News of the year

Scientific Divisions

• 50 years of monitoring speed
• Programmable 10V SNS voltage standards for 70 GHz
• Intrinsically safe at higher power values
• QUEST Institute at the PTB
• On the path to a new Avogadro constant
• Richard Glocker Building dedicated
• Long Night of Science 2008
• THz radiometry
• 7 tesla magnet has arrived

Theoretical Physics

• Disorder-induced splitting of the conductivity maximum at the Dirac point in graphene
• Quantum Dots and Quantum Rings: A study using the functional Renormalization Group

Board of Consultants

• The 59th meeting of the Board of Consultants of the PTB

Presidential Board

• Highest marks for research and development at the PTB
• Metrological Research in a joint European cooperation
• The new Units and Time Act
• Successful start for International Graduate School of Metrology
• Coordination with the Joint Research Centre of the EU

Quality management

• Quality management

Technology Transfer

• Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) recommends Innovation and Patent Association for funding

Legal Metrology

• PTB certification bodies merge into a single body

Technical Cooperation

• A new impulse for joint research with Russia
• Brazil passes metrological know-how on to Mozambique

Administration department

• Family friendly work place

Press and Information Office

• Trade fairs, conferences, events
• Specialized trade fairs
• Conferences
• Events for the public
• Veranstaltungen (Auswahl) in German only