Solar Selective Absorbers

<p>S<i>olar Selective Absorbers: Materials Coatings and Applications</i> covers different harnessing technologies for solar energy electromagnetic radiation including design principles and different types of spectrally selective coatings.</p><p>The book emphasizes experimental methods for synthesizing these coating structures and characterization techniques to quantify the absorber characteristics suitable for solar thermal applications. It also provides a compact review of the literature on solar (spectrally) selective absorber materials and coatings.</p><ul> <li>Summarizes the materials deposition and characterization techniques and applications of solar selective absorbers</li> <li>Introduces solar selective absorber materials and photothermal technology</li> <li>Explores electrodeposition techniques and their use in the development of solar selective absorber films</li> <li>Provides understanding of solar selective absorber materials and coating techniques in photothermal technology</li> <li>Explains sputtering techniques and their use in the development of ZrO2/ZrC-ZrN/Zr tandem structure-based solar selective absorber films</li> </ul><p>The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in solar energy solar thermal conversion and materials science.</p>