Thermotropic glass with active dimming control for solar shading and daylighting

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 385-393

  Inoue, Takashi ^a   Ichinose, Masayuki ^a   Ichikawa, Naoyoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daylighting; Electrochromic glass; Energy conservation; Measurement; Simulation; Solar shading; Thermotropic glass; Window

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAYLIGHTING; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTROCHROMISM; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

AUTONOMOUS RESPONSIVE DIMMING (THERMOTROPIC) GLASS PANELS; DIMMING CONTROL; ELECTROCHROMIC LAYERS; HEATING LAYERS; SOLAR-SHADINGS; THERMOTROPIC GLASS; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 37349108575     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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