News in PML

09/27/12
  • PML central role in T-and-E standards

    • 09/19/12
  • microwave microscope

  • terahertz spectroscopy

    • 09/14/12
  • Jacob Taylor, NIST Physicist, Receives Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal for Public Service

    • 09/07/12
  • The World's Most Stable Laser

    • 09/05/12
  • NIST ‘Hybrid Metrology’ Method Could Improve Computer Chips

    • 08/29/12
  • PML on Mars: Far-out Thermal Calibration

  • Simulating the Sun for Photovoltaic Research

    • 08/24/12
  • Disseminating the Kilogram, No Strings Attached

    • 08/08/12
  • NIST Focuses on Testing Standards to Support Lab on a Chip Commercialization

  • NIST's Speedy Ions Could Add Zip to Quantum Computers

  • PML Uses Combined Optical Techniques to Provide Important Answers on Graphene Structures

  • Seeing the Light with NIST's New Noiseless Optical Amplifier

  • Shelling Out Evidence: NIST Ballistic Standard Helps Tie Guns to Criminals

    • 07/27/12
  • New Performance Standards for Public-Safety RF Devices

    • 07/26/12
  • Probing Atoms' Disorderly Behavior

    • 07/23/12
  • New SRM for Bullet Casings

    • 07/11/12
  • JILA Named 'Physics Historic Site' on its 50th Anniversary

    • 06/27/12
  • 'Tuning' Graphene Drums Might Turn Conductors to Semiconductors

  • NIST Goes the Distance for the Olympics

  • Not-So-Precious: Stripping Gold From AFM Probes Allows Better Measurement of Picoscale Forces

    • 06/19/12
  • First Observation of the Hall Effect in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

    • 06/14/12
  • JILA Frequency Comb Helps Evaluate Novel Biomedical Decontamination Method

    • 06/12/12
  • NIST Effort Could Improve High-Tech Medical Scanners

  • NIST Launches New Website to Educate Industry About Alternatives to Mercury Thermometers

    • 06/07/12
  • Laser Radiometry: Powering Up

  • MEMS Reference Material Released

    • 06/04/12
  • Looking At and Into the Ultra-Small

    • 05/17/12
  • Improving Safety Measures and Measures of Safety for World Metrology Day 2012

    • 05/10/12
  • New Point for Dew Point

    • 05/08/12
  • New Vacuum Calibration System: Better, Faster, and Cheaper

    • 05/04/12
  • Teaching the Next Generation of Scientists: PML Reaches out at USA Science and Engineering Festival

    • 05/03/12
  • Petroleum Volume: Getting Calibrations in the Can

    • 05/02/12
  • First Light: NIST Researchers Develop New Way to Generate Superluminal Pulses

  • Light Touch Keeps a Grip on Delicate Nanoparticles

    • 05/01/12
  • Beaming Up on the Way to Space

    • 04/25/12
  • NIST Physicists Benchmark Quantum Simulator with Hundreds of Qubits

    • 04/19/12
  • NIST Mini-sensor Measures Magnetic Activity in Human Brain

    • 04/17/12
  • JILA Superradiant Laser Is 'A New Way of Lasing'

  • Two New Advanced Laboratories Open at NIST Boulder and JILA

    • 04/11/12
  • New laboratories for world-renowned science

    • 04/04/12
  • JILA Team Demonstrates 'A New Way of Lasing': A 'Superradiant' Laser

  • Micromechanical Mirror Performs Under Pressure

  • New Detector Design Improves Gamma-rays Measurements

    • 03/30/12
  • First, Fast and Faster

    • 03/23/12
  • Hyperspectral Imaging: Shedding New Light on Wound Healing

    • 03/20/12
  • 'Nanoslinky': A Novel Nanofluidic Technology for DNA Manipulation and Measurement

  • NIST Announces $2.6 Million in Funding for Novel Semiconductor Research

    • 03/06/12
  • NIST Measurements May Help Optimize Organic Solar Cells

  • NIST/CU 'Star Comb' Joins Quest for Earthlike Planets

    • 02/22/12
  • Argon Cleaning Helps Trapped Ions Chill Out

  • The Great Gravity Showdown

    • 02/21/12
  • Celebrating Another Golden Year in Legal Metrology with Weights and Measures Week 2012

  • NIST Reveals Switching Mechanism in Promising Computer Memory Device

  • Shopper's Special: NIST Seeking Consumer, Industry Input on Unit Pricing Labels

