High precision comparison between a programmable and a pulse-driven Josephson voltage standard

Metrologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 311-316

  Jeanneret, Blaise ^a   Rüfenacht, Alain ^a   Overney, Frédéric ^a   Brom, Helko Van Den ^b   Houtzager, Ernest ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^b VSL Dutch Metrology Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH PRECISION; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARDS; NETHERLANDS; PROGRAMMABLE VOLTAGE STANDARDS; SWITZERLAND; VOLTAGE DIFFERENCE;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

STANDARDS;

EID: 80053183473     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/48/5/011     Document Type: Article

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