Development of a spatially resolved reflectometer to monitor corrosion of solar reflectors

Optical Materials

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1600-1608

  Sutter, Florian ^a   Meyen, Stephanie ^a   Heller, Peter ^a   Pitz Paal, Robert ^b  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Durability; Reflectometer; Scattering; Solar reflector; Specular reflectance

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; DURABILITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY;

ACCEPTANCE HALF ANGLE; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; DEGRADATION EFFECT; REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; SOLAR REFLECTOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SPECULAR REFLECTANCE;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84878344180     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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