    • 02/07/12
  • Good Timing: NIST/CU Collaboration Adds Timing Capability to Living Cell Sensors

    • 02/06/12
  • Laying the Groundwork for 3D Stacked Integrated Circuits

    • 02/01/12
  • New Colors: JILA Scientists Confirm First 'Frequency Comb' to Probe Ultraviolet Wavelengths

    • 01/26/12
  • PML's Pernstich Develops Open-Source Software to Automate Test Equipment

  • Progress and Promise in DIAL LIDAR

  • Toward a Global Microwave Standard

    • 01/24/12
  • Cool Nano Loudspeakers Could Make for Better MRIs, Quantum Computers

    • 01/10/12
  • NIST Technologies Contribute to Top Science Stories of 2011

    • 12/20/11
  • NIST Sensor Improvement Brings Analysis Method into Mainstream

  • Prototype NIST Device Measures Absolute Optical Power in Fiber at Nanowatt Levels

    • 12/08/11
  • Atoms Dressed with Light Show New Interactions, Could Reveal Way to Observe Enigmatic Particle

    • 12/07/11
  • PML Researchers Create Tool for 'Circuit-Aware' Reliability Testing

  • UV Lithography: Going to Extremes

    • 12/06/11
  • NIST Requests Funding Proposals for Projects in Precision Measurement

  • Powerful NIST Detectors on Hawaiian Telescope to Probe Origins of Stars, Planets and Galaxies

    • 11/23/11
  • Bright Future for GaN Nanowires

    • 11/22/11
  • Original NIST Campus in D.C. Designated 'Physics Historic Site'

    • 11/14/11
  • NBS Physics Site Honored

    • 11/10/11
  • Adding Up Photons with a TES

    • 11/02/11
  • Redefining the SI Units

  • Safe Fluids for Jet Engine Texts

    • 10/26/11
  • NIST Handbook 156 - 2012 Edition

  • NIST Handbook 44 - 2012 Edition

    • 10/25/11
  • Future 'Comb on a Chip': NIST's Compact Frequency Comb Could Go Places

  • NIST Handbook 130 - 2012 Edition

  • Quantum Computer Components 'Coalesce' to 'Converse'

    • 10/13/11
  • Magnetic Attraction: NIST/CU Microchip Demonstrates Concept of 'MRAM for Biomolecules'

    • 09/27/11
  • All Time, All the Time: Improving NIST Radio

  • Metric Week Begins October 9!

  • NIST Polishes Method for Creating Tiny Diamond Machines

    • 09/23/11
  • Traveling SIRCUS Tests Satellite Sensors

    • 09/22/11
  • NIST gets HIP: a new method for testing optical imaging sensors

    • 09/20/11
  • PML Develops Graphene Fabrication Capability

  • Quantum Mechanics at Work

    • 09/14/11
  • Atomic Theory of Lithium

    • 08/30/11
  • Ion Armageddon: Measuring the Impact Energy of Highly Charged Ions

  • NIST Achieves Record-Low Error Rate for Quantum Information Processing with One Qubit

  • NIST/JQI Researcher Ian Spielman to Receive 2011 Junior BEC Award

    • 08/22/11
  • Better 'Photon Loops' May Be Key to Computer and Physics Advances

    • 08/16/11
  • Kinder, Gentler Cell Capture Method Could Aid Medical Research

  • NIST Demonstrates First Quantum 'Entanglement' of Ions Using Microwaves

  • NIST Tests Help Ensure Reliable Wireless Alarm Beacons for First Responders

    • 08/10/11
  • NIST Physicists 'Entangle' Two Atoms Using Microwaves for the First Time

    • 07/19/11
  • Piece of Cake: Arrays of Long Nanotubes May Help Measure Terahertz Laser Power

  • The Constants They Are A Changin': NIST Posts Latest Adjustments to Fundamental Figures

    • 07/06/11
  • A Cool Beat: NIST Micro-Drum Chilled to Quantum Ground State

  • Cooler Than Ever: NIST Mechanical Micro-Drum Chilled to Quantum Ground State

  • NIST Prototype 'Optics Table on a Chip' Places Microwave Photon in Two Colors at Once

    • 06/30/11
  • Key Ingredient: Change in Material Boosts Prospects of Ultrafast Single-photon Detector

    • 06/27/11
  • A Quiet Phase: NIST Optical Tools Produce Ultra-low-noise Microwave Signals

    • 06/22/11
  • Compact High-Temperature Superconducting Cable Wins 'R&D 100' Award

