Everything about Voltmeter

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: VoltmeterA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Use of non-contact voltmeter to quantify potential induced degradation in CdTe modulesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Know your VOM-VTVMThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: “Nanosized Voltmeter” Enables Cellular-Wide Electric Field MappingCited 131 times
5. Go sideways: MultimeterA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: AmmeterA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• “Nanosized Voltmeter” Enables Cellular-Wide Electric Field Mapping

  Katherine M. Tyner, Raoul Kopelman, Martin A. Philbert · 2007 · Biophysical Journal · 131 citations

• A DNA-based voltmeter for organelles

  Anand Saminathan, John Devany, Aneesh Tazhe Veetil · 2020 · Nature Nanotechnology · 125 citations

• Direct Comparison of Josephson Waveforms Using an AC Quantum Voltmeter

  R. Behr, L. Palafox, G. Ramm · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 113 citations

• Optimization of dc SQUID voltmeter and magnetometer circuits

  John Clarke, Claudia D. Tesche, R. P. Giffard · 1979 · Journal of Low Temperature Physics · 100 citations

• An ac quantum voltmeter based on a 10 V programmable Josephson array

  Jinni Lee, Ralf Behr, Luis Palafox · 2013 · Metrologia · 86 citations

• Measured Output Voltages of Piezoelectric Devices Depend on the Resistance of Voltmeter

  Yewang Su, Canan Dagdeviren, Rui Li · 2015 · Advanced Functional Materials · 73 citations

• Electric Field Changes on Au Nanoparticles on Semiconductor Supports – The Molecular Voltmeter and Other Methods to Observe Adsorbate-Induced Charge-Transfer Effects in Au/TiO 2 Nanocatalysts

  Monica McEntee, Ana Stevanovic, Wenjie Tang · 2015 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 56 citations

• An Optical Voltmeter for Studying Cetyltrimethylammonium Interacting with Fused Silica/Aqueous Interfaces at High Ionic Strength

  Patrick L. Hayes, Ehow H. Chen, Jennifer L. Achtyl · 2009 · The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 53 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Use of non-contact voltmeter to quantify potential induced degradation in CdTe modules

  Hamza Ahmad Raza, Farrukh Ibne Mahmood, Govindasamy TamizhMani · 2023 · Solar Energy · 7 citations

• Probing optically driven K3C60 thin films with an ultrafast voltmeter

  J. D. Adelinia, E. Wang, M. Chavez-Cervantes · 2025 · Structural Dynamics · 6 citations

• Effect of testing modes and voltmeter resistance on mechanoelectrical conversion of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride nanofiber membranes

  R. Bai, H. Shao, H. Wang · 2023 · Materials Today Sustainability · 5 citations

• Direct calibration of a true-rms ac voltmeter against a He-free pulsed Josephson standard

  Krzysztof Kubiczek, Paolo Durandetto, Pier Paolo Capra · 2024 · Measurement · 4 citations

• Wireless Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Voltmeter: A Modern Solution for Remote Voltage Monitoring

  Harsha Jitendra Kothare, Sanjiwani Sanjay Lanjewar, Mangesh Vikas Wankhede · 2025 · International Journal of Advanced Electrical and Electronics Engineering · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Know your VOM-VTVMJoseph A. Risse · 1963
• 📕Vacuum-tube voltmetersJohn Francis Rider · 1941
• Cyclic voltammetryDavid K. Gosser · 1993
• 101 ways to use your VOM and VTVMRobert Gordon Middleton · 1959
• 📕The V. T. V. MRhys Samuel · 1956
• 📕AC voltage calibrations for the 0.1 Hz to 10 Hz frequency rangeHoward K Schoenwetter · 1983
• 📕Use of recording watt/varmeter to evaluate the electrical power requirements of a combination edgerEdward L. Adams · 1983
• 📕The analysis of high-frequency electrical phenomena on finite parallel conducting planesYueh-Ying Sun Hu · 1952

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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