Construction, measurement, shimming, and performance of the NIST-4 magnet system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3027-3038

  Seifert, Frank ^a   Panna, Alireza ^a   Li, Shisong ^a   Han, Bing ^b   Chao, Leon ^a   Cao, Austin ^a   Haddad, Darine ^a   Choi, Heeju ^c   Haley, Lori ^c   Schlamminger, Stephan ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY   (China)

^c Electron Energy Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic measurements; magnetic circuits; measurement standards; measurement units; permanent magnets

Indexed keywords

PERMANENT MAGNETS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNET SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT STANDARDS;

MAGNETIC CIRCUITS;

EID: 84907451179     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2323138     Document Type: Article

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