Reduced non-linearities and improved temperature measurements for the NIST Johnson noise thermometer

Metrologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 512-524

  Qu, Jifeng ^a   Benz, S P ^a   Rogalla, H ^b   White, D R ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIASING ERROR; COMMON-MODE REJECTION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; JOHNSON NOISE; MEASUREMENT STANDARDS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT TIME; MULTITONE; NONLINEARITIES; QUANTUM VOLTAGE NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; VOLTAGE NOISE; WAVE FORMS;

COMPUTER VISION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMOMETERS;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 70350671496     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/46/5/016     Document Type: Article

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