2020/08/19 by Yanpei Tian, Tian, Yanpei, Xiaojie Liu +5
Energy · Engineering · #Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Solar Energy Systems and Technologies #Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2008.08678
openalex publication_date 2020/08/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is of significance to incorporate spectral selectivity technology into solar thermal engineering, especially at high operational temperatures. This work demonstrates spectrally selective solar absorbers made of multilayer tungsten, silica, and alumina thin films that are angular insensitive and polarization-independent. An overall absorptance of 88.1% at solar irradiance wavelength, a low emittance of 7.0% at infrared thermal wavelength, and a high solar to heat efficiency of 79.9% are identified. Additionally, it shows the annealed samples maintain an extremely high absorption in solar radiation regime over at least 600 C and the solar absorbers after thermal annealing at 800 C still work well in a CSP system with an even high concentration factor of over 100.