    • 06/07/11
  • National Conference on Weights and Measures Annual Meeting Set for July 17-21, 2011

  • NIST 'Catch and Release' Program Could Improve Nanoparticle Safety Assessment

  • NIST Tunes 'Metasurface' with Fluid in New Concept for Sensing and Chemistry

    • 05/24/11
  • Broadening Uses Put MEMS Technology on the Map(s)

  • NIST, AIP to Make Semiconductor Research Freely Available Online

    • 05/18/11
  • NIST 'Nanowire' Measurements Could Improve Computer Memory

    • 05/10/11
  • Drive Test: NIST Super-stable Laser Shines in Minivan Experiment

  • NIST's Charles Clark Named Co-Director of the Joint Quantum Institute

  • NIST/JILA Physicist Jun Ye Elected to National Academy of Sciences

  • The Secret Behind NIST's New Gas Detector? Chirp Before Sniffing

    • 05/06/11
  • New Calculations on Blackbody Energy Set the Stage for Clocks with Unprecedented Accuracy

    • 04/26/11
  • Good Eggs: NIST Nanomagnets Offer Food for Thought About Computer Memories

    • 04/12/11
  • NIST/JILA Physicist Wins Optical Society's Meggers Award

  • Sharpened Focus: Improving the Numbers, Utility of Medical Imaging

    • 03/30/11
  • A Measurement First: NIST 'Noise Thermometry' System Measures Boltzmann Constant

  • Celebrating Superconductivity: NIST Debuts Online Museum of Quantum Voltage Standards

  • Charge It: Neutral Atoms Made to Act Like Electrically Charged Particles

  • The First Non-Trivial Atom Circuit: Progress towards an Atom SQUID

    • 03/18/11
  • Correction to NIST HB 130 Uniform Engine Fuels and Automotive Lubricants Regulation

    • 03/15/11
  • First Demonstration of 'Spin-Orbit Coupling' in Ultracold Atomic Gases

  • NIST to Cosponsor Conference in France on Nanoelectronics Metrology

  • NIST’s Microscopic Drum Could Link Electromagnetic, Mechanical Motion at Quantum Level

    • 03/11/11
  • Introducing NIST Handbook 155, Weights and Measures Program Requirements: A Handbook for the Weights and Measures Administrator

    • 03/09/11
  • NIST Electromechanical Circuit Sets Record Beating Microscopic 'Drum'

    • 03/02/11
  • JQI Physicists Demonstrate Coveted 'Spin-Orbit Coupling' for the First Time in Ultracold Atomic Gases

    • 03/01/11
  • NIST 'Quantum Tuning Forks' Demonstrate Directly Coupling of Vibrating Ions

  • NIST, Food Marketing Institute Co-Host Webinar on Ensuring Accurate Net Weights in Retail

    • 02/23/11
  • Quantum Hot Potato: NIST Researchers Entice Two Atoms to Swap Smallest Energy Units

    • 02/22/11
  • Etched Quantum Dots Shape Up as Single Photon Emitters, NIST Tests Show

    • 02/15/11
  • Crowding Out Collisions: Close Quarters Boost Atomic Clock's Accuracy

  • Here Comes the Sun: NIST Radio Station WWVH in Hawaii Adds Solar Power

    • 02/10/11
  • Compact High-Temperature Superconducting Cables Demonstrated at NIST

    • 02/09/11
  • Meet Our Newest Staff Member!

    • 02/03/11
  • Quantum Quirk: JILA Scientists Pack Atoms Together to Prevent Collisions in Atomic Clock

    • 02/01/11
  • End of an Era: NIST to Cease Calibrating Mercury Thermometers

    • 01/19/11
  • NIST Advances Single Photon Management for Quantum Computers

  • Stretching, the Truth: JILA Biophysicists Help Unravel DNA Stretching Mystery

    • 01/18/11
  • New Wave: JILA Develops Efficient Source of Terahertz Radiation

    • 01/05/11
  • Extracting Cellular 'Engines' May Aid in Understanding Mitochondrial Diseases

  • New Time Widget Puts Accurate Clocks on Web Pages

  • NIST Telescope Calibration May Help Explain Mystery of Universe's Expansion

    • 11/09/10
  • AFM Positioning: Shining Light on a Needle in a Haystack

    • 10/26/10
  • 'Si' on the New SI: NIST Backs Proposal for a Revamped System of Measurement Units

  • NIST Ships First Programmable AC/DC 10-Volt Standard

    • 10/13/10
  • Popular Science Magazine Names Spielman One of Science’s ‘Brilliant Ten’

  • JILA Unveils Improved 'Molecular Fingerprinting' for Trace Gas Detection

  • NIST Mini-Sensor Traces Faint Magnetic Signature of Human Heartbeat

    • 09/28/10
  • Metric Week Begins 10/10/10!

