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| | Nanotechnology Is BIG at NIST |
 | | Consider work under way at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where research truly is pushing the limits of technology. |
 | | Here, scientists and engineers are building atom and electron counters, single-photon turnstiles, ultracold ion and atom traps, and lasers that generate uniform pulses of light that last only a few trillionths of a second. |
 | | For NIST, the quest to design, manipulate, manufacture, and assemble at the molecular and atomic levels translates into a full agenda of demanding measurement jobs and related tasks. |
| www.nist.gov /nanotech (5682 words) |
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