MEANS FOR ENSURING SI TRACEABILITY OF MICROFORCES AND / OR MICROMASSES |
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| Dan Mihai Ştefănescu, Adriana Vâlcu |
- Abstract:
- Over the last period, increasing attention has been paid to measurement of small forces which play a more important role in nanotechnology and other significant areas such as MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems). In this respect, the development of mass standards and measurement techniques below the current limit of 1 milligram is vital to provide traceability to the SI for such measurements. The lowest traceable force realized by a deadweight standard machine is typically around the level of 1 N. The national measurement institutes (NMIs), motivated by the need for small force standards, have started to explore methods for establishing a hierarchy of SI-traceable force standards at low-force level, consisting of a primary realization, a transfer standard, and methods of dissemination to instruments.
- Keywords:
- traceability, microgram, transfer standard, microforce transducer, cantilever
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC3-2014-020.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC3
- Event name:
- TC3 Conference 2014
- Title:
22nd Conference on the Measurement of Force, Mass and Torque (together with 3rd TC22 Conference on Vibration Measurement and 12th TC5 Conference on the Measurement of Hardness)
- Place:
- Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA
- Time:
- 03 February 2014 - 06 February 2014