You may have heard talk about the Ampere being redefined. Rest assured that unless you work at the highest levels of metrology, the change in how the Ampere is realized won't affect you. The present ...

UK researchers are proposing to re-define the ampere using a graphene pump to produce a stream of single electrons. A development of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of ...

A joint innovation by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Cambridge could pave the way for the Ampere to be redefined in terms of fundamental physical constants. The Ampere – ...

The universe of physics is experiencing great changes: by 2018, scientists want to place all physical base units on solid, unchangeable foundation in the form of fundamental constants. The units ...