Broadband and omnidirectional, nearly zero reflective photovoltaic glass

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 6318-6322

  Liu, Li Qiang ^a,c   Wang, Xiao Lin ^b   Jing, Min ^a   Zhang, Shu Guo ^a   Zhang, Guo Ying ^a   Dou, Shi Xue ^b   Wang, Gang ^d  

^a SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Shandong JinJing Glass Corporation   (China)

Author keywords

anti reflection; graded refractive index; photovoltaic glass; transmittance and reflectance; two step etching

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; GRADED REFRACTIVE INDICES; GRADED-REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POROUS SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE LAYERS;

ETCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GLASS;

EID: 84870943464     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201740     Document Type: Article

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