Study of the Ultrasensitive Pyroelectric Thermometer
作者:
Sidney B. Lang,
F. Steckel,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1965)
卷期:
Volume 36,
issue 12
页码: 1817-1821
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1965
DOI:10.1063/1.1719472
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A major microcalorimetric problem, the development of a very sensitive thermometer, is considered. The theory of a pyroelectric thermometer is reviewed and verified calorimetrically. A thermostatic system utilizing both a layer of low thermal diffusivity material and a large heat sink was used to strongly attenuate external temperature fluctuations. A pyroelectric thermometer, used in the thermostat, measured temperature changes as large as 2.52×10−3°C and as small as 6×10−6°C. The sensitivity of the thermometer was limited by the temperature stability of the thermostat. Technically simple modifications of the calorimeter could make the detection of temperature changes as small as 5×10−7°C possible. Detection of temperature changes smaller than 10−7°C may be achieved by changes in size, shape, and material of the pyroelectric sensing element.
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