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NIST Selects Winner of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Competition
Release Date: 10/02/2012 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the winner of its five-year competition to select a new cryptographic … more
NIST ‘Hybrid Metrology’ Method Could Improve Computer Chips
Release Date: 09/05/2012 A refined method developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for measuring nanometer-sized objects may help computer … more
September Workshop to Explore the Measurement Needs of the Flexible Electronics Industry
Release Date: 09/05/2012 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in concert with the FlexTech Alliance, will hold a workshop on “Flexible … more
CNST Researchers Demonstrate Low-Noise, Chip-Based Optical Wavelength Converter
Release Date: 09/05/2012 Scanning electron micrograph of the cross-section of a silicon nitride waveguide designed for the low-noise frequency conversion with a simulation … more
PML on Mars: Far-out Thermal Calibration
Release Date: 08/29/2012 PML physicist Michal Chojnacky (right) demonstrates the method used to calibrate platinum resistance thermometers. At left is sensor designer … more
Simulating the Sun for Photovoltaic Research
Release Date: 08/29/2012 Collimated output of the solar simulator illuminates a small solar cell. Electrical probes are used to measure cell efficiency. PML researchers … more
PML Uses Combined Optical Techniques to Provide Important Answers on Graphene Structures
Release Date: 08/13/2012 Nhan Nguyen demonstrates how he performs optical measurements on a graphene-insulator-semiconductor sample structure. That graphene is the hot new … more
NIST Shows New Device Could Improve Fiber-Optic Quantum Data Transmission
Release Date: 08/08/2012 Tests performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show that a new method for splitting photon beams could overcome a … more
Three NIST Researchers Earn Presidential Honor
Release Date: 07/25/2012 The White House has announced that three researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive the 2011 … more
MEMS Reference Material Released
Release Date: 07/23/2012 PML researcher Janet Cassard examines samples of the two new Reference Materials to be used for calibrating microscale measurements on … more
Researchers Demonstrate and Explain Surface Conduction in a Topological Insulator
Release Date: 07/11/2012 Researchers at the University of Maryland and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have for the first time experimentally … more
'Tuning' Graphene Drums Might Turn Conductors to Semiconductors
Release Date: 06/27/2012 Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead … more
Shaffique Adam Receives Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship
Release Date: 06/27/2012 In July, Shaffique Adam will join the inaugural faculty of Yale-NUS College as an Assistant Professor of Science, with a joint appointment in the … more
Graphene Drumheads Tuned to Make Quantum Dots
Release Date: 06/21/2012 NIST researchers showed that straining graphene membrane creates pseudomagnetic fields that confines the graphene's electrons and creates … more
Laser Radiometry: Powering Up
Release Date: 06/11/2012 Chris Cromer examines one of PML’s next-generation power meters, built for the Air Force, that is capable of handling inputs as high as … more |
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