%0 Journal Article
%T Self consistently calibrated photopyroelectric calorimeter for the high resolution simultaneous absolute measurement of the specific heat and of the thermal conductivity
%A U. Zammit
%A S. Paoloni
%A F. Mercuri
%A M. Marinelli
%J AIP Advances
%D 2012
%I AIP Publishing LLC
%R 10.1063/1.3684962
%X High temperature resolution study of the specific heat and of the thermal conductivity over the smecticA-nematic and nematic-isotropic phase transitions in octylcynobephenyl liquid crystal using a new photopyroelectric calorimetry configuration are reported, where, unlike previously adopted ones, no calibration is required other than the procedure used during the actual measurement. This makes photopyroelectric calorimetry suitable for ˇ°absoluteˇ± measurements of the thermal parameters like most other existing conventional calorimetric techniques where, however, the thermal conductivity cannot be measured.
%U http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.3684962