  • NIST 'Vision Science Facility' Aims for Lighting Revolution

  • NIST Clock Experiment Demonstrates That Your Head is Older Than Your Feet

    • 09/14/10
  • New Wave: Spin Soliton Could Be a Hit in Cell Phone Communication

    • 08/31/10
  • Glasperlenspiel: NIST Scientists Propose New Test for Gravity

  • NIST Researchers Create 'Quantum Cats' Made of Light

  • NIST Ultraviolet Source Helps NASA Spacecraft Measure the Origins of Space Weather

  • The Perfect Nanocube: Precise Control of Size, Shape, and Composition

  • Yikes! NIST Sensor Measures Yoctonewton Forces Fast

    • 08/17/10
  • Extreme Darkness: Carbon Nanotube Forest Covers NIST’s Ultra-dark Detector

  • From Hydrogen Fuel Stations to Bean Counters, NIST Weights and Measures Works to Meet Market Needs

    • 08/03/10
  • Beware the Dim Laser Pointer: NIST Researchers Measure High Infrared Power Levels from Some Green Lasers

  • JILA Frequency Comb System Detects Gas Impurities to Aid Semiconductor Manufacturing

  • NIST Nanofluidic 'Multi-tool' Separates and Sizes Nanoparticles

    • 07/21/10
  • Nano 'Pin Art': NIST Arrays Are Step Toward Mass Production of Nanowires

  • NIST Nanoscale Dimensioning Technique Wins R&D 100 Award

  • Some Like It Hot: How to Heat a 'Nano Bathtub' the JILA Way

    • 07/06/10
  • JILA Team Finds New Parallel Between Cold Gases and ‘Hot’ Superconductors

  • Novel Ion Trap with Optical Fiber Could Link Atoms and Light in Quantum Networks

    • 06/23/10
  • Five NIST Scientists Win Flemming Awards

  • NIST Team Advances in Translating Language of Nanopores

  • Proposed Rules Would Allow Metric Only Labeling for Some Products

    • 06/09/10
  • Liposome-Hydrogel Hybrids: No Toil, No Trouble for Stronger Bubbles

  • NIST/JILA 'Dark Pulse Laser' Produces Bursts of … Almost Nothing

    • 05/25/10
  • Robots Big and Small Showcase Their Skills at NIST Alaskan Events

  • Time Is Money: SIM Time Network Has Far-Reaching Benefits

    • 05/14/10
  • CMIL Meeting

    • 05/11/10
  • Meet Phannie, NIST's Standard 'Phantom' for Calibrating MRI Machines

  • NIST Physicist Named Outstanding Young Scientist of 2010 by Maryland Academy of Sciences

  • Two NIST Researchers Nominated for Service to America Medals

    • 04/28/10
  • It's Electrifying: JILA Scientists Use Electric Fields to Control Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Molecules

    • 04/27/10
  • Lollipops and Ice Fishing: Molecular Rulers Used to Probe Nanopores

  • National Conference on Weights and Measures 95th Annual Meeting Agenda Released

  • NIST Develops 'Dimmer Switch' for Superconducting Quantum Computing

  • NIST, Maryland Researchers COMMAND a Better Class of Liposomes

  • Teams Gearing Up for Two NIST Robotic Competitions in Alaska

  • To Improve Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Good Medicine Is a Polymer Pill

    • 04/13/10
  • NIST Detector Counts Photons With 99 Percent Efficiency

    • 03/30/10
  • Good Times! Get to Know Your Radio-Controlled Clock

  • NIST Racetrack Ion Trap is a Contender in Quantum Computing Quest

  • Paintable Electronics? NIST Studies Spray-On Manufacturing of Transistors

    • 03/23/10
  • EEEL Sponsors INTEL VP’s Visit to NIST

    • 03/02/10
  • Call Forwarding: New NIST Procedure Could Speed Cell Phone Testing

  • NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Develop New Climate Satellites

    • 02/19/10
  • EEEL develops all-fiber photon pair source with record low noise and high brightness

    • 02/16/10
  • JILA Scientists Demonstrate First Controlled Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Molecules

