Spectral reflectance, transmittance, and angular scattering of materials for solar concentrators

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 144, Issue , 2016, Pages 509-522

  Good, Philipp ^a   Cooper, Thomas ^a   Querci, Marco ^a   Wiik, Nicolay ^a   Ambrosetti, Gianluca ^b   Steinfeld, Aldo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Airlight Energy Manufacturing SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angular scattering; Reflectance; Solar concentrators; Solar materials; Specular; Transmittance

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM SHEET; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ETHYLENE; FILMS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROPYLENE; RAY TRACING; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; THIN FILMS;

ANGULAR SCATTERING; ETHYLENE TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; FLUORINATED ETHYLENE PROPYLENE; MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING; SEMI-TRANSPARENT MATERIALS; SOLAR MATERIALS; SPECULAR; TRANSMITTANCE;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 84945207565     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.09.057     Document Type: Article

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