Status of the METAS watt balance experiment

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 626-630

  Beer, Walter ^a   Eichenberger, Ali L ^a   Jeanneret, Blaise ^a   Jeckelmann, Beat ^a   Pourzand, Ali R ^b   Richard, Philippe ^a   Schwarz, Joshua P ^a  

^a METAS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Kilogram; Planck constant; Watt balance

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC WIRE; MAGNETIC FLUX; PRECISION BALANCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

KILOGRAM; PLANCK CONSTANT; WATT BALANCE EXPERIMENT;

WATTMETERS;

EID: 0037899501     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.810033     Document Type: Article

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