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Projects/Programs

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Accelerator Facilities

Ongoing
The Radiation Physics Division's accelerator facilities continue to support a broad range of research efforts in the areas of industrial and medical dosimetry
thermal converter

AC-DC Difference

Ongoing
The NIST Ac-dc2 Difference Project performs leading edge measurement services and research for ac-dc difference measurements and dc voltage metrology. We
The NIST Acoustic Thermometer

Acoustic Techniques in Fluid Metrology

Ongoing
The Fluid Metrology Group leads the world in designing and using gas-filled acoustic resonators for measuring the thermodynamic temperature T, the Boltzmann
Acoustic Thermometer

Acoustic Thermometry

Completed
By measuring the speed of sound in argon gas, we have determined thermodynamic temperature with unprecedented accuracy in the range 0 °C to 552 °C. Our results
Advanced Magnetic Imaging staff

Advanced Magnetic Imaging

Ongoing
The scope of MRI is expanding with the development of both ultra-high field (14 T) and ultra-low field (0.1 mT) scanners not only for biomedical applications
qim image

Advanced Microwave Photonics

Ongoing
Research on quantum information (QI) seeks to control and exploit exotic properties of quantum mechanics, and researchers are already generating "unbreakable"
Schematic of a PEEM measurement

Advancing PEEM-based Metrology

Ongoing
Specialized imaging methods with high spatial resolution are essential for advancing the physical understanding of emergent materials in advanced electronics
The NIST wind tunnel

Air Speed Metrology

Ongoing
NIST's versatile wind tunnel is used to calibrate customers' airspeed sensors and to conduct research on the design of novel anemometers, the responses of
coplanar superconducting waveguide

Amplifiers

Ongoing
To process quantum information it is important to have amplifiers with wide bandwidth, high dynamic range, and low noise.
SRMs

Aperture area measurements

Ongoing
Radiometric and photometric measurements require defining apertures. The accuracy to which these measurements can be accomplished requires minimization of the
joint quantum institute

Applications of Quantum Information

Ongoing
Theory is being developed and used to devise methods for preserving and exploiting the quantum behavior of ever-larger systems for metrology, communication, and
STM patterning at 4K.

Atom-based Silicon Quantum Electronics

Ongoing
To fabricate, measure, and model solid state implementations of atomically precise devices. Develop a robust infrastructure to fabricate prototype few-atom