Radiative cooling of solar absorbers using a visibly transparent photonic crystal thermal blackbody

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 40, 2015, Pages 12282-12287

  Zhu, Linxiao ^a   Raman, Aaswath P ^b   Fan, Shanhui ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Photonic crystal; Radiative cooling; Solar absorber; Thermal radiation

Indexed keywords

SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; COOLING; CRYSTAL; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SOLAR ABSORBER; SUNLIGHT; THERMAL RADIATION;

EID: 84943302549     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509453112     Document Type: Article

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