The quality factor of niobium flexure pendulums

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 254, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 239-244

  Ju, L ^a   Blair, D G ^a   Taniwaki, M ^a   Andrew, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIOBIUM; PENDULUMS;

GEOMETRY EFFECTS; Q-FACTORS; QUALITY FACTORS; SURFACE RATIO;

Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0041349436     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00096-1     Document Type: Article

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