  • NIST’s Second 'Quantum Logic Clock' is Now World’s Most Precise Clock

    • 02/11/10
  • Seeing the Quantum in Chemistry: JILA Scientists Control Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Molecules

    • 02/04/10
  • NIST's Second 'Quantum Logic Clock Based on Aluminum Ion is Now World's Most Precise Clock

    • 01/26/10
  • Engineered Metamaterials Enable Remarkably Small Antennas

  • Proper Vaccine Refrigeration Vital to Putting Disease on Ice

  • Stacking the Deck: Single Photons Observed at Seemingly Faster-than-Light Speeds

    • 01/12/10
  • NIST Quantum Computing Research Among Top Stories of 2009

    • 12/15/09
  • Deadline Extended for Entering NIST Microrobotics Challenge

  • Everlasting Quantum Wave: NIST Physicists Predict New Form of Soliton in Ultracold Gases

  • JQI Researchers Create 'Synthetic Magnetic Fields' for Neutral Atoms

  • New Automated Technique with Online Verification Eases Network Analyzer Calibration

  • NIST Team Demystifies Utility of Power Factor Correction Devices

  • Web Site Highlights 50 Years of NIST Contributions to Laser Science

    • 11/17/09
  • Time Magazine Names JQI Work Among Year’s Best Inventions

  • JQI Researchers Create Entangled Photons from Quantum Dots

  • NIST Demonstrates 'Universal' Programmable Quantum Processor

  • Small Nanoparticles Bring Big Improvement to Medical Imaging

    • 11/16/09
  • NIST Demonstrates 'Universal' Programmable Quantum Processor for Quantum Computers

    • 11/03/09
  • NIST, CU to Build Instrument to Help Search for Earth-like Planets

    • 10/29/09
  • Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' To Display Visible 'Teeth'

    • 10/22/09
  • EEEL’s New Optical Performance Monitoring of Polarization Impairment in Optical Fiber Communication, Oct 2009

    • 10/20/09
  • Is Your Microrobot Up for the (NIST) Challenge?

  • NIST Physicist David Wineland to Share 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics

  • NIST Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

  • Scientists Create NICE Solution to Pneumonia Vaccine Testing Problems

    • 10/06/09
  • New NIST Method Reveals All You Need to Know About ‘Waveforms’

  • Webinars on Planning for Smart Grid Panel Announced

    • 09/22/09
  • Diamonds May Be the Ultimate MRI Probe, Say Quantum Physicists

  • New Nanochemistry Technique Encases Single Molecules in Microdroplets

  • NIST Updates Popular Guide to Radio-Controlled Clocks

    • 09/08/09
  • High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

  • NIST Calculations May Improve Temperature Measures for Microfluidics

    • 09/01/09
  • Applying Neural Networks

    • 08/25/09
  • Hankering for Molecular Electronics? Grab the New NIST Sandwich

  • Penetrating Insights: NIST Airframe Tests Help Ensure Better Shielding for Flight Instruments

    • 08/11/09
  • NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Computation Processing

  • Novel Temperature Calibration Improves NIST Microhotplate Technology

  • Ytterbium Gains Ground in Quest for Next-Generation Atomic Clocks

    • 08/07/09
  • Novel Laser Attenuator

    • 08/06/09
  • NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Step Toward Building Quantum Computers

    • 07/28/09
  • NIST Physicist Cited as 'Federal Player of the Week'

    • 07/14/09
  • Physicists Find Way to Control Individual Bits in Quantum Computers

    • 07/01/09
  • Uncertainty Analysis for Pulse Parameters

    • 06/30/09
  • NIST Develops Novel Ion Trap for Sensing Force and Light

  • NIST YouTube Channel Features Ultraprecise Measurement with Lasers

    • 06/16/09
  • Nanosoccer Robots Ready to Compete in Upcoming RoboCup Games

  • NIST Discovers How Strain at Grain Boundaries Suppresses High-Temperature Superconductivity

  • Nonstick and Laser-safe Gold Aids Laser Trapping of Biomolecules

  • Shape Matters in the Case of Cobalt Nanoparticles

    • 06/03/09
  • NIST Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement in Mechanical System

    • 06/02/09
  • Memory with a Twist: NIST Develops a Flexible Memristor

  • NIST’s LIDAR May Offer Peerless Precision in Remote Measurements

    • 06/01/09
  • High-Order Coherences of Chaotic and Coherent Light

    • 05/20/09
  • NIST Engineers Discover Fundamental Flaw in Transistor Noise Theory

