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Gaithersburg

NISTIR 6969 SOP 8 - Part 2

Thu, Apr 2 2015
This 2 hour webinar will review and apply Uncertainty Calculations to the Modified Substitution Mass Calibration

Special Programs Office (SPO)

The Special Programs Office (SPO) advances cross-laboratory research, standards, and innovation in areas of critical national need, including forensics science and greenhouse gas measurements, through collaboration and partnerships between NIST and external communities.

NISTIR 6969 SOP 8 - Part 1

Wed, Apr 1 2015
This 2 hour webinar will examine calibrating large tolerance weights using the Modified Substitution Mass Calibration
Student uses a tabletop SEM

PML Outreach Promotes STEM Excitement

Michael Postek of PML's Semiconductor & Dimensional Metrology Division has been an instrumental part of an outreach to bring access to tabletop scanning
NIST Campus, Gaithersburg, MD

iNEMI Board of Directors Visits NIST

NIST hosted the Board of Directors of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, for a half-day overview on
NIST engineer Kate Remley led development of new 94 gigahertz calibrated signal source and 16-antenna array operating at 83 gigahertz

5G & Beyond

“5G and beyond” refers to future generations of mobile wireless communication systems. The vision for these next-generation systems are to enable groundbreaking
USS George H.W. Bush equipped with air traffic control radar system operating in the 3.5 GHz band

Citizens Broadband Radio Service

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band is 150 MHz of spectrum made available for commercial broadband use on a shared basis with the federal

Brilliant Blunders

Fri, Apr 10 2015
Even the greatest scientists have made some serious blunders. "Brilliant Blunders" concerns the evolution of life on
Silicate bond sample

Thin, Strong Bond for Vacuum Seal

An ultra-stable, ultra-thin bonding technology has been adapted by researchers in PML's Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division for use as a super
Transmission electron microscopy image of a thin cross section of 160 nanometer trenches shows deposited nickel completely filling the features without voids.

NIST-Intel Partnership Workshop

In November, 2014, NIST hosted the seventh in a series of workshops in a NIST-Intel partnership effort on Emerging Nanoscale Interface and Architecture
photo of NISTAR instrument

Taking the Wraps off NISTAR

The NIST Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR), mothballed for more than a decade, is slated to make its space debut very soon about 1.5 million kilometers sunward of
atomic placement options

Computing with Single Atoms

As features on silicon microchips continue to shrink, the final frontier of miniaturization is a transistor on the scale of a single atom – a technology that
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