Improvements in the NIST Johnson noise thermometry system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 884-890

  Benz, Samuel P ^a   Qu, Jifeng ^a   Rogalla, Horst ^b   White, D Rod ^c   Dresselhaus, Paul D ^a   Tew, Weston L ^a   Nam, Sae Woo ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Boltzmann's equation; Correlation; Digital analog conversion; Josephson arrays; Measurement units; Noise measurement; Quantization; Signal synthesis; Standards; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MEASUREMENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMOMETERS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

BOLTZMANN'S EQUATION; CORRELATION; DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERSION; JOSEPHSON ARRAYS; MEASUREMENT UNITS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; QUANTIZATION; SIGNAL SYNTHESIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 63449141908     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2007027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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