Abstract
The design and performance of a novel thermometric instrument featuring thermalemission-intensity harmonic modulation, noncontact infrared radiometric detection, and stray background suppression is described. The instrumental principle depends on thermal (blackbody) emission of Planck radiation from a heated surface. It was developed to measure small temperature rises caused by frictional heating. A low-power He–Ne heating laser was used to investigate the sensitivity and estimate a figure-of-merit (FOM) for the instrument. Background compensation leading to signal baseline suppression was partly achieved with a differential mechanical chopper blade, designed to induce destructive interference of infrared radiation superposition from heated and reference spots on a ceramic sample coated with a metallic thin film. Additional background suppression was achieved by lock-in amplifier signal amplitude and phase compensation through an externally superposed wave at the same chopping frequency. The FOM of the noncontact thermometric instrument was 159.9±8.5. The system sensitivity (minimum temperature rise) for the particular thin-film/ceramic material was estimated to be 0.18–0.23 °C.
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