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HyTrust Executive Joins NIST Advisory Committee

November 4, 2014

Hemma Prafullchandra, chief technology officer and senior vice president of products at HyTrust, has been named to the National Institute of Standards and...

UMD and NIST Announce the Creation of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science

October 31, 2014

The University of Maryland (UMD) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the creation of the...

NIST Awards Six Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Grants to Advance Standards Education

October 30, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded six grants totaling over $400,000 to support the integration of standards education into...

Vacancy Announcement: Director for Manufacturing Extension Partnership

October 29, 2014

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

Contract Review - Cancelled

Thu, Mar 19 2015

This 2 hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of contract review that are necessary to meet customer expectations

402 Members Named to Forensic Science Standards Organization

October 29, 2014

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the final appointments to the Organization for Scientific...

Learn How to Apply for the 2015 Baldrige Award Now

October 28, 2014

Application forms and guidance are now available online for the 2015 Baldrige Award. The prestigious, Presidential award honors high-performing organizations in...

Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2015

Mon, Jul 20 - Tue, Jul 21 2015

There are several emerging areas in which highly constrained devices are interconnected, typically communicating

Building Better Body Armor: PML Provides Standards for US Army

October 28, 2014

NIST's Dimensional Metrology Group (DMG) in PML's Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division is in the final stages of completing a three-phase task for...

NIST Handbook 130 Price Verification

Wed, Feb 18 - Thu, Feb 19 2015

This 2 day seminar will provide inspectors with an understanding and application knowledge of the NIST Handbook 130

World's First Photonic Pressure Sensor Outshines Traditional Mercury Standard

October 29, 2014

For almost 400 years, mercury gauges have prevailed as the most accurate way to measure pressure. Now, within weeks of seeing "first light," a novel pressure...

Trouble with a Capital 'G'

October 27, 2014

NIST has taken part in a new push to address a persistent and growing problem in physics: the value of G. The Newtonian constant of gravitation, used to...

NIST researcher Xiaoyu (Alan) Zheng is setting up a chisel toolmark measurement using a 3D confocal microscope

Evidence Says: December Symposium Showcases Forensics at NIST

October 22, 2014

Forensic science research goes back a long way at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—more than a century. In fact, the agency served as...

Computer simulations of two possible morphologies of a block copolymer film

NIST Offers Electronics Industry Two Ways to Snoop on Self-Organizing Molecules

October 22, 2014

A few short years ago, the idea of a practical manufacturing process based on getting molecules to organize themselves in useful nanoscale shapes seemed...

NIST's Cloud Computing Roadmap Details Research Requirements and Action Plans

October 22, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the final version of the US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Volumes I and...

Electricity Sector Issues Roundtable: Grid 3.0 and Beyond

Thu, Nov 13 2014

The Grid 3.0 Roundtable will bring together approximately 25 thought leaders and experts from a variety of stakeholders

NanoFab Tool: Filmetrics F40-UV Reflectometer

The Filmetrics F40-UV reflectometer provides users with rapid thin film thickness and optical constants measurements on most common device film stacks. The F40

NIST Taps Nine Experts to Help Craft Disaster Resilience Framework for Communities

October 21, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has engaged nine experts in fields ranging from transportation and water infrastructure to societal...

Strengthening Thin-Film Bonds with Ultrafast Data Collection

October 17, 2014

When studying extremely fast reactions in ultrathin materials, two measurements are better than one. A new research tool invented by researchers at Lawrence...

James Olthoff Named Director of NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory

October 15, 2014

James Olthoff, a 27-year veteran of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been named director of the agency's Physical Measurement...

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard References

ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Update:2015 links This ZIP file contains the IEPD – schemas, documentation and samples which update the NIEM 2.1 XML...

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

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