Radiative transfer over small distances from a heated metal

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 369-371

  Pan, Janet L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INFRARED RADIATION; PERMITTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0001193011     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000369     Document Type: Article

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