Progress toward a 1 V pulse-driven AC Josephson voltage standard

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 838-843

  Benz, Samuel P ^a   Dresselhaus, Paul D ^a   Rüfenacht, Alain ^a   Bergren, Norman F ^a   Kinard, Joseph R ^a   Landim, Regis Pinheiro ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digital analog conversion; Josephson arrays; Quantization; Signal synthesis; Standards; Superconductor normal superconductor devices; Voltage measurement

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL VOLTMETERS; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; STANDARDS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERSION; JOSEPHSON ARRAYS; QUANTIZATION; SIGNAL SYNTHESIS; SUPERCONDUCTOR-NORMAL-SUPERCONDUCTOR DEVICES;

VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

EID: 63449103038     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2007019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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