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An article summarising some of the achievements of the EMRP project 'Quantum ampere: Realisation of the new SI ampere' (SIB07 Qu-Ampere) has been published as a leading story in Nature.

Joint Research Project SIB07 aims to develop state-of-the-art Single Electron Transport (SET) devices, which generate electric current by moving only one electron at a time, and by combining them with detectors to create quantum current sources for use as standards.
The Nature article presents the results of the Joint Research Project to date and provides quotes from the JRP-Coordinator Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the German National Metrology Institute, as well as other organisations involved in the project; National Physical Laboratory, UK's National Metrology Institute, and Aalto University.

Nature is the leading weekly, international scientific journal and was first published in 1869. It is widely regarded as one of the few remaining academic journals that publishes original research across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.
Currently, nature.com provides over 6 million visitors per month with access to nature publications, and the article on Joint Research Project SIB07 was also featured in the journals' weekly e-bulletin.

To view the article please go to http://www.nature.com/news/ampere-to-get-rational-redefinition-1.14512
More information on the EMRP project SIB07 'Qu-Ampere' is available on the EURAMET website at: http://www.euramet.org/index.php?id=emrp_call_2011