Transparent heat mirrors based on tungsten oxide-silver multilayer structures

Solar Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1571-1577

  Al Kuhaili, M F ^a   Al Aswad, A H ^a   Durrani, S M A ^a   Bakhtiari, I A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Energy efficient coatings; Heat mirror; Silver; Tungsten oxide

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENT COATINGS; FIGURE OF MERIT; HEAT MIRROR; HEAT MIRRORS; INFRARED REFLECTANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; SILVER FILM; SILVER LAYER; SINGLE LAYER; THREE-LAYER STRUCTURES; TUNGSTEN OXIDE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; VISIBLE RANGE; VISIBLE TRANSMITTANCE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; METALLIC FILMS; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDES; REFLECTION; THERMAL EVAPORATION; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

SILVER;

EVAPORATION; FILM; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SILVER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSMITTANCE; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 67651083415     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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