Tracing Planck's constant to the kilogram by electromechanical methods

Metrologia

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 356-365

  Eichenberger, A ^a   Jeckelmann, B ^a   Richard, P ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Energy   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTRONS; GRAVIMETERS; INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC LEVITATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; METRIC SYSTEM; PRECISION BALANCES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

AVOGADRO CONSTANTS; PLANCK CONSTANT; RYDBERG CONSTANT;

WEIGHING;

EID: 0348136425     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/40/6/007     Document Type: Article

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