Automatic tuning of the pulse-driven AC Josephson voltage standard

CPEM Digest (Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 185-186

  Houtzager, Ernest ^a   Van Den Brom, Helko E ^a   Van Woerkom, David ^a  

^a VSL Dutch Metrology Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TUNING; AUTOMATIC TUNING; BIT STREAM; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARDS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; TUNING ALGORITHM;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; HEURISTIC METHODS; TUNING; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS;

EID: 77956696041     PISSN: 05891485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CPEM.2010.5543462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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