Accurate subpicoampere current source based on a differentiating capacitor with software-controlled nonlinearity compensation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 554-558

  van den Brom, Helko E ^a   de la Court, Pieter ^a   Rietveld, Gert ^a  

^a NMi Van Swinden Laboratorium   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Capacitance; Current source; Picoammeter; Standard capacitor

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

AIR DIELECTRIC CAPACITOR; CURRENT SOURCE; DIFFERENTIATING CAPACITOR; PICOAMETER; SOFTWARE CONTROLLED NONLINEARITY; STANDARD CAPACITOR; SUBPICOAMPERE CURRENT; VOLTAGE RAMP;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT;

EID: 17444386997     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.843127     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. G. Rietveld and H. Heimeriks, "Highly sensitive picoampere meter," in Proc. CPEM Conf. Dig., 1996, pp. 332-333.
2. G.-D. Willenberg, H. N. Tauscher, and P. Warnecke, "A traceable precision current source for currents between 100 aA and 10 pA," IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 436-439, Apr. 2003.