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Advances in thermometry

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The past 25 years have seen tremendous progress in thermometry across the moderate temperature range of 1 K to 1,235 K. Various primary thermometers, based on a wide range of different physics, have uncovered errors in the International Temperature Scale of 1990, and set the stage for the planned redefinition of the kelvin.

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Figure 1: Acoustic gas thermometers.
Figure 2: Two arrays, each with ten superconducting/normal/superconducting-metal Josephson junctions on a 1 cm2 chip.

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