학술논문

Interlaboratory Nanoamp Current Comparison With Subpart-Per-Million Uncertainty
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on. 68(6):1996-2002 Jun, 2019
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Calibration
Uncertainty
Resistors
Voltage measurement
Current measurement
Bridge circuits
Laboratories
Ammeters
current measurement
electrical metrology
electrical resistance
low-noise amplifiers
Language
ISSN
0018-9456
1557-9662
Abstract
An ultrastable low-noise current amplifier (ULCA) has been transferred between two laboratories, National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, four times, with three of the transfers yielding a relative change in the transresistance gain of less than $2 \times 10^{-7}$ . This is a new benchmark for interlaboratory transfer of small current. We describe in detail the use of a cryogenic current comparator to calibrate the ULCA at NPL, and the use of the ULCA to measure 1- $\text{G}\Omega $ resistors with relative uncertainties at the $10^{-7}$ level.