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The Strange World of Quantum Physics

Quantum computers would get their special powers by exploiting the strange rules of the very small, such as quantization. In our everyday...

NIST Jump-Starts Quantum Information

NIST had a major head start in quantum information in the 1990s. NIST researchers already had qubits—but under a different name. “They’re...

Quantum Supremacy

Researchers are no longer focused solely on building a quantum computer that could carry out Shor’s algorithm and break encryption codes...

graphic of a laptop with an atom hovering above the keyboard

Introduction: A New Quantum Revolution

Peanut butter and chocolate. Rice and soy sauce. Milk and cookies. When two good things get together, they can create something even better...

MML Group Leader Frank DelRio Named ASME Fellow

Group Leader Frank DelRio, leader of the Fatigue and Fracture Group in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, has been elected a

MML Project Leader Enrico Lucon Receives ASTM International Award of Merit

Project Leader Enrico Lucon, from the MML Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, received the 2018 ASTM International Award of Merit for

MML Researcher Mark McLinden Named ASHRAE Fellow

Mark McLinden, of MML's Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, was awarded the rank of Fellow in the American Society of Heating

Research Performance Progress Report Format and Instructions

The RPPR is used by recipients to submit progress reports to NIST on their grant awards and cooperative agreements. The RPPR instructions...

2016 IEEE Fellow - Thomas Silva

For contributions to the understanding and applications of magnetization dynamics.

Process Document for the NIST List of Certified Devices

Author(s) Jason D. Kahn Abstract The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Act) defined responsibilities for the National...

In this illustration, a gas well field has a circle on it. A dual-comb spectrometer at the center sends out laser light which bounces off mirrors, goes through a gas cloud and returns to the spectrometer for analysis.

Mobile ‘Dual-Comb’ Device Significantly Improves Methane Leak Detection

March 22, 2018

Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas and a major fuel source worldwide, is critically important

Microcalorimeter Spectrometers for X-ray and Gamma-ray Spectroscopy

Superconducting devices at very low temperatures can be used to measure very small amounts of energy. Using this effect, the Quantum Sensors Group is building

NIST Detector "Chirps" to Sense Gases

It's a bird, it's a plane, no - it's a gas! Trace gas detection, the ability to detect a scant quantity of a particular molecule...

Nanostructure Dimension Calibration

The accuracy of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) measurements depends on accurate calibration of the imaging process for each instrument...

Magnetic Resonance Measurements for MRI Biomarkers

The accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) measurements depends on accurate calibration of the imaging process for each instrument...

Brian Simonds, Kyle Rogers, Ivan Ryger, Joshua Hadler, Paul Williams, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, John Lehman, Nathan Tomlin, and Ari Feldman

R&D 100 Award - PhotoForce Project

For the development of a Radiation Pressure Power Meter that enables extremely high continuous laser powers to be measured as the force

2017 Rabi Award - Scott Diddams

For the development and application of optical frequency combs to precision atomic timing.

2018 I.I. Rabi Award - Jun Ye

For the development of stable, reproducible, and accurate atomic clocks based on optical lattices, and the use of those clocks to probe

NEW Mission Critical Voice Publication!

March 1, 2018

Author(s) Jesse M. Frey, Jaden K. Pieper, Silas T. Thompson Abstract Mouth-to-Ear (M2E) latency describes the time it takes speech input in a voice

Three hexagons featuring highly mobile deployed network icons

R&D Summit Report Published!

February 26, 2018

It is with great pleasure that the Highly Mobile Deployed Networks (HMDN) team is announcing the publication of the October Working Group R&D summit report

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JILA Team Invents New Way to ‘See’ the Quantum World

March 5, 2018

JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of near

Prize Competition Winners Announced!

September 14, 2018

Advancing Methods In Differential Privacy The top three winners of PSCR's first data challenge, Advancing Methods in Differential Privacy, have been selected

Aluminum 5083-O (UNS A95083)

Data Available: Thermal Conductivity Specific Heat Young's Modulus Linear Thermal Expansion Thermal Conductivity Specific Heat...

NIST USNO 2017 Archive

UTC (USNO) - UTC (NIST) The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) make...

NIST UTC 2017 Archive

UTC - UTC (NIST) The deviation of UTC(NIST) from UTC has been less than +/-100 ns since July 6, 1994. The table below shows values of UTC...

Mission Critical Voice QoE Mouth-to-Ear Latency Measurement Methods

Author(s) Jesse M. Frey, Jaden K. Pieper, Silas T. Thompson Abstract Mouth-to-Ear (M2E) latency describes the time it takes speech...

ACMD Seminar: Conservation of Information in Proteins, Software, Music, Texts, the Universe and Chocolate boxes

Dr. Les Hatton Emeritus Professor of Forensic Software Engineering, Kingston University Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 15:30 - 16:30 Building...

NIST Sharpens the 'Charpy' Test to Make a More Precise Impact on Industrial Materials

February 26, 2018

A decade before an iceberg shattered the hull plates of the Titanic and half a century before a plague of brittle fractures started sinking Liberty ships during

Highly Mobile Deployable Networks R&D Summit Report

HMDN_R&D_Summit_Report.pdf

2007 APS Fellow - Kent Irwin

For world-leading technical contributions and leadership in applying transition-edge superconducting sensors to materials and nuclear