Jun Ye: A Timely Profile | NIST
Jun Ye, a physicist at NIST/JILA, has developed the world’s most precise atomic clock, which would neither gain nor lose a second in 90…
Prominent NIST and JILA Physicist Deborah Jin Passes Away | NIST
Deborah Jin, a prominent physicist at NIST and JILA, passed away on September 15, 2016 at the age of 47 after a battle with cancer. Jin was…
NIST Announces 2021 R&D Opportunities for Small Businesses | NIST
NIST Announces 2021 SBIR Funding Opportunities for Small Businesses The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened its…
NIST Releases Updates for Cryptographic Key-Establishment Recommendations: Special Publications 800-56A and 800-56C | NIST
NIST has released updated guidelines for cryptographic key-establishment schemes, which are crucial for secure communication between parties.…
Ringing in a New Way to Measure and Modulate Trapped Light | NIST
Researchers at NIST have developed a new technique using focused lithium-ion beams to non-invasively measure and map the vibration patterns of…
JILA Scientists Create First Dense Gas of Ultracold ‘Polar’ Molecules | NIST
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and CU-Boulder, have created the first high-density gas of ultracold polar molecules. This…
Einstein Was Right (Again): Experiments Confirm that E= mc2 | NIST
Scientists from NIST, MIT, and ILL have conducted the most precise direct test ever of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2. Using an…
NIST Mechanical Micro-Drum Used as Quantum Memory | NIST
NIST researchers have developed a mechanical micro-drum that can store quantum information, potentially revolutionizing quantum computing. The…
NIST Team Supersizes ‘Quantum Squeezing’ to Measure Ultrasmall Motion | NIST
NIST physicists have developed a new quantum squeezing technique that amplifies the motion of a single trapped magnesium ion by a factor of…