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A New, World-Class Facility for Infrared Calibrations

October 21, 2015 Office

Source: http://nist.gov/pml/div685/grp03/new-facility-for-infrared-calibration.cfm NIST is about to open the world’s most accurate facility for calibrating infrared (IR) detectors. It is made possible by the establishment of an extremely precise reference scale for detector performance based on NIST’s […]

Performance Measurement and Design Optimization of a Cooling Fin Array

December 10, 2013 Office

By Roger Bond, Kelly Bray, Marcellino Valdez, and Matthew Rickard Abstract: As part of an undergraduate mechanical engineering course at California Baptist University, we have performed a design optimization study of a fin array for […]

Design Considerations of a Two-Pressure Humidity Generator

December 10, 2013 Office

By Bob Hardy The two-pressure humidity generation technique is a well-known, highly documented method used for precise control of humidity values. This straight-forward method is in practice world-wide in a large number of standards and […]

Fluke 1586A Super-DAQ Precision Temperature Scanner

November 20, 2013 Office

Designed for data acquisition (DAQ) in the factory and temperature calibration in the lab EVERETT, Wash., Nov. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Fluke Calibration, a leader in precision calibration instrumentation and software, introduces the 1586A Super-DAQ […]

Gender-Specific Effects on Tympanic Temperature of a Cohort Sample of 15 to 16 Year Old High School Students

August 15, 2013 Office

Written and presented by Rebecca Choi, Jessica Chung, and Justin Jinwon Lee of Fairmont Preparatory Academy in Anaheim, California — awarded Best High-School Student Paper at the 2013 Measurement Science Conference in Anaheim. Our experiment consisted […]

INSCO 737 Dry Block Calibration System

August 12, 2013 Office

INSCO is pleased to present the 737 Dry Block Calibration System. Like all INSCO products, the instrument is designed and built to insure exact precision and outstanding quality. The INSCO 737 is a high accuracy […]

Fluke Calibration 9190A Ultra-Cool Field Metrology Well

March 14, 2013 Office

EVERETT, Wash., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Fluke Calibration, a leader in precision calibration instrumentation and software, introduces the 9190A Ultra-Cool Field Metrology Well, a small, lightweight, and accurate dry-block calibrator with best-in-class stability. The […]

PML Goes to Mars: Far-Out Thermal Calibration

September 6, 2012 Office

From NIST Tech Beat for September 5, 2012 August 29, 2012 Sometimes the chain of measurement traceability – the unbroken series of links between a calibrated instrument and the official NIST standard – can get […]