Thermometry metrology

News and Updates

Microwave Detectors and Multiplexing: NIST Researchers Help Astronomers Examine the Early Universe

January 24, 2024

Perched atop a high plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a long-awaited observatory is beginning to take shape: the largest suite of ground-based telescopes

Working Their Thermal MagIC: Digging Into the Details of an Ambitious New ‘Thermometry Camera’

September 26, 2023

Thermometers can do a lot of things: measure the temperature at the center of your perfectly braised chicken or tell you whether to keep your child home from

Detangling Light-based Thermometers with Combs

August 29, 2023

Photonic thermometers, which measure temperature using light, have the potential to revolutionize temperature measurement by being faster, smaller, and more

Projects and Programs

Platform for Realizing Integrated Molecule Experiments (PRIME)

Ongoing

PRIME (Platform for Realizing Integrated Molecule Experiments) aims to establish primary, quantum-based realizations for both the radiometric watt and kelvin

Cryogenics

Ongoing

Low temperatures suppress noise and make quantum phenomena accessible. As a result, cryogenics play a crucial role in precision measurements.

Illustration of Thermal MagIC assembly with coils

Thermal MagIC: An SI-Traceable Method for 3D Thermal Magnetic Imaging and Control

Ongoing

We are developing a method to measure and regulate temperature throughout a three dimensional volume with Systeme International (SI)-traceable Thermal Magnetic

Thermometry

Ongoing

The NIST Thermodynamic Metrology Group maintains and develops national standards of temperature (in the range 0.65 K to 2011 K), and supports calibration of all

Publications

Optical n(p, T_90) measurement suite 1: He, Ar, and N_2

November 23, 2023

Author(s)

Patrick Egan, Yuanchao Yang

An n(p, T90) measurement suite is reported for the gases helium, argon, and nitrogen. The methodology is optical refractive-index gas metrology, operating at

Small Corrections to 1989 NIST Constant-Volume Gas Thermometry Data

November 17, 2023

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey

Constant-volume gas thermometry data published in 1989 for the difference between the thermodynamic temperature and the International Practical Temperature

Ab initio Calculation of Fluid Properties for Precision Metrology

September 12, 2023

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Christof Gaiser, Roberto Maria Gavioso, Allan H. Harvey, Robert Hellmann, Bogumil Jeziorski, Karsten Meier, Michael R. Moldover, Laurent Pitre, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Robin Underwood

Recent advances regarding the interplay between ab initio calculations and metrology are reviewed, with particular emphasis on gas-based techniques used for

Evaluating the thermal performance of perovskite SrSnO3 field effect transistors

July 13, 2023

Author(s)

Bivek Bista, Prafful Golani, Fengdeng Liu, Tristan Truttmann, Georges Pavlidis, Andrea Centrone, Bharat Jalan, Steven Koester

Given the ever increasing, global electricity consumption, improving the efficiency and reliability of high-power electronics is of paramount importance. Ultra

Tools and Instruments

Apparatus for the Measurement of High Temperature Thermoelectric Transport Properties

Description The Seebeck coefficient is a widely measured transport property that provides fundamental information on charge carrier transport and the electronic

Awards

2012 Arthur S. Flemming Award - Michal J. Chojnacky

For her work in applying research in temperature measurement to public health clinics and primary care physician offices to help ensure the