Sae Woo Nam, NIST (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Sae Woo Nam, NIST

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NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam works with refrigeration equipment used to cool photon detectors to nearly absolute zero. His team’s efforts have created devices that can detect single photons with 99 percent efficiency.

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