Structure, optical properties and thermal stability of TiC-based tandem spectrally selective solar absorber coating

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 157, Issue , 2016, Pages 543-549

  Gao, Xiang Hu ^a,b   Guo, Zhi Ming ^c   Geng, Qing Fen ^a   Ma, Peng Jun ^a   Liu, Gang ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Optical properties; Solar selective coating; Structure; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; COATINGS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ABSORBERS; STAINLESS STEEL; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TITANIUM CARBIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; HIGH SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING METHOD; SOLAR SELECTIVE COATING; SPECTRALLY SELECTIVE SOLAR ABSORBERS; STAINLESS STEEL SUBSTRATES; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84994520391     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.06.050     Document Type: Article

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