Towards accurate measurement of the frequency dependence of capacitance and resistance standards up to 10 MHz

Progress toward an understanding of the frequency dependence of capacitance and resistance standards at frequencies up to 10 MHz is presented. A qualitative comparison is also made for capacitance and dissipation factor measurements between the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) high-frequency four terminal-pair (4TP) bridge and a commercial impedance analyzer for the first time. A set of novel high-frequency calculable coaxial resistance standards, of nominal 100 /spl Omega/ and 1 k/spl Omega/ values, have been developed and their calculated frequency dependence up to 1 MHz is given.

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