Developments for a new spectral irradiance scale at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 551-558

  Tsai, Benjamin K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NIST Physics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackbody; Filter radiometer; Scale realization; Spectral irradiance; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012450383     PISSN: 1044677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6028/jres.102.036     Document Type: Article

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