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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. An Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26312.
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Acronyms

2D two dimensional
3D three dimensional
4D four dimensional
AAPM American Association of Physicists in Medicine
API American Petroleum Institute
APS American Physical Society
ASME American Society for Mechanical Engineering
ASTM ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials
AVS American Vacuum Society
BBM Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group
BIPM Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
CAVS cold-atom vacuum standard
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CEESI Colorado Engineering Experiment Station, Inc.
CMM coordinate measuring machine
CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology
COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019
CRADA cooperative research and development agreement
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
EPR electron paramagnetic resonance
EUV extreme ultraviolet
GPU graphics processing unit
GUV germicidal ultraviolet
IDEA Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance
JAWS Josephson-junction based arbitrary waveform synthesizer
JQI Joint Quantum Institute
LCT Laser Cooling and Trapping Group
MDA Missile Defense Agency
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCNR NIST Center for Neutron Research
nEDM neutron electric dipole moment
Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. An Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26312.
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NeXT neutron/X-ray tomography
NFM Nanostructure Fabrication and Measurement Group
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NMI national measurement institute
NOAC NIST-on-a-chip
NRC National Research Council (of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
NRCP National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
NSF National Science Foundation
PEEM photoemission electron microscopy
PhAND photon-assisted neutron detector
PI principal investigator
PML Physical Measurement Laboratory
PROSPECT Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum experiment
QED-C Quantum Economic Development Consortium
QHR Quantum Hall Resistance Standard
QuICS Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
RF radiofrequency
SI International System of Units
SIRCUS spectral irradiance and radiance responsivity calibration with uniform sources
SPIE International Society for Optics and Photonics
SRI Standard Reference Instrument
SSD Sensor Science Division
STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
STM scanning tunneling microscopy
SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility
TLS two-level system
UV ultraviolet
Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. An Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26312.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. An Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26312.
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At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from academia, industry, medicine, and other scientific and engineering environments to assess the quality and effectiveness of the NIST measurements and standards laboratories, as well as the adequacy of the laboratories' resources. This report assesses the scientific and technical work performed by the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory in the Quantum Measurement Division, Radiation Physics Division, Sensor Science Division, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, and Nanoscale Device Characterization Division.

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