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While today's law enforcement officers don't wear utility belts full of crimefighting gadgets like Batman, they do rely on a variety of state-of-the-art...
Chip manufacturers beware: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes...
In its first decade of work, a research effort at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop novel and improved "combinatorial"...
Primary Contact For more information about the voting activities at NIST, please contact us at voting [at] nist.gov (voting[at]nist[dot]gov). For Members of the Media For...
The Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility SURF III is operated by the Optical Radiation Group as a stable light source for radiometry and research. SURF
Absolute source-based radiometry is founded in the traceability of a light source’s output to measurable operational parameters. The absolute irradiance at BL-2
The National Institute of Standards and Technology operates two spectral comparator facilities, both of which are used to provide detector calibrations from the
By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of...
A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a...
A cryptographic hash algorithm (alternatively, hash "function") is designed to provide a random mapping from a string of binary data to a fixed-size “message
The deadline for new and continuation proposals is January 28. 2010. Successful proposals will be allocated instrument time from April through October 2010...
The Fundamental Constants Data Center is focused on physics relevant to the determination of values of the fundamental constants of physics and chemistry.
The Radioactivity Group's mission is to develop, maintain, and disseminate radioactivity standards, develop and apply radioactivity measurement techniques, and engage in research to meet the requirements for new standards.
The Neutron Physics group maintains and supports the nation's premier fundamental neutron physics user facilities. The group has developed the nation's only high-resolution neutron imaging user facility (NIF) for fuel cell research. We maintain, and disseminate measurement standards through both
The Dosimetry Group advances the measurement of quantities important in the radiological sciences through programs in the dosimetry of x-rays, gamma-rays, electrons, and other charged particles.
Develops, measures, understands and exploits quantum and electronic devices and sensors at the interface between atomic and nanoscale solid-state systems. Systems under study include dopant-based and nanofabricated Si devices for quantum technologies, quantum simulation, quantum sensing and charge
The mission of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group is to measure, calculate, critically compile, and disseminate reference data on atomic properties and fundamental constants in support of basic research, commercial development, and national priorities.
Users of the former "Crypto Toolkit" can now find that content under this project. It includes cryptographic primitives, algorithms and schemes are described in
The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 was passed by Congress to encourage the upgrade of voting equipment across the United States. HAVA established the
To advance the development of next-generation wireless technologies that meet the evolving needs of the public safety community. We are dedicated to deepening
Electronic Authentication is the process of establishing confidence in user identities that are presented in online environments. Application developers are
This project defines metrics, tools, and data for measuring physical infrastructure delivery performance and construction productivity at three levels: (1) task
Users of the former "Crypto Toolkit" can now find that content under this project. It includes cryptographic primitives, algorithms and schemes are described in