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New Nanotube Coating Enables Novel Laser Power Meter

May 5, 2009

The U.S. military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel...

NIST Physicist James Bergquist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 5, 2009

Physicist James C. Bergquist, a Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) whose research helped usher in the age of optical atomic...

Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

May 5, 2009

By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of...

Micrograph of a prototype NIST detector that will be used to seek B-mode polarization, the signature of the rapid inflation of the universe after the Big Bang.

NIST Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe

May 4, 2009

BOULDER, Colo.—What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built...

trapped beryllium ions in a hexagonal single-plane crystal

NIST Develops Powerful Method of Suppressing Errors in Many Types of Quantum Computers

April 22, 2009

BOULDER, Colo.—Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a technique for efficiently suppressing errors in...

Conference Offers Insight Into Exploration of Nano-sized Electronics

April 21, 2009

New methods for exploring the behavior of the high-performance electronics materials and devices that will shape the future of the electronics industry will be...

NIST Metrology Day Celebrates Measurements in the Market

April 21, 2009

The next time you shop for frozen seafood, and the price per pound seems enticingly low, make sure that you are really getting a full 16 ounces of fish...

Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life

April 21, 2009

Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is right, we may be...

Gregory Rutter Wins Best Thesis Award for CNST Research

April 16, 2009

Dr. Gregory Rutter, an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the CNST, has won a Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology chapter of...

CNST Research Featured in ACS Nano Perspective

April 16, 2009

In a recent report in the journal ACS Nano,* researchers in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group and Electron Physics Group reported their success at precise...

CNST's Daniel Pierce Named Outstanding Referee by the APS

April 16, 2009

Dr. Daniel Pierce of the CNST has been cited as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS). This lifetime APS award was initiated in 2008 "to...

Photo of NIST physicist Jun Ye with his strontium atomic clock

JILA/NIST Scientists Get a Grip on Colliding Fermions to Enhance Atomic Clock Accuracy

April 16, 2009

BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms—a class of antisocial atoms known as...

World's First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces Built

April 7, 2009

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated...

X Marks the Spot: Ions Coldly Go Through NIST Trap Junction

April 7, 2009

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while...

Vibrationally Robust Fiber Laser Frequency Comb

April 1, 2009

Optical frequency combs have been vigorously developed over the past seven years at NIST and elsewhere. They provide a uniquely broadband and coherent optical...

Overhead view of the NIST-Cornell 3-D nanofluidic device showing the different depth levels within the chamber as horizontal bands.

NIST-Cornell Team Builds World's First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces

March 31, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a...

Flatland Physics Probes Mysteries of Superfluidity

March 24, 2009

If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would...

Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

March 24, 2009

Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to...

April Workshop Takes Aim at Obstacles to Nanotech Energy Technologies

March 10, 2009

Most processes governing the generation, conversion, and transport of energy occur at the nanoscale. Exploring the new measurement and materials'...

Researchers Demonstrate Novel 'Quantum Data Buffering' Scheme

February 24, 2009

In a new demonstration of physicists' growing ability to control the "spooky" quantum dynamics phenomenon called entanglement, researchers from the National...

Colorado Governor Ritter Honors NIST Internet Time Service

February 24, 2009

On Feb. 17, Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado presented the 2009 CO-LABS Governor's Awards for Research Impact to scientists from five federal research...

NanoFab Adds New Capbilities

February 24, 2009

The NanoFab (nanoscale fabrication facility) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is expanding its capabilities to serve researchers...

"Dressed" Rubidium Atoms May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing

February 24, 2009

Neutral atoms—having no net electric charge—usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by "dressing them up" with light, researchers at...

NIST/Maryland Researchers Demonstrate 'Quantum Data Buffering' Scheme

February 12, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Pushing the envelope of Albert Einstein's "spooky action at a distance," known as entanglement, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute...

Conference to Focus on Anti-Counterfeiting, Consumer Protection

February 10, 2009

Representatives from business and government agencies concerned with intellectual property rights, particularly those concerning electronic devices, will gather...

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