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Steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence from relaxed and strained GaN nanowires grown by catalyst-free molecular-beam epitaxy

December 1, 2008

Gallium nitride (GaN)-based semiconductors have successfully been incorporated into commercial light emitting diodes and commercial laser diodes that operate...

NIST Physicist Wins OSA's First Walther Award

November 25, 2008

NIST physicist David Wineland will receive the inaugural Herbert Walther Award in recognition of his "seminal contributions to quantum information physics and...

Bright Idea Illuminates LED Standards

November 25, 2008

The lack of common measurement methods among light-emitting diode (LED) and lighting manufacturers has affected the commercialization of solid-state lighting...

The 2009 RoboCup Nanosoccer competition will be played on the gold-colored microchip seen through the window of the "world's smallest soccer stadium." The chip is divided into 16 playing fields each the size of a grain of rice.

Let the Games Begin! Nanosoccer at 2009 RoboCup in Austria

November 12, 2008

The World Cup may be two years away, but soccer aficionados can get an early start at satisfying their yen for global competition when the National Institute of...

'Femtomolar Optical Tweezers' May Enable Sensitive Blood Tests

November 12, 2008

Cutting-edge "tweezers" are so sensitive that they can feel the tell-tale tug of tiny concentrations of pathogens in blood samples, yet don't ever need to be...

Cold Atoms Could Replace Hot Gallium in Focused Ion Beams

November 12, 2008

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small...

Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New NIST Optical Technique

October 28, 2008

A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and...

NIST Physicist Honored in 2008 Presidential Rank Awards

October 28, 2008

W illiam R. Ott, deputy director of the NIST Physics Laboratory, has been named as a recipient of the 2008 Presidential Rank Award. The awards recognize...

NIST Visiting Researcher Gregory Rutter Awarded the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award

October 28, 2008

Gregory Rutter, a visiting researcher at NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is the winner of a prestigious student award from the AVS...

NIST Visiting Researcher Young Kuk awarded Inchon "Academy" Prize

October 27, 2008

Dr. Young Kuk, a visiting researcher in NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is the latest recipient one of South Korea's most prestigious...

Gebbie Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

October 14, 2008

Katharine B. Gebbie, director of the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was inducted as a member of the 228th...

Gold Nanostars Outshine the Competition

October 14, 2008

Novel nanoparticles being tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have researchers seeing stars. In a recent paper, NIST scientists...

First Tunable, 'Noiseless' Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications

October 14, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder...

JILA Scientists Create First Dense Gas of Ultracold 'Polar' Molecules

September 18, 2008

Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder), have...

NIST Physicists are Finalists for Service to America Medals

September 16, 2008

Two physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been named finalists for the 2008 Service to America Medals, presented by the...

NSF Physics Frontier Center Created at Joint Quantum Institute

September 16, 2008

The National Science Foundation has awarded the Joint Quantum Institute $12.5 million over five years to create and operate a Physics Frontier Center (PFC) at...

NIST Studies How New Helium Ion Microscope Measures Up

September 3, 2008

Just as test pilots push planes to explore their limits, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are probing the newest...

Physicist David J. Wineland of NIST Boulder Laboratories in Colorado

NIST Physicist Wineland Awarded 2007 National Medal of Science

September 3, 2008

Physicist David J. Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been awarded the 2007 National Medal of Science. Wineland, 64, was...

Students "Surf" for Graphene at NIST

September 1, 2008

More than 120 science, mathematics and engineering college students and recent college graduates were given a chance to ride the next wave in cutting-edge...

NIST Physicist David J. Wineland Awarded 2007 National Medal of Science

August 25, 2008

BOULDER, Colo.—Physicist David J. Wineland of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been awarded the 2007 National...

Stop the Waste: Making Measurements Measure Up to Standards

August 19, 2008

Information standards enable common activities. For instance, bring your laptop anywhere in the world and you will quickly and cheaply find a wireless Internet...

Light Touch: Controlling the Behavior of Quantum Dots

August 19, 2008

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the University of...

New JILA Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases

August 6, 2008

BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder...

Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics

August 6, 2008

Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule--think of a cheerleader's baton--comes slanting in at high speed over a dense liquid, strikes the surface and...

New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases

August 6, 2008

Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated...

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