“…It is possible to analyze samples made of opaque or partially transparent materials, materials with a high level of transparency, bulk samples or samples prepared by deposition of a film or coating on a substrate, and samples in a solid or molten state. Details of the measurement of bulk opaque materials can be found in [4,5,14,15,43,59,60]: solid metal samples such as stainless steel, Armco iron, brasses, nickel, and cobalt alloys. In the group of partially transparent bulk materials, analyses were conducted of ZrB 2 -SiC-based ultrahigh-temperature ceramics [39], SiC materials [15,17], dielectric oxides (SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , and MgO) [2,4,32], and sapphire, fused silica, and spinel [40].…”