... 3 slurry coating of flexible alumina ( Al 2 O 3 ) fiber bundles, formed into a cylindrical shape. The thin fiber structure tried to imitate the famous incandescent mantle emitters of Auer von Welsbach, but with a more rugged structure. Even though the fibers of the woven emitter were thin, the low...

..., the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has funded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in McLean, Virginia, to develop a promising low-cost advanced solar reflective material (ASRM) combining the best of both thin-glass and silvered-polymer reflectors. The alumina Al 2 O 3 coating...

... solar-blind measurements within the atmospheric absorption bands centered at 1.4 μm and 1.9 μm, and true solar-blind measurements within similar bands centered at 2.7 μm, 4.3 μm, and 6 μm. The parasitic reflected solar flux can be evaluated for each of these bands. In the case of alumina in particular...

...T. Mo¨ller; Th. Schwarz; D. Ho¨nicke A novel electrochemical process for the formation of solar selective absorber layers on aluminum is presented. The growth of an alumina layer and the incorporation of metal ions into the layer is done by a one-step procedure using only one electrolytic bath...

... design parameters in radial cell design to satisfy high-power mission requirements. Specific temperature- and pressure-dependent relationships define critical dependencies between key cell design parameters, particularly the impact of parasitic thermal losses on Beta Alumina Solid Electrolyte (BASE) area...