Design and analysis of Salisbury screens and Jaumann absorbers for solar radiation absorption

doi:10.1007/s11708-018-0542-6

Front. Energy

2018, Vol. 12

Issue (1) : 158-168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-018-0542-6

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Design and analysis of Salisbury screens and Jaumann absorbers for solar radiation absorption

Xing FANG¹, C. Y. ZHAO¹(

), Hua BAO²

¹. Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
². University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

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Abstract

Two types of resonance absorbers, i.e., Salisbury screens and Jaumann absorbers are systematically investigated in solar radiation absorption. Salisbury screen is a metal-dielectric-metal structure which overcomes the drawback of bulky thickness for solar spectrum. Such structures have a good spectral selective absorption property, which is also insensitive to incident angles and polarizations. To further broaden absorption bandwidth, more metal and dielectric films are taken in the structure to form Jaumann absorbers. To design optimized structural parameters, the admittance matching equations have been derived in this paper to give good initial structures, which are valuable for the following optimization. Moreover, the analysis of admittance loci has been conducted to directly show the effect of each layer on the spectral absorptivity, and then the effect of thin films is well understood. Since the fabrication of these layered absorbers is much easier than that of other nanostructured absorbers, Salisbury screen and Jaumann absorbers have a great potential in large-area applications.

Keywords thin films admittance loci solar absorber

Corresponding Author(s): C. Y. ZHAO

Just Accepted Date: 03 January 2018 Online First Date: 30 January 2018 Issue Date: 08 March 2018

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Xing FANG,C. Y. ZHAO,Hua BAO. Design and analysis of Salisbury screens and Jaumann absorbers for solar radiation absorption[J]. Front. Energy, 2018, 12(1): 158-168.

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Fig.1 Schematic of Salisbury screen and plot of admittance loci diagram

Fig.2 Optimized Salisbury screens and their absorptivity spectra

Fig.3 Total conversion efficiency and absorptivity spectrum of absorber

Fig.4 Spectral absorptivity of solar absorber with maximal efficiency when incident angle varies at (a) TE polarization; (b) TM polarization

Fig.5 Spectral absorptivity and admittance loci diagrams of double layered structures

Fig.6 Absorptivity spectra and admittance loci diagrams of Salisbury screens

Fig.7 Absorptivity spectra and admittance loci diagrams of Salisbury screens

Fig.8 Absorptivity and emissivity spectra of Salisbury screens

Fig.9 SEM images of a Salisbury screen sample

Fig.10 Absorptivity spectra of optimized Jaumann absorbers

Tab.1 Thicknesses (unit: nm) and efficiency of Jaumann absorbers

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