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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 […]

New Atom-Based Thermometer Measures Temperature More Accurately | NIST News

January 24, 2025 Office

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal. By monitoring how […]

In-situ rotary table calibration – PTB.de

January 8, 2025 Office

PTB-News 3.2024 – The deviations of rotary tables can be directly measured on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in all six degrees of freedom by means of a self-calibrating procedure using a ball plate. A new […]

NIST Offers New Calibration Service for Wavemeters | NIST Updates

December 30, 2024 Office

December 23, 2024 For more than three decades, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has calibrated the wavelengths of lasers used in industry, academia, and government laboratories. NIST has now expanded its service […]

New Pilot Study Enhances Accuracy of AC Voltage Comparisons – BIPM

October 24, 2024 Office

The BIPM and NIST have successfully conducted a new pilot study, marking a significant advancement in the accuracy and reliability of ac voltage comparisons. This achievement represents a major step forward for on-site comparisons of […]

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CHIPS for America Releases METIS Data Exchange Ecosystem for Supporting Metrology Innovation | NIST Updates

September 26, 2024 Office

September 26, 2024 — Today, CHIPS for America released a beta version of the Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors (METIS). A major milestone for the CHIPS Metrology Program, METIS will give stakeholders access to […]