Abstract
Specifying and reducing the uncertainty is very important to all kinds of measurements. In order to have a better understanding of the noise mechanism responsible for lowering the quality of mass/force measurements, the Allan variation method is applied to investigate the noise performance of a commercial ultra-microbalance installed on different noise reduction platforms. It turns out that the marble table provides a better noise isolation environment for mass measurements than an optical table. The optimal integration time is found to be 100 sec ~ 200 sec, with a lowest deviation of 0.07 μg. A different data treatment simulating the ABA load/unload cycle is also applied with or without a delay time for signal integration. The consistency between Allan deviation and the ABA simulation plots points out that the optimal integration time is applicable either in single or cyclic mass measurements.
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