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Mastering chemical data
The Virtual Institute for Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology (VICIM) funded by the European Union has taken up operations. This European network of excellence in chemometrics and metrology enables industrial clients to face the challenges in the analysis of today`s complex chemical measurement data and to ensure the quality of measurement results. Modern chemical measurement technology is... View More (2002-04-03)
'Racetrack' for fast electrons in semiconductor structures
In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure semiconductor layers where high-mobile electrons move through the crystal without collision with residual impurities. View More (2008-08-29)
PTB Terahertz calibration satisfies US laser manufacturer
Terahertz radiation still lies in a metrological no man's land - a metrology gap. The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) can now close this gap. View More (2009-11-06)
Silicon chips for optical quantum technologies
A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light - photons - on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards the long sought after goal of a super-powerful quantum computer. View More (2008-03-28)
UK scientists develop optimum piezoelectric energy harvesters
Scientists working as part of the Metrology for Energy Harvesting Project have developed a new model to deliver the maximum power output for piezoelectric energy harvesters. View More (2012-03-05)
Time is money: SIM time network has far-reaching benefits
Clocks in the Americas and the Caribbean Islands are now ticking in unison thanks to the work of the Sistema Interamericano de Metrologia (SIM), a regional metrology organization that works to promote accurate measurements throughout the Americas. View More (2010-06-01)
Redefining the kilogram and the ampere
Groundbreaking research by the National Physical Laboratory's (NPL) Quantum Detection Group and an international team of collaborators is underpinning the biggest change in the Système Internationale d'unités (SI Units) since the system began 50 years ago. View More (2011-09-29)
LGC selects £500k Bruker Daltonics instrument to expand its mass spectrometry capability
LGC, the UK`s leading independent analytical laboratory providing chemical, biochemical and DNA analysis, has purchased a new Bruker Daltonics APEX III 47e Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer (FTMS). This instrument, with its exceptionally high mass accuracy and resolution, will be used to characterise high molecular weight materials, especially biomolecules, and in the development of reference... View More (2002-06-10)
£42M is made to measure
Lord Sainsbury announces new investment in measurement technology over three years Advances in measurement technology were today given a £42m boost by the Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury. 'Telemedicine' will allow doctors to make medical judgements based on a television image of a patient. Remote diagnosis via phone or internet link and keyhole surgery will depend upon new technology to... View More (2001-05-01)
Proba-3: ESA's first step towards formation flying
Proba-3 is the third in ESA's series of missions for validating developments in space systems while carrying an 'added value' user payload which can directly benefit from the innovations under test. View More (2006-08-10)
Going 3D with DMAC
The DMAC (Dimensional Metrology Awareness Club) Form Metrology Special Interest Group is concerned with the global characterisation of 3D surfaces using contacting and non-contacting techniques. DMAC, which is run by the NPL (National Physical Laboratory), on behalf of the DTI, has over 65 member organisations. The activities of this group are key to organisations involved in the manufacture,... View More (2003-07-18)
Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies
A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light - photons - on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and ultra-precise measurements. View More (2009-06-09)
Sandia weighs in on new definition for kilogram
The kilogram is losing weight and many international scientists, including some at Sandia National Laboratories, agree that it's time to redefine it. View More (2008-02-29)
Memory with a twist: NIST develops a flexible memristor
Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). View More (2009-06-03)
The day LISA Pathfinder hung in the balance
At the core of ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission sit two small hearts. Each is a cube, just 5 centimetres across. Together they will allow LISA Pathfinder to lay the foundations for future space-based measurements that investigate the very core of Einstein's General Relativity. View More (2006-10-12)
Physicists' findings about helium could lead to more accurate temperature, pressure measurements
In the May 7 edition of Physical Review Letters, a journal of the American Physical Society, an international team led by University of Delaware researchers reports new findings about helium that may lead to more accurate standards for how temperature and pressure are measured. View More (2010-05-18)
A big step towards the redefinition of the kelvin
Metrologists are measurement artists who are very precise - in the case of the Boltzmann constant up to the sixth decimal place. Whoever is able to determine it very exactly will cause a small revolution in the field of worldwide temperature measurement: The temperature unit will then no longer be based - as hitherto - on a chemico-physical material property, i.e. the triple point of water, but... View More (2011-09-21)
Quantum algorithm breakthrough
The team implemented the 'phase estimation algorithm' - a central quantum algorithm which achieves an exponential speedup over all classical algorithms. View More (2013-02-25)
NIST's Novel 'Noise Thermometry' May Help Redefine International Unit of Temperature
After seven years of work, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a system that relies on the "noise" of jiggling electrons as a basis for measuring temperatures with extreme precision. View More (2008-06-04)
National Physical Laboratory Stages Unique On-Line Experiments
Does your computer’s clock always run slow? How good are human beings at estimating? How much does gravity vary over the globe? With your help we are attempting to find answers to these questions as part of a huge on-line Web event to celebrate World Metrology Day 2001, Sunday 20th May. This is the first time NPL have attempted such a global experiment and we need you to help us make it a... View More (2001-05-18)
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