    • 05/05/09
  • New Nanotube Coating Enables Novel Laser Power Meter

  • NIST Physicist James Bergquist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

  • NIST Physicists Win European and Optics Society Awards

  • NIST Super-Sensors to Measure ‘Signature’ of Inflationary Universe

  • Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

    • 05/04/09
  • NIST Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe

    • 04/22/09
  • NIST Develops Powerful Method of Suppressing Errors in Many Types of Quantum Computers

    • 04/21/09
  • Conference Offers Insight Into Exploration of Nano-sized Electronics

  • Measurement of ‘Forbidden’ Collisions Could Improve Atomic Clock Accuracy

  • NIST Metrology Day Celebrates Measurements in the Market

  • Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life

    • 04/16/09
  • JILA/NIST Scientists Get a Grip on Colliding Fermions to Enhance Atomic Clock Accuracy

    • 04/07/09
  • World’s First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces Built

  • X Marks the Spot: Ions Coldly Go Through NIST Trap Junction

    • 04/01/09
  • Vibrationally Robust Frequency Comb

    • 03/31/09
  • NIST-Cornell Team Builds World's First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces -- Chamber Separates Nanoparticles Like a 'Coin Sorter'

    • 03/24/09
  • Flatland Physics Probes Mysteries of Superfluidity

  • Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

    • 03/10/09
  • NIST Time and Frequency Metrology Seminar to be held June 2-5

    • 03/02/09
  • Photoluminescence from GaN Nanowires

    • 02/24/09
  • Colorado Governor Ritter Honors NIST Internet Time Service

  • Cross-Dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing

  • Random Antenna Arrays Boost Emergency Communications

  • Researchers Demonstrate Novel ‘Quantum Data Buffering’ Scheme

    • 02/12/09
  • NIST/Maryland Researchers Demonstrate 'Quantum Data Buffering' Scheme -- 'Delayed Quantum Image' Potentially Useful for Quantum Computers

    • 02/10/09
  • Conference to Focus on Anti-Counterfeiting, Consumer Protection

    • 01/27/09
  • NIST Physicist Deborah Jin to Receive Sigma Xi's Top Honor

    • 01/13/09
  • New Tool Gives Researchers a Glimpse of Biomolecules in Motion

  • NIST Helps Preserve the 500-year-old Waldseemüller Map

  • Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms

    • 12/23/08
  • Cracking a Tough Nut for the Semiconductor Industry

  • Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests

  • JILA Story Makes Physics 'Top Ten' List

  • Two NIST Physicists Win 2007 PECASE Honors

  • Wherefore a Leap Second?

    • 11/25/08
  • Bright Idea Illuminates LED Standards

  • NIST Physicist Wins OSA’s First Walther Award

    • 11/12/08
  • ‘Femtomolar Optical Tweezers’ May Enable Sensitive Blood Tests

  • Let the Games Begin! Nanosoccer at 2009 RoboCup in Austria

    • 10/28/08
  • Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New NIST Optical Technique

  • NIST Physicist Honored in 2008 Presidential Rank Awards

    • 10/14/08
  • First Tunable, ‘Noiseless’ Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications

  • Gebbie Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Gold Nanostars Outshine the Competition

  • New Report on NIST Tests of Wireless Environment in Auto Factories

    • 10/01/08
  • JILA Scientists Create First Dense Gas of Ultracold ‘Polar’ Molecules

    • 09/18/08
  • JILA Scientists Create First Dense Gas of Ultracold 'Polar' Molecules

    • 09/16/08
  • NIST Physicists are Finalists for Service to America Medals

  • NSF Physics Frontier Center Created at Joint Quantum Institute

    • 09/03/08
  • NIST Physicist Wineland Awarded 2007 National Medal of Science

  • NIST Studies How New Helium Ion Microscope Measures Up

    • 08/19/08
  • Light Touch: Controlling the Behavior of Quantum Dots

  • Stop the Waste: Making Measurements Measure Up to Standards

    • 08/06/08
  • New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases

  • Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics

    • 07/09/08
  • NIST Assists in Solar Stake-Out to Improve Space Weather Forecasts

  • R&D 100 Award for New NIST/UMD Neutron Detector

    • 06/24/08
  • ‘Electron Trapping’ May Impact Future Microelectronics Measurements

  • Exposing the Sensitivity of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists

  • Micromagnets Show Promise as Colorful 'Smart Tags' for MRI

  • Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images

  • Standards Set for Energy-Conserving LED Lighting

    • 06/12/08
  • Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images -- Convenient, Versatile Technique Could Provide New Tool for Quantum Information, Better Optical Measurements

