"Machine readability is one of the big challenges in science in general, but in particular in metrology," Brown says. "You have to have ways of unambiguously representing the units." In the end ...

Semi-automated metrology tools incorporating a material handling unit (MHU) are tailored for sectors such as MEMS, sapphire, ...

Quantum metrology uses quanta — individual packets of energy — for setting the standards that define units of measurement and for other high-precision research. Quantum mechanics sets the ...

Located in Bad Urach, Germany, the new facility combines state-of-the-art manufacturing with a research and development ...

Optical metrology is using light to set the standards that define units of measurement and for other high-precision research. Optical clocks, for example, have the potential to define the unit of ...