Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 12:48:12 +0200

Author: Urs Lauterburg

Subject: Re: Gigaohm resistors

Post:

>Hi all, I'm going to build a picoammeter and I need some resistors of 10
>Gigaohm.
>Does anybody know a supplier?

Adolf

Metallux of Switzerland make some extremely fine stuff in this domain.
Maybe they are too fancy for your application, but you may want to take a
look. I use a lot of their high voltage dividers to measure things in the
kV and above range safely with my Mac.

check out:

http://www.metallux.ch/index.cfm?fuseaction=resistors.open&lang=en

Regards from a neighbor

Urs

Urs Lauterburg
Physics demonstrator
labVIE wireworker
University of Bern
Switzerland

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