Cool covered sky-splitting spectrum-splitting FKRubén Mohedano, Juan C. Miñano, Pablo Benitez, Marina Buljan, Julio Chaves, Waqidi Falicoff, MaikelHernandez, and Simone Sorgato Citation: AIP Conference Proceedings 1616, 200 (2014); doi: 10.1063/1.4897060 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4897060 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/1616?ver=pdfcov Published by the AIP Publishing Articles you may be interested in Split Decision Covered Phys. Today 49, 91 (1996); 10.1063/1.2807640 Water‐cooled internal combustion engine with a sound‐absorbing cover J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77, 779 (1985); 10.1121/1.392290 ’’How to cool a book by its cover’’ revisited Phys. Teach. 14, 443 (1976); 10.1119/1.2339447 How to cool a book by its cover Phys. Teach. 13, 324 (1975); 10.1119/1.2339166 How to cool a book by its cover Phys. Teach. 13, 165 (1975); 10.1119/1.2339103

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