Dr. Stefan Cular, a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been awarded a bronze medal for his work on creating new measurement services that ensure the quality of NIST’s programmable Josephson voltage standard (PJVS). The PJVS devices are known for their exceptional accuracy and are used by laboratories worldwide to maintain precise measurements.
Cular’s work focuses on bringing NIST’s expertise directly to customers, ensuring that the PJVS devices can be used reliably under real-world conditions in any laboratory. This is important because while quantum standards themselves are inherently reliable, the operators and their laboratories can introduce variability and errors.
By rigorously testing the PJVS devices and their operators in real environments, Cular is laying the groundwork for global acceptance of future NIST quantum devices for the dissemination of the International System of Units (SI). This work has the potential to greatly improve the accuracy and consistency of measurements across various fields, from scientific research to industry and beyond.
Source: https://www.nist.gov/nist-awards/2018-bronze-medal-award-stefan-cular
Keywords: Calibration, Standardization, Metrology, Dissemination, NIST
