The Performance of the KIBB-g1 Tabletop Kibble Balance at NIST

Abstract

A tabletop-sized Kibble balance (KIBB-g1) designed to directly realize mass at the gram-level range with uncertainties on the order of parts in 10${}^6$ has been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The masses of a nominally 5\,g and 1\,g weight were determined with 1-$\sigma$ standard uncertainties of 9.0\,$\upmu$g and 6.7\,$\upmu$g, respectively. The corresponding relative uncertainties are $1.8\times 10^{-6}$ and $6.3\times 10^{-6}$. The construction of the instrument, capabilities, and full uncertainty budgets are presented in this manuscript.

10 pages 12 figures; submitted to metrologia