NIST CTL spectrum test and evaluation R&D program has three main thrusts. First, we are developing coexistence metrics and testing...

The Stakeholders Have Spoken: NIST to Refine Cybersecurity Framework

June 9, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a minor update of its Cybersecurity Framework based on feedback from its users. In the

Physicists measured something new in the radioactive decay of neutrons

June 14, 2016

A physics experiment performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has enhanced scientists' understanding of how free neutrons decay

5446: Basic Uncertainty Concepts

Thu, Feb 23 2017

This 2 hour webinar provides a very basic introduction to uncertainty calculations and reporting using the 8-step

Optical Antennas as Nanocavities: Super-Resolution Mapping of the Vectorial EM Field and Coupling Strength

Wed, Jun 29 2016

Optical (nano)antennas reversibly and efficiently convert free propagating optical radiation into localized energy

Stochastic Spintronic Devices for Bio-Inspired Computing

Mon, Jun 27 2016

Magnetic tunnel junctions are promising candidates for computing applications. But when they are reduced to nanoscale

Model "patchy" particles self-assemble and provide guidance for understanding the nature of self-assembly in more complicated systems such as protein solutions.

How Do Nature’s Materials Stack Up? “Patchy” Framework Offers New Insights into Self-Assembly

April 19, 2016

Nature’s toolkit includes its still-matchless ability to effortlessly assemble proteins, membranes and other complex structures from parts lists of atoms

NSCI Seminar: CyberScience and CyberInfrastructure: A New Approach to Discovery in Science and Engineering

Tue, Oct 25 2016

Cyberscience (CS) and cyberinfrastructure (CI) are a sine qua non for progress in much of the mathematical and physical

Cold Core Technology Platform

We are building a cold-atom based sensor program that represents a new approach to metrology—to establish a set of chip-scale tools that enable real-world use

Leak Artifacts

Leak artifacts are calibrated in the range 1 x 10 -6 to 1 x 10 -13 mol/s (2 x 10 -2 to 2 x 10 -9 std. cm 3/s at 0 °C). The calibration can be performed directly

Vacuum Gauges

Most calibrations of vacuum gauges are based on a known gas flow rate that is generated by one of two flow meters that operate at constant pressure. The "piston

Low Pressure Gauges

NIST has developed best-in-the-world primary standard pressure measurement capabilities for pressures spanning the range of 0.01 Pa to 360 kPa through the

How to Quantify the Weight of Forensic Evidence: A Lively Debate

June 2, 2016

On May 5 and 6, 2016, NIST hosted a technical colloquium on an important question facing virtually every branch of forensic science today: How should forensic

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