Normal spectral emissivity near 680 nm at melting and in the liquid phase for 18 metallic elements

Optical and thermophysical properties of pure metals at the melting point and in the liquid phase are of general interest for technological applications. This is especially true for those metals that are commonly applied. Many of these elements are used either in their pure form or as alloying components. Due to their widespread use in industry an ongoing need for new and more accurate data exists. Based on an ohmic pulse-heating apparatus, properties of conducting materials can be obtained from temperatures of about 1200 K, at which most metals are in the solid state, up to about 5000 K in the liquid state. To enable a fast and accurate temperature measurement over such a vast range, pyrometric temperature detection based on Planck's radiation law is employed. Furthermore, a microsecond-resolution ellipsometric device with no moving parts, called μs-DOAP (Division-of-Amplitude-Photopolarimeter) as first described by Azzam [1], is applied to measure normal spectral emissivity close to the wavelength of th...