1. Validation of a quantized-current source with 0.2 ppm uncertainty
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Stein, Friederike, Drung, Dietmar, Fricke, Lukas, Scherer, Hansjörg, Hohls, Frank, Leicht, Christoph, Götz, Martin, Krause, Christian, Behr, Ralf, Pesel, Eckart, Pierz, Klaus, Siegner, Uwe, Ahlers, Franz-Josef, and Schumacher, Hans W.
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Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics - Abstract
We report on high-accuracy measurements of quantized current, sourced by a tunable-barrier single-electron pump at frequencies $f$ up to $1$ GHz. The measurements were performed with a new picoammeter instrument, traceable to the Josephson and quantum Hall effects. Current quantization according to $I=ef$ with $e$ the elementary charge was confirmed at $f=545$ MHz with a total relative uncertainty of 0.2 ppm, improving the state of the art by about a factor of 5. For the first time, the accuracy of a possible future quantum current standard based on single-electron transport was experimentally validated to be better than the best realization of the ampere within the present SI.
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- 2015
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