Determination of the Planck constant with the METAS watt balance

Metrologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 133-141

  Eichenberger, Ali ^a   Baumann, Henri ^a   Jeanneret, Blaise ^a   Jeckelmann, Beat ^a   Richard, Philippe ^a   Beer, Walter ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; PLANCK CONSTANTS; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY BUDGET; WATT BALANCE;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953679173     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/48/3/007     Document Type: Article

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