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Journals

Towards portable vacuum standards

Author(s)
Jay H. Hendricks, Douglas A. Olson
Since the middle of the 17th century, when Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli discovered that a glass tube filled with mercury could be used to measure

Radiation-Based Quantitative Bioimaging at NIST

Author(s)
Lisa R. Karam
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides the physical measurements and standards in a variety of fields, including for ionizing

From the Editor's Desk: Diversity in Publications

Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley
This is an Editorial for the August, 2009 issue of IEEE Microwave Magazine. Kate Remley, the Editor-in-Chief, writes about timely topics for the members of the

Establishment of the SIM Time Scale

Author(s)
J. Mauricio Lopez-Romero, N. Munoz, Michael A. Lombardi
The SIM time and frequency metrology working group has developed a comparison network for the Americas, with the goals of improving metrology in the SIM region

Stylus ion trap for enhanced access and sensing

Author(s)
Robert Maiwald, Gerd Leuchs, Dietrich Leibfried, Joseph W. Britton, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
We experimentally characterized a novel radio-frequency (rf) ion trap geometry formed by two concentric cylinders over a ground plane. These traps allow for

Recent developments in large-scale dimensional metrology

Author(s)
G Peggs, P.G Maropoulos, E.B Hughes, Alistair Forbes, S Robson, M Ziebart, Bala Muralikrishnan
With ever-more demanding requirements for the accurate manufacture of large components, dimensional measuring techniques are becoming progressively more

Demonstrating the Comparability of Certified Reference Materials

Author(s)
David L. Duewer, Katrice A. Lippa, Stephen E. Long, Karen E. Murphy, Katherine E. Sharpless, Lorna T. Sniegoski, Michael J. Welch
Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) enable the meaningful comparison of measurement results over time and place. When CRMs are used to calibrate or verify the

Two-Body Models for Analyzing Complex Impedance

Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Robert D. Horansky, Joel N. Ullom
Complex impedance is an important and widely used technique for characterizing microbolometers and microcalorimeters. Often, complex impedance data from actual

Optimize Noise Filtration through Dynamical Decoupling

Author(s)
Hermann Uys, Michael J. Biercuk, John J. Bollinger
One approach to maintaining phase coherence of qubits through dynamical decoupling consists of applying a sequence of Hahn spin-echo pulses. Recent studies have

A Guide to the RIA Workshop Data Archive

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff
During the course of the Reliable Information Access (RIA) workshop, a data archive was created to hold the outputs of the many experiments being done. This
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