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Measurement of the Emissivity of Clean and Contaminated Silver Plated Copper Surfaces at Cryogenic Temperatures
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An experiment has been designed, fabricated, and conducted to measure emissivity of clean and contaminated metallic surfaces at temperatures between 25 K and 35 K. Samples of silver‐plated copper with a total surface area of 0.25 m2 are secured to the coldhead of a single stage cryocooler and enclosed within an effective black thermal shield, which has an effective emissivity of 0.95 and temperatures between 275 K and 280 K. From error analysis, a sample with an emissivity of 0.020 had an experimental error between +/− 0.001 and +/− 0.002. From measurement of the radiation heat transfer, the emissivity at 30 K was 45% of the emissivity that was measured at 300 K for a set of silver‐plated copper samples. In addition, 110 μg of water vapor was sufficient to increase the emissivity of the silver‐plated copper between 50% and 200%.
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The field has seen a gradual shift from liquid-cryogen baths to refrigeration-based cooling systems for cryogenic emissivity measurements.
“With respect to cooling techniques, the field has seen a gradual shift from liquid-cryogen baths [13,33,36,42,45,46,53] to refrigeration-based cooling systems [16,43,47,51,52].”
From Thermal Radiation Testing Methods at Cryogenic Temperatures: A Review (2026) · cites this paper as [47]
Duckworth et al. found that even minimal quantities of water vapor can induce a substantial enhancement in the surface emissivity of silver-plated copper, with a maximum increase up to fourfold.
“The experimental findings indicated that even minimal quantities of water vapor were capable of inducing a substantial enhancement in the surface emissivity of silver-plated copper, with the maximum increase observed reaching up to fourfold.”
From Thermal Radiation Testing Methods at Cryogenic Temperatures: A Review (2026) · cites this paper as [47]
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- Duckworth, R. C.
- Venue
- AIP Conference Proceedings
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- AIP
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 824
- Pages
- 61-68
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- 0094-243X
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