    • 06/10/08
  • ‘Nanoglassblowing’ Seen as Boon to Study of Individual Molecules

  • Everything You Want To Know About SI (But Were Afraid to Ask)

  • NIST’s Novel ‘Noise Thermometry’ May Help Redefine International Unit of Temperature

    • 05/28/08
  • Learn About 'NIST and Nanosoccer' from New Web Site and Video

  • NIST Staff Honored for Technology Transfer

    • 05/13/08
  • Emergency Links: NIST Identifies ‘Sweet Spot’ for Radios in Tunnels

  • NIST Offers U.S. Interpretations of Recent SI (Metric) Changes

  • Public Invited to See Nanosoccer Robots in Action in Pittsburgh

  • Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets

    • 04/29/08
  • High-Flying Electrons May Provide New Test of Quantum Theory

  • Two New Honors for NIST Physicists

    • 04/15/08
  • ‘Nanodrop’ Test Tubes Created with a Flip of a Switch

  • NIST Micro Sensor and Micro Fridge Make Cool Pair

  • Prototype Terahertz Imager Promises Biochem Advances

    • 03/18/08
  • Loopy Photons Clarify ’Spookiness‘ of Quantum Physics

  • New NIST Detector Can ‘See’ Single Neutrons Over Broad Range

  • NIST 'Quantum Logic Clock' Rivals Mercury Ion as World's Most Accurate Clock

  • NIST Finds ‘Metafilms’ Can Shrink Radio, Radar Devices

  • NIST Team Proves Bridge from Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible

  • Stunt Doubles: Ultracold Atoms Could Replicate the Electron ‘Jitterbug’

    • 03/14/08
  • A Sub-femtosecond Stop Watch for ‘Photon Finish’ Races

    • 03/06/08
  • NIST 'Quantum Logic Clock' Rivals Mercury Ion as World's Most Accurate Clock

    • 03/05/08
  • Good Vibrations Probe Innards of Molecular Electronic Junctions

  • NIST Mini Sensor May ‘Change the Way We Live’

    • 02/19/08
  • ‘NMR on a Chip’ Features NIST Magnetic Mini-Sensor

  • Directed Self-Ordering of Organic Molecules for Electronic Devices

  • New Strontium Atomic Clock at JILA is ‘Best in Class’

  • Optical 'Frequency Comb' Can Detect the Breath of Disease

    • 01/23/08
  • JILA Solves Problem of Quantum Dot ‘Blinking’

  • NIST Radio Station WWVH Gets Antenna Makeover

    • 01/08/08
  • NIST Reference Materials Are 'Gold Standard' for Bio-Nanotech Research

  • Radioactive 'Understudy' May Aid Medical Imaging, Drug Development

    • 12/12/07
  • NIST Helps Beam Time to TV Viewers in the Middle East

    • 11/27/07
  • 'High Q' NIST Nanowires May be Practical Oscillators

  • NIST Announces First Observation of 'Persistent Flow' in a Gas

    • 11/08/07
  • Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria

  • Micro Microwave Does Pinpoint Cooking for Miniaturized Labs

  • Mini Magnetic Sensor May Have Biomedical, Security Applications

    • 10/25/07
  • NIST Physicist Honored for Measuring Forces between Ultra-cool Atoms

  • NIST Staff Honored in 2007 Presidential Rank Awards

    • 10/11/07
  • New Quantum Dot Transistor Counts Individual Photons

  • NIST Light Source Illuminates Fusion Power Diagnostics

    • 09/27/07
  • ‘Dead Time’ Limits Quantum Cryptography Speeds

  • NIST Debuts Superconducting Quantum Computing Cable

    • 09/13/07
  • 'Radio Wave Cooling' Offers New Twist on Laser Cooling

    • 08/30/07
  • JILA Physicist is Finalist for Service to America Medal

    • 08/16/07
  • Nanoscale Blasting Adjusts Resistance in Magnetic Sensors

  • New NIST Calibration Service 'Arms' Phasors for More Reliable Power Grids

    • 08/03/07
  • Nano-layer of Ruthenium Stabilizes Magnetic Sensors

  • Thousands of Atoms Swap 'Spins' in Quantum Square Dance

    • 07/25/07
  • Thousands of Atoms Swap ‘Spins’ with Partners in Quantum Square Dance

