Optical reflectance of metallic coatings: Effect of aluminum flake orientation

Journal of Coatings Technology

Volumn 74, Issue 932, 2002, Pages 55-63

  Sung, Li Piin ^a   Nadal, Maria E ^a   McKnight, Mary E ^a   Marx, Egon ^a   Laurenti, Brent ^b  

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

^b Eckart America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; METALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REFLECTOMETERS; SPRAYING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALUMINUM FLAKE ORIENTATION; FLAKE ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION; FLAKE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; METALLIC COATINGS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP;

REFLECTIVE COATINGS;

EID: 0036746092     PISSN: 03618773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02697975     Document Type: Article

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