Design of wide-angle solar-selective absorbers using aperiodic metal-dielectric stacks

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22800-22812

  Sergeant, Nicholas P ^a   Pincon, Olivier ^b   Agrawa, Mukul ^a,c   Peumans, Peter ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Newcomb Anderson McCormick   (United States)

^c APPLIED MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ENERGY CONVERSION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR HEATING; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

CONCENTRATED SOLAR RADIATION; METAL-DIELECTRIC MULTILAYERS; OPERATIONAL TEMPERATURE; SOLAR THERMAL CONVERSION; SPECTRAL PERFORMANCE; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGIES; TRANSFER MATRIX APPROACH;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 72049132951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022800     Document Type: Article

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