Fluorescent cardboards as UV-screens

Physikfan, Sat Feb 24 2018, 04:52PM

The spectra are Hg spectra, photographed from a Canon 10D, light source is a Hg high pressure lamp, the entrance slit is imaged with a quartz lens via a reflection grating on different screens:

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There are the spectra of the screens, in order from left to right

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As you can see, these cheap cardboards with fluorescent paint are well suited and only cost a few dollars for half a square meter.
Re: Fluorescent cardboards as UV-screens
Proud Mary, Mon Mar 05 2018, 01:19AM

If I remember correctly, x-ray fluorescence was first observed by Röntgen in barium platinocyanide painted onto a cardboard screen.