Computations of the optical properties of metal/insulator-composites for solar selective absorbers

Renewable Energy

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1421-1431

  Farooq, M ^a   Lee, Z H ^b  

^a Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies   (Pakistan)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Graded multilayers; Interference; Optical constants; Roughness and porosity; Selective absorbers

Indexed keywords

METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; POROSITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

PHOTO THERMAL ENERGY;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

COATING;

EID: 0037410840     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(02)00033-2     Document Type: Article

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