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Chexia Face Recognition

The Face Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (CHEXIA-FACE) is being conducted to assess the capability of face detection and recognition algorithms to

NIST Seeks Comments on New Project Aimed at Protecting Privacy Online

October 22, 2015

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), in partnership with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace National Program Office...

A New, World-Class Facility for Infrared Calibrations

October 21, 2015

NIST is about to open the world's most accurate facility for calibrating infrared (IR) detectors. It is made possible by the establishment of an extremely...

Measuring Optical Power with Single-Photon Detectors

October 27, 2015

Precise measurements of optical power enable activities from fiber-optic communications to laser manufacturing and biomedical imaging — anything requiring a...

Top-of-the-Atmosphere Sunlight — As Seen from Earth

October 22, 2015

It may seem hard to believe, but we still don't know nearly enough about sunlight. Although people have been splitting the sun's rays into a spectrum and...

Fatigue Management in the Workplace

Fri, Nov 6 2015

Just as eating doesn't make you a nutritionist, neither does sleeping make you an expert in sleep and the workplace

Forensics @ NIST 2016

Tue, Nov 8 - Wed, Nov 9 2016

Presentations Posters Join us for Forensics @NIST, November 8-9, 2016, when you will have the opportunity to

NIST and Intel Get Critical (Dimensions) with X-rays

October 20, 2015

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Intel reported success using an X-ray scattering technique to accurately measure...

Can photonics and microfluidic cooling save many-core parallel programming from its programming woes?

Fri, Nov 13 2015

The increasing energy costs for on-chip and off-chip "data movement" for CMOS technology have led computing systems

Optimization of Bimetallic Nanoparticle Structure for Water and Energy Applications

Fri, Oct 9 2015

Sustainability in water treatment and energy conversion processes requires materials that are designed to be high

External Cavity - Quantum Cascade Lasers Are Great For Infrared Nanoscopy (If You Know What You Are Doing)

Mon, Oct 5 2015

Photo-thermal infrared nanoscopy (AFMIR) is a non-destructive analytical technique that allows to acquire mid-infrared

SunShot Initiative: Getting to Ubiquitous Solar

Mon, Sep 28 2015

The US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative was initiated four years ago as an effort to decrease the cost of solar

Challenges measuring distances between metal centers in proteins using pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance

Tue, Sep 8 2015

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy provides electronic and structural information on paramagnets, which

Exploring the Nanoscale Dynamics of Molecular Systems with Optical Microcavities

Thu, Nov 12 2015

Medicine as well as biology increasingly rely on the use of cutting‐edge physics and engineering, in order to pursue the

In Situ Scanning Probe and Electron Microscopy of Ionic Dynamics at the Nano- and Mesoscales

Mon, Aug 31 2015

In situ techniques are a very powerful tool for investigating the evolution of physico-chemical phenomena, as they

Active terahertz and microwave metamaterials utilizing organic pi-conjugated materials

Mon, Aug 10 2015

In recent years, metamaterials are actively studied since novel optical functionalities cannot be accessible by nature

Dielectric and metallo-dielectric structures for broadband applications

Thu, Jul 30 2015

Metamaterials with near-dispersionless response over broadband are interesting as they offer launch angle independent

Electrical Characterization Of Nanoscale Material Interfaces Ranging From Single Nanorods To Functional Solar Cell Devices Using Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy

Thu, Jul 23 2015

Comprehensive characterization of nanoscale material interfaces remains one challenging research direction in

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Gaithersburg

Chexia Face Recognition

NIST Seeks Comments on New Project Aimed at Protecting Privacy Online

A New, World-Class Facility for Infrared Calibrations

Measuring Optical Power with Single-Photon Detectors

Top-of-the-Atmosphere Sunlight — As Seen from Earth

Fatigue Management in the Workplace

Forensics @ NIST 2016

NIST and Intel Get Critical (Dimensions) with X-rays

Can photonics and microfluidic cooling save many-core parallel programming from its programming woes?

Optimization of Bimetallic Nanoparticle Structure for Water and Energy Applications

External Cavity - Quantum Cascade Lasers Are Great For Infrared Nanoscopy (If You Know What You Are Doing)

SunShot Initiative: Getting to Ubiquitous Solar

Challenges measuring distances between metal centers in proteins using pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance

Exploring the Nanoscale Dynamics of Molecular Systems with Optical Microcavities

In Situ Scanning Probe and Electron Microscopy of Ionic Dynamics at the Nano- and Mesoscales

Active terahertz and microwave metamaterials utilizing organic pi-conjugated materials

Dielectric and metallo-dielectric structures for broadband applications

Electrical Characterization Of Nanoscale Material Interfaces Ranging From Single Nanorods To Functional Solar Cell Devices Using Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy

Search for Majorana Fermions on Bi2Se3 and Cu0.2Bi2Se3 Using 4K & mK-STM with W or Nb Tips

Mechanisms of Solar Fuel Reactions as Probed by Advanced EPR Spectroscopy

Laser Direct-Write Nanopatterning Using Optically Trapped Microspheres

Integrated Solution for Temporary Wafer Bonding Technology

Interaction Effects in Graphene

Fabrication and Characterization of High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Imaging Biology at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

Towards DNA Sequencing with Solid-State Nanopores

Leveraging Hot Electrons for Optical Detection of Hydrogen and Methane

Cancer, Magnets, and Heat: The Promise of Nanomedicine

Adventures with Graphene, Phosphorene and Silicene: from Materials to Device Integration

"Cryo-101" Basic Cryogenic Techniques