A 10V programmable Josephson voltage standard and its applications for voltage metrology

Metrologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 635-643

  Tang, Y ^a   Ojha, V N ^b   Schlamminger, S ^a   Rufenacht A ^a   Burroughs, C J ^a   Dresselhaus, P D ^a   Benz, S P ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC KILOGRAM; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAYS; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARDS; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; PROGRAMMABLE JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARD; RELATIVE COMBINED STANDARD UNCERTAINTIES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; VOLTAGE STANDARD; VOLTAGE STEP;

QUANTUM OPTICS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 84865977191     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/49/6/635     Document Type: Article

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