Abstract:
Wheatstone bridge method is widely used among secondary calibration laboratory for calibration of standard resistance. This method provides high accuracy due to null detection used. However, for calibration of high value resistance with accuracy, this method has several limitations for example, the environment has to be controlled and the operators must have good experienced in calibration. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to develop an efficient, low cost, less calibration time and easy-to-use calibration system. For the developed system, the known value resistance (Rs) will be used to assign a value to an unknown value resistance (Rx) with the ratio of 1:1 and 1:10. Voltage source for Rs (±Vs), Fluke multi-product calibrator model 5520A, is used as a standard voltage source. The applied voltage depends on the ratio of both resistance (Rs and Rx). Voltage source adjust for Rx (±Vx) are separately used in each direction. Agilent digital multimeter model 3458A is used to measure voltage across RS (±VS), and the voltage across Rx (±Vx). In addition, Keithley picoammeter/voltage model 487 is used to measure current at equilibrium condition (Ib). Ib will be recorded during a null process after its value is close to zero as possible. This thesis concerns research and development of resistance calibration method for Teraohm resistance. Using the developed wheatstone bridge method, standard resistance in range of (10kΩ1TΩ) can be calibrated with uncertainty of 0.000443TΩ at 1TΩ. The calibration system is controlled by computer for all the measuring process. The measurement error is minimized, and also, calibration time is reduced to only 2 hours per 1 resistance.