...K. S. Kulkarni; U. Madanan; T. W. Simon; R. J. Goldstein If a steady thermal boundary layer is sufficiently thick, wall heat fluxes and associated convective heat transfer coefficients can be directly calculated from measured temperature distributions taken within it using a traversing thermocouple...

... as an efficient calibration tool for near-field thermal probes. Finally, an example of temperature measurements on a microhotplate has been presented, showing the potential of miniaturized wire thermocouples to perform thermal measurements on microscale object. We have calibrated a thermocouple cantilever...