Methods for aligning the NIST watt-balance

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 372-377

  Stenbakken, Gerard N ^a,b   Steiner, Richard ^b   Thomas Olsen, P ^a,b   Williams, Edwin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; STABILITY; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; TORQUE;

ELECTRICAL QUANTUM STANDARDS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION VOLTAGE STANDARDS; MOVABLE SUSPENDED COIL; QUANTIZED HALL RESISTANCE;

ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0030127004     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.492750     Document Type: Article

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