A Chip that Keeps Time (Almost) Like an Atomic Clock

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...

Colorado Windstorm Causes 4.8 Microsecond Glitch in Official US Time

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...

Fire-weather alert in Colorado knocked out timekeeping across the internet

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...
Phys.org

New atomic fountain clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F4 measures an ...

NIST warns that its NIST-F4 atomic clock lost track of time after a power outage

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...
Electronic Design

Next-Gen Chip-Scale Atomic Clock: Thin is In, Noise is Out

Where and why tiny, portable, atomic clocks and their precision are needed. How atomic clocks are no longer room- or box-size arrangements. The size, power, and other metrics of a latest-generation ...
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MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks

Vladan Vuletić with members of his Experimental Atomic Physics group. From left to right: Matthew Radzihovsky, Leon Zaporski, Qi Liu, Vladan Vuletić, and Gustavo Velez. Every time you check the time ...

Colorado power outages disrupt atomic clock in Boulder

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...