Insect thin films as sun blocks, not solar collectors

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2496-2498

  Koon, Daniel W ^a   Crawford, Andrew B ^a  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIGHT REFLECTION; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

IRIDESCENCE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0038491627     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002496     Document Type: Article

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