Diameter comparison of a silicon sphere for the international avogadro coordination project

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2615-2620

  Kuramoto, Naoki ^a   Fujii, Kenichi ^a   Nicolaus, Arnold ^b   Bartl, Guido ^b   Gray, Malcolm ^c   Manson, Peter ^c   Giardini, Walter ^c  

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

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL MEASUREMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avogadro constant; optical interferometry; silicon; X ray crystal density method

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AVOGADRO CONSTANT; GERMANY; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; X-RAY CRYSTAL DENSITY METHOD;

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); INTERFEROMETRY; TITRATION; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

SPHERES;

EID: 79958253969     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2099272     Document Type: Article

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