Absorption spectroscopy of powdered materials using time-resolved diffuse optical methods

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 7858-7863

  D’ Andrea, Cosimo ^a,b,c   Obraztsova, Ekaterina A ^d   Farina, Andrea ^b   Taroni, Paola ^a,b   Lanzani, Guglielmo ^a,c   Pifferi, Antonio ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; INK; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POWDER; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CARBON; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; POWDERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

CARBON; INFRARED DEVICES; YARN;

CONVENTIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DIFFUSE OPTICAL METHODS; DIFFUSE OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED POWDERS; POWDERED MATERIALS; SCATTERING-FREE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84869440906     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.007858     Document Type: Article

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