NIST Signs Cooperative Agreement with U-Albany Nano College | NIST
NIST and University at Albany’s CNSE Partner on Nanoscale Measurement and Standards The National Institute of Standards and Technology…
New Calculations on Blackbody Energy Set the Stage for Clocks with Unprecedented Accuracy | NIST
A team of physicists from the United States and Russia has developed a new method for calculating a tiny, temperature-dependent source of…
NIST Fellow William D. Phillips Elected to National Academy of Science | NIST
NIST Fellow William D. Phillips, known for his groundbreaking work in laser cooling of atoms, has been elected to the National Academy of…
SRM 3461: An Accurate and Precise Force Calibration Artifact | NIST
NIST has released a new standard reference material (SRM) 3461 for calibrating atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers. The SRM contains…
NIST Physicists ‘Squeeze’ Light to Cool Microscopic Drum Below Quantum Limit | NIST
NIST physicists have developed a new method to cool a microscopic mechanical drum to temperatures below the quantum limit, using a technique…
NIST/JQI Researcher Ian Spielman to Receive 2011 Junior BEC Award | NIST
Ian Spielman, a physicist at NIST and the Joint Quantum Institute, has been selected to receive the Junior BEC Award 2011 for his…
NIST Debuts Dual Atomic Clock — and a New Stability Record | NIST
NIST physicists have developed a new ultra-stable atomic clock using ytterbium atoms, achieving a stability record 10 times better than…
Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms | NIST
Scientists at NIST and the University of Maryland have proposed a method to create a supersolid using ultracold gas atoms. A supersolid is a…
NIST Physicists Find a Way to Control Charged Molecules – with Quantum Logic | NIST
NIST physicists have developed a new technique to control the quantum properties of individual charged molecules, using quantum logic…