ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE AND CAPACITANCE LABORATORY
       
     
ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE
       
      Quantity - Electrical Resistance.
      Unit - Ohm ().
      Tasks of the laboratory
      The main task of the laboratory is the realisation and maintenance of the electrical resistance standards and their scale in National Standard of Electrical Resistance.
      International comparisons
      DUNAMET Project D 9.
International comparison by the PHARE programme PRAQ III of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN).

    Available metrological services
      Verification of resistance reference standards og 1.order using a DC (in a range form 10-4 to 109 ) and 2., 3. orders (in a range from 109 to 1012 ). Verification of resistance bridges and resistor decades using a DC, resistance voltage dividers, resistance shunts, resistance ranges of multimeters and calibrators (in a range from 10-4 to 1012 ). Determination of the temperature coefficient of a standard, in a limited range of thier loading characteristics and exams of precise operation meters.Verification of reference standards of 2. and 3. orders and AC resistor decades at AC (in the range from 1 to 105 at a frequencies from 80 to 1600 Hz) with an option to determine their frequency dependance.
      Methods of measurement:
      - a method of direct comparison with working standards of the SMU or method of substitution are used in the verification of reference standards of 1. and 2. orders. Click for details!
- AC resistors in a range of 1 - 105 are compared using a direct substitution method with a reference standard. It is possible to find out the frequency characteristics for the range of frequencies of 80 - 1600 Hz and time constant of the standard. The relative combined standard uncertainties for these resistances are from 1x
10-6 to 1x10-5.
       
    Instruments in use
     

DC comparator bridge with bath and equipment
National Resistance Standard (a group of standards consisting of 1 sealed standards and a gropu of precise 10 k standards). An accuracy of resistance measurements at the SMU is verified by a regular comparison of transfer standards 1 and 10 k to value in BIPM (other comparisons at 1986, 1991, 1996).
Working standards - decimal value in the range of 10-4 to 1010
and combined transfer standards in the range of 1 to 1012 .
DC current comparator bridge produced by Guidline Co. (model 9920) for calibration of small values standards (up to 1 k
) and calibration of current shunts pu to 100 A with relative combined standard uncertainty of direct measurements from 1x10-5 to 1x10-7. Wheastone bridge produced by Tinsley Co. (model 5577 A) and a high-value bridge developed in SMU which relative uncertainties at direct measurements from 3x10-3 to 2x10-6 in accordance with used range. Double AC resistance bridge developed in SMU with indictuvely coupled ratio arms, with combined standard uncertainties of resistance measurements from 3x10-4 % to 5x10-5 %.
      Primary standards of resistance with a calculate frequency dependence up to 1600 Hz and AC working resistance standards of Tinsley type 5684 with nominal values of 1 - 10 k.
The laboratories of resistance operated at the basic temperature of 23°C stabilised within ± (0.2 - 0.5)°C. The temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure are recorder for correction requirements.
       
     
Contact
Mr. Ľubomír Harich Mr. Štefan Gašparík
phone: + 421 2 60294 363 phone: + 421 2 60294 235
e-mail: harich@smu.gov.sk e-mail: gasparik@smu.gov.sk
     
                   
     
ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE
                   
      Quantity - Electrical Capacitance.
      Unit - Farad (F).
      Tasks of the laboratory
      The main task of the Laboratory is the realisation and maintenance of the capacitance standards and their scale in National Standard of Capacitance.
      International comparisons
      The National Standard of Electrical capacity performs the realisation and the reproduction of the unit of capacitors with a nominal value of 10 pF at the frequency of 1 kHz with a standard deviation of 1x10-7 of rdg with limits of combined standard uncetrainty of 1.7x10-6 of rdg and relative uncertainty arised from the time unstability more than 3x10-7 of rdg per year. The primary standard was compared to the standards of electrical capacity at PTB Braunschweig (1997).
      COOMET - Project 131/DE/95.
    Available metrological services
      Verification of reference standards of electrical capacity of accuracy classes 1, 2, 3 at frequency of 1 kHz within the measuring range from 1 pF to 10 µF. Verification of capacity decades of accuracy classes 2, 3 and capacity bridges at frequency of 1 kHz and measuring range up to 100 µF.
      Methods of measurement:
      - a comparative method. This method is used for verification of capacitance standards: the bridge measuring methods (comparison of tested capacitor to a comparing standard capacitor; the selection of method is given by a required accuracy measuring of electrical capacitance), the substitution method (comparison of verified capacitor to the reference standard of the same nominal value in the same arm of bridge), method of direct comparison (comparison of verified capacitor to the working standard of the other nominal value using a division of 1:1 to 1:10 in different arms of bridge), method of direct measurement (measurement of capacitor with a direct value reading).
       
    Instruments in use
     

The capacitance bridge with standards 10 pF
Working standards of electrical capacity of reported values from 1 pF to 10 µF, hermetic capacitor with quartz or mica dielectric with a dissipation factor of less than 1x10-5 and temperature coefficient from 2x10-6 to 2x10-5 with stability of its values more than 2x10-5 and with the overall uncertainty of values from 5x10-6 to 5x10-4. General Purpose Radio transformer bridge of GR 1620-A type with the measuring ranges capacity from 10 aF to 1.11110 µF (or 11.11110 µF), conductance from 10-6 µS to 100 mS, dissipation factor from 1x10-6 to 1, with a measuring voltage up to 100 V and measuring frequency from 50 Hz to 10 kHz. The uncertainty of reading of capacity values by the direct measurement is 1x10-4 and by the comparison substitute method is 1x10
       
     
Contact
Mr. Štefan Gašparík
phone: + 421 2 60294 235
e-mail: gasparik@smu.gov.sk