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When a flat sample of medium density fibreboard (MDF) is exposed to radiant heat in an inert atmosphere, primary crack patterns suddenly start to appear over the entire surface before pyrolysis and any charring occurs. Contrary to common…
This letter presents a novel technique to calculate temperatures of building rooftops and other impervious surfaces from high spatial resolution aerial thermal images. In this study, we collected aerial radiance images of 30cm spatial…
The far-infrared (FIR) emissivity of dust is an important parameter characterizing the physical properties of the grains. With the availability of stellar databases and far-infrared data from Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) it is possible…
Novel thermographic measurement and heat-flux compensation methods combined for evaluating aerodynamic heating in hypersonic flight were developed using high-speed thermography. A hypersonic spherical projectile with a diameter of 8 mm was…
Development of an ellipsometry to the case of a coherent far infrared irradiation, low temperatures and small samples is described, including a decision of the direct and inverse problems of the convergent beam ellipsometry for an arbitrary…
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The temperature dependence of the Casimir-Polder interaction addresses fundamental issues for understanding vacuum and thermal fluctuations. It is highly sensitive to surface waves which, in the near field, govern the thermal emission of a…
We developed a novel contactless frequency-domain approach to study thermal transport, which is particularly convenient when thermally anisotropic materials are considered. The method is based on a similar line-shaped heater geometry as…
We discuss the design of an optical system that allows measurement of 600 nm to 1650 nm emission spectra for individual nanoparticles (NPs), laser heated in an electrodynamic trap in controlled atmospheres. An approach to calibration of…
Uncooled InfraRed (IR) detectors have enabled the rapid growth of thermal imaging applications. These detectors are predominantly bolometers, where the heating of pixel from incoming IR radiation is read out as a resistance change. Another…
The thermal conductivity study on the pyrochlore structured ceramics is important for utilization of these materials as an inert matrix fuel, electrolytes for oxide fuel cell and thermal barrier coating. The impact of porosity, structural…
Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) thin film cavities on copper substrates are employed in several particle accelerators. However, these SRF cavities historically featured a progressive performance degradation with the accelerating field…
Infrared thermography has been widely used in several domains to capture and measure temperature distributions across surfaces and objects. This methodology can be further expanded to 3D applications if the spatial distribution of the…
Graphite is a unique material for high temperature applications and will likely become increasingly important as we attempt to electrify industrial applications. However, high-quality graphite can be expensive, limiting the…
Temperature estimation plays a vital role across natural sciences. A standard approach is provided by probe thermometry, where a probe is brought into contact with the sample and examined after a certain amount of time has passed. In many…
The coronagraph is an instrument enables the investigation of faint features in the vicinity of the Sun, particularly coronal mass ejections (CMEs). So far coronagraphic observations have been mainly used to determine the geometric and…
Thermal conditions in the LTP, the LISA Technology Package, are required to be very stable, and in such environment precision temperature measurements are also required for various diagnostics objectives. A sensitive temperature gauging…
A new method called `Configurational Temperature' is introduced in the context of dusty plasma, where the temperature of the dust particles, submerged in the plasma, can be measured directly from the positional information of the individual…
Measuring temperature fields in semi-transparent media requires the knowledge of material thermo-optic properties. While the current techniques are well established for isothermal thin films, they remain unexplored for thick media where…
Inelastic electron tunneling and surface-enhanced optical spectroscopies at the molecular scale require cryogenic local temperatures even under illumination - conditions that are challenging to achieve with plasmonically resonant metallic…