Summary:
In 2018, a team at NIST received a gold medal award for creating a new primary resistance standard. This standard can be directly deployed to U.S. industry and the global metrology community. The previous quantum resistors used were no longer available in the U.S. and were too complex for general use.
The new standard features a revolutionary quantum resistor developed and manufactured by NIST. This resistor eliminates the complexity and high cost of the existing standard, while maintaining the same quantum accuracy. The new instrument is more convenient and costs one-tenth as much as the previous heroic science experiments.
The potential impact of this new standard is significant. It will enable more widespread use of quantum resistance measurements in industry and research. The implementation timeframe is not specified in the article, but the development of the new standard has already been completed.
Keywords: resistance, standard, quantum, accuracy
