A versatile microfadometer for lightfastness testing and pigment identification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6618, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lerwill, Andrew ^a,b   Townsend, Joyce H ^a   Liang, Haida ^b   Hackney, Stephen ^a   Thomas, Jacob ^a  

^a Millbank ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fadometer; Lightfastness; Micro fading; Spectroscopy; Watercolor materials

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; PIGMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVELENGTH;

LIGHT SENSITIVE ARTWORKS; LIGHTFASTNESS; MICROFADOMETER; WATERCOLOR MATERIALS;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 36249016312     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.726029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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