There is currently a strong movement worldwide toward portable, battery operated wirelessly connected devices such as GPS receivers, cellular telephones and laptop computers and tablets.
A new generation of miniature, low-power, low-cost precision instruments based on silicon micromachining and precision atomic spectroscopy is being developed at NIST for use in such portable technologies.
This talk will describe the design, fabrication and performance of these instruments, as well as touch on several applications to which they are well-suited.
