A New Technique for the Evaluation of Microcalorimeter

Abstract

A new technique for evaluating a microcalorimeter is presented in this paper. Its measurement principle is to change a thermistor mounts mismatch status by changing the reference resistance of its power meter bridge, measure a microcalorimeter in different mismatch status so that effective efficiency of the thermistor mount measured by the microcalorimeter can be used as the transfer value. This technique will shorten the measurement time and simplify the assembling procedure, while not reducing the evaluation accuracy. Its measurement principle and a experimental result are reported in this paper.