NIST Device Measures Amount of Nothing

October 22, 2018
Technology

NIST Device Measures Amount of Nothing. NIST has developed a portable device to measure extreme vacuum in a space. Trapped ions, magneto-optical traps, and cold-atom vacuum standards (CAVS) all play a part in this aspect of quantum information science research and development.

This report is found here at PHYS.ORG…

The U.S. Government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology invests a lot of time and effort into measuring — nothing. But it’s good. Read on.

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