NIST’s ‘Nanotubes on a Chip’ May Simplify Optical Power Measurements | NIST
NIST has developed a novel chip-scale instrument using carbon nanotubes that could simplify absolute measurements of laser power, particularly…
A Sub-femtosecond Stop Watch for ‘Photon Finish’ Races | NIST
Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute have developed a new technique to measure the travel time of photons with sub-femtosecond precision.…
NIST ‘Noise Thermometry’ Yields Accurate New Measurements of Boltzmann Constant | NIST
NIST researchers have made highly accurate measurements of the Boltzmann constant, a fundamental scientific value that relates energy to…
Slippery When Stacked: NIST Theorists Quantify the Friction of Graphene | NIST
Researchers at NIST have developed software to simulate the friction of graphene at the atomic level. The study found that graphene’s…
A Spin Wave Detective Story: NIST Researchers Verify Surprising Behavior in a 2D Magnet | NIST
Researchers at NIST have discovered that a signal previously thought to be caused by lattice vibrations in 2D magnets is actually due to…
Newfound Superconductor Material Could Be the ‘Silicon of Quantum Computers’ | NIST
Researchers at NIST have discovered a new superconductor material, uranium ditelluride (UTe2), that could revolutionize quantum computing.…
JILA Team Demonstrates ‘A New Way of Lasing’: A ‘Superradiant’ Laser | NIST
Researchers at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder, have developed a new type of laser called a…
CNST Researchers Use Nanophotonics to More Efficiently Extract Photons from Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots | NIST
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other institutions have developed a new nanophotonic cavity that…
NIST Researchers Develop Miniature Lens for Trapping Atoms | NIST
NIST researchers have developed a miniature lens using metasurfaces that can trap and manipulate individual atoms. The metasurfaces, which are…