A simple approach to introduce photothermal techniques basic principles for thermal diffusivity measurement

We report an approach to introduce the students to the field of the photothermal techniques. For this, we describe an experiment about the measurement of the periodical oscillations of the temperature in a body heated with a periodic heat source. These thermal oscillations can be called thermal wave...

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Autores: Marin Moares, Ernesto, Juarez Gracia, Antonio Gustavo, Vera Medina, Gerardo, Calderon Arenas, Antonio
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2009
País:México
Recursos:Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Repositório:Repositorio Digital del IPN
OAI Identifier:oai:www.repositoriodigital.ipn.mx:123456789/10580
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/40
http://www.repositoriodigital.ipn.mx/handle/123456789/10580
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Photothermal
thermal diffusivity
heat
temperature
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Resumo:We report an approach to introduce the students to the field of the photothermal techniques. For this, we describe an experiment about the measurement of the periodical oscillations of the temperature in a body heated with a periodic heat source. These thermal oscillations can be called thermal waves. We show how, by means of the measurement of the phase difference and attenuation of the thermal waves with the penetration distance in the body, we can determine their thermal diffusivity. This is a result in which some of the photothermal techniques are based for applications related with the thermal characterization of materials. In particular we use the technique of pyroelectric detection to show this purpose.