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A New Way to Measure Nearly Nothing | NIST

October 19, 2018 Office

October 19, 2018 Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of gas molecules and particles from their setups as new […]

The Kiwi Kibble Balance | Measurement Standards Laboratory NZ

October 18, 2018 Office

The Kibble balance is an apparatus that will be used to realise the kilogram after its redefinition in May 2019 based on a fundamental constant – the Planck constant. It compares the gravitational force on […]

Dynamic calibration of force transducers | PTB.de

September 5, 2018 Office

PTB-News 2.2018 – The reliable measurement of dynamic forces plays an important role in industry. To provide the metrological infrastructure required, PTB has been pursuing an approach that describes the dynamic behavior of the force […]

Calibration certificates go digital | PTB.de

September 5, 2018 Office

PTB-News 2.2018 – Conventional calibration certificates could soon become history. To furnish proof that a measuring instrument has been calibrated and of how this has been done, metrology institutes throughout the world could, in the […]

Helping the Microchip Industry Go (Very Low) with the Flow | NIST

August 22, 2018 Office

August 22, 2018 – A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has uncovered a source of error in an industry-standard calibration method that could lead microchip manufacturers to […]

Scientists from leading Radionuclide Laboratories met in VNIIM | News

July 11, 2018 Office

D.I. Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology held a Working Meeting of the International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology (ICRM). Delegates from National Metrology Institutes and Radionuclide Laboratories from the US, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, China, Brazil, Australia, Slovakia, […]

NIST Puts the Optical Microscope Under the Microscope to Achieve Atomic Accuracy | NIST

May 23, 2018 Office

May 22, 2018, NIST News – Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered that the optical microscope can be used to detect, track and image objects much smaller than their traditional limit—about half the […]

Taking The Heat: New High for NIST’s ‘Light Force’ Laser Power Meter | NIST

May 1, 2018 Office

May 1, 2018 – Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been developing a novel way of measuring laser power. Their device, called the Radiation Pressure Power Meter (RPPM), makes its […]