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Detector metrology

High performance optical radiometers with selected optical detectors are being designed, characterized, and calibrated in the Optical Radiation Group for the

Resources: Calibration Procedures

Current NISTIR Publications A selection of NISTIRs relevant to calibration procedures is provided below: NISTIR 6969, 2019, Selected...

Response Robot Evaluation Exercise (#6)

Mon, Mar 8 - Fri, Mar 12 2010

The sixth in a series of DHS/NIST response robot evaluation exercises will be hosted at the emergency responder training

Lunar spectro-radiometer

Design of the lunar irradiance instrument is based on commercially available spectrographs. These spectrographs can be stable and sub-components are readily

Lunar Spectral Irradiance (LUSI)

LUnar Spectral Irradiance (LUSI) is a project to measure the light from the Moon for use as an on-orbit reference standard suitable for radiometric calibration

Measurement Science for Complex Information Systems

This project aims to develop and evaluate a coherent set of methods to understand behavior in complex information systems, such as the Internet, computational

NIST Awards Contract to Sustain Fast Track Development of Smart Grid Standards

August 21, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that EnerNex Corporation, Knoxville, Tenn...

NIST Deploys Experts to Assist in California Fires

September 3, 2009

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent two experts to California to assist in collecting data on structural...

Groundbreaking at the Scripps Oceanography campus in La Jolla, California.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Breaks Ground on Major San Diego-Area Recovery Act Project

September 15, 2009

LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA —U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Mayor Jerry Sanders led a groundbreaking ceremony in La Jolla, Calif., today for two new...

Two Named to Earthquake Advisory Board

September 22, 2009

Two distinguished earthquake experts have been named to serve on the Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR) of the National Earthquake...

NIST Submits Updated Master Plan for Gaithersburg Campus

September 14, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Planned and potential expansions and new facilities across campus, the addition of 400-500 kilowatts in power from solar panels, and...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Statement on President Obama's Intent to Nominate Patrick Gallagher as Director of NIST

September 10, 2009

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate physicist Patrick Gallagher to be the 14th director of the U.S. Commerce Department's...

New NIST Nano-Ruler Sets Some Very Small Marks

September 22, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets...

Transmission Electron Micrograph for SRM 1877 -- Beryllium Oxide Powder

New Beryllium Reference Material for Occupational Safety Monitoring

September 22, 2009

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a...

illustration of nitrogen vacancy within a diamond crystal

Diamonds May Be the Ultimate MRI Probe, Say Quantum Physicists

September 22, 2009

Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl's best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Therapeutic Nanoparticles Give New Meaning to Sugar-Coating Medicine

September 22, 2009

A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has...

Image showing use of the NIST "on-demand" single-molecule drop dispenser

New Nanochemistry Technique Encases Single Molecules in Microdroplets

September 22, 2009

Inventing a useful new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Radiation Physics Division

The Division develops, maintains and disseminates the national measurement standards for ionizing radiation and radioactivity, and methods and models to address related applications.

Applied spectroradiometry and imaging metrology

Spectroradiometers are widely used for acquiring colorimetric, photometric, and radiometric quantities with a single measurement for a variety of applications

Primary optical watt radiometer (POWR) facility

POWR is a cryogenic electrical substitution radiometer that serves as the Nation's optical power reference.

Primary optical watt radiometer (POWR)

The Sensor Science Division of NIST realizes and maintains the unit of optical power (watt) with the NIST reference cryogenic radiometer, Primary Optical Watt

Reference transmittance densitometer

The Reference Transmission Densitometer (RTD) is the national reference instrument for standard diffuse visual transmittance density measurements for x-ray and

National Workshop On Challenges To Innovation In Advanced Manufacturing: Industry Drivers And R&D Needs

Tue, Nov 3 - Wed, Nov 4 2009

The Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology invites you to save

NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure

Tue, Oct 13 - Thu, Oct 15 2009

This webpage is for archival purposes only. Copies of presentations are provided in the workshop agenda. The primary

Telescope calibration facility (TCF)

The Telescope Calibration Facility (TCF) was designed to support the NIST Stars project by providing a facility to radiometricly calibrate long focal length

NIST Stars

NIST Stars is a project to improve the accuracy of the catalog of standard stars used by astronomers for spectral flux calibration of observatories so that they

Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP)

Detecting climate data with remote sensing instruments, providing state-of-the-art surveillance imagery for security and defense, or getting the most out of

Patents & Licensing

Technologies Available for Licensing For a searchable list of available NIST patents and published patent applications, please visit our...

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

The quantum optics of light interacting with semiconductor-based nanostructures is being studied to extend concepts of entanglement and coherence in atomic

Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructure, Nanodevices, and Nano-optics

Nano and atomic scale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, such as semiconductor quantum dots and dopants in Si

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