Progress on the BIPM watt balance

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 924-929

  Picard, Alain ^a   Fang, Hao ^a   Kiss, Adrien ^a   de Mirandés, Estefania ^a   Stock, Michael ^a   Urano, Chiharu ^b  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kilogram; Planck's constant; Watt balance

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

BUREAU INTERNATIONAL DES POIDS ET MESURES; CURRENT FLOWS; CURRENT SOURCES; DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; KILOGRAM; LONG-TERM DRIFTS; MAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD ALIGNMENTS; PLANCK'S CONSTANT; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SHORT-TERM STABILITIES; VELOCITY RATIOS; VERTICAL MOVEMENTS; VOLTAGE DROPS; WATT BALANCE;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 63449107668     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2009913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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