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Search Patents by William McGehee

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Depiction of miniaturized atomic beam source. (a) Schematic of the Rb beam source. (b) Image of assembled device. (c) Rb fluorescence spectrum measuring the transverse velocity distribution of the atomic beam, and Rb absorption spectrum measuring the Rb vapor density feeding the channel array. A saturated absorption spectrum from a natural abundance Rb cell is included for reference.

Chip-Scale Atomic Beam System

NIST Inventors
Elizabeth Donley , John Kitching and William McGehee
The invention is a device for creating a collimated atomic beam in an evacuated vacuum package fabricated from lithographically defined or machined, planar structures and with components to source atomic vapor and passive pumps to maintain vacuum conditions. We have developed a chip-scale system for
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