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New Platform Developed to Measure and Exploit Optomechanical Interactions
Release Date: 12/12/2012 A pair of nanobeams is held side-by-side and separated by a nanoscale gap, with more
Near-Field Scanning Microwave Microscope: Big at the Nanoscale
Release Date: 09/28/2012 The larger of the two alternating images above shows the topography of a nanowire bundle. The smaller image is the same bundle, but without the … more
CNST Researchers Demonstrate Low-Noise, Chip-Based Optical Wavelength Converter
Release Date: 09/05/2012 Scanning electron micrograph of the cross-section of a silicon nitride waveguide designed for the low-noise frequency conversion with a simulation … more
New Performance Standards for Public-Safety RF Devices
Release Date: 07/27/2012 A PASS unit and air pack are placed in an anechoic chamber for testing . First responders rely increasingly on wireless communication devices, and … more
Shaffique Adam Receives Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship
Release Date: 06/27/2012 In July, Shaffique Adam will join the inaugural faculty of Yale-NUS College as an Assistant Professor of Science, with a joint appointment in the … more
Toward a Global Microwave Standard
Release Date: 02/06/2012 Much of what is known about decadal climate change – and much of what appears on the evening weather forecast as well – comes … more
NIST 'Nanowire' Measurements Could Improve Computer Memory
Release Date: 05/18/2011 In this schematic image (top) and transmission electron micrograph, a more
Meet Phannie, NIST's Standard 'Phantom' for Calibrating MRI Machines
Release Date: 05/11/2010 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)--a widely used medical tool that relies on magnetic fields and radio waves to visualize the body's internal … more
Engineered Metamaterials Enable Remarkably Small Antennas
Release Date: 01/26/2010 In an advance that might interest Q-Branch, the gadget makers for James Bond, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and … more
Penetrating Insights: NIST Airframe Tests Help Ensure Better Shielding for Flight Instruments
Release Date: 08/25/2009 Airline travelers are used to being instructed to turn off computers and cell phones during takeoffs and landings as a precaution against … more
Random Antenna Arrays Boost Emergency Communications
Release Date: 02/24/2009 First responders could boost their radio communications quickly at a disaster site by setting out just four extra transmitters in a random … more
Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests
Release Date: 12/23/2008 Guest researcher John Jendzurski prepares the NIST electromagnetic phantom for passage through the walk-through metal detector behind it. The … more
Prototype Terahertz Imager Promises Biochem Advances
Release Date: 04/15/2008
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NIST Finds ‘Metafilms’ Can Shrink Radio, Radar Devices
Release Date: 03/18/2008 Recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated that thin films made of … more
Nano-Signals Get a Boost from Magnetic Spin Waves
Release Date: 08/31/2006 This simulation shows how two nano-oscillators, spaced 500 nanometers apart, synchronize their microwave signals by overlapping and merging their … more |
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