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Bruker Nabs NIST Contract for AFM
BERLIN, Germany, April 26, 2010 — Bruker has announced that it has been awarded a $1.1 million contract to supply a customized N8 Titanos large-sample atomic force microscope (AFM) to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The instrument will be used by NIST’s Precision Engineering Div. (PED) at its Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, with a main focus on metrology applications that require traceable AFM (T-AFM). Bruker’s N8 Titanos offers improved spatial resolving power and outstanding m...
Time shifts with faster-than-light photons
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Experiments with faster-than-light photons are highlighting the weird world of quantum tunneling. Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have boosted single photons to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by...
Cold atoms + lasers = synthetic magnetic field
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Thanks to lasers, researchers have persuaded ultracold, neutral atoms to do something new: respond as if they were charged particles to a magnetic field that isn’t there. This synthetic magnetic field will help scientists create new states of matter...
Quantum Logic Clock Tops Itself
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 8, 2010 – An enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock is boasting more than twice the precision as the previous pacesetter – the original ‘quantum logic clock’ – keeping time to 1 second in 3.7 billion years.
Defining How Photons Touch Flesh
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29, 2010 – The discussion started out strangely, then gathered steam. Steven Jacques, SPIE Fellow and professor of biomedical optics at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland waited quietly at the front of the conference room as it slowly filled....
QDs Improve Medical Imaging
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 19, 2009 – Changes in a living cell that take place over a long period of time are difficult to scrutinize and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new research now makes it possible to analyze activities that occur over hours or even days inside...
Senate Confirms 14th NIST Director
Nov 9, 2009 — The US Senate recently confirmed Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher as the 14th director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by unanimous consent. Gallagher has worked at NIST since 1993 as a scientist and...
NIST Using Optronic Light Source
Oct 5, 2009 — Optronic Laboratories, located in Orlando, Fla., has delivered a specially designed version of its popular OL 490 agile light source to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. NIST commissioned the custom OL...
Yb Tops Cesium in Superclock
GAITHERSBERG, Md., Aug. 12, 2009 – An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation's civilian time standard. Scientists at...
Viable Organic PV Realized
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 30, 2009 – A new class of economically viable solar power cells – cheap, flexible and easy to make – has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where scientists have deepened their...
Ion Trap Senses Force, Light
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 6, 2009 – Miniature devices for trapping ions are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at NIST holds promise as a stylus for sensing very small forces and light particles for quantum...
Fingerprint tech gets tested
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The characteristics that help to differentiate one set of fingerprints from another were first defined in 1892 by Sir Francis Galton. In the decades since, fingerprint identification has become a staple of forensic investigations. Originally, it...
Nanometer Precision Lidar
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 26, 20009 – The National Institute of Standards and Technology combined two different distance measurement approaches with the superaccuracy of an optical frequency comb to build a laser ranging system that may offer peerless precision in remote measurements.
NIST Recovery Plan Approved
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 20, 2009 – The National Institute of Standards and Technology will receive $580 million in direct appropriations from the economic stimulus bill and another $30 million from other federal agencies as part of a plan to invest in construction projects, grants,...
A Faster Single-Atom Detector
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 19, 2009 -- A new single-atom detection system that uses two polarizations of light simultaneously through cavity mirrors is more than 99.7 percent accurate and can discern the arrival of a neutral atom in less than one-millionth of a second, about 20 times...
THz Waves Measure Nanofilms
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 13, 2009 – A technique that could be an important quality-control tool to help monitor semiconductor manufacturing processes and evaluate new insulating materials has been discovered by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Techology (NIST)....
Crystals Curb Qubit Errors
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 23, 2009 – A technique for efficiently suppressing errors in quantum computers has been realized by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). According to the researchers, this advance could eventually make it much easier to...
Fermions Boost Atomic Clock
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 16, 2009 – Physicists at JILA and NIST-Boulder, both in Colorado, have controlled collisions between neutral strontium atoms called fermions, an advance that could lead to more accurate atomic clocks.
Trapped Ions Keep Their Cool
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 9, 2009 – A new ion trap enables them to go through an intersection while keeping their cool, NIST physicists said. This new method keeps the ions 10 million times cooler than in prior similar trips and is a step toward large-scale quantum computing.
3-D Nanofluidic Devices
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 1, 2009 – By manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level, a method was devised for creating nanofluidic devices with complex 3-D surfaces.
SPIE CEO Urges Action
BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 30, 2009 – SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs urged a commission reviewing the US-China trade and economic relationship to take aggressive action to revive photonics innovation.
NIST Funds Sensor Research
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 16, 2009 – The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced nine awards for new research projects to develop advanced sensing technologies. Development would enable timely and detailed monitoring and inspection of the structural health...
NIST Cracks Tough Nut
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 30, 2008 – A technique discovered by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could give a boost to the semiconductor industry. The researchers developed a method to measure the toughness – the resistance to fracture – of...
Optical Tweezer Spots Virus
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 17, 2008 – The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has licensed a patented “optical tweezers” technique for detecting and measuring very small concentrations of a biological substance, such as a virus on a surface. NIST has issued a...
Method Uses Blurry Images
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 3, 2008 -- A novel technique under development uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope and a set of blurry images to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions with nanoscale measurement sensitivity. Termed "through-focus scanning optical...
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