Experiment design

News and Updates

The Case of the Cloudy Filters: Solving the Mystery of the Degrading Sunlight Detectors

March 25, 2021

More than 150 years ago, the Sun blasted Earth with a massive cloud of hot charged particles. This plasma blob generated a magnetic storm on Earth that caused

NIST Publishes a Beginner’s Guide to DNA Origami

January 8, 2021

In a technique known as DNA origami, researchers fold long strands of DNA over and over again to construct a variety of tiny 3D structures, including miniature

In Search for Dark Matter, New Fountain Design Could Become Wellspring of Answers

November 27, 2020

You can’t see it. You can’t feel it. But the substance scientists refer to as dark matter could account for five times as much “stuff” in the universe as the

Projects and Programs

Autonomous Materials Science

Ongoing

We use autonomous experimentation (the merger of automated synthesis, characterization, AI-driven decision-making) to elucidate the role of composition

NIST PS1 Primary Standard for quantitative NMR (Benzoic Acid)

Ongoing

The "first-of-its-kind" in an entirely new class of reference material, NIST PS1 Primary Standard for quantitative NMR (Benzoic Acid) is now available! The PS

Additive Manufacturing Part Qualification

Ongoing

Critical parts for defense, aerospace, and medical applications must be formally qualified prior to use. Currently, extensive empirical testing consisting of

AM Machine and Process Control Methods for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing

Part quality in additive manufacturing (AM) is highly dependent on the process control, but there is a lack of adequate AM control methods and standards. In

Publications

Performance Measurement of a Mobile Manipulator-on-a-Cart and Coordinate Registration Methods for Manufacturing Applications

November 18, 2021

Author(s)

Omar Aboul-Enein, Roger V. Bostelman, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mili Shah

Mobile manipulators, which consist of a robotic manipulator arm on a vehicular base, enable more flexible and dynamic workflows in manufacturing processes by

Voices of First Responders—Nationwide Public Safety Communication Survey Findings: Day to Day Technology, Phase 2, Volume 3

October 15, 2021

Author(s)

Shanee Dawkins, Kerrianne Buchanan, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

The Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN) is being developed to provide a dedicated network for first responders' use during incident response. A

Sequential Bayesian experiment design for adaptive Ramsey sequence measurements.

October 11, 2021

Author(s)

Robert McMichael, Sergey Dushenko, Sean Blakley

The Ramsey sequence is a canonical example of a quantum phase determination for a spin qubit, but when readout fidelity is low, as with NV centers, measurement

A System for Validating Resistive Neural Network Prototypes

July 27, 2021

Author(s)

Brian Hoskins, Mitchell Fream, Matthew Daniels, Jonathan Goodwill, Advait Madhavan, Jabez J. McClelland, Osama Yousuf, Gina C. Adam, Wen Ma, Muqing Liu, Rasmus Madsen, Martin Lueker-Boden

Building prototypes of heterogeneous hardware systems based on emerging electronic, magnetic, and photonic devices is an increasingly important area of research

Tools and Instruments

Large Aperture Scanner

The Large Aperture Scanner (LAS) scans a radar transceiver over a 5 meter by 20 meter aperture. Image reconstruction techniques enable a three-dimensional

Awards

Xiao Tang - 2016 Fellow of the American Physical Society

For outstanding contributions in optical technologies and systems, with application to quantum communications, spectrometry, and digital