CNST Collaboration Produces Ultra-Short Light Pulses Using On-Chip Microresonator | NIST
Researchers from NIST and Purdue University have developed a new on-chip microresonator technology that converts continuous laser light into…
NIST Awards $123 Million in Recovery Act Grants To Construct New Research Facilities | NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants to…
NIST Physicists Use Light To Make Ultrasmall Nanostructures | NIST
NIST physicists have developed a new method using light to create ultrasmall metallic nanostructures, potentially revolutionizing computer…
Measuring Tiny Forces with Light | NIST
Researchers at NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory have developed two types of force-measurement devices that use laser light to…
Stunt Doubles: Ultracold Atoms Could Replicate the Electron ‘Jitterbug’ | NIST
Researchers at NIST have proposed an experiment using ultracold atoms to replicate the “jitterbug” motion of electrons predicted…
Draft Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes: NIST IR 8214C ipd Available for Public Comment | NIST
NIST has released an initial public draft of their First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes, seeking public comments on the document. The…
Researchers Probe the Properties of Novel “Topological Insulators” | NIST
Researchers from NIST, the University of Maryland, and Seoul National University have developed a new method to control the energy levels at…
From Supernova to Smoke Ring: Recent Experiments Underscore Weirdness of the Bose-Einstein Condensate | NIST
Researchers at NIST and the University of Colorado have observed two fascinating phenomena in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), a state of…
Noisy Pictures Tell a Story of ‘Entangled’ Atoms, JILA Physicists Find | NIST
Researchers at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado, have discovered that patterns of noise in images of ultracold…