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Details of the 1998 Watt Balance Experiment Determining the Planck Constant

Author(s)
Richard L. Steiner, David B. Newell, Edwin R. Williams
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) watt balance experiment completed a determination of Planck's constant in 1998 with a relative standard uncertainty of 87 x 10-9 (k = 1), concurrently with an upper limit on the drift rate of the SI

ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY LIMITS IN THE NIST-2008 ELECTRONIC KILOGRAM

Author(s)
Richard L. Steiner, Edwin R. Williams, Ruimin Liu, Beatrice Parker
The NIST electronic kilogram has had three published results, each with slightly less uncertainty. In the present design, there are several measurement components that have uncertainties that are difficult to reduce further. These limiting uncertainties

The NIST Project for the Electronic Realization of the Kilogram

Author(s)
Richard L. Steiner, David B. Newell, Edwin R. Williams, Ruimin Liu, Pierre Gournay
The project, the Electronic Realization of the Kilogram, has rebuilt the NIST Watt balance, which has been fully operational for nine months. Short-term noise is at an all time low with overnight runs exhibiting standard deviations of parts in 108. Recent

Uncertainty Improvements of the NIST Electronic Kilogram

Author(s)
Richard L. Steiner, Edwin R. Williams, Ruimin Liu, David B. Newell
This paper summarizes the latest uncertainty improvements in the NIST Electronic Kilogram experiment to obtain result of 7 +/- 37 nW/W for the ratio {W 90/W -1} (and the Planck constant), comparable to the NIST 2005 value but with a lower uncertainty. Of