Strong attenuation of the transients' effect in square waves synthesized with a programmable josephson voltage standard

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1894-1899

  Jeanneret, Blaise ^a   Overney, Fradaric ^a   Rufenacht, Alain ^a   Nissila, Jaani ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE FOR METROLOGY AND ACCREDITATION MIKES   (Finland)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AC MEASUREMENTS; CURRENT MARGINS; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; HIGH-PRECISION; JOSEPHSON; JOSEPHSON DEVICES; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARDS; PROGRAMMABLE JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARD; SQUARE WAVEFORM; SQUARE WAVES; VOLTAGE STEP; WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER;

IONIC CONDUCTION; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; TRANSIENTS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

STANDARDS;

EID: 77953247226     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2030920     Document Type: Article

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