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Metrology

Electrical / electromagnetic metrology

News and Updates

Events

Projects and Programs

Thermal Noise Metrology

Ongoing
This project develops methods for very accurate measurements of thermal noise and provides support for such measurements in the communications and electronics
Micrographs of kinetic inductance-based parametric amplifier

Amplifiers

Ongoing
To process information from quantum circuits and systems, it is important to have amplifiers with wide bandwidth, high dynamic range, and extremely low noise

Publications

The Quantum Electro-Mechanical Metrology Suite

Author(s)
Frank Seifert, Lorenz Keck, David B. Newell, Darine El Haddad
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is building a robust open-source hardware and software Quantum Electro-Mechanical Metrology Suite

Robotic Antenna Measurements

Author(s)
Josh Gordon
Robots excel at manipulating objects with 6 degree of freedom movement. A combination of well-defined kinematics, optimized control loops, and robust mechanical

Tools and Instruments

MBE Facility

Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Facility

The Applied Physics Division utilizes a fully automated, dual-chamber molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system for the growth of advanced, compound semiconductor