Infrared Reflective Films

Studying a New Infrared Reflective Polymer Coating

Although, that the solar energy is important for life continuity, there is need to protect large buildings from these radiations in summer and if the buildings are permitted to take these radiations, the cost of cooling will be too much. One of the most effective methods used to solve this problem is to coat buildings with specific pigments that reflect the solar infrared radiation. This wo...

Broadband infrared meanderline reflective quarter-wave plate.

We present a novel reflective quarter-wave plate comprised of subwavelength meanderline elements. The device is operational over the long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectrum, with significant spectral and angular bandwidths. Power reflection is approximately 70% over the majority of the LWIR. Efficient conversion from a 45° linear polarization state into circular polarization is demonstrated from fin...

Thermal Properties of Reflective Helmet Exposed to Infrared Radiation

Highly infrared reflective nickel doped ZrO2 from first principles simulation

First principles( or ab initio) density-functional-theory (DFT) with projected augmented wave (PAW) method simulations were performed to calculate the electronic structures and optical properties of 25% nickel (Ni) doped cubic ZrO2 crystals. We implemented two ab initio DFT application methods to the ZrO2 ceramic elastic constant, structure stability, and optical property calculation. The Cerpl...

Infrared optical properties of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 epitaxial films

The reflectance of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 epitaxial thin films on perovskite substrates with a range of lattice constants is studied in the frequency range 50–5000 cm. The complex dielectric functions of the bare La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 films are obtained by modeling the measured reflectivity spectra of the two-layer La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/substrate system with separately measured dielectric functions of the bare subst...