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Metrology

# Mass metrology

## News and Updates

### Mass Revolution: Kibble Balances for All

March 28, 2023

### Artifacts, Begone! NIST Improves Its Flagship Device for Measuring Mass

January 18, 2023

### NIST Researchers Link Cutting-Edge Gravity Research to Safer Operation of Construction Cranes

February 17, 2022

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## Projects and Programs

### Precision Electro-Mechanical Experiments (PREME)

### Nanometrology:  Composition and Structure of Nanomaterials

### Strain Measurement for Semiconductor Devices

### Quantifying the environmental contributions to mass change

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## Publications

### Gravimetric deposition of microliter drops with radiometric confirmation

September 9, 2023

Denis E.  BergeronRichard  EssexSvetlana  NourGordon A.  ShawR. Michael  VerkouterenRyan P.  Fitzgerald

### Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry as an Independent Assessment for Mass Measurements of Milligram Quantities of Aqueous Solution

January 1, 2023

Richard  EssexJacqueline L.  MannDenis E.  BergeronRyan P.  FitzgeraldSvetlana  NourGordon A.  ShawR. Michael  Verkouteren

### A Macroscopic Mass From Quantum Behavior In An Integrated Approach

December 10, 2022

Frank  SeifertAlireza  PannaLorenz  KeckLeon  ChaoShamith  PayagalaDean G.  JarrettDipanjan  SahaRandolph  ElmquistStephan  SchlammingerAlbert  RigosiDavid B.  NewellDarine  El Haddad

### Neutron Phase Contrast Imaging of PbWO4 Crystals for G Experiment Test Masses Using a Talbot-Lau Neutron Interferometer

November 25, 2022

Daniel S.  HusseyVincent  Lee

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