The NIST watt balance: Progress toward monitoring the kilogram

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 601-604

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

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

Author keywords

Absolute ampere; Balance; Fundamental constants; Kilogram; Mass standard; Watt experiment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REFRACTOMETERS;

MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY; THREE LASER INTERFEROMETRY; WATT BALANCE;

PRECISION BALANCES;

EID: 0031123641     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571932     Document Type: Article

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