The route to a perfect window

Renewable Energy

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 448-455

  Ye, Hong ^a   Meng, Xianchun ^a   Long, Linshuang ^a   Xu, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Energy consumption index; Long wave thermal emission regulating; Near infrared regulating; Perfect window

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE/PASSIVE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION INDEX; ENERGY SAVING POTENTIAL; ENERGY-SAVING EFFECT; INNER SURFACES; LONG WAVES; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA; NIR SPECTRUM; RADIATIVE COOLING; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; REFLECTION PROPERTIES; SMART ENERGIES; SMART WINDOWS; SOLAR SPECTRUM; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GLAZES; HEAT TRANSFER; INFRARED DEVICES; SOLAR RADIATION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COOLING; FUEL CONSUMPTION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NEAR INFRARED; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR POWER; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WINTER;

EID: 84873574911     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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