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Gaithersburg

Health IT Mobile Device Use Case Meeting

Wed, Apr 17 2013

This a meeting of vendors who have responded to a Federal Register notice regarding the Secure Exchange of Electronic

Nanowire Position and Orientation Precisely Controlled Using Fluid Flow

April 11, 2013

Video showing a 10 µm × 1 µm fluorescently labeled rod being controlled using a combination of electric fields and fluid flow to travel along the "NIST" path...

A Celebration of Our Partners

Mon, Apr 15 2013

Please join the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) and the National Institute of Standards and

President's FY 2014 Budget Request for NIST Supports Research in Advanced Manufacturing, Cybersecurity

April 10, 2013

WASHINGTON — The President's fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget released today proposes $928.3 million for the Department of Commerce's National Institute of...

PML Researchers Open Door to Advanced Molecular Electronic Metrology

April 12, 2013

Continued advancements using a NIST-developed molecular-level fabrication technique are leading to new discoveries in the metrology for molecular electronics by...

Landmark High-Rise Fire Study Evaluates Effectiveness of Crew Sizes, Elevator Use

April 10, 2013

PHOENIX – When responding to fires in high-rise buildings, firefighting crews of five or six members—instead of three or four—are significantly faster in...

NFI Publishes White Paper on Trends, Challenges and Strategy in Forensic Science

April 9, 2013

The role of forensic science throughout the world is changing due to recent technological development. Whereas forensic science has traditionally supported...

Screenshot of President Obama Video at 25th Baldrige Ceremony

U.S. Presidents Convey Tributes at Baldrige 25th Anniversary and Award Ceremony

April 9, 2013

Current and former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton honored the performance excellence of Baldrige Award-winning organizations at the Baldrige...

2nd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

Wed, May 29 - Fri, May 31 2013

Under Executive Order 13636, NIST was given responsibility to develop a cybersecurity framework to reduce cybersecurity

Commerce Deputy Secretary Blank Presents 2012 Baldrige Award to Four Organizations

April 8, 2013

On April 8, 2013, U.S. Commerce Department Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank presented four U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award...

NanoFab Operating Hours

The NanoFab is open and staffed weekdays from 7:00 AM to midnight on days that the NIST campus is open (i.e. other than federal holidays...

CNST Costs and Payments

Topic List (click to go to topic): Costs and Payments: A brief description of our charges and billing system for NanoFab access, tool use...

Conducts basic research to advance the optical and electrical measurement science infrastructure necessary for innovation in future thin-film devices and their component materials for nanoelectronic, optoelectronic, and quantum information applications.

NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Featured on National Public Radio Affiliate WAMU

April 3, 2013

The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) was featured on the Friday, March 22 edition of Metro Connection, a weekly radio broadcast of...

Single Photon from a Quantum Emitter? It's a Matter of Timing...

April 3, 2013

Many systems envisioned for practical quantum information processing require the use of single, indistinguishable photons as carriers of information and logic...

Don't Call It Vaporware: Scientists Use Cloud of Atoms as Optical Memory Device

April 3, 2013

Talk about storing data in the cloud. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the...

Experts Propose Research Priorities for Making Concrete 'Greener'

April 3, 2013

The challenge of making concrete greener—reducing its sizable carbon footprint without compromising performance—is just like the world's most ubiquitous...

Smart Grid R&D Opportunities Outlined in Two New NIST Reports

April 3, 2013

The nation's aging power grid is evolving into a modern, "smart" energy distribution network, and with these changes comes a host of challenges for the research...

Seeing the Oceans in Their True Colors

April 3, 2013

Much of what is known about the state of the Earth's oceans, and how they change over time, comes from satellite monitoring of reflected and thermally emitted...

A Sense of Comity

February 2013 I am basing this leadership column on remarks delivered by Secretary of State John Kerry in his farewell address to his...

Nanoscale Edge Variations Observed with Record-breaking Resolution in Magnetic Nanodevices

March 27, 2013

A team of researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, the University of Maryland, and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology...

Ontology Summit 2013: Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle

Thu, May 2 - Fri, May 3 2013

The goal for the Ontology Summit 2013 is to identify best practices for ontology development and metrics for ontology

NIST Guides Seek Interoperability for Automated Fingerprint ID Systems

March 20, 2013

A new set of publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could make it easier, faster, and most importantly, more reliable, for...

NIST Advisory Committee Issues 2012 Annual Report

March 20, 2013

The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent its 2012 annual report to Congress...

CNST Director Robert Celotta Featured in European Innovation Publication

March 20, 2013

Robert Celotta, Director of the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), was interviewed in the 2013 edition of International Innovation -...

Space filling models of bent and straight alkyl chains tethered to silica that represent disordered and ordered models.

Fundamental Studies of the Conformational Phase Behavior of Chain Molecules at Interfaces

Chain molecules tethered or adsorbed to solid surfaces are at the heart of a wide range of technologies. Examples include colloidal particle stabilization

Medical (Archive): Calibrations of Large-Volume, Solid Ge-68 Phantom Sources for Monitoring PET Scanner Performance in Clinical Trials

The interpretation of quantitative imaging data obtained from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) studies requires an understanding of the measurement

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Gaithersburg

Health IT Mobile Device Use Case Meeting

Nanowire Position and Orientation Precisely Controlled Using Fluid Flow

A Celebration of Our Partners

President's FY 2014 Budget Request for NIST Supports Research in Advanced Manufacturing, Cybersecurity

PML Researchers Open Door to Advanced Molecular Electronic Metrology

Landmark High-Rise Fire Study Evaluates Effectiveness of Crew Sizes, Elevator Use

NFI Publishes White Paper on Trends, Challenges and Strategy in Forensic Science

U.S. Presidents Convey Tributes at Baldrige 25th Anniversary and Award Ceremony

2nd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

Commerce Deputy Secretary Blank Presents 2012 Baldrige Award to Four Organizations

NanoFab Operating Hours

CNST Costs and Payments

Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group

NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Featured on National Public Radio Affiliate WAMU

Single Photon from a Quantum Emitter? It's a Matter of Timing...

Don't Call It Vaporware: Scientists Use Cloud of Atoms as Optical Memory Device

Experts Propose Research Priorities for Making Concrete 'Greener'

Smart Grid R&D Opportunities Outlined in Two New NIST Reports

Seeing the Oceans in Their True Colors

A Sense of Comity

Nanoscale Edge Variations Observed with Record-breaking Resolution in Magnetic Nanodevices

Ontology Summit 2013: Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle

NIST Guides Seek Interoperability for Automated Fingerprint ID Systems

NIST Advisory Committee Issues 2012 Annual Report

CNST Director Robert Celotta Featured in European Innovation Publication

Fundamental Studies of the Conformational Phase Behavior of Chain Molecules at Interfaces

Medical (Archive): Calibrations of Large-Volume, Solid Ge-68 Phantom Sources for Monitoring PET Scanner Performance in Clinical Trials

Comparisons (Archive): International Comparison of Tc-99 Activity

NIST Workshop on Lyme Disease

2013 NADDRG Spring Meeting