Automated electric charge measurements of fluid microdrops using the Millikan method

Metrologia

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Lee, Eric R ^a   Halyo, Valerie ^a   Lee, Irwin T ^a   Perl, Martin L ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER VISION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BOLTZMANN CONSTANT; MICRODROPS; MILLIKAN METHOD; QUANTIZATION;

ELECTRIC CHARGE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 7044222547     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/41/5/S05     Document Type: Article

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