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Jeffrey Sherman (Fed)

Jeff Sherman is a Supervisory Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Jeff works to maintain and improve NIST systems that produce and distribute official U.S. time, time-interval, and frequency signals, which are based on an ensemble of atomic clocks and frequency references. Jeff’s research career has centered around high-precision measurements in optical-atomic systems and includes a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington (2007), postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford, and a National Research Council research associateship at NIST.

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Patents (2018-Present)

Depiction of high-efficiency microfabricated spherical RF Paul Ion Trap for trapping single atomic ions.

Spherical Ion Trap and Trapping Ions

NIST Inventors
Jeffrey Sherman , David Hume and Roger Brown
This invention is a new type of spherical RF Paul ion trap with thermal and electrical properties that are favorable for high-accuracy atomic clocks.
Created February 20, 2019, Updated April 11, 2023
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