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Foreword | |
Gruppo fotografico dei partecipanti al Corso | |
The evolution of metrology during the last decade. Introduction to the course "Metrology at the Frontiers of Physics and Technology" | |
Uncertainty and error in physical measurements | |
The continuing evolution in the definitions and realizations of the SI units of measurement | |
Quantum electrodynamics and fundamental constants | |
Experiments on gravitation | |
Metrology and the logical structure of physics | |
Detectors of gravitational waves | |
Experiments on the "fifth force" | |
Recent advances in mass standards and weighing and perspectives for a new definition of the kilogram | |
The quantum Hall effect | |
Design and operation of series-array Josephson voltage standards | |
The development of the International Temperature Scale of 1990 | |
The metrology of temperature below 1 K. | |
Cryogenic radiometry | |
Laser cooling of atoms and ion trapping for frequency standards | |
Laser frequency stabilization and measurement | |
Time scales | |
Atomic time scales | |
Metrological aspects of fundamental astronomy | |
Metrology applications of STM, AFM and X-ray interferometry | |
High-precision manufacturing in an advanced industrial economy | |
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