It would take 15 billion years for the clock that occupies Jun Ye's basement lab at the University of Colorado to lose a second -- about how long the universe has existed. For this invention, the ...
This past August, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a development that could deliver a thousand-fold performance improvement over the quartz crystal ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This unit is all that remains of a ...
The world’s most accurate clock has taken the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Jun Ye, a physicist with the joint venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the ...
The temperature dependent characteristics of quartz crystals prevent time keeping also with state-of-the-art real time clocks from being highly accurate over a wide temperature range, unless ...