Second-surface silvered glass solar mirrors of very high reflectance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8108, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Butel, Guillaume P ^a   Coughenour, Blake M ^a   MacLeod, H Angus ^a   Kennedy, Cheryl E ^b   Olbert, Blain H ^a   Angel, J Roger P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrating; CPV; CSP; High reflectance; Mirror; Reflector; Silver; Solar; Thin film

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATING; CPV; CSP; REFLECTOR; SOLAR;

BENDING (FORMING); CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GLASS; IRON; MIRRORS; SILVER; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; THIN FILMS;

REFLECTION;

EID: 80053554285     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.894373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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