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NIST Fire Research Seeks a Safer Night's Sleep for All

July 17, 2000

Engineers at the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's...

Traceability in Molecular Spectrophotometry

Standard Reference Materials® ( SRMs®) and commercially produced, NIST-traceable materials for UV/visible/NIR spectrophotometry are transfer standards that

Industry-Government Partnership Funds New Energy-Saving and Building Technologies

June 23, 2000

The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Commerce today announced grants totaling nearly $1.1 million for six industry projects...

Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Launched; Governing Board Elected

November 19, 2009

DENVER--The inaugural meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), a new stakeholder forum to provide technical support to the Commerce Department's...

37 Employees Earn DOC Awards

November 20, 2009

The U.S. Department of Commerce has presented 37 local employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with Gold and Silver Medal Awards...

NIST Awards $500,000 Grant to ANSI to Strengthen U.S. Participation in International Standardization

June 16, 2000

New York and Washington, D.C., June 16, 2000: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary consensus standards system...

Private Certification Bodies Get Okay To Approve Some FCC-Regulated Products

June 2, 2000

Certifying new telecommunications equipment as compliant with federal and foreign requirements to prevent radio-wave interference should be cheaper and faster...

Laser Trapping of Erbium May Lead to Novel Devices

April 28, 2006

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used lasers to cool and trap erbium atoms, a "rare earth" heavy metal with unusual...

Bon MOT: Innovative Atom Trap Catches Highly Magnetic Atoms

April 1, 2008

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth...

Cold Atoms Could Replace Hot Gallium in Focused Ion Beams

November 12, 2008

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small...

Center for High Accuracy Retroreflection Measurements (CHARM)

In 1993, the United States Congress directed the U.S. Department of Transportation to establish "a standard for a minimum level of retroreflectivity that must

Photometry

The purpose of photometry is to measure light in a way that takes the sensitivity of human visual system into account. While radiometry measures light in all

Senate Confirms Gallagher as 14th NIST Director

November 17, 2009

On Nov. 5, 2009, the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher by unanimous consent as the 14th director of the National Institute of Standards and...

Wavering Named Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers

November 17, 2009

Albert Wavering III has been named to the College of Fellows of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Wavering is acting deputy director of the National...

Time Magazine Names JQI Work Among Year's Best Inventions

November 17, 2009

Time Magazine has named research on the "quantum teleportation" of information from one atom to another in its "50 Best Inventions of 2009" feature. The...

Computer Researcher Named Distinguished Fellow of Information Security Group

November 17, 2009

Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and information security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been named a...

Baldrige Program Calls for Applicants for 2010 Examiners

November 17, 2009

Each year the Baldrige Program recruits experts from business, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofits and other groups to serve on the Board...

Certification and Accreditation Process for Federal Information Systems Transformed

November 17, 2009

A revised draft publication on computer security guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is focused on transforming the...

Technology Innovation Program Seeks Comments on Potential Future Funding Areas

November 17, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for public comment on four white papers that outline potential areas for research funding...

NIST Issues New Call for White Papers on Critical National Needs

September 8, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new request for "white papers" that outline or help define potential new funding...

Publication Offers Constructive Advice for Construction Industry Efficiency

November 17, 2009

A new workshop report from the National Research Council (NRC) identifies five key activities to advance the competitiveness and effectiveness of the nation's...

Novel NIST Connector Uses Magnets for Leak-Free Microfluidic Devices

November 17, 2009

Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering...

Small Nanoparticles Bring Big Improvement to Medical Imaging

November 17, 2009

If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important--especially if you are watching changes that take a long time...

JQI Researchers Create Entangled Photons from Quantum Dots

November 17, 2009

To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement--the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even...

'No Muss, No Fuss' Miniaturized Analysis for Complex Samples Developed

November 17, 2009

The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers...

Transfer spectrophotometer

A Perkin-Elmer Lambda 1050 spectrophotometer is used to complement the reference reflectance and transmittance instruments. It performs this function by

spectrophotometric processes illustration

Spectrophotometry

Spectrophotometry is the quantitative measurement of the reflectance and transmittance of optical radiation in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared spectral

Homeland Security Modeling and Simulation Workshop

Tue, Jun 14 - Wed, Jun 15 2011

This workshop is a joint effort of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institute of Standards

Nanostructures for Energy Conversion

Electrochemical systems containing nanostructured materials are increasingly being incorporated into devices for efficiently harvesting, storing, and converting

Fluctuations and Nanoscale Control (Archived)

The behavior and properties of macroscale objects are stable and predictable because they are the result of the average behavior of very large numbers of atoms

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