Josephson-voltage-standard-locked sine wave synthesizer: Margin evaluation and stability

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 791-796

  Jeanneret, Blaise ^a   Overney, Frédéric ^a   Callegaro, Luca ^b   Mortara, Alessandro ^a   Rüfenacht, Alain ^c  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

AC measurements; Josephson devices; Josephson voltage standard; Waveform synthesizer

Indexed keywords

HYBRID COMPUTERS; IONIC CONDUCTION; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

AC MEASUREMENTS; COMMERCIAL SOURCES; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER DAC; JOSEPHSON; JOSEPHSON DEVICES; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARD; SINE WAVE GENERATORS; SINE WAVES; SINIS JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; VOLTAGE STEPS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER;

STANDARDS;

EID: 63449139987     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2006963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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