Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Review of Scientific Instruments
66 (1995), S. 4999-5005
ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
,
Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
A thermal-wave resonant cavity was constructed using a thin aluminum foil wall as the intensity-modulated-laser-beam induced oscillator source opposite a pyroelectric polyvilidene fluoride wall acting as a signal transducer and cavity standing-wave-equivalent generator. It was shown that scanning the frequency of oscillation produces the fundamental and higher overtone resonant extrema albeit with increasingly attenuated amplitude—a characteristic of thermal-wave behavior. Experimentally, scanning the cavity length produced a sharp lock-in in-phase resonance with simple linewidth dependencies on oscillation (chopping) frequency and intracavity gas thermal diffusivity. The thermal diffusivity of air at 294 K was measured with three significant figure accuracy: 0.211±0.004 cm2/s. The novel resonator can be used as a high-resolution thermophysical property sensor of gaseous ambients. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1146123
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