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From: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: UV Sensitive Detectors
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Date: 30 Jul 90 19:53:34 GMT
References: <14380@venera.isi.edu> <1357@pedsga.UUCP>
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In article <1357@pedsga.UUCP> barby@pedsga.UUCP (John Barby <barby>,SPCSYS,7683) writes:
>In article <14380@venera.isi.edu> sllu@ISI.EDU (Shih-Lien Lu) writes:
>>will detect UV light only (200nm to 400 nm wave length)?
>>If not, is there any device that will detect light down to 200 nm wave
>>length?

Check the Amateur Scientist column in the August 1990 Scientific American.

It gives two sources and prices for UV detectors and hints on using them
to measure the UV getting through the ozone layer.

They ain't cheap but for $200 (total) one source will even calibrate it for you.


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Dave Turner	415/823-2001	{att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmt