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541 assets from 19 organizations
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National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
JEOL ARM-200F probe-corrected 200 kV analytical electron microscope resolving single atoms, with EELS/EDS chemical analysis and MAADF/HAADF STEM detectors; used for GaN polarity and nanowire interface studies in the Precision Imaging…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Broadband electrical-substitution radiometer with thermal isolation platform, electrical thermometer-heater and optical absorber that measures radiant power without external calibration and scales into focal-plane arrays. NIST inventors…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group building compact, low-power quantum sensors from precision atomic spectroscopy, silicon micromachining and photonics (thermal vapors, atomic beams, laser-cooled atoms); originators of the chip-scale atomic…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Dial-up time service (since 1988) that sends an ASCII time code over analog telephone modems so computers can set their clocks, with on-time-marker loopback to correct for line delay; downloadable client files.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
1,700 m² (18,000 ft²) ISO class 5 cleanroom operated by the Quantum Electromagnetics Division, providing micro- and nano-fabrication for the microelectronic and MEMS needs of NIST-Boulder staff and direct collaborators; about 60% of…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
On-chip photonic bolometer using heat-resistant carbon-nanotube absorbers and a photonic temperature sensor read out by optical frequency shifts, detecting ultraviolet to far-infrared light for thermal imaging. NIST inventors Klimov,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Fee-based NIST time and frequency calibrations: remote calibration of clocks and oscillators to UTC(NIST) via GPS common view (TMAS, FMAS), geostationary satellite and optical fiber; delay calibration of GPS receivers; frequency-stability…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
CMP machine in the Boulder Microfabrication Facility that planarizes silicon dioxide layers, enabling more complex multilayer circuitry and polishing of optical films roughened during processing.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Lithographically fabricated vacuum package producing a collimated atomic beam with on-chip atomic vapor source and passive pumps, aimed at chip-scale atomic clocks and interferometers with better long-term stability than vapor-cell…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Overview of the formal agreement types NIST's Technology Partnerships Office uses with industry, academia and non-profits: NDAs, material, software and data transfer agreements, research collaboration agreements (no outside funding, no…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Photomixing THz spectrometer combining a fixed cw Ti:sapphire ring laser and a tunable Ti:sapphire laser on a low-temperature-grown Er:GaAs photomixer to generate up to ~5 µW from 0.06 to 4 THz, with cryogenic samples at 4.2 K and a…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST's CRADA mechanism under 15 U.S.C. 3710a for joint R&D with non-federal (especially U.S. industry) collaborators, at NIST or the partner's lab; NIST contributes personnel, facilities and equipment but no funds, protects CRADA…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Figure data (MATLAB files) for an Applied Optics paper describing a compact frequency-comb optical time-transfer and ranging node (14 L, 10 kg, 46 W) tested over a 4.4 km free-space testbed, showing potential for sub-femtosecond clock…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Figure data supporting the manuscript on a time-programmable frequency comb and its application to quantum-limited dual-comb ranging (arXiv 2205.01147), from NIST's Spectrum Technology and Research Division.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Data showing increased instantaneous bandwidth of Rydberg-atom RF receivers using a probe optical frequency comb and two-photon EIT on the cesium 56D5/2 state, with modulation sidebands read on each comb tooth (supports arXiv 2402.17942).
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Channel-power and occupancy-rate measurements made by NIST during the COVID-19 pandemic at 13 residential telework sites and a local hospital, covering cellular bands below 1 GHz and unlicensed 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WLAN/WPAN bands.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Zeiss Auriga dual-beam instrument combining Ga focused-ion-beam milling/deposition (~10 nm patterning) with field-emission SEM imaging and EDS; used for atom-probe and TEM sample preparation, nanofabrication of probe tips and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Route for foreign national associates to work directly with NIST staff on mission-relevant projects, supported by their home institution, bilateral programs or researcher-to-researcher collaboration; NIST may give a modest living allowance…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST Time and Frequency Division participation in GPS-based time-transfer experiments and programs (one-way, common-view and carrier-phase techniques) for national and international clock comparisons, including an International GNSS…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Maskless optical lithography tool in the Boulder Microfabrication Facility that writes patterns directly onto substrates (1 cm chips to 150 mm wafers) with a 375 nm or 405 nm laser at 0.9 µm resolution, shortening prototyping by…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
SHEEP technique that reconstructs a full interferometer fringe from several phase set points to extract small rotation rates in point-source atom interferometer gyroscopes, for future inertial navigation systems. NIST inventors Kitching,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST group (founded and led to 2017 by Nobel laureate Dave Wineland) that traps atomic and molecular ions in electromagnetic traps and controls them with lasers and fields for quantum information science and precision measurement,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
