nA\text{nA}

nanoampere

Electric currentexact by definition

The nanoampere is one billionth of an ampere. Sleep-mode current in a low-power microcontroller, ionisation smoke detector current, and the polarisation current in a linear polarisation resistance corrosion probe all sit in this range. The factor of 1e-9 is exact, being an SI prefix.

1 nA\text{nA} 1.0000000e-09 A\text{A}

One nanoampere in every electric current unit

1,000,000femtoampere (fA)
1,000picoampere (pA)
1nanoampere (nA)this unit
0.001microampere (μA)
0.000001milliampere (mA)
1.00000e-09ampere (A)
1.00000e-12kiloampere (kA)
1.00000e-15megaampere (MA)