SQUIDs for Standards and Metrology

The SQUID Handbook: Applications of SQUIDs and SQUID Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 95-137

  Gallop, John ^a   Piquemal, François ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cryogenic current comparator (CCC); Future trends; Radio frequency attenuation with SQUIDs; SQUID applications; SQUID systems; SQUIDs for Metrology; SQUIDs for standards; SQUIDs in voltage Metrology; Thermometry using SQUIDs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891022937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527609956.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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