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Baldrige Program Receives Award for Communications

October 14, 2014

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is 1 of 12 public-sector organizations from throughout the United States recently selected to receive a 2014

6th International Conference on One-Dimensional Nanomaterials (ICON)- Postponed

Sun, Aug 16 - Thu, Aug 20 2015

The Conference Has Been Postponed to Spring 2016. Dates Will Be Announced Shortly.On August 16-20, 2015, NIST will host

NIST's 3rd Disaster Resilience Workshop Set for Oct. 27-28, in Norman, Okla.

October 7, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)will hold the third in a series of regional workshops devoted to developing a community-centric

2014 NICE Conference

Wed, Nov 5 - Thu, Nov 6 2014

Three tracks have been designed to enable attendees to gain the maximum benefit from the NICE 2014 Conference: Track

Ultrastable AFM: Improved Stability, Precision, and Bandwidth for BioAFM

Tue, Oct 14 2014

Instrumental drift in atomic force microscopy (AFM) remains a critical issue that limits the precision and duration of

Tunable Geometrical Frustration in Nanomagnet Arrays

Tue, Oct 14 2014

Two-dimensional nanomagnet arrays known as "artificial spin ice" have become a valuable model system with which to

Building a Fab on a Chip

Fri, Oct 10 2014

The "Fab on a Chip" approach is a novel fabrication technique that leverages the control and stability of MEMS machines

Separation and Characterization of 1D Nanostructures using Asymmetric Field Flow Fractionation and Online Detectors

Fri, Sep 26 2014

The development and proliferation of quasi-1D nanomaterials has evolved far more rapidly than the measurement science

Single engineered donor atoms with nuclear and electron spin readout for quantum bits in silicon

Mon, Sep 22 2014

Solid state transistors triggered a revolution in the way we store, compute and communicate information. Half a century

ASML Stepper User Seminar

Tue, Sep 9 2014

The ASML 275D I-line stepper, an advanced projection photolithography tool, has been serving NanoFab users for 2 years

Polymer Physics 2.0: Exploiting Programmable Nanomaterials to Control Phase and Material Properties of Soft Matter

Fri, Sep 5 2014

Biologically evolved materials are often used as inspiration in the both the development of new materials as well as

Atomic Surface Structures of Oxide Nanocrystals and Their Catalytic Applications

Thu, Aug 28 2014

Oxide nanoparticles are widely used in heterogeneous catalysis. The surface structures of oxide nanoparticles are of

Custom bird home by Thomas Burke, Wilmington Del.

BIRDS Is for Sustainability: New NIST Tool for Evaluating Building Performance, Trade-offs

October 7, 2014

Designing a building that simply meets local code requirements is not necessarily the optimal way to do it when you consider all the long-term costs. Now

Introducing the League of SI Superheroes: The New Champions of Metric

October 6, 2014

To celebrate Metric Week (Oct. 5-11), the National Institute of Standards and Technology would like to introduce you to the League of SI Superheroes. The League

Eligibility Requirements Revised for 2015 Baldrige Award

October 6, 2014

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, the component of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that manages the Malcolm Baldrige

Forensics@NIST 2014

Wed, Dec 3 - Thu, Dec 4 2014

On December 3-4, 2014, NIST will host a two-day symposium showcasing forensic science research being performed at NIST

Fundamentos de Metrología

Mon, Mar 2 - Fri, Mar 6 2015

El seminario Fundamentos de Metrología presenta al participante los conceptos de sistemas de medición, unidades de

NIST to Hire New Manufacturing Extension Partnership Director

October 2, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is about to hire a new director for the NIST Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership(MEP), a

Statistical Friction Ridge Analysis (SFRA)

This project aims to develop a statistical measure of the uncertainty of the decisions made on the friction ridge evidence (i.e., evidential value of

NIST Releases Final Version of Smart Grid Framework, Update 3.0

October 1, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published its NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 3.0, a

Simultaneous Imaging of Ferromagnetic and Ferroelectric Domains

October 1, 2014

An international team led by researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have discovered a new way to simultaneously image both the

Document Control and Record Keeping

Thu, Aug 27 2015

This 2 hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of Laboratory Management System Document Control and Record Keeping

NIST Exhibits at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference 2014

Thu, Nov 13 - Sat, Nov 15 2014

Held annually since 1978, the AISES National Conference is a one-of-a-kind, three-day event convening high school

NIST Scientists Improve Microscopic Batteries with Homebuilt Imaging Analysis

September 26, 2014

In a rare case of having their cake and eating it too, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other institutions have

US-Korea Workshop on Quantum Information

Mon, Nov 17 - Wed, Nov 19 2014

This a joint US-Republic of Korea workshop on quantum information science and supporting technologies aimed at fostering

Photons by the Numbers

September 25, 2014

A NIST team is at work on what promises to be one of the world's most accurate methods for generating a specified number of photons, and has devised a method to

A structural model of a typical silicon nanocrystal stabilized within an organic shell of cyclohexane.

World's Smallest Reference Material is Big Plus for Nanotechnology

September 24, 2014

If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with

Effect of Partial Charge Calculation Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics in Metal-organic Frameworks

In classical molecular simulations, electrostatic contributions to the potential energy are typically accounted for by assigning partial charges to some or all

NIST Awards Contract to MITRE to Support Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

September 24, 2014

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a contract to operate its first Federally Funded Research and

Past and current work on image-based tattoo recognition

The following is a working list of publications related to tattoo matching and retrieval methods. A. K. Jain, J.-E. Lee, and R. Jin, "Tattoo...

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