Selective solar absorption of chemically etched aluminum–silicon films
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 54 (9) , 5488-5490
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.332698
Abstract
Electron-beam evaporated aluminum-silicon composites were chemically etched in a NaOH solution. This treatment produced a textured surface with high solar absorptance and low thermal emittance. The optical properties were qualitatively described by a graded refractive index model.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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