Alignment uncertainties of the NIST watt experiment

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 605-608

  Gillespie, Aaron D ^a   Fujii, Ken Ichi ^b,c   Newell, David B ^a   Olsen, Paul T ^a   Picard, A ^d   Steiner, Richard L ^a   Stenbakken, Gerard N ^a   Williams, Edwin R ^a  

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

^b National Institute of Standards and Technology   (France)

^c National Laboratory of Metrology   (Japan)

^d PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ERROR CORRECTION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; SOLENOIDS;

MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY; WATT BALANCE;

PRECISION BALANCES;

EID: 0031120378     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571933     Document Type: Article

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