Metal (carbide)-carbon eutectics for thermometry and radiometry: A review of the first seven years

Metrologia

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Woolliams, Emma R ^a   MacHin, Graham ^a   Lowe, David H ^a   Winkler, Rainer ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTECTICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; RADIOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMOMETERS;

EUTECTIC RESEARCH; SPECTRAL RADIANCE; WAVELENGTHS;

CARBIDES;

EID: 33846856233     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/43/6/R01     Document Type: Review

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