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Gebbie Wins Service to America Medal

November 14, 2002

The following is an excerpt from the awards ceremony program for the Service to America Medals. The awards are a joint program of Government Executive, National

With Three New Reference Materials, NIST Gets the Dirt on Soil

August 25, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new certified reference materials for soil. Intended for use as controls in testing

Hankering for Molecular Electronics? Grab the New NIST Sandwich

August 25, 2009

The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may prove tasty for computer chip

Who Are You? Mobile ID Devices Find Out Using NIST Guidelines

August 25, 2009

A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices--Mobile ID--has been published by the

Newly Improved NIST Reference Material Targets Infant Formula Analysis

August 25, 2009

Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have issued a new certified reference material--a standardized sample backed by NIST--for

Up-Scale: Frequency Converter Enables Ultra-High Sensitivity Infrared Spectrometry

August 25, 2009

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of

closeup image of the HKUST-1 metal-organic framework

Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework

August 25, 2009

The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and

President's FY 2004 Budget Seeks a Half Billion in Funding for the Commerce Department's Technology Administration

February 3, 2003

More on FY 2004 budget request President Bush's fiscal year (FY) 2004 budget request for the Commerce Department's Technology Administration (TA) is $504.8

President Continues to Make Technology a Priority

February 2, 2004

More on FY 2005 budget request FY 2005 budget briefing by Undersecretary for Technology Phillip Bond and NIST Director Arden Bement (pdf) President Bush

Streamlined Technology Administration Focuses on National Priorities for Security, Industrial Competitiveness

February 7, 2005

FY06 Budget Briefing by Under Secretary for Technology Phillip Bond and NIST Acting Director Hratch Semerjian (pdf) Budget Table More TA/NIST Budget Information

Commerce Department's NIST to Focus on Research Initiatives for President's Innovation Agenda

February 6, 2006

Budget table GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is slated for $535 million for its laboratory

Opening Statement FY 2008 NIST Budget Press Briefing Teleconference

February 5, 2007

Good afternoon. This is a great day for NIST. The President's 2008 budget request calls for an 11 percent increase in funding for the NIST core (which consists...

Budget Request Promotes National Competitiveness Through Research and Facilities at Commerce Department's NIST

February 5, 2007

Budget table Opening Statement from FY 2008 NIST Budget Press Briefing Teleconference by William Jeffrey, Director, NIST Washington, D.C. — President George W

President Requests 22 Percent Budget Increase for NIST Core Programs to Advance Innovation and Competitiveness

February 4, 2008

Budget table Washington, D.C.— President George W. Bush's fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget proposal submitted today to Congress for the Commerce Department's

Nanotribology for Nanomanufacturing (Archived)

Tribology is the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion and includes studies of friction, adhesion, lubrication, and wear

Authorized Release

You are required to advise the Center regularly where you, or a responsible adult (emergency contact person), can be reached while your...

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

August 20, 2009

Dr. Craig Brown, an instrument scientist for the Disk Chopper Spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, will receive a PECASE award for showing

NanoFab Staff Listing

Management B. Robert Ilic, NanoFab Manager B. Robert Ilic is the Acting NanoFab Manager and a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research...

A current (white arrow) flowing through a tantalum film generates a current of spins (dark blue arrows) that impinges on the ferromagnetic cobalt iron boron layer and causes the magnetization (gold arrow) to charge directions (light blue arrow).

Theory of Spin-Orbit Torque

The working of countless electronic devices involves electric and magnetic effects interacting within nanostructured materials. In the phenomenon known as spin

Modeling and Simulation of Nanofabrication (Archived)

Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly. With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is increasing interest in

Manipulating the Position and Orientation of Nanoparticles using Feedback Control (Archived)

To advance the development of miniaturized systems, there is a need to place nanostructured materials in very precise locations. Only then can practical

Nanoparticle Tracking for Fluidic Self Assembly (Archived)

One challenge of nanomanufacturing is to establish methods to assemble solution-based nanoparticles into organized structures with nanometer precision, with an

Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers (Archived)

One of the major obstacles to incorporating nanotechnology into everyday products is the difficulty of making nanoscale structures inexpensively over large

Nanoplasmonics and Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Metamaterials

Metamaterials are tailor-made photonic composites--combinations of materials designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The properties stem from

Measuring Light-Matter Interactions in Chip-Based Optical Cavities

Measuring interactions between light and matter has both fundamental and practical importance. For example, lasers have had a profound influence on science and

SIRCUS facility and uncertainties

The basic SIRCUS calibration setup is shown at the right. The output from a tunable laser is sent through an intensity stabilizer, then through a 'speckle

Spectrally tunable lighting facility

Solid-state lighting (SSL) is increasingly being introduced into the market and it is expected that many of the light sources currently used for general

Bidirectional optical scattering facility

Goniometric optical scatter instrument (GOSI) The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) quantifies the angular distribution of radiation

NIST Launches Initiative to Take Pulse Of U.S. Measurement Capabilities, Infrastructure

May 11, 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C—An initiative to "roadmap" the nation's future measurement needs was announced today by the Commerce Department's National Institute of

Oklahoma School District Is 1,000th Award Applicant

June 15, 2005

Gaithersburg, Md.—Jenks School District, Jenks, Okla., is the 1,000th applicant for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Managed by the Commerce

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