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An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2018 (2018) / Chapter Skim
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2 Organization and Mission of the Physical Measurement Laboratory
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... These areas include advanced manufacturing, national security, biological innovations, climate change science, and clean energy. The division provides industry, and its suppliers and customers, with comprehensive measurement capabilities and standards, as well as traceability to those standards.2 Its groups are as follows:  Advanced Microwave Photonics,  Faint Photonics,  Fiber Sources and Applications,  Magnetic Imaging,  Molecular and BioPhotonics,3  Quantitative Nanostructure Characterization,  Quantum Nanophotonics, and  Sources and Detectors.
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... research and technology development.6 Its groups are as follows:  Atomic Devices and Instrumentation Group,  Atomic Standards Group,  Ion Storage Group,  Optical Frequency Measurements Group,  Time and Frequency Metrology, and  Time and Frequency Services. QUANTUM PHYSICS DIVISION The Quantum Physics Division, located on the campus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, at a joint institute, JILA, performs experimental and theoretical research and innovation advancing fundamental measurement science through quantum optics, quantum degenerate gases of atoms and molecules, quantum many-body physics, chemical physics, biophysics, and nanoscale quantum science.7 Its functional research and training focus areas are as follows:  Quantum Information Science and Technology,  Precision Measurement,  Nanoscience,  Laser Physics,  Chemical Physics,  Biophysics,  Atomic and Molecular Physics, and  Astrophysics.
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... PML establishes spectroscopic methods and standards for infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma-ray radiation; investigates the structure and dynamics of atoms, molecules, and biomolecules; develops the electrical, thermal, dimensional, mechanical, and physical metrology for measuring the properties of precision measurement devices and exploratory semiconductor, quantum electronic, nanoelectronic, bioelectronic, biooptical, optoelectronic, and quantum information devices and systems; and examines the thermophysical and interfacial properties of streams of flowing fluids, fluid mixtures, and solids. It develops and disseminates national standards by means of calibrations, measurement quality assurance, standard reference materials, technology transfer, education and training, and a comprehensive weights and measurement program to promote uniformity and accuracy at the international, federal, state, and local levels.
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