Zinc oxide multilayers for solar collector coatings
- 15 August 1986
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 25 (16), 2712-2714
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.25.002712
Abstract
A solar selective coating has been fabricated by capping black zinc oxide with a transparent zinc oxide heat mirror film. Deposition onto glass substrates was accomplished by reactive bias sputtering. The zinc oxide multilayer structure had a solar absorptance of 0.90 and an IR emittance of 0.26. Suggestions are made for significant improvement of solar selective performance.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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