Recent research on anidolic daylighting systems: Highly reflective coating materials and chronobiological properties

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7423, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Linhart, Friedrich ^a   Wittkopf, Stephen K ^a,b   Münch, Mirjam ^a   Scartezzini, Jean Louis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anidolic; Building; Chronobiology; Circadian; Daylighting; Energy; Lighting; Office

Indexed keywords

ANIDOLIC; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN; ENERGY; OFFICE;

DAYLIGHTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PLATING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

REFLECTIVE COATINGS;

EID: 78751603895     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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