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Modulation of the cutoff wavelength in the spectra for solar selective absorbing coating based on high-entropy films

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This paper demonstrates an intrinsic modulation of the cutoff wavelength in the spectra for solar selective absorbing coating based on high-entropy films. The (NiCuCrFeSi)N ((NCCFS)N) films were deposited by a magnetron sputtering system. Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy analysis confirms the uniform composition and good homogeneity of these high-entropy films. The real and imaginary parts of the permittivity for the (NCCFS)N material are calculated on the basis of the reflectance spectral fitting results. A redshift cutoff wavelength of the reflectance spectrum with increasing nitrogen gas flow rate exists because of the different levels of dispersion when changing nitrogen content. To realize significant solar absorption, the film surface was reconstituted to match its impedance with air by designing a pyramid nanostructure metasurface. Compared with the absorptance of the as-deposited films, the designed metasurface obtains a significant improvement in solar absorption with the absorptance increasing from 0.74 to 0.99. The metasurfaces also show low mid-infrared emissions with thermal emittance that can be as low as 0.06. These results demonstrate a new idea in the design of solar selective absorbing surface with controllable absorptance and low infrared emission for high-efficiency photo-thermal conversion.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51732001, U1832219, and 51972013), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 2182035), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the Program of China Scholarships Council (No. 201806020161), and the Academic Excellence Foundation of Beihang University (BUAA) for Ph.D. Students.

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  1. Center for Condensed Matter and Material Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China

    Ping Song, Cong Wang, Jie Ren & Ying Sun

  2. Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Ping Song

  3. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center of Materials Genome Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Yong Zhang

  4. Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000, France

    Angélique Bousquet & Eric Tomasella

  5. Extreme Conditions and Materials: High Temperature and Irradiation (CEMHTI) - UPR 3079 CNRS, Orléans, F-45100, France

    Thierry Sauvage

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Song, P., Wang, C., Ren, J. et al. Modulation of the cutoff wavelength in the spectra for solar selective absorbing coating based on high-entropy films. Int J Miner Metall Mater 27, 1371–1378 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-020-1982-7

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