The NPL moving-coil apparatus for measuring planck's constant and monitoring the kilogram

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 596-600

  Robinson, Ian A ^a   Kibble, Bryan P ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Josephson; Kilogram; Moving coil; Planck's constant; Quantum Hall; Watt

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FORCE MEASUREMENT; HALL EFFECT; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WEIGHING;

JOSEPHSON EFFECT; MAGNETIC FLUX; MOVING COIL BALANCE; PLANCK'S CONSTANT;

PRECISION BALANCES;

EID: 0031119402     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571929     Document Type: Article

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