Absolute linearity measurements on a gold-black-coated deuterated L-alanine-doped triglycine sulfate pyroelectric detector

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3731-3736

  Theocharous, E ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DEUTERIUM; GOLD COATINGS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; LABORATORIES; TEMPERATURE;

DEUTERATED L-ALANINE; LINEARITY MEASUREMENTS; MOST LIKELY; NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY; NONLINEARITY CHARACTERISTICS; PYRO-ELECTRIC DETECTORS; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TRIGLYCINE SULFATES;

PYROELECTRICITY;

DEUTERIUM; GLYCYL GLYCYL GLYCINE; GLYCYL-GLYCYL-GLYCINE; GOLD; OLIGOPEPTIDE; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DEUTERIUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHOTOMETRY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SULFATES;

EID: 51949086456     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003731     Document Type: Article

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