Book description
This richly illustrated hands-on guide is designed for researchers,
teachers and practitioners. The huge selection of examples taken from
science, basic teaching of physics, practical applications in industry
and a variety of other disciplines spanning the range from medicine to
volcano research allows readers to pick those that come closest to their
own individual task at hand. Following a look at the fundamentals of IR
thermal imaging, properties of the imaging systems, as well as basic and
advanced methods, the book goes on to discuss IR imaging applications in
teaching, research and industry. Specific examples include thermography
of buildings, microsystems and the rather new field of IR imaging of
gases.
Impartially written by expert authors in the field from a renowned
applied science institution, who are in the unique position of having
both experience in public and private research and in teaching, this
comprehensive book can be used for teaching beginners in the field as
well as providing further education to specialized staff, students and researchers.
Michael Vollmer received his PhD degree for the studies of clusters
on surfaces, and his ha-bilitation on optical properties of metal
clusters from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Later assignments
were with the University of Kassel, Germany, the university of
California in Berkeley, USA, as well as with various institutions in the
United States and Asia during sabbaticals. His research interests
include atmospheric optics, spectroscopy, infrared thermal imaging, and
the didactics of physics. Professor Vollmer has authored one science
book and co-authored a scienti? c monograph and about 140 scienti? c papers.
Klaus-Peter Mollmann received his PhD from the Humboldt University of
Berlin, Germany, studying strongly doped narrow band semiconductors at
low temperatures and later, for his habilitation, MCT photo detectors.
He subsequently held positions with the Humboldt Uni-versity and with
several businesses in industry. Professor Mollmann?s research interests
include MEMS technology, infrared thermal imaging, and spectroscopy. He
is the co-author of about 100 scienti? c and didactical papers.
Both authors are professors of experimental physics at the University of
Applied Sciences in Brandenburg, Germany.
