A comparison of the blackbody cavities for infrared ear thermometers of NMIJ, NPL, and PTB
- A comparison of the NMIJ, the NPL, and the PTB blackbody cavities for infrared ear thermometers has been performed for the first time. The NMIJ and the PTB have transported their standard blackbodies to the NPL and radiance temperatures of the blackbodies of the institutes have been directly compared simultaneously using high-resolution infrared ear thermometers as comparators. The results of the comparison show that radiance temperatures realized by the NMIJ, the NPL, and the PTB cavities agree within +/-0.01 deg C, well within their uncertainty levels of around 0.04 deg C in the temperature range from 35 deg C to 42 deg C.