Unified wien's displacement law in terms of logarithmic frequency or wavelength scale

Z. M. Zhang, X. J. Wang

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Abstract

A logarithmic frequency or wavelength scale is proposed for the Planck blackbody distribution, whose peak location is the same in terms of both log10(v) or log10(λ. The consequence is a unified Wien's displacement law that is no more dependent on whether wavelength or frequency is chosen as the variable to express Planck's law. The new characteristic wavelength is approximately 26.6% longer than the conventional Wien's displacement law in terms of wavelength. The results can be easily extended to two-dimensional and one-dimensional Planck distributions and may be useful in analyzing near-field radiative transfer.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)222-224
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of thermophysics and heat transfer
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (CBET-0828701).

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