First steps toward a quantum capacitance standard at METAS

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 604-607

  Hof, Christian ^a   Jeanneret, Blaise ^a   Eichenberger, Ali ^a   Overney, Frederic ^a   Lotkhov, Sergey V ^b  

^a METAS   (Switzerland)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacitance standard; Cryogenic; Quantum standard; Single electron pump

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON BEAM PUMPING; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; STANDARDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CAPACITANCE STANDARD; QUANTUM STANDARD; SINGLE ELECTRON RESISTIVE PUMPS;

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0038236914     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.810035     Document Type: Article

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