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An ultra-broadband and wide-angle solar absorber based on a Ti/Al 2 O 3 cross-gap staircase structure

Haotian Wu, Yichen Weng, Mingxi Zhang, Miaomiao Zhang, Jie Wang, Kai Yu, Jing Chen

Journal of Materials Chemistry C· Volume 14· Issue 13
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Abstract

We propose a solar absorber with a Ti/Al 2 O 3 cross-gap staircase structure. This device achieves an average absorption efficiency of 98.14% over 280–3000 nm, and its weighted average absorption reaches 96.82% under the AM1.5 solar spectrum.
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OpenAlex topics: Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems · Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications · Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods

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Affiliations

College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China

Funding

Jiangsu Province Postdoctoral Science Foundation · China Postdoctoral Science Foundation · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Qinglan Project of Jiangsu Province of China

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