Thermal-transfer standard validation of the Josephson-voltage-standard- locked sine-wave synthesizer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2372-2377

  Rüfenacht, Alain ^a   Overney, Frédéric ^a   Mortara, Alessandro ^a   Jeanneret, Blaise ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alternating current (ac) voltage metrology; Josephson voltage standard; thermal transfer standards (TTSs); waveform synthesizer

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING-CURRENT (AC) VOLTAGE METROLOGY; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAYS; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARD; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARDS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SINE-WAVE; SINUSOIDAL WAVE; THERMAL TRANSFER; THERMAL-TRANSFER STANDARDS (TTSS); WAVEFORM FREQUENCY; WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; QUANTUM OPTICS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

STANDARDS;

EID: 79958259733     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2099931     Document Type: Article

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