Solar spectrum prediction and comparison with measurements

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1407, Issue , 2011, Pages 382-385

  Norton, Matthew ^a   Dobbin, Alison ^b   Georghiou, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b QuantaSol Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

metrology; modeling; Spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055176658     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3658367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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