Improvements to the Volume Measurement of 28Si Spheres to Determine the Avogadro Constant

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1650-1656

  Kuramoto, Naoki ^a   Azuma, Yasushi ^a   Inaba, Hajime ^a   Hong, Feng Lei ^a   Fujii, Kenichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avogadro constant; diameter measurement; optical interferometer; silicon crystal; spectroscopic ellipsometer; volume measurement

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; INTERFEROMETERS; SILICON; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPHERES; SURFACE ANALYSIS; TITRATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AVOGADRO CONSTANT; DIAMETER MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER; SILICON CRYSTAL; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETERS;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 85027916820     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2401212     Document Type: Article

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