Solar selective absorbing coatings directly harvest solar energy in the form of heat. The
higher temperatures are required to drive higher power-cycle efficiencies in favor of lower …

The effective use of solar energy has become significantly important due to unnatural
weather changes and fossil fuel exhaustion. Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology is …

Selective absorber coatings for solar energy systems play a crucial role in energy
conversion efficiency by selectively capturing solar radiation while minimizing thermal …

This study presents an original method to optimally design the multi-layer stacks at varying
layer counts, depths, and orders using 20 widely used candidate materials on copper (Cu) …

The recent interests in bridging intriguing optical phenomena and thermal energy
management has led to the demonstration of controlling thermal radiation with epsilon‐near …

Solar thermal selective coatings (STSCs) are crucial for enhancing the thermal efficiency of
receivers in solar power applications. Enhancing the photothermal conversion performance …

In this paper, the angular solar absorptance of Mo–SiO 2 double cermet solar selective
absorber coating was simulated based on the deduced optical constants and calculated …

Half of today's global energy consumption is in the form of heating and cooling. Solar
collectors are the most promising sustainable alternative to fossil fuels in this sector. The …

Improving the spectral selectivity of solar absorbers under certain optical concentration
could boom the photothermal conversion efficiency. Here, the spectrally selective absorbing …

Abstract Spectrally selective TiAlN/TiAlSiN/Si 3 N 4 multilayer coatings were deposited on
stainless steel (SS) plate using a reactive direct current magnetron sputtering technique. In …