In line with The Paris Agreement, the world is now changing towards more sustainable options for all sorts of energy development. The solar energy sector is growing rapidly as a result of this. One area that holds great potential in changing many of the worlds heating processes, is concentrating solar power (CSP). The basic principle of CSP is to reflect incoming sunlight and concentrate it to ...

This paper presents a large set of spectral and directional signatures of the polarized reflectance acquired over various surfaces. Two analytical physically-based models were developed, one for bare soils and the other for simple vegetation cover. They consider that the polarized reflectance is generated by single specular reflection over isotropically distributed facets or leaves. The models ...

Current solar to thermal energy conversion technologies, including concentrated solar power (CSP) and solar water heaters (SWH) utilize absorber surfaces that collect incident solar radiation. However, these absorber surfaces emit thermal energy (at their temperature) in the infrared (IR) spectrum, resulting in decreased overall efficiency for solar-to-thermal conversion. Selective absorber sur...

We present a simple method to perform degradation correction to Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) reflectance spectra by comparing the average reflectance for 60 N–60 S with that at the beginning of GOME observations (July–December 1995) after removing the dependences on solar zenith angle and seasonal variation. The results indicate positive biases of up to ∼15–25% in the wavelength ra...

A model for the bidirectional reflectance over soils is from grasslands to shrublands will affect the biogeochemical cycles and the interactions between the land surface coupled with a vegetation reflectance model to predict the bidirectional reflectance of semiarid landscape. The vegetaand the atmosphere over those regions. Satellite remote sensing provides the only technically consistent and ...

A single-layer graphene film was grown on copper foil by chemical vapor deposition and transferred onto a silicon-pillar-array (SPA) substrate to make a Schottky junction solar cell. The SPA substrate was specifically designed to suppress reflectance and enhance light absorption. The energy conversion efficiency of the prepared graphene/SPA solar cells achieved a maximum of 2.90% with a junctio...

In this study, a non-selenized CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) solar device with textured zinc oxide (ZnO) antireflection coatings was studied. The ZnO nanostructure was fabricated by a low-temperature aqueous solution deposition method. With controlling the morphology of the solution-grown tapered ZnO nanorod coatings, the average reflectance of the CIGS solar device decreased from 8.6% to 2.1%, and the ener...