    • 07/20/07
  • Magnetic Tape Analysis "Sees" Tampering in Detail

    • 05/10/07
  • DNA Sieve: Nanoscale Pores Can Be Tiny Analysis Labs

    • 04/26/07
  • Placing Single Nanowires: NIST Makes the Connection

    • 03/16/07
  • New JILA Apparatus Measures Fast Nanoscale Motions

    • 12/21/06
  • NIST Laser-Based Method Cleans Up Grubby Nanotubes

    • 12/07/06
  • New Targets May Hit Bull’s-Eye for Chip Makers

    • 11/22/06
  • NIST Physicist Wins APS Keithley Award

    • 11/09/06
  • 'Tornadoes' Are Transferred From Light to Sodium Atoms

  • NIST Physicist Receives APS I.I. Rabi Prize

    • 10/26/06
  • O’Brian Named Director of NIST Boulder Laboratories

    • 10/18/06
  • NIST Physicists Boost 'Entanglement' of Atom Pairs

    • 10/12/06
  • NIST Releases New Standard for Semiconductor Industry

    • 09/28/06
  • Emergency Tests Focus on Lab Radioactivity Analyses

  • NIST Physicist Awarded Service to America Medal

    • 08/31/06
  • Gold Nanoparticles Prove to Be Hot Stuff

  • Nano-Signals Get a Boost from Magnetic Spin Waves

    • 08/03/06
  • Two NIST Researchers Earn Presidential Honors

  • Workshop Addresses Imaging Technology in Therapeutics

    • 07/20/06
  • ‘Micro-boxes’ of Water Used to Study Single Molecules

  • Mercury Atomic Clock Sets Time-Keeping Record

  • Novel Nano-Etched Cavity Makes LEDs 7 Times Brighter

  • Road to AC Voltage Standard Leads to Important Junction

    • 07/14/06
  • Mercury Atomic Clock Keeps Time with Record Accuracy

    • 07/06/06
  • NIST, UM Program To Support Nanotech Development

    • 06/22/06
  • Noise Measurement May Boost Cell Phone Performance

    • 06/08/06
  • Circuit Board Materials May Like It Hot (or Not)

  • Three NIST Scientists Receive Flemming Awards

    • 05/25/06
  • Growing Glowing Nanowires to Light Up the Nanoworld

  • NIST Nobelists Testify on Science Policy

    • 03/16/06
  • Record-breaking Detector May Aid Nuclear Inspections (Tech Beat)

    • 01/17/06
  • NIST Names Hockert Chief of Weights and Measures

  • Simulation Program Predicts Resistivity in Nanodevices

    • 12/22/05
  • Enjoy New Year's Eve a Second Longer!

    • 11/30/05
  • NIST Physicists Coax Six Atoms into Quantum 'Cat' State

    • 11/17/05
  • Copper Ridges Nearly Double X-ray Sensor Performance

  • Nobel Laureate wins Presidential Rank Award

  • Two Universities Get Grants for Precision Measurements

    • 10/20/05
  • NIST Physicist Honored for Technological Innovation

    • 09/23/05
  • Meeting on New Technologies and Radiation Measurements

    • 08/26/05
  • Industrial Physics Forum: Innovation Infrastructure

    • 08/10/05
  • New Guide Is Timely for Radio Controlled Clocks, Watches

  • NIST Demonstrates Better Memory with Quantum Computer Bits

    • 07/26/05
  • Compact JILA System Stabilizes Laser Frequency

    • 07/13/05
  • NIST Finds Rough Spot in Surface Measurement

  • Predicting the Lifetime of Extreme UV Optics

    • 06/30/05
  • New Design Developed for Silicon Nanowire Transistors

  • NIST to Accredit Voting Systems Test Labs

  • Reference Materials Planned for Semiconductor Industry

    • 06/16/05
  • Laser Measurements Seminar

  • New NIST Method Improves Accuracy of Spectrometers

    • 06/02/05
  • NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency

  • Shadow Technique Improves Measurement of Micro Holes

    • 05/18/05
  • Quantum Computing Results May Help in Code Breaking

    • 05/03/05
  • 'Metal-Decorated' Nanotubes Hold Promise for Fuel Cells

    • 04/21/05
  • Chip-scale Refrigerators Cool Bulk Objects

    • 01/26/05
  • Laser Applications Heat Up for Carbon Nanotubes

    • 01/05/05
  • Tiny, Atom-based Detector Senses Weak Magnetic Fields

    • 12/15/04
  • Experiments at Demolition of Old Washington Convention Center Aim to Improve First Responder Communications
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