Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 4, 395(2010)

Effect of coating thickness on the calibration and measurement uncertainty of a wide-band liquid crystal thermography

Yu Rao, Shusheng Zang, and Chaoyi Wan
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  • Institute of Turbomachinery, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    The liquid crystal thermography is a high-resolution and non-intrusive optical technique for full-field temperature measurement. We present detailed calibration data for a wide-bandwidth thermochromic liquid crystal (TLC) to investigate the effect of the coating thickness on the hue-temperature characteristics and the measurement uncertainty of the TLC. It is found that the coating thickness has appreciable effect on the TLC hue-temperature curve. For TLC coatings with the thickness over 20 μm, a thicker TLC coating shows a relatively smaller measurement uncertainty, but the effect of the coating thickness is non-distinctive on the measurement uncertainty.

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    Yu Rao, Shusheng Zang, Chaoyi Wan. Effect of coating thickness on the calibration and measurement uncertainty of a wide-band liquid crystal thermography[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(4): 395

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    Received: Aug. 11, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 20, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100804.0395

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