Angular selectivity: Impact on optimised coatings for night sky radiative cooling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7404, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gentle, A R ^a   Smith, G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angular selectivity; Atmosphere; Heat mirrors; Nanoparticles; Nanostructured coatings; Radiative cooling; SiC; SiO2; Surface phonon resonance

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SELECTIVITY; ATMOSPHERE; HEAT MIRRORS; NANOSTRUCTURED COATINGS; RADIATIVE COOLING; SURFACE PHONON;

ABSORPTION; COOLING; FILM PREPARATION; MIRRORS; NANOPARTICLES; PHONONS; RESONANCE; SILICON CARBIDE; SURFACES; THIN FILMS;

COATINGS;

EID: 70449627601     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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