Apr 21, 2004 — GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 21 -- Three of the world’s premier measurement laboratories have lined up the "hash marks" from four of the world’s best optical frequency rulers and declared that they match. The experiments are a significant step toward next-generation "atomic clocks" based on optical rather than microwave frequencies. Such clocks are expected to be as much as 100 times more accurate than today’s best timekeeping systems. Applications for ultraprecise timekeeping include navigation,...

Apr 1, 2004 — GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 29 -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a "rainbow source" that can be tuned across the entire visible light spectrum, from red to blue light. This unique source exploits recent...

Apr 1, 2004 — In the Feb. 23 issue of Applied Physics Letters, Richard P. Mirin of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., presents the findings of his recent investigation into single-photon emission in optically stimulated quantum...

Apr 1, 2004 — A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and the University of Maryland in College Park has demonstrated that a variant of cavity ringdown spectroscopy...

Mar 12, 2004 — GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 12 -- New measurements of key wavelengths of ultraviolet light -- down to a few millionths of a nanometer -- are among the most precise ever reported and are improving calibrations of microlithography tools used in making...

Dec 22, 2003 — GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 22 -- A novel combination of microscopes can peer deep into tissue-engineering scaffolds and monitor the growth and differentiation of cells ultimately intended to develop into implantable organs or other body-part...

Nov 27, 2003 — Frederick Mullavey has been named director of quality at Janos Technology Inc., a Townshend, Vt.-based precision optics manufacturer. . . . The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a an electronic mass measurement...

Nov 10, 2003 — RICHLAND, Wash., Nov. 10 -- In 1995, hundreds of Tokyo subway rescuers were exposed to the deadly nerve gas sarin hours before police confirmed its identity. Earlier this year, soldiers in Iraq worried about a similar fate. Pacific Northwest...

Oct 15, 2003 — BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 15 -- Deborah Jin, 34, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., and adjoint assistant professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder), has been named...

Sep 29, 2003 — GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 29 -- Although silicon is still the mainstay of the semiconductor industry, a new method may put materials like gallium nitride and silicon carbide into wider use in scanning semiconductors for defects. Such advanced...

Sep 17, 2003 — Eric I. Blachno has been named vice president of finance and CFO at Cascade Microtech Inc., a Beaverton, Ore.-based maker of test systems for microelectronics. Blachno was formerly vice president of finance and CFO of fiber optic components maker...

Nov 1, 1996 — Conductus Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed an ultrasensitive high-temperature superconducting bolometer for infrared imaging applications. The device, designed under a cooperative...

Nov 1, 1996 — The National Institute of Standards and Technology is accepting project proposals for its Precision Measurement Grants for Fiscal Year 1998. The institute awards the grants to faculty members at US universities for work in the field of precision...