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New MEP Advisory Board White Paper Assesses the Present and Future of American Manufacturing

April 13, 2010

A new white paper prepared by the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Board discusses the state of domestic manufacturing and the characteristics...

Micrograph of four NIST single photon detectors

NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency

June 2, 2005

Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at the National...

NIST engineer Sae Woo Nam working on a photo detector

NIST Detector Counts Photons With 99 Percent Efficiency

April 13, 2010

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count...

SI Units

SI Model | Defining Constants | Base and Derived Units | Prefixes | Writing with the SI SI Model Familiarity with the elements and structure...

SI Units – Length

Resources for Students and Teachers | How do I get a metric ruler? | When did the metric redefinition of the inch occur? | League of SI...

SI Units – Time

Resources for Students and Teachers | Coordinated Universal Time | League of SI Superheroes – Professor Second The second (s) is defined by...

SI Units – Temperature

Celsius Temperature Poem | Common Temperature Reference Points | Oven Temperature Equivalences | Temperature Conversion (Exact) | Resources...

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 2003

The results of FpVTE are based on (1-to-Many) fingerprint matching technologies and capabilities from 2003 so they are very dated and should...

Lloyd Whitman Wins NRL Edison Award for Nanotechnology Patent

April 12, 2010

Lloyd Whitman, the Deputy Director of the CNST, has won a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Edison Award for U.S. Patent 7,541,062, "Thermal Control of Deposition...

Summary Report on Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer FY2008

April 30, 2010

Report highlights upward trends in technology transfer activities at 11 federal laboratories Licenses, income bearing licenses, income from licenses, and earned...

GOSCON Award

For promoting performance evaluation and benchmarking for robot systems and facilitating innovations in robotics

PFTII Validation Set

PFTII_Validation.zip The Zip file contains a set of 40 sample images. The format of these images is identical (uncompressed 8-bit grayscale)...

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluation II (PFTII) results

SDK code Organization Name Application Date Software Accepted Date Evaluation Completed Date Results 3A...

PFTII Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ

April, 2010 What's new in PFT II? PFT II will evaluate fingerprints matching from the different impression types: plain vs. plain, plain vs...

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluation (PFTII)

PFT II has been superseded by PFT III. Visit the PFT III page for more information. Use this link to see PFT results from 2003 – February...

Three New Members Join NIST Advisory Group

March 30, 2010

Patrick Gallagher, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has named three distinguished experts from industry and academia to...

NIST Advisory Committee Issues 2009 Annual Report

March 30, 2010

The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency's primary private-sector advisory...

NIST Director Gallagher to Co-Chair White House Standards Committee

March 30, 2010

Whether it is to promote the development of a nationwide "Smart Grid" for electricity, optimize cyber security in federal information technology systems, or...

National Software Reference Library

For more information, visit the NSRL website at: www.nsrl.nist.gov This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice

Health Information Security Conference to Run May 11-12 in D.C.

March 30, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-hosting a conference to explore the current health information technology security landscape and...

Smoke Alarms + Sprinklers + Closed Doors = Lives Saved in Dorm Fires

March 30, 2010

Experimenting on a university dormitory that was scheduled to be torn down, fire researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...

This atomic-force microscopy image shows wrinkling in a single-wall carbon nanotube membrane; the inset shows an optical reflection micrograph of the membrane without any strain.

NIST Scientists Address 'Wrinkles' in Transparent Film Development

March 30, 2010

A closer look at a promising nanotube coating that might one day improve solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles, according to new research...

Diagram of an airbrush technique to create spray-on transistors

Paintable Electronics? NIST Studies Spray-On Manufacturing of Transistors

March 30, 2010

A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate...

A quantum-mechanics-based simulation demonstrates how a new NIST instrument can delicately pull a chain of atoms apart.

NIST Researchers Holding Steady in an Atomic-Scale Tug-of-War

March 30, 2010

How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of--let's say--gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms?* It's a measure of the astonishing...

NIST Receives Highest Honor from Automotive Industry Action Group

October 20, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been awarded the 2009 Automotive Industry Action Group's (AIAG) Chairman's Award, the organization...

November Workshop to Examine Challenges to Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing

October 6, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is holding the "National Workshop on Challenges to Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing: Industry...

PFT 2003 Testing Status

Organization Name SDK code Application Date Software Accepted Testing Completed SONATEQ X 12/15/2005 7/24/2006 09/12/2006 Motorola 1F 5/11...

New Study: Home Energy Savings Are Made in the Shade

May 5, 2009

Trees positioned to shade the west and south sides of a house may decrease summertime electric bills by 5 percent on average, according to a recent study of...

Workshop to Aim for Security, Accessibility in Future Voting Systems

June 30, 2009

Creating voting machines that are both trustworthy and easy to use is the goal of the End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, which should interest anyone concerned...

NIST Delivers Updated Draft Standards for Electronic Voting Machines

June 2, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal...

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