IR Temperature Probes

Modified on Saturday, 31 January 2015 11:52 PM by mpieler — Categorized as: Consultants Corner

IR temperature probes
Vol. 27 #1, March 2000

Not all IR temperature probes are created equal. Designs with a narrow or selective wave band (Minolta Land) offer some significant process advantages, primarily for films and thin sheet. By using a narrow wave band (8-l4um), most polymers remain opaque to IR, meaning no background interference and not having to worry about the emissivity. Since there is zero transmission, the emissivity for any polymer becomes a constant of 0.96 for certain film thicknesses.

- Rob Jerman

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