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knowledge of the NIST Handbook 130 Examination </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article about="/news-events/events/2023/12/5892-nist-handbook-130-examination-procedure-price-verification-wm" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20231204110411/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/12/5892-nist-handbook-130-examination-procedure-price-verification-wm"><span>5892 NIST Handbook 130 - Examination Procedure for Price Verification (W&M Measures officials only)</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="smartdate">Thu, Dec 14 2023, 11:00am - 1:30pm EST</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-with-summary"> This 2.5 hour webinar will provide inspectors with an understanding and knowledge of the NIST Handbook 130 Examination </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article 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Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics - Tara Fortier</span> </a></h3> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-long"> In recognition of pioneering contributions to the development of frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers and their applications in </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="nist-field__item"> <article about="/awards/2023-breakthrough-new-horizons-physics-prize-adam-kaufman" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20231204110411/https://www.nist.gov/awards/2023-breakthrough-new-horizons-physics-prize-adam-kaufman" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20231204110411im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2022/09/21/Kaufman_photo.jpg?itok=Z0Ja8WFV" width="100" height="95" alt="Adam Kaufman poses for a head shot with a shelf of library books in the background. 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class="nist-field__label">NIST Inventors</div> David Gundlach , Emily Bittle and Sebastian Engmann </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-long"> A novel magnetic field sensor (MFS) may be created with an organic light emitting diode (OLED) made from an organic semiconductor material and an organic photodetector (OPD) built directly on top (or below) of the OLED, wherein one layer is made from a magnetically isotropic material, and which </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article about="/patents/mapping-probe-real-time-signal-sampling-and-recovery-engineered-electromagnetic-interference" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20231204110411/https://www.nist.gov/patents/mapping-probe-real-time-signal-sampling-and-recovery-engineered-electromagnetic-interference"><span>Mapping Probe For Real-Time Signal Sampling And Recovery From Engineered Electromagnetic Interference</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__type"> <div class="nist-field nist-field--label-inline"> <div class="nist-field__label">NIST Inventors</div> Fabio C.S. Da Silva </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-long"> A mapping probe provides real-time signal sampling and recovery from engineered electromagnetic interference and includes: a trigger voltage source that synchronizes transmission of primary electromagnetic waves; primary electromagnetic wave synthesizers that receive a trigger voltage signal and </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article about="/patents/high-q-micromechanical-torsion-resonator-based-suspending-test-mass-nanoribbon" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20231204110411/https://www.nist.gov/patents/high-q-micromechanical-torsion-resonator-based-suspending-test-mass-nanoribbon"><span>High-Q Micromechanical Torsion Resonator Based On Suspending A Test Mass From A Nanoribbon</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__type"> <div class="nist-field nist-field--label-inline"> <div class="nist-field__label">NIST Inventors</div> Stephan Schlamminger and Jon R. 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