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Winning Numbers

NIST Standard Reference Materials® help people in industry, academia, and government agencies have confidence in their measurements, which is essential to every...

Convective Accelerometer

NIST’s Michael Gaitan and his colleagues patented a new type of acceleration sensor in the late 1990s. Known as the “convective accelerometer,” it uses heated...

Neutrons by the Numbers

After years of research, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and demonstrated a way to count the absolute...

Technical Support

NIST’s nSoft consortium helps product developers solve difficult problems by giving them access to a powerful tool, unlike anything in an industry R&D lab, for...
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