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No Liquid Helium, But Still Extremely Cool

May 23, 2017

NIST scientists have devised a novel hybrid system for cooling superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD) – essential tools for many kinds of

NIST Develops Rapid Method for Judging Nanotube Purity

February 1, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a sensitive new method for rapidly assessing the quality of carbon

ACMD Seminar: Modeling Diffusion and Capture

Alan Lindsay University of Notre Dame Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 11:00 - 12:00Building 101, Lecture Room BGaithersburg Tuesday, June 13, 2017...

SF-424 Research & Related (R&R) Application Package Guidance

The SF-424 Research and Related (R&R) Form is used to collect applicant information. The use of the SF-424 R&R will be specified in the NIST...

Illustration of laser cooling motion of atomic ion

NIST Physicists Find a Way to Control Charged Molecules – with Quantum Logic

May 10, 2017

BOULDER, Colo.—National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists have solved the seemingly intractable puzzle of how to control the quantum

NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the ITL

The NIST/NRC Postdoctoral Associateship Program NIST works with the National Research Council (NRC) to offer awards for postdoctoral...

diagram of amantadine hydrochloride structure

New NIST Data to Aid Production and Storage of 'Fascinating' Medication

May 2, 2017

Amantadine hydrochloride may be the most common medication you’ve never heard of. This compound has been around for decades as the basis for antiviral and other

Steel-Reinforced Concrete Building with Severe Corrosion Damage

Move Over, Superman! NIST 'Spectral Fingerprinting' Sees Through Concrete to Detect Early Corrosion

April 26, 2017

When you suffer a fall, an on-the-field collision or some other traumatic blow, the first thing the doctor will do is take an X-ray, CT scan or MRI to determine

Supercomputing: Probing the Future

April 25, 2017

NIST scientists have developed a novel automated probe system for evaluating the performance of computer components designed to run 100 times faster than today

Single Photon Workshop 2017, Agenda

All technical sessions, workshop reception and posters will be held at the University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado. Our...

ACMD Seminar: Large Scale Distribution-based Data Analysis and Visualization

Han-Wei Shen Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30Building 101...

Breast Phantoms - Not an Illusion

Accuracy = true, correct, exact ... but also, peace of mind. Traditionally, mammograms are made with x-rays. But for women at...

What excites and inspires David Wineland in science today?

“The stuff we’re working on I still find really interesting—quantum information, quantum computing, quantum limits to measurements—the path...

ACMD Seminar: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Applications and Methods

Sven Leyffer Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Lab Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30Building 222, Room...

NACTI Invited Speakers

We were pleased to have following Invited Speakers at NACTI 2017: David Allcock Wineland Group, NIST Boulder, USA Charles Baldwin...

Ralph Orwick bending over a tungsten electrode welder

Welding for Ultrahigh Vacuum

April 3, 2017

April is National Welding Month, a time dedicated to highlighting accomplishments in this important field. At NIST in the 1960s, Ralph Orwick of the NIST

The Story of an Old Timer: Phase Modulation (PM)

First we increased the depth of the amplitude modulation. This increased the reception capability by a few db - but didn't solve the...

The Story of an Old Timer: New Transmitters

Throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, disciplined oscillators were manufactured receiving the WWVB signal and delivering better than 1 part...

The Story of an Old Timer: 1970s

Then on July 1, 1971, WWVH began broadcasting at the new facility on the Navy's PMRF site on the island of Kauai. One year after WWVH moved...

The Story of an Old Timer: QSL cards

A first day QSL card acknowledging receipt of the broadcast were issued for those who correctly identified the new voice announcement and...

The Story of an Old Timer: 1960s

In April 1960, WWVL broadcast began with 1,000 times more stable reception at a distance than WWV or WWVH had been received. So in 1962...

The Story of an Old Timer: 1950 - 1954

On January 1, 1950 voice announcements were added to all broadcasts - the familiar "at the sound of the tone ...". In January 1953 the 30...

The Story of an Old Timer: WWVH

On November 22, 1948 WWVH began at Kihei on the island of Maui operating at 5, 10 and 15 MHz.

The Story of an Old Timer: Out of Room (part 3)

The wooden transmitter building burned to the ground on November 6, 1940. After the fire Congress allocated $230K for a new brick station...

The Story of an Old Timer: Out of Room (part 2)

In January 1931 WWV was moved to a field station at College Park, Maryland, northeast of Washington. WWV was only there for two years and...

The Story of an Old Timer: Out of Room

The Connecticut Avenue grounds were running out of room. So they started operating field stations to perform tests.

The Story of an Old Timer: Higher Frequencies

In March 1923, WWV started broadcasting standard frequencies, 200 kHz, 300 kHz, and 545 kHz. But research was pushing for higher frequencies...

2011 Presidential Rank Award - Judah Levine

The award recognizes Levine as a world leader in early applications of lasers for precision measurements, as well as precision time and

2012 Award for Biological Sciences - Jeeseong Hwang

Jeeseong Hwang received the award "in recognition of contributions to research and service in the field of biomedical optics, specifically

2011 Arthur S. Flemming Award - Till Rosenband

He invented an entirely new technology—the "logic clock." It is the world's most accurate atomic clock with an uncertainty equivalent to one