Towards a table-top Kibble balance for E1 mass standards in a range from 1 mg to 1 kg – Planck-Balance 1 (PB1)

A table-top version of a Kibble balance called Planck-Balance 1 (PB1) has been developed in a collaboration between the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and the Technische Universität Ilmenau. It is aimed for calibrating E1 mass standards for a mass range from 1 mg to 1 kg. This paper gives a brief overview of the concept of the PB1, its measurement setup, and some initial measurements of the force mode and the velocity mode.