Understanding the role of oxygen in the segregation of sodium at the surface of molybdenum coated soda-lime glass

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2365-2372

  Forest, Robert V ^a,b   Eser, Erten ^b   Mccandless, Brian E ^b   Birkmire, Robert W ^b   Chen, Jingguang G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain boundary diffusion; Solar energy; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DIFFUSION; GLASS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIME; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTRONS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE SEGREGATION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BOND DISSOCIATION; DIFFUSION DATA; GRAIN-BOUNDARY DIFFUSION; OXYGEN CONTROL; SATURATION LEVELS; SODA LIME GLASS; SURFACE OXYGEN;

SODIUM;

INGA;

EID: 84899943158     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14425     Document Type: Article

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