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New Book Confronts Issues Challenging Semiconductor Industry

November 2, 1998

A wide range of issues important to the U.S. semiconductor industry—and a strategy to correct what some experts see as a potentially dangerous trend of...

Potential Microchip Insulator Shows Surprising Behavior When Tested In Ultra-Small Scale

August 24, 1998

Scientists analyzing polymers as possible insulators for advanced microchips were surprised to learn that the materials behave much differently when they are in...

New Method Will Help In Efforts To Find Better Insulators, Make Faster Microchips

August 23, 1998

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have devised a new method and built a new instrument to aid in the search...

NIST Announces Candidates For New Data Scrambling Standard

August 20, 1998

Candidates for a new information scrambling code for the 21st century made their debut at an international cryptography conference today. The Commerce...

Advance Could Lead Eventually To Big Savings In Metal-Forming Industry

July 21, 1998

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology are the first to succeed in using a new technique that shows precisely...

Aves Thompson to Become NCWM Chairman at 83rd Annual Meeting

April 27, 1998

Aves D. Thompson, chief of operations in the Alaska Division of Measurement Standards and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, will be installed as chairman of the...

Sunder Named Chief of Structures Division

March 18, 1998

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the appointment of S. Shyam Sunder as chief of the Structures Division in...

NIST 98 Provides Largest Ever Expansion and Improvement Of Mass Spectral Database

February 17, 1998

Analytical chemists now can take advantage of improved accuracy and a 75 percent expansion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's popular mass...

NIST Offers Short Course to Help Industry to Better Measure Temperature

February 17, 1998

Many industrial managers and engineers know that the accuracy of their temperature measurements has a big impact on the quality of their products or the...

Failure of Tiny Rivets May Have Sunk 'Unsinkable' Liner

February 17, 1998

When the remains of the RMS Titanic were discovered more than two miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic in 1985, the story of the great liner once...

Atomic Clock In Space to Reach New Heights Of Accuracy

January 20, 1998

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology soon will begin work on an advanced laser-cooled cesium atomic clock that will be placed on...

NIST To Evaluate Evaluators of Water Quality Testing

January 16, 1998

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced draft guidelines to accredit commercial vendors to evaluate drinking and wastewater analysis...

Power Doubling For WWVB Could Help Keep You On Time In 1998

January 5, 1998

For everyone who made a New Year's resolution to be more on time for meetings and events in 1998, there's good news from the Commerce Department's National...

Pioneering Research In X-ray and Neutron Examination of Polymer Films Earns Stratton Award For Wu

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award to Wen-Li Wu of the agency’s Materials Science and Engineering...

NIST Presents Safety Awards to Two Fire Engineering Technicians

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today recognized two employees for superior efforts in creating and maintaining a safe working environment...

Potomac Resident Billy Mangum Receives NIST Measurement Science Award

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today honored Billy W. Mangum, leader of the Thermometry Group in the Chemical Science and Technology...

NIST Presents Slichter Award to Bur, Migler and Wang For Developing Novel Probes to Control Polymer Processing

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the William P. Slichter Award to Anthony Bur, Kalman Migler and Francis Wang of the agency’s...

Good For Your Health, Good For Your Wallet

November 12, 1997

U.S. taxpayers are getting more than they pay for from a federal research program designed to ensure accuracy in measurements of radioactive drugs for...

NIST And USFA Strengthen Fire-Fighting

November 5, 1997

American fire prevention and firefighting efforts took a step forward today when the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and...

NIST Physicist William Phillips Wins 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 15, 1997

William D. Phillips, a leading researcher in ultra-low temperature atomic physics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, today was named a co...

New Measurement Capabilities to Support Next Generation of Microchips

June 24, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories and the private sector's SEMATECH...

Unit Pricing Changes to Benefit Customers and Retailers are Among the Issues at July Weights and Measures Conference

June 3, 1997

Proposed improvements in the standard that retailers must follow when they voluntarily offer unit pricing information for making value comparisons (between...

New NIST 'Webbook' Offers Collection of Chemistry Data Online

May 30, 1997

Envisioned to replace bulky reference books and trips to research libraries, NIST’s new compilation of chemical and physical data, the NIST Chemistry WebBook...

Another Leap Second is at Hand

May 27, 1997

Though your summer this year may seem all too short, it will actually be the longest one since 1994. There will be exactly one extra second, a little bonus...

NIST to Consider Revised Digital Signature Standard for Federal Agencies

May 13, 1997

In a move intended to broaden the choices federal agencies have when securing information, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

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