Metrology triangle using a Watt balance, a calculable capacitor and a single-electron tunnelling device

Metrologia

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 330-334

  Keller, Mark W ^a   Piquemal, François ^b   Feltin, Nicolas ^b   Steck, Barthélémy ^b   Devoille, Laurent ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CHARGED PARTICLES; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONS; ENERGY STORAGE; EXCAVATION; TRIANGULATION; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

SINGLE ELECTRON TUNNELLING; SINGLE-ELECTRON (SE); TRIANGLE (CO); WATT BALANCE;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 44949207423     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/45/3/010     Document Type: Article

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