Development of a four-channel Johnson noise thermometry system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2655-2659

  Pollarolo, Alessio ^a,b   Urano, Chiharu ^b,c   Dresselhaus, Paul D ^b   Qu, Jifeng ^d   Rogalla, Horst ^e   Benz, Samuel P ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

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

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

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boltzmann's equation; correlation; digitalanalog conversion; Josephson arrays; measurement units; noise measurement; quantization; signal synthesis; standards; temperature

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN'S EQUATIONS; DIGITALANALOG CONVERSION; JOSEPHSON ARRAYS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTIZATION; SIGNAL SYNTHESIS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 79958284866     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2098110     Document Type: Article

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