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Calibrating inductive voltage dividers – PTB.de

October 21, 2018 Office

PTBnews 3.2018 – PTB is developing a measuring system based on pulse-driven Josephson voltage standards. This system is designed to allow alternating voltages to be measured with great accuracy at frequencies of up to 100 […]

Improved hydrophone calibration – PTB.de

October 21, 2018 Office

PTBnews 3.2018 – A novel measurement setup has been developed at PTB for the primary calibration of ultrasonic hydrophones. Hydrophones are sensors used to determine ultrasonic pressure wave in liquid media. They are mainly used […]

A New Way to Measure Nearly Nothing | NIST

October 19, 2018 Office

October 19, 2018 Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of gas molecules and particles from their setups as new […]

The Kiwi Kibble Balance | Measurement Standards Laboratory NZ

October 18, 2018 Office

The Kibble balance is an apparatus that will be used to realise the kilogram after its redefinition in May 2019 based on a fundamental constant – the Planck constant. It compares the gravitational force on […]

Dynamic calibration of force transducers | PTB.de

September 5, 2018 Office

PTB-News 2.2018 – The reliable measurement of dynamic forces plays an important role in industry. To provide the metrological infrastructure required, PTB has been pursuing an approach that describes the dynamic behavior of the force […]

Calibration certificates go digital | PTB.de

September 5, 2018 Office

PTB-News 2.2018 – Conventional calibration certificates could soon become history. To furnish proof that a measuring instrument has been calibrated and of how this has been done, metrology institutes throughout the world could, in the […]

A2LA Announces Acquisition of WorkPlace Training

August 31, 2018 Office

August 27, 2018, Frederick, MD and Wayzata, MN – A2LA and WorkPlace Training (WPT) today announced A2LA’s acquisition of WorkPlace Training. The addition of WPT’s robust e-learning modules will complement A2LA’s wide-reaching instructor-led classroom training […]

Helping the Microchip Industry Go (Very Low) with the Flow | NIST

August 22, 2018 Office

August 22, 2018 – A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has uncovered a source of error in an industry-standard calibration method that could lead microchip manufacturers to […]