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A chip-scale atomic beam clock

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Author(s)

Gabriela Martinez, Chao Li, Alexander Staron, John Kitching, Chandra Raman, William McGehee

Abstract

We demonstrate a passively pumped, chip-scale atomic beam clock fabricated using a stack of silicon and glass wafers. The device could additionally serve as a platform for compact atom interferometers and other future quantum sensors.
Citation
Nature Communications
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Journals

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Keywords

atomic beam, atomic clocks, chip-scale atomic devices
Time and frequency, Spectroscopy, Physics and Atomic / molecular / quantum

Citation

Martinez, G. , Li, C. , Staron, A. , Kitching, J. , Raman, C. and McGehee, W. (2023), A chip-scale atomic beam clock, Nature Communications, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935976 (Accessed October 21, 2025)

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Created June 13, 2023
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