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NIST Team Shows Tiny Frequency Combs Are Reliable Measurement Tools | NIST

April 25, 2018 Office

April 25, 2018 In an advance that could shrink many measurement technologies, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners have demonstrated the first miniaturized devices that can generate desired frequencies, […]

New quantum device set to support measurement standards of the electrical current | NPL

April 24, 2018 Office

An international collaboration, including researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Royal Holloway, University of London, has successfully demonstrated a quantum coherent effect in a new quantum device made out of continuous superconducting wire […]

Worth the Weight: New International Guidelines Published for Manufacturing Load Cells | NIST

April 16, 2018 Office

At the heart of every electronic weighing instrument is a device called a load cell, which takes a mechanical force and turns it into an electronic signal. Anytime something needs to be weighed in commerce […]

Making Smokestack Emissions Tests Better, Faster, Cheaper | NIST

February 28, 2018 Office

February 27, 2018 – Smokestacks at coal-fired power plants have sensors that continuously monitor their emissions by measuring the flow of gases such as carbon dioxide, mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. By federal law, […]

A Stopwatch for Nanofluids: NIST Files Provisional Patent for Measuring Nanoliter Flow Rates | NIST

January 17, 2018 Office

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has filed a provisional patent application for a microflow measurement system, about the size of a nickel, that can track the movement of extremely tiny amounts of […]

New NIST Spectrometer Measures Single Photons with Great Precision | NIST

December 18, 2017 Office

Future communications networks that are less vulnerable to hacking could be closer to reality with an invention that measures the properties of single-photon sources with high accuracy. Built by scientists at the National Institute of […]

Lights, Camera, Calibrate! Improving Space Cameras with a Better Model for Ultra-Bright Lamps | NIST

November 14, 2017 Office

Studio photographers may be familiar with the 1,000-watt quartz halogen lamps known as “FELs.” Scientists use them too—specially calibrated ones, at least—to test the performance of light sensors that monitor Earth’s weather, plant life and […]

Bringing the World Closer to Revised Measurement System, Scientists Update Four Key Fundamental Constants | NIST

October 24, 2017 Office

Paving the way for transforming the world’s measurement system, an international task force has determined updated values for four fundamental constants of nature. The updated values comprise the last scientific piece of the puzzle for […]

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