Research and Development
Research at NRC's Institute for National
Measurement Standards (INMS) is aimed at the realization of high
accuracy primary standards compatible with those of other countries,
and at specific applications of measurement techniques.
The Institute has eight research groups with eleven specialized
programs in physical and chemical metrology.
INMS conducts frontier metrology research to improve the accuracy
with which measurements are made of fundamental quantities like
length, time, electric current, temperature, luminous intensity
and mass. Researchers also strive to improve measurement methods
for a host of additional quantities derived from these fundamental
units — absorbed dose to water and air kerma, pressure, volume,
hardness, flow rate, chemical composition, voltage, resistance,
and many others. |