Validation of a quantized-current source with 0.2 ppm uncertainty
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig (Germany)
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestrasse 2-12, 10587 Berlin (Germany)
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 an ultrastable picoammeter instrument, traceable to the Josephson and quantum Hall effects. Current quantization according to I = ef with e being 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. The accuracy of a possible future quantum current standard based on single-electron transport was experimentally validated to be better than the best (indirect) realization of the ampere within the present SI.
- OSTI ID:
- 22482055
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 107; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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