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Thomas W. Bartel, Ricky L. Seifarth, Simone L. Yaniv
The facilities, instrumentation, and procedures currently used at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for force measurement services are...
Paul S. Julienne, Kevin Jones, Paul D. Lett, William D. Phillips, Eite Tiesinga, U Volz, Carl J. Williams
Cold collisions between trapped atoms are very important in the context of Bose-Einstein condensation. The meaning of the scattering length, and its...
Gerald T. Fraser, Angela R. Hight Walker, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Uwe Arp, K. K. Lehmann
The temporal profile and frequency spectrum of the microwave emission from the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility [SURF II] electron storage ring at the...
P T. Purtscher, B Igarashi, Donna C. Hurley, K W. Hollman
This paper describes the application of a variety of methods to the nondesctructive characterization (NDC) of microstructure in hardened steels. The...
Tcl is a command language library for embedding into other applications. It is often touted as the best language for this purpose and it is only natural that...
The NIST Identifier Collaboration Service (NICS) is a proposed service to encourage collaboration among researchers and developers when choosing identifiers...
T Kuriyama, F Kuriyama, Michael A. Lewis, Ray Radebaugh
This paper describes the experimental apparatus for the measurement of heat conduction through stacked screens as well as some experimental results taken with...
The design and analysis of many products is performed with imprecisely known parameters, relationships, and environmental conditions. This is especially true...
Richard M. Silver, James E. Potzick, Fredric Scire, Christopher J. Evans, Michael L. McGlauflin, Edward A. Kornegay, Robert D. Larrabee
A new optical alignment artifact under development at NIST is described. This structure, referred to as a stepped microcone, is designed to assist users and...
The utility of the sharpness concept for use on metrology scanning electron microscopes (SEM) as implemented through the Fourier transform technique has been...