Design of the new METAS watt balance experiment Mark II

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-242

  Baumann, H ^a   Eichenberger, A ^a   Cosandier, F ^a   Jeckelmann, B ^a   Clavel, R ^b   Reber, D ^c   Tommasini, D ^d  

^a Federal Office of Metrology METAS   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c METTLER TOLEDO ^*  (Switzerland)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAU INTERNATIONAL DES POIDS ET MESURES; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; INTERNATIONAL PROTOTYPE; METROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PLANCK CONSTANTS; WATT BALANCE;

METRIC SYSTEM;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84878849521     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/3/235     Document Type: Article

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