Up to 20 IDS Cameras Support Nuclear Fusion Research
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Credit: Marvel Fusion GmbH
Nuclear fusion is seen as a possible visionary solution to the energy problems of the future—clean and comparatively low-risk.
Digitalizing Metal Cold-Rolling Inspections for Enhanced Quality
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Automated processes, tactile-sensing technology, and other digital solutions can make inspections faster and more cost-effective. Photo by Killian Cartignies on Unsplash.
Metal cold-rolling is a critical process in manufacturing various steel and aluminum products.
Why Measurements at NIST Are Important for the Nation and the World
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James Olthoff is NIST’s first chief metrologist. Credit: NIST
Practically everything you use in your everyday life works because of measurement science. Without precise measurements, your car wouldn’t run, your phone wouldn’t work, hospitals couldn’t function, and the ATM would fail.
Nanostructures Enable On-Chip Lightwave-Electronic Frequency Mixer
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The demonstration of a lightwave-electronic mixer at petahertz-scale frequencies is a first step toward making communication technology faster and advances research toward developing new, miniaturized lightwave electronic circuitry capable of handling optical signals directly at the nanoscale. Credit: Sampson Wilcox/Research Laboratory of Electronics
Imagine how a phone call works. Your voice is converted into electronic signals, shifted up to higher frequencies, transmitted over long distances, and then shifted back down so it can be heard clearly on the other end.
2D Cameras Provide Micron Precision for Wire Bonding
Wire bonding is a key process in semiconductor production. Extremely fine wires with diameters of 15 to 75 µm are used to create tiny electrical connections between a semiconductor chip and other components.
Temperature Compensation for Industrial Measurement Systems
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In-process temperature sensors
In 1988, a small company began developing and supplying electronic instruments that automatically compensate for temperature-induced errors in industrial gages that are used to make precision dimensional measurements.
Nuclear Clock Development Brings Ultraprecise Timekeeping Closer to Reality
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The world keeps time with the ticks of atomic clocks, but a new type of clock under development—a nuclear clock—could revolutionize how we measure time and probe fundamental physics.
Tiny New Lasers Opening New Applications
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Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash
It’s not easy making green.
Comparative Gages and Temperature Compensation
Electronic temperature compensation in gaging has become a valuable tool in improving the accuracy and gage repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R) of gages in harsh manufacturing environments.
Using Large Language Models to Flag Problems in Complex Systems
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The new method could someday help alert technicians to potential problems in equipment like wind turbines or satellites. Credit: MIT News, iStock
Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking at hundreds of signals and millions of data points, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.