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Josephson voltage standard chip with penny for scale

From 1901 to 2021: Measurements Then and Now

February 25, 2021

Mark Esser

A lot has changed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the past 120 years. For one thing, we were known as the National Bureau of Standards for the first 87 years of our existence. Then, in 1988, we became the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to

Charlie Tarrio peers into a large chamber illuminated by purple light.

How Extreme Ultraviolet Light Helps Give Us Smarter Smartphones and Stronger Satellites

April 13, 2020

Charles Tarrio, Thomas Lucatorto

In 2019, after decades of effort, manufacturers used a new technology to create smartphones with individual circuit features as small as 7 nanometers (nm), or billionths of a meter, enabling them to cram 8.5 billion electronic devices known as transistors on a single small chip. Fitting more

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