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Richard W. Bukowski, R P. Fleming, Jeffrey Tubbs, Christopher Marrion, Jill Dirksen, Chris Duke, Debbie Prince, Lee F. Richardson, Dave Beste, Dottie Stanlaske
Cosputtered Amorphous NbxSi1-x has been developed as a barrier material for Josephson junction array circuits. This material is not only promising as a normal
NIST now offers a new remmote calibration service desinged to assist laboratories who maintain an accurate local time standard. The service monitors the local
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is a private standards-setting body created in 1820 by practitioners who wished to promote the quality of therapeutic
James L. Hanssen, E Dakin, Jabez J. McClelland, M Jacka
The authors describe a new method for creating a high quality focused ion beam using laser-cooled neutral atoms in a magneto-optical trap as an ion source. They
NIST now offers a new remote calibration service designed to assist laboratories who maintain a accurate local time standard. The service monitors the local
F Levi, Jon H. Shirley, Steven R. Jefferts, Davide Calonico, Thomas P. Heavner, Dai Yu
In atomic fountain style primary frequency standards the atoms are ideally subjected to microwave fields resonant with the ground-state hyperfine splitting only
Ying-ju Wang, Matt Eardley, Svenja A. Knappe, John Moreland, Leo W. Hollberg, John E. Kitching
We demonstrate a direct resonant interaction between the mechanical motion of a mesoscopic resonator and the spin degree of freedom of a sample of neutral atoms
Paul D. Hale, C. M. Wang, Dylan Williams, Kate Remley, Joshua Wepman
In this paper, a method of correcting both random and systematic timebase errors using measurements of only two quadrature sinusoids made simultaneously with a
A Van de Walle, Benjamin P. Burton, Ursula R. Kattner
Because of their wide direct band-gaps, and excellent mechanical properties [1], wurtzite structure AlN (6.28 eV, [2]), GaN (3.5 eV, [3]) and InN (1.89 eV [4]
Herbert S. Bennett, Andrew Dienstfrey, Thomas Fuerst, Lawrence T. Hudson, Tammy L. Oreskovic, John Shepherd
This paper reports and discusses the results of the recent ISCD-NIST USMS Workshop on Standards and Measurements for Assessing Bone Health. The purpose of the