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2024 AAAS Fellow - Jeffrey W Lynn

Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have

IEG Announcements Archive 2024

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Return To IEG Homepage 04/12/2024 Annual Meeting: Registration & Agenda Registration for our annual...

D. Richard Kuhn elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Rick Kuhn as an AAAS Fellow. Rick was awarded this honor for his

OWM Welcomes Undergraduate Researchers

March 27, 2025

The Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) welcomes Yoon Thwel, a spring Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) intern and Matthew Kenzinger, a visiting

Novel Hardware for Alternative Computing

MEP Economic Impacts Boost Business and Jobs

March 20, 2025

According to the MEP National Network TM Client Impact Survey, small and medium-sized manufacturers that work with their local Manufacturing Extension

2024 AAAS Fellow - Peter J. Mohr

Mohr was nominated for "for calculating fundamental quantum electrodynamical effects in atoms, leading the revision of the International

Metric System Estimation

Course Description and Purpose: The International System of Units (SI), commonly known as the metric system, is easy to use and learn when...

NanoFab Tool: Reactive Ion Etcher Oxford RIE PlasmaPro 80

The Oxford RIE PlasmaPro 80 etcher is a versatile parallel plate plasma etching system which uses ionized fluorocarbon and oxygen gases to etch Si, SiO2 and

On-silicon Metrology

Summary Leveraging traditional semiconductor circuits on silicon chips offers new possibilities for advanced measurement capabilities. Small...

Prototyping Platforms for Emerging Technologies

Prototyping is the critical step that links research and development to product commercialization, but the cost and expertise required to build prototypes

FireLiDAR

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a powerful tool to precisely measure and track the surface geometry of solid objects. However, in...

Integrated Testbeds for Advanced Metrology

As the demand for computation grows, new materials and devices are being identified with the potential to provide energy-efficient primitive operations

Hardware Accelerators for Neural Networks

With the rise of artificial intelligence and its insatiable demand for low-energy, high performance computing, research is focusing on emerging technologies

Natural Gas Flow Calibration Service

Name(s) of Calibrations/SRMs/SRD/SRIs and any related programs: NIST Special Tests for Natural Gas Flow (18080S) Summary The Fluid Metrology Group (FMG)

Hardware Accelerators for Statistical Computing

We are aiding the development of hardware accelerators for broad classes of hard problems. For many hard computational problems, it can be efficient to find the

Assuring the Accuracy of Metabolite Measurement and Identification

March 18, 2025

This reference material is intended to be used as quality assurance/quality control material for laboratory metabolomic measurements. Products of metabolism act

NIST Researcher Describes Data Considerations for Industrial Artificial Intelligence

February 1, 2025

In February 2025, NIST researcher Dr. M. Sharp published the second installment of a 4-part Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) manufacturing innovation

NIST Publishes Electromagnetic Interference Dataset from TIG Arc Welding

February 1, 2025

The NIST Industrial Wireless System team has published a new dataset titled "Electromagnetic Interference Measurements from Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) Arc Welding

NIST-Led Industrial Wireless Standard IEEE 3388 Passes Important Review Steps

February 1, 2025

For several years, NIST’s Industrial Wireless Systems Project Leader Rick Candell and his team have led the working group developing the draft IEEE 3388

NIST Researchers Showcase Successful mmWave Industrial IoT Measurement Capability

February 1, 2025

On February 5, 2025, NIST researchers presented the results of their highly successful Innovation in Measurement Science (IMS) project, “The World’s Best IIoT

NIST Researchers Publish Comprehensive Survey on Entanglement Routing in Quantum Networks

February 1, 2025

In a recent paper titled "Entanglement Routing in Quantum Networks: A Comprehensive Survey," published in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, researchers

Neutron Imaging Detector Suite

The most commonly used detector at the NIST imaging beamlines is a lens coupled camera detector box shown in Figure 1. The spatial resolution and field-of-view

The Solid-State NMR Facility

The newly renovated solid-state NMR facility at the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory houses two spectrometers, 300 MHz and 100 MHz, primarily used for

example of light propagating with different values of OAM

Structure Neutron Waves: Generating and Detecting Neutrons with Orbital Angular Momentum

Structured waves for optics, electrons, and atoms have been becoming increasingly useful in a variety of applications including communication, microscopy, and

Interferometry: Three-Dimensional Visualization of Magnetic Skyrmions

Magnetic Skyrmions, with a topological charge of one, are inherent stability and are an ideal candidate for next-generation low-power electronics. We have

Hurricane Ian Study

Hurricane Ian’s impact on Florida resulted in significant damage and casualties as storm surge and severe wind impacted southwestern Florida under the context

Resilience Infrastructure and Future Hazard Impacts: Tropical Cyclones

Observed changes in the climate system, including increases in land, atmospheric, and ocean temperatures and in the frequency and intensity of rainfall and

How to Change Default Calendar

Windows: Open Outlook and go to the "File" tab. Click on "Account Settings". Select the Data Files Tab. Select the account or calendar...

NIST Releases Reference Material to Aid Gut Microbiome Research

March 17, 2025

Researchers hope this material will help usher in a new era of diagnostics and treatments involving the gut microbiome.