Two-color time-domain thermoreflectance of various metal transducers with an optical parametric oscillator

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Gengler, Jamie J ^a,b   Roy, Sukesh ^a,b   Jones, John G ^a   Gord, James R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Spectral Energies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

optical parametric oscillator; time domain thermoreflectance

Indexed keywords

COLOR; METALS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PROBES; SAPPHIRE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THIN FILMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENT; INTERFACIAL CONDUCTANCES; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; THERMAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; TIME DOMAIN THERMOREFLECTANCE; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84859902738     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/23/5/055205     Document Type: Article

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