national metrology institutes – Page 2

“We transform precision into progress” – PTB.de

June 5, 2025 Office

27 May 2025 — European summit of metrology experts at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB): In the year of the 150th anniversary of the Metre Convention, representatives from all European metrology institutes are traveling to Berlin. […]

NIST Moonlight Data Will Help Satellites Get a More Accurate Look at Earth | NIST News

May 20, 2025 Office

May 20, 2025 Weather forecasting, mineral prospecting and farming all could improve from a trove of data the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently gathered about moonlight, late at night and far […]

Software testing with AI – PTB.de

April 15, 2025 Office

PTB News 2.2025 A document analysis tool developed by PTB, which is regularly used in the testing of complex software for legally regulated measuring instruments in Europe, has been expanded with the help of artificial […]

Quantum Hall resistance without an external magnetic field | PTB News

April 15, 2025 Office

PTB-News 2.2025 | The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) occurs in specific material systems such as magnetically doped topological insulators. In contrast to the conventional quantum Hall effect (QHE), the QAHE is characterized by the […]

Accredited Calibration Laboratories for Medical Radiation

April 11, 2025 Office

by Larry A. DeWerd PhD, FAAPM, FABS & Ahtesham U. Khan, PhD The overall goals of the University of Wisconsin Medical Radiation Research Center (UWMRRC) are to 1) educate members of the medical physics community, […]

Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices | NPR

March 26, 2025 Office

March 26, 202511:44 AM ET Heard on All Things Considered The Trump administration is planning to close a small, obscure laboratory whose work undergirds everything from microchip manufacturing to nuclear fusion. The Atomic Spectroscopy Group […]

A milestone for hydrogen metrology | PTB News

January 31, 2025 Office

In cooperation with European metrology institutes and partner companies from industry, PTB has laid the foundations for a reliable infrastructure for the volume measurement of liquid and gaseous hydrogen. For the first time, a traceability […]

NIST OWM and KEBS: Building Metrology Capacity for the RMOs | NIST

January 30, 2025 Office

January 7, 2025 NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) are currently conducting an interlaboratory mass comparison as part of a larger, multifaceted mass metrology training program being developed by […]