ILThermo (v2.0), NIST Standard Reference Database #147, a database of ionic-liquid properties; the cached page is a minimal shell with only the title and copyright line.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Electron-beam lithography tool in the Boulder Microfabrication Facility allowing wafer-level lithography of features as small as 8 nm, with 1000x better position registration and write speed than the previous tool; supports quantum…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Cameca LEAP 4000x Si atom probe that field-evaporates tip specimens with voltage and laser pulses into a position-sensitive time-of-flight mass spectrometer, giving 3D composition with near-ppm sensitivity and sub-nm position accuracy;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Fully automated dual-chamber MBE system in NIST's Applied Physics Division for growing GaAs-, InP- and GaN-based compound semiconductor heterostructures with sub-nanometer thickness control, used for quantum dots, nanowires, lasers,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CTL test bed (opened 2016) for wireless coexistence metrology and standards, combining large semi-anechoic and reverberation chambers with live 4G/5G cellular base stations, MIMO transceivers, channel emulators, signal generators and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group researching ultracold-atom optical lattice clocks for future time and frequency standards and calibration of International Atomic Time, with ultra-stable lasers, mobile clocks for geopotential mapping, and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Public NTP service from NIST stratum-1 time servers linked to UTC(NIST) for synchronizing computer clocks, plus a UT1 NTP server, client software (nistime-32bit.exe) and guidance on leap-second handling.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Cooperative-agreement program with participating universities that funds students, recent graduates, postdocs and faculty to do research in NIST labs in Boulder, Gaithersburg or Charleston; PREP Boulder partners include Colorado School of…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NIST's cesium fountain primary frequency standards: NIST-F4 (under evaluation, approaching 10^-16 accuracy) and NIST-F3 (a high-uptime stable reference with drift below 10^-17/day), successors to NIST-F1/F2; laser-cooled cesium atoms…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Two-way exchange of frequency-comb pulses over free-space optical links to compare and synchronize clocks at femtosecond level between terrestrial, airborne or satellite sites, also enabling coherent microwave generation at remote sites.…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Cooperative NIST Boulder microscopy and microanalysis facility (3,000 sq ft, ARRA-funded) housing an aberration-corrected TEM, a dual-beam FIB/SEM and a local electrode atom probe for imaging and compositional analysis down to the atomic…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group developing femtosecond laser frequency combs and frequency-stable lasers for optical frequency measurement, optical-to-microwave synthesis and precision spectroscopy, plus stable reference cavities, microwave…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group doing long-term research on microresonator frequency combs and integrated nonlinear photonics for frequency synthesis, compact atomic clocks and sensors, and photonic-electronic packaging for data-center and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST HF station near Fort Collins, Colorado, broadcasting time announcements, standard intervals and frequencies, UT1 corrections, BCD time code and geophysical alerts 24/7 on 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz (plus experimental 25 MHz); also…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST 60 kHz LF time-code station near Fort Collins, Colorado, broadcasting continuous PWM and (since 2012) BPSK phase-modulated time codes used by millions of radio-controlled clocks in North America; two top-loaded monopole antennas on…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database (REFPROP) Version 10: 147 pure fluids, 5 pseudo-pure fluids and mixtures of up to 20 components, using high-accuracy Helmholtz, MBWR and other equations of state plus…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
CTL antenna metrology laboratory built on multi-robot measurement systems (LAPS with two 6-axis arms on an 8 m rail for 0.1–50 GHz; the 13-axis CROMMA for ~50–500 GHz) for antenna pattern, gain and polarization metrology, 5G/6G and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Data for a review of Rydberg-atom sensors and receivers, discussing capabilities and limits of Rydberg receivers and how atomic properties set sensitivity and bandwidth; figures 6(a) and 8 are new data, the rest drawn from earlier NIST…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Fiber artifact (bare single-mode fiber in an aluminum housing, serial-numbered) for calibrating direct far-field scanning systems that measure mode-field diameter at 1.31 µm and 1.55 µm, certified by the TIA direct far-field method with…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Fiber-coupled acetylene (12C2H2) absorption cell at 6.7 kPa for wavelength calibration from 1510 nm to 1540 nm, with 56 certified line centers (uncertainties 0.1–0.6 pm) for calibrating tunable lasers and optical spectrum analyzers; issued…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship projects at the Boulder campus (15–20 projects expected for 2026, funding-dependent) hosted by CTL, ITL, MML, PML and other offices; applicants rank four preferences, CHIPS-related projects may…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
ThermoData Engine (TDE) generates critically evaluated thermodynamic and transport property data for pure compounds, binary and ternary mixtures and reactions from the SOURCE database and prediction schemes, with full provenance, model…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Dual electro-optic frequency comb THz system: phase-coherent chirped pulses drive electro-optic modulators to generate flat THz combs in a photoconductive switch, down-converted to RF below 1 MHz for sensitive, fast (bio)molecular sensing;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Subscription service that installs a NIST-calibrated GNSS common-view measurement system at the customer site to compare its time standard with UTC(NIST) continuously (≈5 ns time, ≈1e-14 frequency uncertainty), with web-viewable data every…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST Special Test remote calibration service, launched in response to Executive Order 13905, offering GNSS-independent connectivity to UTC(NIST) atomic time signals over optical fiber from the Boulder and Gaithersburg campuses.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Monthly NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin (PDF, January 1997 to present; 2013 onward shown) with notes on the NIST time scale, primary standards and services, leap-second and UT1−UTC information, and UTC−UTC(NIST) and UTC(USNO)−UTC(NIST)…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Data acquisition program for NIST transition-edge-sensor (TES) microcalorimeters, replacing ndfb_server and matter; written in Go, built with a Makefile, and supporting TDM systems (Lancero device) on Ubuntu.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Python suite for analyzing pulse records from high-resolution cryogenic microcalorimeters (x-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers): TDM and microwave-multiplexed data, cuts, optimal filtering, line-shape fitting and absolute energy calibration;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Collection of wrappers for calling the NIST REFPROP shared library (a compiled FORTRAN DLL) from Python, MATLAB, Excel, LabVIEW, C/C++, C#, Mathematica and other environments; contributions welcome.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
UTC(NIST), NIST's realization of Coordinated Universal Time and the official time for the United States under the America COMPETES Act, with NIST and USNO as official U.S. timekeepers; built since the 1960s and used by stock exchanges and…