Design and 3-D electric field simulation of a calculable capacitor

Author

Yicheng Wang ; Lawall, Julia ; Pratt, Jerry ; Bo Gong ; Rae Duk Lee ; Han Jun Kim ; Sae Won Yoon

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

5-7 May 2009

Firstpage

1250

Lastpage

1253

Abstract

A new calculable capacitor with an operating range of 0.1 pF is being developed at NIST. Reduced uncertainty for displacement measurements, enabled by employing tunable laser based Fabry-Perot interferometers, will allow a considerably more compact design, minimizing errors from mechanical sources. Using 3-D electric field simulations, we have also estimated errors resulting from mechanical imperfections.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; capacitance measurement; displacement measurement; laser tuning; measurement by laser beam; measurement errors; measurement uncertainty; 3D electric field simulation; NIST; calculable capacitor; displacement measurement; error minimization; mechanical sources; tunable laser based Fabry-Perot interferometers; uncertainty reduction; Capacitance; Capacitors; Displacement measurement; Electrodes; Instrumentation and measurement; Measurement standards; NIST; Standards development; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement; calculable capacior; electric field simulations; interferometers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2009. I2MTC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3352-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168646

Filename

5168646