A tunable vacuum-gap cryogenic coaxial capacitor

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1326-1330

  Overney, Frédéric ^a   Jeanneret, Blaise ^a   Furlan, Miha ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coaxial capacitor; Cryogenic; Quantum standard; SET

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRODES; HYSTERESIS; LOW TEMPERATURE PHENOMENA; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TUNING;

CRYOGENIC COAXIAL CAPACITOR; QUANTUM STANDARD;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 0034468216     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.893278     Document Type: Article

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