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Physical Measurement Laboratory

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New Photon Detector for Advanced Communications Knows When to Not Know

June 26, 2013

In some standardized tests, the graders add in a penalty factor for wrong answers to discourage students from randomly guessing. It turns out that there's a...

Promoting Nanomaterial Manufacturing by Characterizing and Minimizing Environmental Risks

June 26, 2013

While nanomaterials have led to major advances in key U.S. industries, especially the semiconductor industry, their technological promises and possibilities are...

Time to Celebrate: NIST Radio Station WWVB Logs 50 Years of Innovation

June 25, 2013

Fifty years ago on July 5, 1963, a modest radio station in Fort Collins, Colo., officially went on the airwaves—a landmark event for U.S. industry and the...

High-Efficiency Photon Source Brings Day of Reckoning Closer for a Famous Quantum Test

June 25, 2013

Physicists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) are edging ever closer to getting really...

Microscopy Technique Could Help Computer Industry Develop 3-D Components

June 25, 2013

A technique developed several years ago at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for improving optical microscopes now has been applied to...

MRI Phantoms: Moving to the Next Stage

June 21, 2013

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an indispensable tool for diagnosing, treating, and understanding a host of medical conditions, and the technology...

Instructors perform measurements during dry run of Fundamentals of Metrology course

NIST Office of Weights and Measures Receives Important 'Continuing Education' Accreditation

June 20, 2013

The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of...

New AC Voltage Devices: Factor of Three Improvement in Uncertainty

June 18, 2013

After years of effort and scores of iterations, PML researchers have developed a new generation of devices that can reduce the uncertainties in ac voltage...

Illustration of a new microscopy technique that works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with specially engineered quantum dots.

New Quantum Dot Technique Combines Best of Optical and Electron Microscopy

June 12, 2013

It's not reruns of "The Jetsons", but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique...

First Observation of Spin Hall Effect in a Quantum Gas Is Step Toward 'Atomtronics'

June 5, 2013

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported the first observation of the "spin Hall effect" in a Bose-Einstein...

Luggage Screening Standards Prove Their Value

June 5, 2013

Every month, between 50 and 70 million passengers travel through U.S. airports, toting more than 30 million pieces of luggage destined for aircraft cargo holds...

Closing the Last Bell-test Loophole for Photons

June 3, 2013

An international team of researchers has reached a milestone in experimental confirmation of a key tenet of quantum mechanics, using ultra-sensitive photon...

Close up of the NIST chip-scale atomic clock

NIST Scientists Win 2014 Rank Prizes for Chip-Scale Atomic Clock

May 28, 2013

Physicists John Kitching and Svenja Knappe of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive 2014 Rank Prizes in optoelectronics "for...

A NIST team has created an ultraviolet (UV) metamaterial formed of alternating nanolayers of silver (green) and titanium dioxide (blue)

The Better to See You With: Scientists Build Record-Setting Metamaterial Flat Lens

May 23, 2013

For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses...

Chojnacky recognized for her work on vaccine storage

May 20, 2013

Michal Chojnacky will be honored on June 10, 2013 with the 2012 Arthur S. Flemming Award, presented by the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public...

New 3D Defect Detection Fills Important Industry Gap

May 13, 2013

As device manufacturing technologies sizes shrink beyond 22 nm and increase in complexity, defects become more detrimental to device performance and harder to...

SRC, NIST Introduce Second Phase of Nanoelectronics Research Initiative with $5 Million in Annual Funding to Develop Post-CMOS Electronics

May 8, 2013

Additional Media Contact: SRC: Dan Francisco 916-293-9030 GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the National Institute of...

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Physical Measurement Laboratory

News and Updates

New Photon Detector for Advanced Communications Knows When to Not Know

Promoting Nanomaterial Manufacturing by Characterizing and Minimizing Environmental Risks

Time to Celebrate: NIST Radio Station WWVB Logs 50 Years of Innovation

High-Efficiency Photon Source Brings Day of Reckoning Closer for a Famous Quantum Test

Microscopy Technique Could Help Computer Industry Develop 3-D Components

MRI Phantoms: Moving to the Next Stage

NIST Office of Weights and Measures Receives Important 'Continuing Education' Accreditation

New AC Voltage Devices: Factor of Three Improvement in Uncertainty

New Quantum Dot Technique Combines Best of Optical and Electron Microscopy

First Observation of Spin Hall Effect in a Quantum Gas Is Step Toward 'Atomtronics'

Luggage Screening Standards Prove Their Value

Closing the Last Bell-test Loophole for Photons

NIST Scientists Win 2014 Rank Prizes for Chip-Scale Atomic Clock

The Better to See You With: Scientists Build Record-Setting Metamaterial Flat Lens

Chojnacky recognized for her work on vaccine storage

New 3D Defect Detection Fills Important Industry Gap

SRC, NIST Introduce Second Phase of Nanoelectronics Research Initiative with $5 Million in Annual Funding to Develop Post-CMOS Electronics

New Temporal Filtering Technique Improves Solid-State Single Photon Sources

NIST Scientists Wineland and Nesbitt Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

New NIST Measurement Tool Is On Target for the Fast-Growing MEMS Industry

NIST Demonstrates Transfer of Ultraprecise Time Signals over a Wireless Optical Channel

An Unprecedented View of Spintronic Switching

In Natural Gas Pipelines, NIST Goes with the Flow

Dehmer to Head NIST Physical Measurement Lab

Fluorescence Technique Measures Photoacid Distribution in Photoresists with Nanoscale Resolution

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