An electronic measurement of the Boltzmann constant

Metrologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 142-153

  Benz, Samuel P ^a   Pollarolo, Alessio ^a,b   Qu, Jifeng ^c   Rogalla, Horst ^a,d   Urano, Chiharu ^a,e   Tew, Weston L ^a   Dresselhaus, Paul D ^a   White, D Rod ^f  

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

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE EFFECT; ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRONIC TECHNIQUE; JOHNSON NOISE; JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION; RELATIVE COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TRIPLE POINT OF WATERS; UNCERTAINTY BUDGET; VOLTAGE REFERENCE; WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; THERMOMETERS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79956301615     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/48/3/008     Document Type: Article

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