A traceable precision current source for currents between 100 aA and 10 pA

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 436-439

  Willenberg, Gerd Dietmar ^a   Tauscher, H Norbert ^a   Warnecke, Peter ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Current; Picoamperemeter

Indexed keywords

AMPEROMETRIC SENSORS; CALIBRATION; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; RAMP GENERATORS;

ELECTRONIC INTEGRATORS; PICOAMPEREMETER; TRACEABLE PRECISION CURRENT SOURCE; VOLTAGE RAMP GENERATORS;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 0038575726     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.810051     Document Type: Article

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